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• brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] adj.
  Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• brain-damaged, generalization of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Multics, adj
  Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he/she should have known better....
• UBD: /U-B-D/ [abbreviation for `User Brain Damage'] An abbreviation used to close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part.
  Compare {pilot error}; oppose {PBD}; see also {brain-damaged}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• dread high-bit disease: n. A condition endemic to PRIME (a.
  k.a. PR1ME) minicomputers that results in all the characters having their high (0x80) bit ON rather than OFF....
• 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....
• brain-dead: adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity.
  This comm program doesn't know how to send a break how brain-dead!...
• cretinous: /kret'n-*s/ or /kreet'n-*s/ adj. Wrong; stupid
  non-functional; very poorly designed. Also used pejoratively of people....
• brain-dead adj. [common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
  It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity....
• PBD: /P-B-D/ [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] n.
  Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer....