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- schedule
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A fairy tale with a happy ending, told by the optimistic to the
ignorant.
“I see the schedule says we ship next week — good, good.”
- secure
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Completely free of officially documented security holes, and with
fewer than a dozen actual exploits.
“Windows is finally secure!”
- Semantic Web
- An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy.
- server
- One who must be served.
- Slashdot
- To test, experimentally, what an infinite number of typing monkeys will produce. See also USENET.
- social software
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Any arbitrary collection of algorithms, protocols and metadata that
allows friendless agoraphobics to pretend otherwise.
“I’m having trouble deciding which node in my social software network I’m going to ask to the e-prom.”
- standard build
- A system of maintenance whereby all computers in an environment are kept equally disfunctional.
- sunshine
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Nuclear radiation, meaning it will kill you.
“Sunshine! Noooooo!”