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Slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang terms are frequently particular to a certain subculture, such as musicians, skateboarders, and members of a minority. Slang is to be distinguished from jargon, the technical vocabulary of a particular profession, as the association of informality is not present. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slang   (1197 words)

Slang - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang terms are often particular to a certain subculture, such as musicians, skateboarders, and drug users. Slang is distinguished from jargon, the technical vocabulary of a particular profession, as jargon is (in theory) not used to exclude non-group members from the conversation, but rather deals with technical peculiarities of a given field which require a specialized vocabulary. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Slang   (836 words)

Hacker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) A hacker is anyone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations, primarily in their fields of interest, namely programming or electrical engineering. Computer culture at MIT developed when members of the Tech Model Railroad Club started working with a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 computer and applied local model railroad slang to computers. Hacker and Hack are also: terms for a taxicab driver (because a taxicab can be called a hack, a shortened form of hackney carriage). bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/ha/hacker.html   (2865 words)

Slang Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang is sometimes confused with jargon which is the collection of vocabulary specific to a profession: medical terminology for example. A famous example is Cockney rhyming slang in which, in the simplest case, word and phrases are replaced by a phrase or word that rhymes with it. www.knowledgefun.com /book/s/sl/slang.html   (695 words)

Slang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Slang is often particular to a brief period of time, with common usage ranging from decades to only a few months. Another mean by which slang is quickly extinguished is a word's passage into standard speech, at which point it ceases to be slang even though the word itself may still be used in the same context. Slang is always known for its vocabulary, but that doesn't mean that it follows the regular syntax, grammar, phonetics, pragmatics, etc. of the standard language. slang.kiwiki.homeip.net   (1435 words)

Hacker (computer security) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer security, hacker refers to a type of computer hacker who is involved in programming and computer insecurity and is able to exploit systems or gain unauthorized access through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. Script kiddie: A computer intruder with little or no skill; a person who simply follows directions or uses a cook-book approach without fully understanding the meaning of the steps they are performing. Firewall (networking) In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)   (1988 words)

Chapter 1. Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Hacker slang is unusually rich in implications of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche. Hackers, as a rule, love wordplay and are very conscious and inventive in their use of language. www.catb.org /~esr/jargon/html/introduction.html   (1008 words)

Chapter 1. Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture Because hackers as a group are particularly creative people who define themselves partly by rejection of ‘normal’ values and working habits, it has unusually rich and conscious traditions for an intentional culture less than 50 years old. Among hackers, though, slang has a subtler aspect, paralleled perhaps in the slang of jazz musicians and some kinds of fine artists but hard to detect in most technical or scientific cultures; parts of it are code for shared states of consciousness. The intensity and consciousness of hackish invention make a compilation of hacker slang a particularly effective window into the surrounding culture — and, in fact, this one is the latest version of an evolving compilation called the ‘Jargon File’, maintained by hackers themselves since the early 1970s. www.infoplease.com /computers/jargon/introduction.html   (1016 words)

What is hacker? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary A slang term for a computer enthusiast, i.e., a person who enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert on the subject(s). The pejorative sense of hacker is becoming more prominent largely because the popular press has coopted the term to refer to individuals who gain unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data. Hackers, themselves, maintain that the proper term for such individuals is cracker. www.webopedia.com /TERM/H/hacker.html   (443 words)

Urban Dictionary: hacker Due to the high artificiality of computer technology itself, computer hackers must be highly knowledgable before they can implement their first successful "hack." For them, "hacks" are the product of brilliant insight and thorough investigation, rather than the talent and natural law that go with hacking in more humanity-driven fields, such as entertainment or sports. Hackers also hate boundrys,and therfore offen hide there true identitys to everyone they know on the net,and there fake identitys are hidden to evryone they know in real life. While a hacker may have the capacity to gain unauthorized access to a computer, he/she will only do it to expand the boundaries of knowledge and promote virtue, while a cracker will destroy the results of a hacker. www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=hacker   (990 words)

