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marketroid /mar'k*-troyd/ n. alt. `marketing slime', `marketeer', `marketing droid', `marketdroid'.
A member of a company's marketing department, esp. one who promises users that the nex...
Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group)...
martian n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.
0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clea...
massage vt. [common] Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than m...
math-out n. [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible.
This may be a device ...
Matrix n. [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call FidoNet.
2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see the network)....
maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load.
If prolo...
meatspace /meet'spays/ n. The physical world, where the meat lives - as opposed to cyberspace.
meatware n. Synonym for wetware. Less common.
meeces /mees'*z/ n. [TMRC] Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins.
[That is, mice. This may no longer be in live use...

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