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• cowboy: [Sun, from William Gibson's {cyberpunk} SF] n.
  Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• cience-fiction fandom n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C) to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider").
  Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naï...
• cience-fiction fandom:: n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• amurai: n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• amurai n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• ice: [coined by USENETter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
  a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to literally kill the intruder)....
• ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
  a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder)....
• pilot error n. [Sun: from aviation] A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare UBD).
  Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers....