Information Technology Dark Side

Corporate IT is a funny place. It has its own language full of strange words borrowed from real life that are used in a way that has very little to do with their true meanings.
Take bandwidth for example. Webster defines bandwidth this way: the capacity for data transfer of an electronic communications system ; [...]

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It’s almost dinner time, and the phone rings. You check the caller ID – it’s a New Jersey number. You don’t recognize the number, but you pick it up anyway. “Hello,” a female voice says on the other end of the line in halting English. “I am calling for the United States government. There is [...]

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PLEASE NOTE: I’M NOT THE AUTHOR OF THIS JOKE! It just showed up in my email inbox and I thought it was funny.

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch
standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of
airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all
traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to
simulate the [...]

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