[`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over',
attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'.
1. n. A handwave intended to
confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the
listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is
going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by
engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs. 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO
tactics. 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that
causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself,
which may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as
effectively as by an actual excess of it.
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meltdown, network n.
See network
meltdown.