Political Correctness hits the computer world....

[High_Jumbllama]

In a way it seems kind of pointless as the system architecture is moving to serial ATA on the IDE side anyways.

[The PIT]

Theres got to be something racist about either serial or ATA if a dogooder whacko looks deap enougth.

[leech]

I think everyone should just start calling their Supervisors Masters, and our co-workers slaves. Because that's the way it is! Lousy Californicators. Maybe I should move there and explain to them that in the 6th century BC my ancestor was a slave under Babylonion rule!

Leech

[rylan]

Doesn't surprise me one bit that this started in California, let alont Los Angeles. Gotta love the bleeding heart wacko libs who are afraid that anything may offend somebody.

[Wulfman]

whatever.

We're certainly used to language changing on account of sensitivities in the West; throughout history, conceptual changes in society have brought forth considerable linguistic changes, all the way from language switches to enforced lexical changes. So-called political correctness is not actually all that new, nor is it the invention of so-called bleeding-heart liberals. It's a phenomenon that reflects the political nature of language, and the realization that words are themselves political/positional in many ways. Still, this request seems rather misguided... or at least, more misguided than most.

to quote arstechnica.

mfg
wulfman