On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 04:06 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab"
I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole...
Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint.
Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base".
Hmmhh, when I see "NGSCB" I see "Nigga's CB," some sort of jungle telegraph, perhaps the cellphones that da homies in da ghetto use.
I assumed it was intentional, a ploy by Microsoft to reach out to the persons of color, going beyond their usual appeal to the persons of whiteness.
Nigga's CB be what we need.
--TIm May
