from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
DAU
/dow/, n.
[German FidoNet] German acronym for Dummster Anzunehmender User
(stupidest imaginable user). From the engineering-slang GAU for
Grosster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst assumable accident, esp. of a LNG
tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences.
In popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear
accidents such as a core meltdown. See {cretin}, {fool}, {loser} and
{weasel}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
DAU
/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German
acronym for stupidest imaginable user. From the
engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall
(worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm
plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. In
popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case
nuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.
See {cretin}, {loser} and {weasel}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-06)