Glossary Search Results Hackers will sometimes do questionable legal things, such as breaking into systems, but they generally will not cause harm once they break in. Contrast a hacker to the term cracker or malicious hacker. When restarted, the contents are read back into RAM and the computer is brought back to the exact state it was in before hibernation was initiated. www.geek.com /glossary/glossary_search.cgi?h   (3452 words)

Hack & Slay to Respectability, Diane Shortt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This terminology, which is largely attributed to computer "hacker" slang and was originally used amongst "hackers" for fun, social communication, and technical debate in text-based bulletin board systems, has evolved at such an alarming rate that it is now challenging the structure of spoken and written language because of the spillage into mainstream communication. "Slang (is the) informal language from mainstream English or non-technical subcultures; jargon, without qualifiers, denotes informal 'slangy' language peculiar to or predominantly found among hackers; and, techspeak (is) the formal technical vocabulary of programming, computer science, electronics, and other fields connected to hacking" (A Few Terms 1). Hackers also mix numbers and letters more freely and correct spelling is sacrificed for a more phonetic short form, though a premium is placed on literacy and clarity of expression. www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/CMC290/hackslay.htm   (3211 words)

An Educator's Guide to Hacking Hackers started with gaining access to free telephone calls through different sources and learning more about the internal workings of the nation's phone system and radios in the mid 1950's. By discussing computer ethics with students, educators are opening the eyes of their students and making them think about their actions on the computer. Hackers believe that they are just exploring how programmable systems work and that they are not doing anything wrong as long as no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality is broken. lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /wp/crime-2002/hacking.htm   (1320 words)

Leekspeak - Leetspeak leet speak Elite Speak Leak Computer Chat Slang While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically—creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics. www.mopo.ca /leetspeak-computer-slang.html   (993 words)

Computer Hacking The New Hacker's Dictionary (http://www.logophilia.com/jargon/jargon_toc.html), a resource which encompasses everything from hacker slang, jargon, hacker folklore, writing style and speech to general appearance, dress, education and personality characteristics. Parker differentiates between benign and malicious hackers based on whether damage is performed, though in reality all hacking involves intrusion and a disregard for the efforts, works and property of others. First, we need to consider the fact that the public perception of hackers is mixed, and that "hacking" and "being considered a hacker" can be quite appealing to students who are going through developmental periods in which they are defining themselves, as well as challenging authority and rules. lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /wp/crime/hacking.htm   (1166 words)

hacker | Hacking And Computer Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Hacker vs Cracker, two common terms greatly mis-used by the mainstream media. Show any hacker a lock and his first thought is how to pick it. In computer programming, hacker means a programmer who hacks or reaches a goal by In computer security, hacker translates to a person able to exploit a www.hackinglinux.co.uk /hacker.html   (286 words)

[No title] With the growing popularity of computers, the spread of the Internet and Web, and the success of Linux, terms from hacker jargon are increasingly going mainstream, though not always in the correct perspective. The New Hacker's Dictionary is a fascinating compendium of words from the worlds of computing, computer networks, and the people who inhabit them. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called `abend' because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German `Abend' = `Evening'. wordsmith.org /awad/archives/0900   (4977 words)

Slang Slang functions in two ways; the creation of new language and new usage by a process of creative informal use and adaptation, and the creation of a secret language understood only by those within a group intended to understand it. As such, slang is a type of sociolect aimed at excluding certain people from the conversation. Slang oftens means that words have two meanings that are not related at all or are maybe opposites. www.dcult.com /Slang-(J-Z)/Slang.php   (1230 words)

Uplink: Hacker Elite Review - GamersHell.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Err, I was talking about computers of course :-) With government and corporate dependence on computers and networks increasing all the time, a new breed of nerds was born – computer hackers. The hacker rating you have is crucial, as with every new “level” you gain, more complicated and well-paying jobs will become available for you. Well, first of all you have to choose the computer you want to hack (while making a thick web of connections to other computers all around the world before that – so it'll take the target computer a longer time to trace you) on the world map in your interface, and connect to it. www.gamershell.com /pc/uplink_hacker_elite/review.html   (1955 words)

