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screen of death
noun
A screen or a indicating an error.
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What's next — the Blu-ray Screen of Death?
I frequently get a "blue screen of death" and the computer reboots.
(Windows 95 would go straight to the Blue Screen of Death, I guess).
Dropped connections, certificate errors, frozen keyboards, the "blue screen of death," spinning pinwheels – I'll just stop there.
(Not good). I've had modems die in Egypt, and the blue screen of death crawl across my laptop in India.
For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew called the "blue screen of death".
The Wikipedia entry called "The Blue Screen of Death" (for the cryptic screen that Windows flashes before it stomps your life) is your chance at fame.
Yet my adoration wasn't entirely logical; I knew from experience, for example, that Mac crashes were easier to recover from than the infamous Blue Screen of Death.
The next time you start your car you could be presented with the blue screen of death, you just have to hope it's before you pull away.
In an "elastic transportation system", what happens when your self-driving car gets the blue screen of death – is it curtains for you, too?
However, after the recent Windows 10 updates, my computer BSOD's [blue screen of death] and force restarts almost as soon as I plug my Kindle in".
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