http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-dongle-2013-3This week two people in the tech industry lost their jobs because of jokes gone awry at a conference.
A couple of male developers were joking around about "big" dongles. When a female developer evangelist heard their jokes she tweeted it out with their photo, complaining that they were being rude. One of those developers lost his job, and then eventually, so did the evangelist.
Some people in our office had heard the word before, but didn't know what a dongle is. Merriam-Webster defines a dongle as a small device that plugs into a computer and serves as an adapter or a security measure to enable the use of certain software.Simply put, dongles are computer peripherals that plugs into your computer like a USB flash drive or a cord connecting a computer with a printer for example. Dongles are also huge in the video game world because they allow consoles to have added features like increased audio quality
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