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  • nsa line eater — (messaging, tool)   The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the US Government's spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythical beast, but some believe it actually exists, more aren't sure, and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case. Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclear materials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" in their sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. The GNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "Trunk Line Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This one was making the rounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50 high-school students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now (1993), and almost certainly won't in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealed his actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, just this once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scrambler guaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowing the would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on with their business.
  • numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
  • nursery stakes — a race for two-year-old horses
  • nutraceuticals — Plural form of nutraceutical.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
  • on easy street — well-to-do; in easy circumstances
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • ondes martenot — an electronic keyboard instrument in which the frequency of an oscillator is varied to produce separate musical notes
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operationalise — Alternative spelling of operationalize.
  • operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • ornamentations — Plural form of ornamentation.
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • otitis externa — inflammation of the external ear.
  • otitis interna — labyrinthitis.
  • outer garments — the garments that are worn over a person's other clothes
  • outrageousness — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • overestimating — Present participle of overestimate.
  • overestimation — An excessive estimation.
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • paint stripper — Paint stripper is a liquid which you use in order to remove old paint from things such as doors or pieces of furniture.
  • painted desert — a region in N central Arizona, E of the Colorado River: many-colored rock surfaces.
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • paper fastener — split pin
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • paper nautilus — any dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has a delicate, white shell.
  • para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent message — (messaging)   What a followup follows up.
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
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