Quote stuffing
v.
Rapidly placing and canceling orders for stock shares in order to game the market. By sending up to 5,000 bogus orders a second, high-frequency traders can clog data feeds, gaining a momentary advantage.
Data clipper
n.
A spaceship designed to ferry scientific data around the solar system. Powered by solar sails, fleets of data clippers will rendezvous with exploration satellites, pick up multi-terabyte maps of distant planets, and ferry them to Earth.
Bombiles
n. pl.
Alleged mobile-phone bombs terrorizing people in the Indian state of Assam. The state's chief minister has ordered an investigation of rumors that ordinary cell phones can be detonated by anonymous callers dialing secret numbers.
Privacy Zuckering
v.
Creating intentionally confusing privacy policies —à la Mark Zuckerberg—to sucker users of social networking sites like Facebook into exposing valuable personal information.
— Jonathon Keats (jargon@wired.com)
