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elisem's journal:
I suspect [the machine in question] has what Juan called "a presence of service detector," which Juan says explains why machines get an innocent look and a little halo whenever somebody who knows where to whack them comes along to help out the poor citizen whom the machine has been putting through seven kinds of inconvenience. Presence of service detector, or why the computer won't crash when certain somebodies are looking.
I need this term. I fucking live this term.
Presence of Service Detector. Word.
elisem's journal:I suspect [the machine in question] has what Juan called "a presence of service detector," which Juan says explains why machines get an innocent look and a little halo whenever somebody who knows where to whack them comes along to help out the poor citizen whom the machine has been putting through seven kinds of inconvenience. Presence of service detector, or why the computer won't crash when certain somebodies are looking.
I need this term. I fucking live this term.
Presence of Service Detector. Word.
