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  1. Re:CNC machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Robot With a Chainsaw!

    CNC == Continuous numerical control. As opposed to NC machines which are simply numerical control. Both are computer controlled.

    Try "Computer Numerical(ly) Controlled".

  2. Re:who certifies the certifiers? by smoothnorman · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get?

    the degree matters. the application material matters. the stated experience matters. OCP CCNA CCDP CCENT CCSP ACTC...http://www.all-acronyms.com/tag/certification/ doesn't matter so much (or in one case i know of actually weighed negatively)

  3. Re:Such a sad story. by derGoldstein · · Score: 1 · on Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression

    Let's just get this particular joke over with. There are funnier things to poke fun at, people. This is Slashdot, I expected more.

  4. Re:Pedant Warning! by ikkonoishi · · Score: 3, Funny · on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17

    The real one is worse.
    http://www.all-acronyms.com/cat/9/ATM

    "Abbreviatiated text messaging" *shudder*

  5. Re:Like Android, don't like the G1 by LionMage · · Score: 2, Informative · on Google Unveils First Android Phone
    1. It takes up less space on the PCB, which means thinner and smaller handsets.
    2. It allows customers to use a PHF with more than one control button without having to resort to a custom controller (a la the iPod)
    3. It reduces the number of ports on a phone (as you have a single one for headphones, charging and syncing) which in turn reduces the size of the ID.

    OK, I understood what PCB means in this context (printed circuit board), but I'm scratching my head on PHF. Public Health Foundation? Newport News Airport? Pleasant Home Foundation? Obviously, Google is not my friend when trying to find out what this abbreviation stands for. Perhaps you meant personal hands free, which I only found on one acronym finder site. (Another such site gave much less useful results.) Perhaps this is a regionalism? Nobody that I know in the States calls it "personal hands-free," they just call it "hands free."

    If you do mean a hands-free unit, then what kind of custom control are you referencing in regards to an iPod/iPhone?

    Same goes for ID in this context. Integrated... somethingorother... would be my guess. Obviously not IDentifier/IDentification, nor Intelligent Design. (The acronym finders referenced above each have over 200 possible meanings for ID, several of which are applicable to consumer electronic design and/or electrical engineering.)

    A little less jargon, or a handy chart of relevant TLAs (three letter abbreviations), would be appreciated.

  6. Re:The Loner Component by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians?

    progressive is just another word for someone who wants to take money from my paycheck and give it to someone else.
    I guess because I feel everyone needs to make their own way in this world, I fit that part of your profile, but you may be surprised that I will not be leaving whatever fortune I have at death to my family.

    If you'd like to be "progressive", fine - pay as much over your real taxes as you wish. Fund welfare, universal health care or any other socialist program that you wish. I'm all for that and your free choice to do so, but when you want to mandate that I also pay, for these things that are very much against the needs of our culture, that's when I have a problem.

    I believe in welfare, universal health care, and all of that sort of socialist stuff. I believe in it too - it does exist some places. Because I understand the ramifications of these programs, I'm against them. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish ... http://www.amatecon.com/fish.html Welfare and universal health care are giving a man a fish. A bad plan for the human race.

    TNSTAAFL http://www.all-acronyms.com/?t=tnstaafl&g=9