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• cowboy n. [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker.
  It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence....
• cience-fiction fandom:: n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• 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....
• ice: [coined by USENETter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
  a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to literally kill the intruder)....
• pilot error: [Sun: from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare {UBD}).
  Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers....
• cience-fiction fandom n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• un lounge: [Great Britain] n. The room where all the Sun workstations live.
  The humor in this term comes from the fact that it's also in mainstream use to describe a solarium, and all those Sun workstations clustered together give off an amazing amount of heat....
• filk: /filk/ [from SF fandom, where a typo for `folk' was adopted as a new word] n.
  v. A popular or folk song with lyrics revised or completely new lyrics, intended for humorous effect when read, and/or to be sung late at night at SF conventions....
• go flatline: [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi.
  also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To {die}, terminate, or fail, esp....