camwyn on ambiguous acronyms

[leeshajoy]

Note to self, you should maybe consider not going directly from advice columns like Captain Awkward to feature reviews of antimalware products like ESET.

PUA means two very different things depending on which one of those you're reading and ESET is not capable of protecting anybody from pickup artists.

then again your average PUA is probably a potentially unwanted application made flesh, anyway.

Context wishes you could class douchebags as malware.

Comments

[niqaeli]

Given payment kiosk, Point of Sales, I'd guess? Which, well. MOST point of sales software/etc. is deserving of the epithetical alternative expansion of that acronym, frankly.

...no idea about MFD, tho. Possibly because I've never actually dealt with public printers. Kitchen printers, yes; public ones, not so much.

[melannen]

Occasionally I have gone "do the people who sell these know what else that acronym is?" And then I'm like, yeah, actually, I'm pretty sure they know what they're selling.

MFD is theoretically multi-function device, because it's a combined printer/copier/scanner/fax/payment center/computer sign-in. They got to replace the separate printer, copier, scanner, fax, and sign-in station, because it would "be so much more convenient!" and failed to listen when it was pointed out to them repeatedly that that meant the line would be five times as long at all times.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Maybe they should have gotten more than one.