pistol n.
[IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot
yourself in the foot. "Unix rm * makes such a nice
pistol!"
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pixel sort n.
[Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably
loses valuable data in the process of crunching it. Disparagingly used for `lossy'
methods such as JPEG. The theory, of course, is that these
methods are only used on photographic images in which minor
loss-of-data is not visible to the human eye. The term `pixel
sort' implies distrust of this theory. Compare bogo-sort.