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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...