I blame the computer guys for knowing jack of signal processing / communications theory and misusing the technical terms due to plain ignorance.
It's revenge!
But seriously, we also do it a lot to ourselves. There seems to be a programmer mindset -- experiencing our ability to figure things out using deduction and documentation, we get conditioned to think we can quickly get a working handle on anything. As a result, engineers and scientists of all sorts are constantly annoyed at computer guys posting stupid things. (But at least we can unite in our exasperation at journalists.)
We programmers live, "There's nothing more dangerous than a little knowledge." Often we live with the consequences. (In the late 90's I despaired at the dilution of the language around Object Orientation. Things have gotten better since then, somehow.)
It's revenge!
But seriously, we also do it a lot to ourselves. There seems to be a programmer mindset -- experiencing our ability to figure things out using deduction and documentation, we get conditioned to think we can quickly get a working handle on anything. As a result, engineers and scientists of all sorts are constantly annoyed at computer guys posting stupid things. (But at least we can unite in our exasperation at journalists.)
We programmers live, "There's nothing more dangerous than a little knowledge." Often we live with the consequences. (In the late 90's I despaired at the dilution of the language around Object Orientation. Things have gotten better since then, somehow.)