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Are computer terms offensive?

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I noticed a couple weeks ago that my computer was labeled "slave" and my husband's computer was "master." I lightly teased him about it, but once he explained what it meant, it wasn't so funny. It's not a big deal, really.
 
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People also freak out over certain *nix terms. There are daemons, processes are killed, and children die!
That reminds me of a time that I was programming a tree sorting algorithm and when explaining in it in a different class said something along the lines of "and so that branch of the tree is explored, so the parent just kills its child because we don't need it anymore" and was overheard at that point. Needless to say, things were awkward for a bit.
 
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I wasn't offended until I worked with a version of MS-DOS that forced me to undergo counseling and a mandatory waiting period of 24 hours every time I chose "Abort" from the options "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?"

I told the OS to fsck off and got Unix instead. ;)










(Please don't anybody make me evoke Poe's Law on this one...)
 
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I was speaking with my advisor last year about research involving vocal samples of women and men. In recommending a plan of action, he said, "Now what we can do is lay the man on top of the woman," referring to the data. I snickered, and when he realized what he'd said we both cracked up.

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Bet he was secretly relieved when you snickered. Careers have been broken and lives destroyed over less. Even now you might want to formally document the incident just in case.
 
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I think the whole world has gone plumb NUTS if it's getting upset about this kind of nonsense.
I don't think it's the whole world that's upset; clearly most people think this is a non-issue. There are six billion people in the world. It's easy to point our finger at the extremes and mock them, but this doesn't mean it's an indication of society at large. Most people are pretty sane about this sort of thing.

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There has been a few things stated about IT terminology as far as how offensive they are.

Consider if you will that devices in computers can be set to be a slave or master, there is client/server networks and male/female connectors (just to name a few things).

For some corporations it seems so.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3607049/

What I want to know is what do you think? If a device on a computer has settings of master and slave, is this offensive?
You are joking right? Very funny.
 
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