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January 11, 2005

the biggest problem   (geekin)

In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?"

Paul's straight-faced response: "There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms." (TLAs) (To be exact, there are 26^3 = 17,576 - 46,656 if you include 0-9 (as my last employer did), 74,088 with !@$^&*, and even more if you include 1337 5¶34|< (cyrillic, etc).) I don't think there will be any trouble now that SVLAs like CAPTCHA are becoming more visible (pun intended).

Posted by yargevad at January 11, 2005 12:38 PM


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