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• Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with .
  .. Student: EBCDIC!...
• You have to regard everything I say with suspicion - I may be trying to bullshit you, or I may just be bullshitting you inadvertently.
  -- J....
• GC /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
  vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
• GC: /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1.
  vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk today....
• Brief History Of Linux (#17) If only Gary had been sober When Micro-soft moved to Seattle in 1979
  most of its revenue came from sales of BASIC, a horrible language so dependant on GOTOs that spaghetti looked more orderly than its code did....
• EBCDIC:: /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] n.
  An alleged character set used on IBM {dinosaur}s....
• pathological adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• big-endian adj. [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1.
  Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....