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What's Microsoft Up To?
So, today's one of those days when every bit of news is dominated by Microsoft. To spare you six different stories about the Borg, we'll assimilate them all into this one. You have seen the stupid Passport hole in an earlier story; also the iLoo, although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no. New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers. The WINHEC conference is ongoing - Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison, the Xbox is going to be your home communications center, Wired talks about how hardware will be changed to imprison users, and once you're locked in to Microsoft you get to pay more each year. An article describes why user desktops are locked down. Oh, and here's another on DRM, just because.
So now it's "news for herds"?
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
Got a bone to pick? Who cares about Michael and the whole slash cadre. If they want to be juvenile, let them, it is after all their site. Just don't sink to their level. This little rant makes you seem more like a Finkelstein luddite than anything else.
As you mentioned, they will just mod you into oblivion and this whole thread will get buried anyway. So let them act stupid and you can flame them in your journal, where they are less apt to mod bomb you.
ASCII tastes bad dude.
Binary it is then.
I agree. Fortunately, I have karma to burn.
Hey Mike, here I am again! And don't forget, I have past messages you can mod down!!! Hillarious...
/. troll and it really bothers me that he gets to be an editor and force his opinion on everyone from high up there. Finally, let me say that I enjoy /. a lot and that I long for the day this site has responsible editors who treat us respectfully rather than the likes of mike. No, I won't block the idiot either, I'm kind of interested in what /. reports despite his idiotic comments.
Carry out your vendetta against Michael elsewhere. Excuse me, but this is a free site. And yes, it does ask for donations, in part to compensate for the massive server load generated by trolls like you.
As for the quality of the articles, I assume you mean the articles from Wired, News.com, theRegister, and other sites, all contributed by fellow users. Michael's write up, linking these stories together in a semi-coherent fashion, doesn't constitute an article, nor is it intended to. You're supposed to RTFA, and then comment on them. I really don't see that happening here. If you feel Michael is trolling that's fine, personally I was amused by the tongue-in-cheek jab at the readers. It's not often an editor can return the mountain of abuse he accumulates on a daily basis, and he usually gets flamed pretty bad when he does.
FK's main point is absolutely valid and correct, IMO. Michael is truely a cancer on this site. Just think, if a reader writes what he did as a comment, he would be modded to -1 in no time. But time and time again, he is allowed to get away with trolling, baiting, distorting, lying
Proof? Who needs proof? Slander away. If a reader wrote what Michael did he'd likely be modded +5, Funny. I see no real distortion here. If there is distortion in the posting, let's see it quoted and referenced.
Thing is, Michael is the ultimate
First of all, in the four years that I've been reading Slashdot I've encountered trolls far more entertaining and creative than Michael could ever hope to be. Secondly, he's an editor. The role of an editor in a publication is to present his opinion through editorials (feel free to look up the definition, I'll wait). There's a reason editor text appears different from submission text. You can tell what the editor has written, and can feel free to ignore it if you so choose. As for treating the readers respectfully, I would kindly suggest that's a two-way street, and I really don't feel offended by his post.
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
It might interest you to know that Microsoft employees routinely refer to themselves as borg, new employees joining as "assimilation" etc, go read some blogs of employees if you don't believe me. It's a running joke, I doubt anybody takes it seriously.
So, you disagree with the US constitution where it says the purpose of copyright should be to promote the sciences and the useful arts, then?
Just because something is "a social agenda" (e.g. enriching the public domain, tackling the causes of crime, or preventing the spread of disease like SARS, just for 3 random examples which spring to mind) doesn't make it automatically a "communist" agenda.
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