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• 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!...
• 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-damaged: 1. [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 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....
• erminal brain death: n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1).
  What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....
• 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....
• NetBOLLIX: [from bollix: to bungle] n. {IBM}'s NetBIOS, an extremely {brain-damaged} network protocol that, like {Blue Glue}, is used at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• New Jersey: [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj.
  Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey)....
• IBM: Idle Brain Malfunctio