Balaclava man

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*** baggy pantsing
v. [Georgia Tech] A baggy pantsing is used to reprimand hackers who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked. The affected user will come back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing exactly how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the clusters. A properly-done baggy pantsing is highly mocking and humorous. It is considered bad form to post a baggy pantsing to off-campus newsgroups or the more technical, serious groups. A particularly nice baggy pantsing may be claimed by immediately quoting the message in full, followed by your sig block ; this has the added benefit of keeping the embarassed victim from being able to delete the post. Interesting baggy-pantsings have been done involving adding commands to login scripts to repost the message every time the unlucky user logs in; Unix boxes on the residential network, when cracked, oftentimes have their homepages replaced (after being politely backed-up to another file) with a baggy-pants message;. plan files are also occasionally targeted. Usage: Prof. Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris cluster again; we baggy-pantsed him to git.cc.class.2430.flame. Compare derf.
*** balaclava man
Fictional character. The most legendary hacker. Often depicted in mainstream news stories about hackers, he is hunched over a laptop wearing a black balaclava or hoodie. Occasionally balaclava man wears biker gloves and sometimes he is also a woman but mostly is depicted as being of masculine gender. Sometimes he is doing something strange to the laptop keyboard, such as trying to hammer it or bash it with a crowbar. This is what the mainstream media thinks hackers look like.
*** balaclava woman
The mainstream media stereotype of what a hacker looks like. Sometimes balaclava man is depicted as a woman. As usual, wearing a black balaclava and either holding or hunched over a laptop. Also see balaclava man.
*** balloonian variable
n. [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of boolean variable ?] Any variable that doesn't actually hold or control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked, or set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached to some environment feature that either became obsolete or was planned but never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or politics attached to same) may require that such a flag be treated as though it were live.

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v. [Georgia Tech] A baggy pantsing is used to reprimand hackers who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked. The affected user will come back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing exactly how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the clusters. A properly-done baggy pantsing is highly mocking and humorous. It is considered bad form to post a baggy pantsing to off-campus newsgroups or the more technical, serious groups. A particularly nice baggy pantsing may be claimed by immediately quoting the message in full, followed by your sig block ; this has the added benefit of keeping the embarassed victim from being able to delete the post. Interesting baggy-pantsings have been done involving adding commands to login scripts to repost the message every time the unlucky user logs in; Unix boxes on the residential network, when cracked, oftentimes have their homepages replaced (after being politely backed-up to another file) with a baggy-pants message;. plan files are also occasionally targeted. Usage: Prof. Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris cluster again; we baggy-pantsed him to git.cc.class.2430.flame. Compare derf.
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<H4>balaclava man</H4>
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Fictional character. The most legendary hacker. Often depicted in mainstream news stories about hackers, he is hunched over a laptop wearing a black balaclava or hoodie. Occasionally balaclava man wears biker gloves and sometimes he is also a woman but mostly is depicted as being of masculine gender. Sometimes he is doing something strange to the laptop keyboard, such as trying to hammer it or bash it with a crowbar. This is what the mainstream media thinks hackers look like.
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<H4>balaclava woman</H4>
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The mainstream media stereotype of what a hacker looks like. Sometimes balaclava man is depicted as a woman. As usual, wearing a black balaclava and either holding or hunched over a laptop. Also see balaclava man.
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<H4>balloonian variable</H4>
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n. [Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of boolean variable ?] Any variable that doesn't actually hold or control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked, or set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached to some environment feature that either became obsolete or was planned but never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or politics attached to same) may require that such a flag be treated as though it were live.

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balaclava man
Fictional character. The most legendary hacker. Often depicted in
mainstream news stories about hackers, he is hunched over a laptop
wearing a black balaclava or hoodie. Occasionally balaclava man wears
biker gloves and sometimes he is also a woman but mostly is depicted
as being of masculine gender. Sometimes he is doing something strange
to the laptop keyboard, such as trying to hammer it or bash it with
a crowbar. This is what the mainstream media thinks hackers look like.

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balaclava woman
The mainstream media stereotype of what a hacker looks like. Sometimes
balaclava man is depicted as a woman. As usual, wearing a black balaclava
and either holding or hunched over a laptop. Also see balaclava man.