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Specialty Expressions: BLUE BOX

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Blue BoxComputingBlue box n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreakers built devices called `blue boxes' that could reproduce these tones, which could be used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet `Captain Crunch' after he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic whistle pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors (http://www.ElfQrin.com/docs/hakref/phrkbox/phreakboxes.html) as well, but the blue box was the original and archetype. 2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one. Source: Jargon File..
Blue BoxComputingBlue Box The complete implementation of the Mac OS run-time environment on the more modern Rhapsody operating system. Blue Box is not an emulation layer; at any given time it will be based on the same source code and ROM image as the current version of Mac OS and will thus incorporate future Mac OS improvements. (1997-10-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
Blue box policiesAgricultureDirect payments, under the definition of "production-limiting" measures as defined in Article 6 of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, that are not subject to the commitment to reduce domestic support. To qualify for the exemption, payments must be based on fixed areas or yields, on a fixed number of livestock, or on 85% or less of the base level of production. See green box. (references)

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Topics sorted by level of InterestLevel (1=low, 600=high)   Topics sorted AlphabeticallyLevel (1=low, 600=high)
Blue box (phreaking)20   Blue box (alternative meanings)4
Blue Box (container)6   Blue Box (container)6
Collected (Black 'n Blue box set)6   Blue Box (Doctor Who)5
Blue Box (Doctor Who)5   Blue box (phreaking)20
Blue Box Recycling System4   Blue Box Recycling System4
Blue box (alternative meanings)4   Collected (Black 'n Blue box set)6

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).