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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fascist</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="farm.html" title="farm"/><link rel="next" href="fat-electrons.html" title="fat electrons"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fascist</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farm.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-electrons.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fascist"/><dt xmlns="" id="fascist"><b>fascist</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying
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security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is
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that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work
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done. The variant <span class="firstterm">fascistic</span> seems to
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have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with <span class="firstterm">touristic</span> (see <a href="../T/tourist.html"><i class="glossterm">tourist</i></a>
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or under the influence of German/Yiddish <span class="firstterm">faschistisch</span>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In the design of languages and other software tools, <span class="firstterm">the fascist alternative</span> is the most restrictive
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and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is
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that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or
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provide tighter error checking. Compare <a href="../B/bondage-and-discipline-language.html"><i class="glossterm">bondage-and-discipline
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language</i></a>, although that term is global rather than
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local.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-05-21"/><img src="../graphics/73-05-21.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Fascist security strikes again.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
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<a href="../B/bells-and-whistles.html#crunchly73-05-28">73-05-28</a>. The previous one is
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<a href="../D/drop-outs.html#crunchly73-05-20">73-05-20</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fat-electrons.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">farm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fat electrons</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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