bagbiting adj.
Having the quality of a bagbiter. "This bagbiting system won't let me
compute the factorial of a negative number." Compare losing, cretinous, bletcherous, `barfucious' (under barfulous) and `chomping' (under chomp).
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baggy pantsing v.
[Georgia Tech] A "baggy pantsing" is used to reprimand hackers
who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked. The affected
user will come back to find a post from them on internal
newsgroups discussing exactly how baggy their pants are, an
accepted stand-in for "unattentive user who left their work
unprotected in the clusters". A properly-done baggy pantsing is
highly mocking and humorous (see examples below). It is
considered bad form to post a baggy pantsing to off-campus
newsgroups or the more technical, serious groups. A particularly
nice baggy pantsing may be "claimed" by immediately quoting the
message in full, followed by your sig; this has the added benefit
of keeping the embarassed victim from being able to delete the
post. Interesting baggy-pantsings have been done involving adding
commands to login scripts to repost the message every time the
unlucky user logs in; Unix boxes on the residential network, when
cracked, oftentimes have their homepages replaced (after being
politely backedup to another file) with a baggy-pants message;
.plan files are also occasionally targeted. Usage: "Prof.
Greenlee fell asleep in the Solaris cluster again; we
baggy-pantsed him to git.cc.class.2430.flame."
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balloonian variable n.
[Commodore users; perh. a deliberate phonetic mangling of
`boolean variable'?] Any variable that doesn't actually hold or
control state, but must nevertheless be declared, checked, or
set. A typical balloonian variable started out as a flag attached
to some environment feature that either became obsolete or was
planned but never implemented. Compatibility concerns (or
politics attached to same) may require that such a flag be
treated as though it were live.