diff --git a/docs/jargon-org.txt b/docs/jargon-org.txt index 79b9586..fcd2f04 100644 --- a/docs/jargon-org.txt +++ b/docs/jargon-org.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 02:44PM UTC +This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:07PM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -4553,9 +4553,6 @@ n. [obs.] A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced ar *** 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?. - *** gorp /gorp/ , n. [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another metasyntactic variable , like foo and bar. diff --git a/docs/jargon.1.gz b/docs/jargon.1.gz index 969eb76..e06923d 100644 Binary files a/docs/jargon.1.gz and b/docs/jargon.1.gz differ diff --git a/docs/jargon.html b/docs/jargon.html index eb762d4..5f828f5 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.html +++ b/docs/jargon.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Documentation License".

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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. diff --git a/entries/cloud.txt b/entries/cloud.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49418d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/cloud.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +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. \ No newline at end of file