[wplug] Quote of the Day

[Gary Morrow]

Matthew J. Hughes wrote:
> One of the things I noticied when I moved east. They call the ATM's, 
> MAC's. Which MAC's machine makes sense. So that is why they should be 
> MAC's and not ATM. Yes, I thought about this. anybody else?
> -matt
> 
> Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> 
>> "Gang, it's ATM or Automatic Teller Machine. 'ATM machine' is
>> redundant."                                          --Steve
>>
>> "'ATM Machine' is the machine that makes ATM's."
>>                                               --Rob Mayfield, in
>> <http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/blowing_up_atm.html>
>>

While we're at it, it's not a PIN number.  That would be a Personal 
Identification Number number.  It's really a password.


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