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    [Stanford University] A period in {larval stage} during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system,... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    sunspots

    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. See cosmic rays, phase of the moon.