The New Hacker's Dictionary It is clear that, for many hackers, the case of such identifiers becomes a part of their internal representation (the `spelling') and cannot be overridden without mental effort (an appropriate reflex because Unix and C both distinguish cases and confusing them can lead to lossage). Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description wss "The PL/I of the 1980s"). Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps. www.eps.mcgill.ca /jargon/jargon.html   (15758 words)

Hacker's Wisdom The comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor; the appendix includes a profile of a typical hacker. Hackers are a specific subgroup of computer workers; hacking may, under certain circumstances, yield superior software. In fact, of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080 /~elf/hack/hack.html   (662 words)

Chapter 2. Of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak Linguists usually refer to informal language as ‘slang’ and reserve the term ‘jargon’ for the technical vocabularies of various occupations. However, the ancestor of this collection was called the ‘Jargon File’, and hacker slang is traditionally ‘the jargon’. To make a confused situation worse, the line between hacker slang and the vocabulary of technical programming and computer science is fuzzy, and shifts over time. www.infoplease.com /computers/jargon/distinctions.html   (560 words)

GLOSSARY H HACKER - A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system - computers and computer networks in particular. The device is a deuterium-fluoride (DF) LASER which produces a coherent beam that can (with only about 1-second engagement duration) destroy missile target radomes at 4 kilometers, and optical systems at up to 10 kilometers. HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY -- A process in which visual light is significantly enhanced by a computer processor, enabling the smallest changes in color variance of the water to be detected, thus improving the ability to detect submarines. www.sew-lexicon.com /gloss_h.htm   (3942 words)

A parent's primer to computer slang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) It's important to invade your children's privacy; understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways using different substitutions and combinations (the way we make our software), but once one understands that nearly all characters are formed as phonemes and symbols, leetspeek isn't difficult to translate. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills), none of which we have. home.comcast.net /~forum_image_host/kidtalk.mspx.htm   (691 words)

Old School Computer Hacker He maintains The Jargon Files, a dictionary of hacker slang and the fetchmail pop, which is a Unix's utility that gets emails to a local server from a remote server. In addition to his computer skills, he is an accomplished writer. In response to the public's lack of knowledge about hackers and hacking, he wrote The Hacker's Dictionary, The Cathedral and The Bazaar, and How to Be A Hacker. filebox.vt.edu /users/gong/oldschool.htm   (173 words)

NG BBS - Hacker slang... Posted: 1/23/04 10:46 PM Hacker slang seems to be made fun of a lot and joked around with a lot of the internet. I love the slang and I think the ways they come up with making the words are awesome. Posted: 1/25/04 01:19 AM this will be the first time that i ever did this (since i am completely computer illiterate). www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=107038   (576 words)

Slang - 1930 s slang - Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to US$34 billion. In fact, one common process is for a slang word to take on exactly the opposite meaning of the standard definiton. A canting dictionary - illustrates the tendency for English to adopt and make respectable words that were originally coined by the criminal classes. www.articleptic.com   (2047 words)

NG BBS - Computer Slang. Posted: 5/1/05 12:19 PM While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. "pwn": A typo-deliberate version of own, a slang term used to express superiority over others that can be used maliciously, depending on the situation. Posted: 5/1/05 12:20 PM so you told a popular BBS that nerds are a dime a dozen about computer slang? www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=263325   (1234 words)

[No title] This site's list of average entry-level salaries for recent college graduates with engineering and computer degrees is presented by Career Recruitment Media, Inc. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the field of labor economics and statistics. Freelance computer and technology journalist Kevin Savetz authored this online document answering frequently asked questions about how to send faxes over the Internet. bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /alred/content/cat_010/BWHtoplinks.asp   (9867 words)

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