[wplug] Quote of the Day

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:33:28 -0500
Gary Morrow <gary.morrow at ansys.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Hmmm, I would not call a "limit to four numeric digits" a
real "password."  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes