white box n.— «I think you have to consider that system builders—or white-box manufacturers, as they are commonly called—have often voiced frustration with Microsoft’s pricing policy toward them.…White boxes still make up a large...
lane n.— «Well, I think the policy debate is going to continue in public, and that’s outside of my lane. What I can tell you is that military to military, which is where my lane is, that we could not have better cooperation from United...
policy laundering n.— «It’s what people call policy laundering—”it’s a good idea, but we’ll never get it past the electorate, so let’s slip it through and then pass it on to the individual governments.”» —“The open-source...
jockey n.— «Jakarta has introduced a number of traffic policies in an effort to regulate the number of private cars operating in the capital. One such policy was the much criticized “three-in one” system, which requires the...
jamming n.— «Remember how the Soviets used to jam the signal when Radio Free Europe would broadcast behind the Iron Curtain? Today “jamming” literally means silencing your critics or opponents by attacking and intimidating...
pollito n.— «A section of Greyhound’s “Transportation of Illegal Aliens” guidelines that deals with how to identify an immigrant smuggler cautions em ployees to be on the lookout for people who use the Spanish word pollito...