[zackmorris]

This is a huge problem. I wish the medical industry would stop using "type" and assign specific names to disease variations. So type 1 would be diabetes but type 2 would be dropped from convention and called insulin resistance (or a new name, I dunno, setebaid). Some other words that have probably cost the world billions of dollars and interfered with public opinion:

* Hepatitis A/B and C (A and B were cured early on so name should be livervirus or whatever, C should remain hepatitis until it's eradicated)

* Herpes types 1 and 2 (1 should be renamed to cold sores since almost everyone has it, 2 should remain herpes until it's cured)

* Nonfatal cancers (especially of the skin) need new names to prevent scaring people, especially if they've been largely cured.

* SSH "private key" and "public key" (should have been called "secret" and "share" so that people would know which to keep secret and which to share.. yes I realize they are symmetric)

I could go on, but you get the drift. I think a problem here is that experts in various fields may have exceptional problem solving skills but be terrible at naming things. I've met many programmers with this affliction!

[Simon_says]

I think the naming of private/public keys is already pretty clear ...