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| A method of compression that can squeeze a music file to a fraction of its original CD file size with only slight loss of quality. |
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| Employing two or more microprocessors in a computer in order to improve overall performance. Also known as symmetric multiprocessing. |
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| Using some combination of text, graphics, animation, video, music, voice, and sound effects to communicate. |
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| An email newsgroup that contains only messages that have been filtered by designated moderators. |
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| A predicament for which rules and ethics don’t seem to apply, or to contradict one another. |
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| Stores programs and the data they need to be instantly accessible to the CPU. |
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| Malicious software, especially destructive programs such as the viruses, worms, and Trojan horses devised and spread by computer saboteurs. |
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| Viruses that attach to and are transmitted through macros embedded in documents; usually spread via email. |
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| The language that computers use to process instructions. Machine language uses numeric codes to represent basic computer operations. |
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