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is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode. |
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jump off into never-never land v. [from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan] Same as branch to Fishkill, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term 'jump' rather than 'branch'. Compare hyperspace. |
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jupiter vt. [IRC] To kill an IRC robot or user and then take its place by adopting its nick so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. |
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