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Re:Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War by jdfreefly on Friday April 12, 2013 @05:56PM (#5541315)
s/Cyber //
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Re:Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War by jcr on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:33PM (#5541492)
It would be great if your regex was used everywhere.

Leave it to Washington to unknowingly take a euphemism for sex chat and use it both for the name of a military branch ("Cyber Command") and for political rhetoric. Their mistake is mildly entertaining, but it really makes them look dumb. I wonder what they'll do with "ASL?"

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Re:Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War by pnathan on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:47PM (#5541549)
Cyber- was a prefix long before AOL.

iirc, it was coined in '82 by Gibson and popularized in the cyberpunk genre of literature.

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Re:Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War by jcr on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:57PM (#5541601)
The "cyber-" prefix is actually much older than Gibson. In English, the use came from the term "cybernetic" and that term came from or was based on Greek.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cyber-

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cybernetics

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