meaning of nren

1. NREN National Research and Education Network nroff /Nrof/ [Unix, from "new roff"] A text formatting language and interpreter, companion to the Unix typesetter troff, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers. See also groff. [Jargon File] NRZ Non Return to Zero NRZI Non Return to Zero Inverted ns nanosecond NSA line eater tool> The National Security Agency trawling program sometimes assumed to be reading the net for the US Governments spooks. Most hackers describe it as a mythical beast, but some believe it actually exists, more arent sure, and many believe in acting as though it exists just in case. Some netters put loaded phrases like "KGB", "Uzi", "nuclear materials", "Palestine", "cocaine", and "assassination" in their sig blocks to confuse and overload the creature. The GNU version of Emacs actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text. There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a "Trunk Line Monitor", which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks. This one was making the rounds in the late 1970s, spread by people who had no idea of then-current technology or the storage, signal-processing, or speech recognition needs of such a project. On the basis of mass-storage costs alone it would have been cheaper to hire 50 high-school students and just let them listen in. Speech-recognition technology cant do this job even now 1993, and almost certainly wont in this millennium, either. The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair. The letter writer then revealed his actual agenda by offering - at an amazing low price, just this once, we take VISA and MasterCard - a scrambler guaranteed to daunt the Trunk Trawler and presumably allowing the would-be Baader-Meinhof gangs of the world to get on with their business. [Jargon File]

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