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docs/jargon-org.txt

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 *** gorets
 /gorets/ , n. The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found esp. on the Usenet newsgroup alt.gorets , which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. Compare frink.
 
-*** gorilla arm
-n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; Remember the gorilla arm! is shorthand for How is this going to fly in real use?.
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 *** gorp
 /gorp/ , n. [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another metasyntactic variable , like foo and bar.
 

docs/jargon.html

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         /gorets/ , n. The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found esp. on the Usenet newsgroup alt.gorets , which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. Compare frink.
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-        n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; Remember the gorilla arm! is shorthand for How is this going to fly in real use?.
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         /gorp/ , n. [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another metasyntactic variable , like foo and bar.

entries/cloud.txt

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+cloud
+
+n. Somewhere you don't want to put your files. Insecure centralized location,
+usually administered by a megacorporation.
+
+The term "cloud computing" became popular after about 2010 to refer to putting
+your files onto a centralized server system which you don't own and have no
+control over - thereby exposing your data to numerous threats and "third party
+doctrine" legal disputes.
+
+The rise of cloud computing also eliminated many system administrator jobs
+within small companies, which had been a traditional source of income for many
+hackers. Companies could make their sysadmins redundant, but now a bigger
+megacorp controlled their asses.
+
+When hackers use "the cloud" it's a server which they have root on, and client
+side encryption may be used to ensure that whoever is administering the
+server can't get access to the data.