And now for something completely stupid

[serinde]

Passed on from zonereyrie...
The County of Los Angeles says the computer industry's use of the terms master/slave is "unacceptable and offensive".

One wonders if this is going to trigger another round of fundies screaming about daemons. We can only hope; that one's always good for a laugh.

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

I like the Snopes take on it:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp

[zombywoof.livejournal.com]

the fark comments are kind of funny also

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=734977