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• MEGO /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'.
  1. n. A handwave intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going on....
• cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
  Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....
• PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'.
  Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs....
• cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson] Obfuscatory tech-talk.
  Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese....
• handwave [poss. from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] 1.
  v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listene...
• quantum bogodynamics: /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n.
  A theory that characterizes the universe in terms of bogon sources (such as politicians, used-car salesmen, TV evangelists, and {suit}s in general), bogon sinks (such as taxpayers and computers), and bogosity potential fields....
• ick: n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism.
  In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events....
• GIGO: /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' --- usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way.
  Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data....
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....