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• Stupids n. Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them
  uccinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers....
• berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See {BSD}.
  Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among {suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say `BSD'....
• wonkie: /twon'kee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of `chick')
  a useless `feature' added to look sexy and placate a {marketroid} (compare {Saturday-night special})....
• amurai: n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking job
  snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith....
• ocial engineering: n. Term used among {cracker}s and {samurai} for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in {wetware} rather than software
  he aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security....
• True Names ... and Other Dangers: Vernor Vinge Baen Books, 1987 ISBN 0-671-65363-6 Hacker demigod Richard Stallman believes the title story of this book "expresses the spirit of hacking best".
  This may well be true; it's certainly difficult to recall a better job....
• mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....