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• Evil Empire n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft.
  Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any given time....
• Warding off the evil spirits from your system...
• Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension! -- Buckaroo Banzai
• Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
• Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xxxiv, 13
• exercise, left as an: [from technical books] Used to complete a proof when one doesn't mind a {handwave}, or to avoid one entirely.
  The complete phrase is: "The proof [or `the rest'] is left as an exercise for the reader....
• Coming soon from Microsoft Foods: Animal Hackers.
• evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
  Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
• 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 desig...