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Computing | Drop on the floor vt. To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data. "The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor." Also frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose messages. See also black hole, bit bucket. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Screenplays | So do you just want to drop on the floor and go for it? (Top Gun; writing credit: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-l-n-o-o-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-4 letters: photoflood. | |
-5 letters: potholder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 4F 50 4F 4E 54 48 45 46 4C 4F 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 00100000 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001100 01001111 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R O P   O N   T H E   F L O O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 004F 0050 004F 004E 0054 0048 0045 0046 004C 004F 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3852495024948254423924046494952 |
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