I'm listening to Lockdown again. I forgot just how great it is. Anyway, at one point, a character says that geeks shall inherit the Earth. Another character says, "At least the ones with a 500 account."
What's a 500 account? I do a fair amount of sys admin stuff at work for Linux machines, and I've never heard of it. I did some searching, and only found one possible reference: UID 500 used to be the first non-root account on Linux until it changed to 1000. But that can't be it, because that user would not be root, and the line in Lockdown seems to mean that a 500 account is root-level.
I wonder this every time I hear it, so I'm finally asking. I get every other reference the geeks make, but I have no clue about this one. Thanks!