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  1. NSA Line Eater

    … 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech … students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology can't do this job even now (1991), and almost …
  2. What

    … and ensuring seamless interactions between users and technology. In conclusion, what stands as a crucial …
  3. Waldo

    … Now known by the more generic term telefactoring , this technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like …
  4. Toaster

    Toaster /tōst-ər/ n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller ). " DWIM …
  5. Stone Age

    … for any crufty, ancient piece of hardware or software technology. Note that this is used even by people who were …
  6. Splat

    … character ( ASCII 0100011). [Rochester Institute of Technology] The command key on a Mac (same as ALT , …
  7. Slop

    … good, and 10% is usually acceptable. With modern compiler technology, esp. on RISC machines, the compiler's slop may …
  8. Pen

    … back to traditional writing tools like pens and pencils. As technology advanced, these writing instruments were adapted …
  9. Nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology /na-nə-tek-ˈnä-lə-jē/ n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. The first unequivocal nanofabrication…