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1. 

   Beck, 25 Nov 2003 @ 11:21am

   
   

   Any Ideas?

   So what are they supposed to change it to?

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   Ed Halley, 25 Nov 2003 @ 11:24am

   
   

   Photographers beware...

   
   

   Slave flash units have been around a bit longer than ATA hard drives. They are triggered when another flash (a master, if you will) sends a pre-signal, or just flashes on its own.

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   TAD, 25 Nov 2003 @ 11:39am

   
   

   Some Suggestions:

   Instead of Master/Slave, how about:
   
   Capitalist/Wage-Serf
   Commisar/Peasant
   Germany/France
   Congressman/Voter
   USA/World
   Pimp/Ho
   Mo/LarryCur ly(Shep)
   Sheik/Concubine
   

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   Mark Polino, 25 Nov 2003 @ 1:12pm

   
   

   Master/Slave

   Perhaps we should take this one step further. Since just about every hard drive made has this terminology either labeled or engraved on it, I think we should insist that every hard drive belonging to any LA County goverment agency be replaced. For that matter, so should every other device with this issue. We get to be politically correct and jump start the economy at the same time!
   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2003 @ 2:16pm

   
   

   What about "male"/"female" connectors?

   I know someone who had a woman look at him like he was some kind of perv when he referred to a cable connector as "male" or "female". Common terminology, but to the non-tech savvy, I guess it could sound obscene. "See, the male connector sticks out, and the female one has a hole..."

   Getting uptight about Master/Slave, though, is just nutty. Get a life, LA County.

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   LittleW0lf, 25 Nov 2003 @ 2:45pm

   
   

   Re: What about

   See, the male connector sticks out, and the female one has a hole...
   
   Not necessarily, think of SMA connectors or RF connectors (and other Coax connectors too), the females have poles within holes and the males have holes within poles... ok, so most examples of this are true, but not all of them.
   
   Then again, most RF/Wireless devices tend to follow the beat of a different drummer, so maybe this explains why the gender-bending is normal in RF.

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   Brenden, 25 Nov 2003 @ 2:54pm

   
   

   Male / Female

   I work at a small engineering company. We once hired someone who had never heard connectors referred to as male or female. He giggled whenever he saw it and tried to replace it with some other terminology in our documentation. We eventually replaced him. We laugh about this an other quirks he had when we talk about him.

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   aNonMooseCowherd, 25 Nov 2003 @ 5:37pm

   
   

   No Subject Given

   It's even worse than that. Note the county wording:

   • ...ensure that any equipment, supplies or services that are provided to County departments do not possess or portray an image that may be construed as offensive or defamatory in nature.

   Even though the wording says "image", it's obvious that it's the words, not the picture, that the county objects to. That means that any word that could be "offensive" is prohibited. So if, say, some group finds the word "bus" offensive because it might be linked to the school bus issue, then that word has to be replaced also.

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   Steve, 25 Nov 2003 @ 6:45pm

   
   

   No Subject Given

   Doesn't California have, like a bazillion dollar deficit? Why are they wasting time/money on stupid stuff like this? Maybe we should just refuse to send the city beauracracy any more electronic equipment because their clearly too stupid to operate it. I take offense at anyone who would go looking for a reason to take offense and those who would be niggardly with my right to use legitimate words.

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 5:59am

    
    

    Just another reason to go SCSI...

    Seriously though, I did catch myself using primary/secondary instead of master/slave the otherday.
    
    Then I realized that there is no sane reasone why I should moderate my speach because of the politics of yester-years gone past. I think everything has pretty much been normalized during the 80s/early 90s. I still occassionally run into the baltenly racist white person, but more often than not these days I'm running into blatently racist non-white people. As population demographics shift, I think things are going to get very interesting. I'm not sure if we'll see a complete "what comes around goes around", but it wouldn't supprise me in the least and if this does happen, it's going to really suck to be old.

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 6:52am

    
    

    Re: What about

    the females have poles within holes and the males have holes within poles...
    
    Just like in real life.

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 6:54am

    
    

    Re: What about

    The older I get, the more puzzled I am about "obscenity". Most people will have sex. Most people will have sex weekly, or probably more.
    We're animals-- that's what we're designed to do.
    Is eating obscene?
    Is shitting? People say so-- but if you don't do it every day, *you* are abnormal, and you need to go talk to a doctor, so don't get all high and mighty with me.

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 7:03am

    
    

    Re: Master/Slave

    Yes, i think only those who are bring this up should pay the companies to recall all those drives and have them fixed to there saying. They should also pay to reprint the the ads and all the computer catalogs and to fix all the websites that sales computer parts.
    People like this is sick and need to get a job or find a life on Venus.
    

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    AMetamorphosis, 26 Nov 2003 @ 8:19am

    
    

    Arnolds weenie

    Let me get this correct ... This is The SAME state that elected an official who's weenie can be found by typing his name into Google right ?

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 9:36am

    
    

    Re: Arnolds weenie

    Well it might be IN the same state, but it is really only LA county. OTOH, parts of the city and county of San Francisco are considering a REQUIREMENT for all devices to be labeled either Master or Slave.
    
    Smack!

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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2003 @ 2:39pm

    
    

    Re: Some Suggestions:

    Oracle/Supplicant

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    Rick Colosimo, 26 Nov 2003 @ 7:06pm

    
    

    Legal terminology might help

    The area of law that deals with this sort of thing refers to "master" and "servant." I have some measure of comfort in believing that the SoCal residents, however lefty they might be, probably don't object to servants, even if they do treat them like slaves occasionally.
    
    R.

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    anon, 27 Nov 2003 @ 8:51am

    
    

    Re: Some Suggestions:

    How about:
    
    Israel/Palestine
    Cheney/Bush
    Michael/boy
    J.A.Muhammad/J.L.Malvo
    Defense Dept./State Dept.
    Neocon/Neolib
    Perle/Wolfowitz
    Republican/Democrat
    Delay/Hastert
    Gates/Industry
    Microsoft/Industry
    Ora cle/Peoplesoft
    Lobbyist/Congressman
    Shit/Piss
    HaX0r/1os3r
    Me/You

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    Bob Jonkman (profile), 29 Nov 2003 @ 9:37pm

    
    

    Re: What about Male/Female

    The plumbing industry has it even worse -- not only do they have Male and Female connectors, plumbing parts also abound with nipples and cocks. Perhaps LA County should be targeting the plumbing instead...

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