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IANAL // [Usenet] Abbreviation, "I Am Not A Lawyer". Usually precedes legal advice.
IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Moveme...
IBM discount n. A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone)
inside, it is said to spring from a belief...
ICBM address n.
ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
ID10T error /I-D-ten-T er'*r/ Synonym for PEBKAC, e.
g. "The user is being an idiot"....
idempotent adj. [from mathematical techspeak] Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
This term is often used with respect to C header files, which contain common defini...
IDP /I-D-P/ v.,n. [Usenet] Abbreviation for Internet Death Penalty.
Common (probably now more so and frequently verbed. Compare UDP....
If you want X, you know where to find it.
ifdef out /if'def owt/ v. Syn. for condition out, specific to C.

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