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Borg n. In "Star Trek: The Next Generation" the Borg is a species of cyborg that ruthlessly seeks to incorporate all sentient life into itself
heir slogan is "Resistence is futile. You...
borken adj. (also `borked') Common deliberate typo for `broken'.
bot n [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.
An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
bot spot n. [MUD] The user on a MUD with the longest connect time.
Derives from the fact that bots on MUDS often stay constantly connected and appear at the bottom of the list....
bottom feeder n. Syn. for slopsucker, derived from the fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist on the primordial ooze.
bottom-up implementation n. Hackish opposite of the techspeak term `top-down design'.
bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See al...
bounce message n.
boustrophedon n. [from a Greek word for turning like an ox while plowing] An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines.
This term is actually philolo...
box n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `Unix box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
) "We preproce...

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