Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: David H. Lipman
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:25

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From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>

| "John Slade" <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in message
| news:NXi6o.35931$F%7.12219@newsfe10.iad...
>> 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.


Mom always told me not to be anti semantic  :-)

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.anti-virus,microsoft.public.security.virus,ba.internet
Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:25:21 -0400
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