Really I would. Really they do. Take a look here and here too. Not when it comes to that. He writes letters to newspapers about this, as do all his doe-eyed idiot followers.
Language is utterly ambiguous, and people who love language love it that way.
Maybe its a conspiracy foisted on us by reesarchers of natural lanauge processing, an area of computing that's frustratingly not moved on in 30 years. Hacker means both good and bad, like it or not, because most most people think it's that way. Eric Raymond wrote that to become a hacker, you have to copy them, lifestyle and all because you don't know what's important. You can't even hope to achieve his level of kookiness, so stop trying. If you write good code, you can call yourself a bloody Venusian and nobody will care because they like your code.