On: Committing Location Based Service Suicide

[thwarted]

Your assertion that the word suicide should carry more weight reminds me of complaints that describing a project as "stillborn" is insensitive to parents that have lost a baby, and that using the terms master/slave in technical documents is discriminatory.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp

[ax0n → thwarted]

A year or so ago, I was going to help a stranger jump-start his car. He didn't have jumper cables with him, but I keep a set in all of my motorized vehicles. I generally assume (often rightly so) that folks who don't own a pair of jumper cables do not know how to correctly utilize them. Whilst giving him the 15-second explanation on their use, he interrupted me.

"Man... why black always gotta be NEGATIVE?"

I took my jumper cables out of his hands, tossed them into the back of my car and drove off, leaving him with his hood (and his jaw) wide open. I haven't the time for crap like that.

[mrkurt → ax0n]

I guess you showed him.

[seiji → thwarted]

I've had customers complain that using the terms whitelist and blacklist are offensive. We switched them to "allowed" and "denied."

[sailormoon → thwarted]

Not to mention killing processes. And aborting operations!

[nfnaaron → sailormoon]

And executing processes.

[RyanMcGreal → nfnaaron]

Don't even get me started on the male/female ends of a cable interface.

[nfnaaron → RyanMcGreal]

My ex-wife was not a native speaker, and I once asked her for the male end of an extension cord. Hilarity ensued.

[sailormoon → RyanMcGreal]

I see I am not the only one who has awkwardly tried to explain what I need to baffled sales staff.