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  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• 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....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• elite adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti.
  Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense...
• Quote #509 My big hope is that Marc has a near-death experience and realizes to save his soul form the clutches of evil he needs to support HTML 3.
  0 with style sheets in the next release of Netscape 8) -- Nesta Stubb...
• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it.
  Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man....
• ip v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD.
  Software that does this is often called a "CD ripper"....
• Microsoft Mandatory Survey (#9) Customers who want to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition must now fill out a Microsoft survey online before they can order the bugfix/upgrade.
  Question 9: Which of the following do you prefer as a replacement for the current Microsoft slogan?...
• The following is a memo from the president of Cyberell Computer Company.
  "All of our customer-service employees recently attended a two-day retreat during which they received retraining in effective customer service....