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Line 73: === PEBKAC/PEBCAK/PICNIC/PIE === Phrases used by the tech savvy to mean that a problem is caused entirely by the fault of the user include PEBKAC<ref name="catb_pebkac">{{cite web | url= http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/PEBKAC.html| title = The Jargon File, version 4.4.7 | agency= maintained by Eric S. Raymond | publisher= catb | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130204161015/http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/PEBKAC.html | archive-date = 4 February 2013 | url-status= live}}</ref> (an [[acronym]] for "problem exists between keyboard and chair"), PEBCAK<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-17|title=PEBCAK|url=https://techelper.io/pebcak/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=TecHelper|language=en-US|archive-date=7 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707184805/https://techelper.io/pebcak/|url-status=live}}</ref> (an alternative, but similar, acronym for "problem exists between chair and keyboard"), [[List of U.S. government and military acronyms#P|POBCAK]] (a US government/military acronym for "problem occurs between chair and keyboard"), PICNIC<ref name="bbc_6124438">{{cite web |last= Heald |first= Claire |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6124438.stm |title= Let's help to herd the dinosaurs |website= BBC News |date= 7 November 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110516002425/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6124438.stm| archive-date = 16 May 2011|url-status= live}}</ref> ("problem in chair not in computer") In 2006, [[Intel]] began running a number of ''PEBCAK'' web-based advertisements<ref name="adjab_intel">{{cite web|url= http://www.adjab.com/2006/10/26/pebcak-ads/|title= vPro "Go Pro" advertisements|publisher= Intel|agency= AdJab|date= 26 October 2006|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091108155142/http://www.adjab.com/2006/10/26/pebcak-ads|archive-date= 8 November 2009|url-status= dead|access-date= 4 September 2009}}</ref><!-- The adjab.com link says PEBCAK, but the actual Intel ads said PEBKAC. --> to promote its [[Intel vPro|vPro]] platform. |