<p dir="ltr">Sort of like STD standing for Senior Technical Director, which is the position above me in my organization of my company, AT&T. They recently renamed to it to Assistant Director and then abbreviated as Ass. Director.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Go figure a fortune 6 company can't figure how not to do abbreviations.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:09 PM Lightner, Jeffrey <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[rant on]There ought to be a law about using acronyms and abbreviations requiring folks to spell it out on the first use rather than assume everyone knows it especially for news organizations.<br>
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Maybe in the UK most folks know NHS is National Health Service like many Americans know CDC is Centers for Disease Control but why make the assumption. Here in the US NHS = National Honor Society and probably various other things. Is it really that hard to spell it out once? WHO knows what kind of trouble misused acronyms might cause.[/rant off]<br>
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Leeds hack 'weaponising' Ubuntu for NHS Windows take out <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/nhsbuntu_nhs_revolution/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/nhsbuntu_nhs_revolution/</a><br>
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750,000 smart cards, millions of PCs<br>
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They want to use the "Power of community and collaboration".<br>
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When they need paid support, the 100M/yr currently paid to MSFT will go a long way towards hiring small teams to tackle whatever issue might arise.<br>
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