RevCan and Linux/FireFox

[Scott Elcomb]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Scott Sullivan <scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Jon Thiele wrote:
>>
>> At one point, I thought that you tell FireFox to report false information
>> to
>> websites like "NT 5.0, IE6.0" etc., but I can't find how to do this in the
>> latest version.
>
> There are plugins for switching the reported information, but this shouldn't
> be your first course of action.
> This is actually an example of a government organization discriminating
> against a visible minority. This happened once before with the last Canadian
> Census for it's online version. Our goverment should not be telling us which
> OS and which Broswer we need to use to access their services, they need to
> make sure we all have equal access. So before any one starts claiming their
> running an OS their not, and in doing so giving them false data to say we're
> not a significant percentage of the population, we should contact Revenue
> Canada in regards to our rights.

Essentially I agree... however I don't think "visible minority" is the
right term to use.

According to Wikipedia[1]:

  The term is used as a demographic category by Statistics Canada in
connection with
  that country's multiculturalism policies, which are based on race
rather than ethnicity.
  Visible minorities are defined by the Canadian Employment Equity Act
as "persons,
  other than Aboriginals, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour."

The definition specifically references race; I suspect there's a
better word or phrase for representing "technological minorities."


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_minority

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