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adj. Both evil and rude , but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad design; it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with Unix in places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to do; but it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are apparently there not to fix design bugs in Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of evil.
++ Humerous proposal in RFC3514 to make life easy for firewalls by setting a TCP packet bit to indicate if it was transmitted by an evil entity. "If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent". It's a satire on how people look for simple technical solutions to what are really complex social problems (the problem of evil on the internet). Also see the XMPP equivalent XEP-0076 "Malicious Stanzas". +
/eks@/ , pref. [SI] See quantifiers. diff --git a/docs/jargon.org b/docs/jargon.org index 4944034..5f9b342 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.org +++ b/docs/jargon.org @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Wednesday, 02 January 2019 09:21AM UTC +This file last generated Tuesday, 15 January 2019 10:20AM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -3854,6 +3854,9 @@ adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or instituti *** evil and rude adj. Both evil and rude , but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad design; it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with Unix in places where compatibility would have been as easy and effective to do; but it's evil and rude because the incompatibilities are apparently there not to fix design bugs in Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of evil. +*** evil bit +Humerous proposal in RFC3514 to make life easy for firewalls by setting a TCP packet bit to indicate if it was transmitted by an evil entity. "If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent". It's a satire on how people look for simple technical solutions to what are really complex social problems (the problem of evil on the internet). Also see the XMPP equivalent XEP-0076 "Malicious Stanzas". + *** exa- /eks@/ , pref. [SI] See quantifiers. diff --git a/entries/evil_bit.txt b/entries/evil_bit.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..018ccac --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/evil_bit.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +evil bit + +Humerous proposal in RFC3514 to make life easy for firewalls by setting a TCP +packet bit to indicate if it was transmitted by an evil entity. +"If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent". It's a satire on how +people look for simple technical solutions to what are really complex social +problems (the problem of evil on the internet). Also see the XMPP equivalent +XEP-0076 "Malicious Stanzas". \ No newline at end of file