mob rule

(law) The state of having done something illegal without an intention of breaking the law.

The observation that an information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than not to have it.

A small town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1139).

Synonym of Occam's razor

(computing) An adage that states that organizations design computer systems that mirror their own communication structure.

(politics, law) A law which is not active until a particular event comes to pass, converting the inactive law into an active law on the books.

A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.

A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.

(probability theory) A theorem which states that the long-term average number L of customers in a stationary system is equal to the long-term average effective arrival rate λ multiplied by the average time W that a customer spends in the system.