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<H2>Generated</H2>
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<H2>Glossary</H2>
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Believed to have originated at Google in 2004 as a way of describing the value which may be obtained by data mining of server logs when you have large numbers of users. The extent to which personal information derrived from logs is convertable into corporate profits.
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<H4>behavioral surplus</H4>
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Believed to have originated at Google in 2004 as a way of describing the value which may be obtained by data mining of server logs when you have large numbers of users. The extent to which information derrived from logs is convertable into profits.
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<H4>beige toaster</H4>
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n. [obs.] An original Macintosh in the boxy beige case. See toaster ; compare Macintrash , maggotbox.
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n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10 , TECO , ITS , and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age ; see also elvish and Great Worm.
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<H4>electron</H4>
<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.</p>
<H4>electron</H4>
<p>1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. </p>
<p>2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.</p>
<H4>elegant</H4>
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adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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<H4>surveillance capital</H4>
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The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services". Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy" (and in some cases also your liberty). By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing.
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<H4>surveillance capital</H4>
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The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use as a way of describing the dominant business model of the internet. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services" directly. Or at least, not enough to be profitable. Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy", and in some cases also your liberty. By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. If you know enough about someone's habits, preferences and political or religious views then they become more amenable to social engineering, and this could be behavioristically automated via machine learning. By the late 2010s surveillance capital had gone far beyond advertising and was being used to influence the outcomes of elections or public referenda.
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<H4>swab</H4>

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* Glossary
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*** behavioral surplus
Believed to have originated at Google in 2004 as a way of describing the value which may be obtained by data mining of server logs when you have large numbers of users. The extent to which personal information derrived from logs is convertable into corporate profits.
*** behavioral surplus
Believed to have originated at Google in 2004 as a way of describing the value which may be obtained by data mining of server logs when you have large numbers of users. The extent to which information derrived from logs is convertable into profits.
*** beige toaster
n. [obs.] An original Macintosh in the boxy beige case. See toaster ; compare Macintrash , maggotbox.
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*** elder days
n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10 , TECO , ITS , and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age ; see also elvish and Great Worm.
*** electron
1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro.
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.
*** electron
1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro.
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.
*** elegant
adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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*** surf
v. [from the surf idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a particular resource. Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about surfing the net tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by ignorami.
*** surveillance capital
The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services". Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy" (and in some cases also your liberty). By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing.
*** surveillance capital
The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use as a way of describing the dominant business model of the internet. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services" directly. Or at least, not enough to be profitable. Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy", and in some cases also your liberty. By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. If you know enough about someone's habits, preferences and political or religious views then they become more amenable to social engineering, and this could be behavioristically automated via machine learning. By the late 2010s surveillance capital had gone far beyond advertising and was being used to influence the outcomes of elections or public referenda.

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electron
1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a
budget version of the BBC Micro.
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone
desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount
of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron
apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.