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n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off, sunglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn ). Loud music blaring from a stereo stacked in the corner is optional but recommended. See larval stage , hack mode.
*** troll
To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flame s; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase trolling for newbie s which in turn comes from mainstream trolling , a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll. Compare kook. 3. n.
Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
*** tron
v. [NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie Tron ] To become inaccessible except via email or talk (1) , especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person. Frequently used in the past tense, as in: Ran seems to have tronned on us this week or Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron yourself. One may also speak of tron mode ; compare spod. Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to the slang usage.

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To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flame s; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase trolling for newbie s which in turn comes from mainstream trolling , a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll. Compare kook. 3. n.
Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy. Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to software projects if they're not quickly dealt with. Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
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troll
To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or
flame s; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase trolling for newbie s
which in turn comes from mainstream trolling , a style of fishing in which
one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The
well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to
make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly
conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate
troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also
YHBT. 2. n. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts
specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion
list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a
discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real
interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter
flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no
redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form
of life on the net, as in, Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll. Compare kook.
3. n.
Generally annoying people on the internet, whose primary motivation is to
cause disruption, distress or anger. The name comes from the grumpy
and chaos-loving character from folklore and fantasy.
Trolls typically have no interest in the topic or thread under which they
are posting. The usual advice when encountering trolls is to ignore
and/or block them, but this is sometimes not an easy solution. When
unleashed within a forum, stream or mailing list trolls can quickly
cause enough dissarray to destroy communities which took years to build
and as such they should be recognized as an existential threat to
software projects if they're not quickly dealt with.
Hired trolls may also be used for political purposes by governments or
corporations to disrupt rival organisations and spread fear, uncertainty
and doubt.