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• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive....
• SOFTWARE ROT n. A hypothetical disease of which the existence has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if "nothing has changed!" Also known as "BIT DECAY....
• unspots: n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
  Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of {bit rot} --- from the myth that sunspots will increase {cosmic rays}, which can flip single bits in memory....
• unspots n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
  Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits in memory....
• cosmic rays n. Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
  However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• alpha particles n. See bit rot.
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....