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Editorial note

At the very least, this "feature" should be off by default.

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Quick take

loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default"

noun

act of failing to meet a financial obligation

noun

loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for default.

noun

loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default"

noun

act of failing to meet a financial obligation

noun

loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

noun

an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified

verb

fail to pay up

Example sentences

At the very least, this "feature" should be off by default.

If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port, set buffer to the empty string.

Unfortunately we made a mistaken and made the default setting false.

For reasons unknown to me, these extensions are typically disabled by default.

My default response to any "good programmer, bad programmer" post:A smart accountant once told me that the answer to "How much money did you make?

My "favourite" FreeBSD advisory was the 2011 telnetd "christmas present" -- remote root to any system running telnetd with the default options.

Most customers often click the default, and I myself do the same thing, since I assume that the default is the best course of action and this led to this issue resurfacing.

This is why developers need explicit guidelines, because as they just demonstrated if there are no guidelines companies default to the thing that exploits the end user!

When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I won't notice some default or will misclick somewhere and inadvertently buy your useless services.

People found a bunch of vulnerabilities in OpenBSD and laughed as the claim at the top of the OpenBSD changed from "no vulnerabilities" to "no remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the default install".And at some point in the last 10 years, didn't OpenBSD's distro servers get owned up?I'm sure the OpenBSD project would like its threat model to include NSA.