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guywithabike
Curious. I always used to get my 2600 from their shelves, and they were always prominently displayed.
cantankerous
I did too, though it made for some weird conversations at the checkout counter.
jlgreco
They still carry them, but recently (starting maybe 2 or 3 years ago really), the BN in Philadelphia has been 'hiding' their copies of 2600 in the cabinets underneath the magazine racks.

I don't know if poor sales or customer complaints are the cause.

mjwalshe
well back in the early/mid 90's in the Uk Forbidden Planet used to have Mondo 2000 and Wired in the rack next to Skin 2.

Skin2 is a famous Fetish Mag - for those you who don't get out much.

AJ007
Same here. Additionally Amazon carries the digital version of 2600 (although I wish it came in the same visual format as the print version.)
GBond
Came here to say the same as well.

My guess? The same management that "knee-jerk reaction" bans a mag just because it has the word HACK in bold large text doesn't bother to figure out the actual contents of 2600.

nextparadigms
You'd think a book store's manager wouldn't judge a book by its cover.
cantankerous
This article goes out to say that the term "Hack" is increasingly less commonly used to refer to malicious users. While that might be true in tech circles, I'm skeptical that a significantly larger group of people off the street would respond positively if I asked them what the term "hack" meant. I'm not saying Hacking is bad, I think the term has been somewhat hijacked, sure. But, let's be realistic, I think it's generally a negative term to most people and will probably stay that way into the indefinite future.
mjwalshe
Yes I think the author of the article desperately wants "hack" to have its old MIT usage - I am afraid that train has left the station decades ago.
TazeTSchnitzel
Well, this website still uses it...
4ad
No. On this site hacker doesn't have any of its original meaning, it means IT-startup entrepreneur. Don't forget that this site was named Startup News before.
gnu8
The negative meaning should not be accepted or acknowledged. When something is incorrect it's incorrect, no matter how many people believe it.
cantankerous
It's a neologism...a lingual bookmark for a concept in the popular consciousness. I'm not sure that you can just tell people they're "wrong" for using it. They'll just tell you you're wrong for not using it.
JeremyBanks
Sorry, but that's not how language works.
sehugg
The article on cursory glance seems to be no more than a brief tutorial on Metasploit, books about which are available for purchase on B&N.com.
erickhill
Censorship is censorship. It never works, and in this particular case sounds incredibly ignorant.

Some day perhaps there will be a deep-catalog "open source e-bookstore" that is device agnostic so the gatekeepers are bypassed altogether. Hm...

antidoh
Sign me up.

Oh, wait, they have that now, in the form of torrent sites. I think their prospectus would have some statement of existential risk.

libria
Here is the cover in question: http://www.linuxformat.com/files/lxf_covers/154-big.jpg.

> Learn to Hack, Attack servers >> Crack passwords >> Exploit services >> Beat encryption >> Everything you need to be evil

Not sure if that warrants pulling from shelves, but it explicitly endorses illegal activity. Everything up until the last phrase could be sold as legitimate penetration testing. I can easily see their lawyers getting twitchy.

jcoder
Um, except that's "Everything you need to be evil*". The asterisk clearly references this: "for self reference only. Don't break the law!"

(EDIT: removed snark)

libria
I do appreciate the correction and detail, since I honestly can't make it out on my screen.

edit: redaction

jcoder
Fair enough, apologies for the snarky attack. The caveat is hard to make out, though the asterisk is quite obvious.
scott_s
It wasn't to me - I thought it was another phrase divider.
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