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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:51:34 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:45:49 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

>>> Google will provide you the answer much faster than usenet.
>>
>> You mean, Google can read minds now? So I can query it for "what
>> particular thing Silvio was thinking about when he wrote 'IoT' in
>> <53ba6e3e$0$2967$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, of all the many dozens of
>> things that could be abbreviated to that"?
> 
> No - it would tell you what the common meaning is - and then you would
> assume that was what he meant.

But "IoT" doesn't have a "common meaning"; if it did, I would have known 
what it meant already. It had only esoteric jargon meanings, and there'd 
be no way for me to know which (if any) was the one Silvio meant.