Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: FromTheRafters
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:01

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"John Slade" <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in message 
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> On 8/3/2010 2:47 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>> Dustin wrote:
>>> That's like some electricians I know that call all 9" linemans 
>>> pliers
>>> klein, even tho they aren't. As klein is actually a company name.
>>
>> Hey, how did you know I am a licensed electrician?
>> And yes, it is common in the trade to call them 'kleins', like in, 
>> 'can I
>> borrow your kleins?'
>> Buffalo :)
>>
>>
>
>        It's like people calling powdered drink mix from Flavor Aid, 
> "Kool-Aid". I'm sure we've all heard the expression, "Drinking the 
> Kool-Aid" when talking about someone who follows something or someone 
> blindly. Well it came from the Jim Jones tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana. 
> They drank poisonded Flavor Aid but most people still call it 
> Kool-Aid.

Same sort of thing applies to crescent wrench (Crescent is a brand name 
of a very popular open end adjustaqble wrench). Crowbar is another, 
where a wrecking bar is almost always incorrectly called a crowbar. 
Dykes are a misnomer for the shortening of the tool known as a "diagonal 
cutter".

Most people don't care about using correct terminology, and so there is 
often confusion and shouts of *mere semantics* when someone tries to 
inform them.

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From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:01:44 -0400
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