L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term

[admin]

Matt just showed me this.. OMG

L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term


Posted by timothy on Monday November 24, @08:16PM
from the sub-instead-taxpayer-scum/righteous-despot dept.
SlashChick writes "In an interesting twist on political correctness, LA County has banned the use of the terms 'Master/Slave' (commonly used to denote hard drive arrangements.) According to Snopes.com, 'someone within the County bureaucracy... had taken offense at "master/slave" references and complained to the board.' LA County now requires that vendors working with the county remove all 'master/slave' references. Incredible. Read the full story."


http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp

The article came from Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) if your interested.

[Silverbug]

lol only in america (sorry )

[Brangwyn]

With Arnold now in office, no doubt you'll no longer be able to "terminate" SCSI devices in CA either as that will be a trademark infringement or something

[DigitalSkyline]

Another reason left-wing-liberal-elitists should be shot on sight (no offence intended of course) lol.

[mresell]

Originally Posted by DigitalSkyline

Another reason left-wing-liberal-elitists should be shot on sight (no offence intended of course) lol.

Could not agree more. These kind of people need to understand the phrase
"Get a job..a real one!"
And get off tax payer dollars.

[waynek]

The solution is simple. Don't offer any 'hard' drives to Los Angeles County.