bear n.— «Bear: The Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO), the GIB. Refers to pilot’s opinion that a trained bear can replace the GIB. (See: FUF).» —“USAF Slang” by maddog2840 in Las Vegas, Nevada F-16.net June...
lopomo n.— « An increasing amount of electricity is used by equipment that is neither fully “on” nor fully “off.” We call these equipment states low power modes, or “lopomos.” “Standby” and “sleep” are the most familiar lopomos, but some...
boot n.— «The regulation requires all businesses that use shopping carts to submit an “abandoned cart prevention plan” to the city. Solutions could range from hiring parking lot attendants to installing devices that prevent...
pain point n.— «At some point, putting things into a subset of the machine becomes too painful to do with conventional technologies.…What frequency or pinout you have to change at is hard to tell; people push technology until it...
anchor baby n.— «Next year the nativists will attack babies, or as they so eloquently refer to them as: “anchor babies.”…Let me clarify though, they don’t mean white babies, just the brown ones.…Color is important here...
data Valdez n.— «“The way we look at this is, it’s a Data Valdez situation,” said Tara Lemmey, president of San Francisco-based advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation. Just as the the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast...