3 definitions by Snacman
A human, usually from a third-world country, paid to do a computer's job for a fraction of what it would cost to develop the equivalent software. A practical application of Searle's chinese room thought experiment, in which a person in a room with a book listing responses to a non-understood language is used in place of an actual sentient being.
1. I spent hours making a CAPTCHA more advanced than any computer recognition software known to man, so the spammer hired some indroids from Pakistan to spam my site instead.
2. I called Linksys tech support to ask where my router was originally purchased, but the indroid on the other end only recognized "buy router" and told me to buy one from Best Buy.
2. I called Linksys tech support to ask where my router was originally purchased, but the indroid on the other end only recognized "buy router" and told me to buy one from Best Buy.
by Snacman June 21, 2010
In Detroit, the act of getting out of your car at a stop light and having it be stolen before you can reach the rear bumper.
Could I borrow a Benjamin to get my car out of impound? I tried a chinese fire drill last week because I forgot I wasn't in Ann Arbor.
by Snacman October 21, 2007
Blue Screen of Death. Comes from using cheap Chinese hardware with poorly written drivers in Windows (mostly) 9X/ME that will not work at all in Linux and can't even be placed in a Mac.
I got a BSOD because I was using a Mitsui CHD93 CD-RW drive on a VIA Kelut mobo with 64 megs of Rosewill RAM I got from my neighbor in Windows ME. Time to party like it's 1979 with LINUX (that will solve my problems)
by Snacman October 21, 2007