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Why does the article title say "F*ck" instead of "Fuck"? What are we, 12-year-olds?

An article about a naughty word in Linux as almost at the top of the front page. Apparently we're 12-year-olds with or without the censoring.

No, but many of us are Americans. We have a weird sense of etiquette.

Weird indeed. American programs on TV are often so annoying when all the "F-words" are bleeped out. Whenever someone strikes his finger with a hammer or whatever you can hear a bleep from three rooms away. Yeah sure now we'll never know what he said and our poor souls are saved from this profanity. It gets even funnier when the mouth is also blurred out.

And many of us Americans say "fuck" on a daily basis. Your point?

At work to your colleagues?

If i may butt in: Yes. Many times with clients too. Just this week I was in a meeting with project managers and consultants from GE, Honeywell, Prysmian and Schneider electric and it was as if everyone was trying to one up each other on the 'fuck' count.

Exactly this. When a fucking router half-breaks at the colo and takes down our sites instead of failing over, we do use such language.

Some of us are on a SFW internet connection which filters such things. Better safe than sorry.

You need a more realistic employer.

My employer is both realistic and pretty hard nosed as it happens. It is the customers. And their parents. I'm a teacher.

A story: Try Googling "The Naked Violin" (not violinist) and you should find a page with free MP3 downloads put up by Tasmin Little, a fairly well known (and extremely respectable) soloist in the UK. She decided to do her bit for getting kids to listen to classical music. And gave it a name that guarantees every school and college firewall in the UK will block access. So I continue to point students at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's music library (15GB of free classical mp3s).

PS: The Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards under Linux is improving with each release. For almost all of my activity on my old Xeon desktop, it is fine, and the fonts look OK. I'm prepared to cut the coders a bit of slack in their comments...

I forgot your use case. I apologize for my ignorance.

I just copied the original title, which I couldn't directly link as it's [dead] on arrival: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/13071/f-ck-in-linux-kernel

I always think of Louis CK's bit about 'The N-word'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ

Not old enough to see naughty words.

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