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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by tychuz on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:31AM (#11533384)
What's with random_problem + gate formula? I don't get it.
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by lmm on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:34AM (#11533394)
The Watergate scandal (named after the hotel where things took place) was such a big thing that the press/public developed a habit of relating subsequent scandals to it by giving them a name ending in -gate.
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by pluma on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @07:17AM (#11533556)
You mean Watergategate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w

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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by ccozan on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:34AM (#11533396)
It's coming from a scandal involving Nixon.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by andybak on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:50AM (#11533460)
Maybe a touch frivolous but definitely pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by noja on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:33AM (#11533392)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate...
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Re:VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report by richmarr on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:33AM (#11533391)
Nixon, baby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

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