LA requires hard disks to be relabled
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @12:12PM
from the life-imitates-parody dept.
Matthew writes: Los Angeles County has determined that equipment vendors should stop using the term “master/slave” with respect to electronic equipment such as hard disk drives.
“This is a great day for slave hard disk drives in Los Angeles” announced Joe Sandoval, the Los Angeles County purchasing supervisor who was personally responsible for emancipating the slave drives.
“We’ve identified a great social injustice and corrected it, merely by issuing a memo to vendors. Now, slave drives can operate without the stigma associated with not being the drive that arbitrates access to the IDE bus. From this day forward, all drives shall be masters! It’s better for bus contention anyway.”
Mr. Sandoval has indicated that he will next take issue with the Acronym “RAID”, which can be offensive to certain species of insects.
Subject:OK….
This is a good example why all legislative bodies should be constitutionally limited to sessions of one week per year or less. They plainly don't have anything meaningful to do.
Comment by Steve Franklin — November 26, 2003 @ 5:11 pm
Subject:\”Get your filthy paws off of me…\”
Great!! Just Great!!
What'll they do next? Free the slave Apes that we have as housekeepers?!? What? You think this high tech computerized house cleans itself? Change paintings and music as you walk though, yes; self cleaning, NO!
W.G.III
Comment by Will — November 27, 2003 @ 5:46 pm
Subject:Male/Female
Under the high pressure from femisist and sexual minority organizations, FCC decides to force all electronic equipment vendors to cease usage the terms “male” and “female” in regard to sockets such as cable ones. From now on they should use the term “finger” instead of “male, and “asshole” instead of female, as new terms has nothing to do with any sex and thus cannot offence any sexual group.
Comment by Axxackall — December 15, 2003 @ 3:17 am