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bug (sh) and POLITICAL (law)


bug (sh)




Coding error in a computer program that prevents it from functioning as designed.

Most Software companies have a quality-assurance department which is charged with finding program bugs while the program is in development (debugging); bugs are also often detected by means of beta testing (testing of a product, often by potential consumers, before it is placed on the market). The term originated in a computer context in 1945 when a moth flew into and jammed an electrical relay of the Harvard Mark II computer; it was extracted and taped into the log book with the inscription "First actual case of bug being found" (the term having previously been used for Other kinds of mechanical defects).


POLITICAL (law)


POLITICAL. Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards Other individuals, and which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards Other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated. 1 the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 182, 197, 198. Bouv. Inst. n. 182, 197, 198.