from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
bogosity
/boh.go'[email protected]/, n.
1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is
{bogus}. Bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a
speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say
"My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my
bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus
that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest
possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my
bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the {microLenat}.
2. The potential field generated by a {bogon flux}; see {quantum
bogodynamics}. See also {bogon flux}, {bogon filter}, {bogus}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
bogosity
/boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in
the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with
a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something
bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer
just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my
bogometer" means you just said or did something so
outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the
bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might
also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon
unit of bogosity is the {microLenat}.
Also, the potential field generated by a {bogon flux}; see
{quantum bogodynamics}. See also {bogon flux}, {bogon
filter}.
(2002-04-14)