When you try to pronounce "NGSCB"...
R. A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Mon Jan 27 16:06:52 PST 2003
...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab"
I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole...
Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint.
> Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial
> security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-
> bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing
> base".
Cheers,
RAH
Who liked "Palladiated", too...
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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