Slash Dot Article

jschiwal · 11-25-2003, 03:22 AM

Someone in the LA county bureaucracy is offended by IDE terminally. Now it is illegal to use Master/Slave terminology. Orwell is turning in his grave!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/0014257

Tarts · 11-25-2003, 04:28 AM

Thats the stupidest thing I ever heard.

On another, similar note, how do the master/slave relationship work in Linux, never tried, but I hear if you want to copy a cd, you have to copy it to your hard drive, can you do drive to dirve?

Tarts

aizkorri · 11-25-2003, 04:50 AM

so, now you should use Boss/Employee that is almost the same

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meldroc · 11-25-2003, 06:01 AM

Wow, that's really asinine.

Whitehat · 11-25-2003, 07:02 AM

Hmm...

While I do think that is crazy. I can see how it may offend people of color. I just asked my buddy that I work with here and he said that it is somewhat offensive but that he never really gave it any thought.

TheOneKEA · 11-25-2003, 08:02 AM

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Originally posted by Tarts
Thats the stupidest thing I ever heard.

On another, similar note, how do the master/slave relationship work in Linux, never tried, but I hear if you want to copy a cd, you have to copy it to your hard drive, can you do drive to dirve?

Tarts

If the packet writing patches ever get into 2.6, in the future all you'll have to do is use a special userspace program to convert the CD/DVD burner into a standard block device. Then you make a UDF filesystem on it, mount it, and start copying your files onto the burned disc. It's like a loopback filesystem-type setup.

Jens Axboe wrote the original patches, but they don't work anymore and haven't been updated.

Tarts · 11-25-2003, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TheOneKEA
If the packet writing patches ever get into 2.6, in the future all you'll have to do is use a special userspace program to convert the CD/DVD burner into a standard block device. Then you make a UDF filesystem on it, mount it, and start copying your files onto the burned disc. It's like a loopback filesystem-type setup.

Jens Axboe wrote the original patches, but they don't work anymore and haven't been updated.

Good to know, thanks!

randon · 11-27-2003, 12:14 AM

No it's not illegal, it was just a request.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

Are we turning into a whiny bitchy society that all of a sudden after 9/11 EVERYTHING we say is offensive? What happened to 2nd amendment rights to free speech? What a bunch of WHINERS our country has become.

Just my 2 cents............

scott_R · 11-27-2003, 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by randon
No it's not illegal, it was just a request.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

Are we turning into a whiny bitchy society that all of a sudden after 9/11 EVERYTHING we say is offensive? What happened to 2nd amendment rights to free speech? What a bunch of WHINERS our country has become.

Just my 2 cents............

After 9/11? You should have seen it in 93-94, when every anal retentive person out there jumped on the PC bandwagon. Personally, I think the PC thing is dying for the most part, as people are seeing it for what it is...a way to attack people who disagree with you. These events are pretty much the last gasps of those who profited from those days, and can't bear to see them disappear completely.

Dhimani · 11-28-2003, 09:20 PM

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Originally posted by jschiwal

Someone in the LA county bureaucracy is offended by IDE terminally. Now it is illegal to use Master/Slave terminology. Orwell is turning in his grave!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/0014257

What's next from the thought police......not being able to refer to electronic connections as male/female??? There are bigger problems facing society rather than having to worry about this crap!

teval · 11-29-2003, 08:29 AM

I've never seen one person ever get offended by this.
Maybe politicians in LA should worry more about their budget then this. You're right, next we won't have M/F connectors. What's next? No domain controller. No servers. We should go for the politically correct "helpful of it wants computer".
And let's not even start with daemon.