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How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions
NubKnacker writes "Economic Times, one of India's biggest business daily's is carrying a story about how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95. This wouldn't be the first time that has happened to Microsoft. From the article, "Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation." Ouch!"
Daddypants is the e-mail address subscribers are supposed to send e-mail to if we notice a duplicate (or otherwise problematic) article is about to be posted. If the editors aren't going to bother to read Slashdot to see what has already been posted recently, why won't they at least check this e-mail account to see if anyone actually reports problems?
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Journalists don't read snopes when they're writing a story. That smells of research. You take your story from stories that you've read elsewhere. Hence the popularity of reality shows and the Iraq war.
"If it's true, however, it explain a lot, like the security issues in Windows."
Um, no it doesn't. That's like saying that somebody's love of Reese's Peanut Butter cups explains their fondness for Disney's version of Peter Pan.
What a stupid comment to twist into an MS bash. Unless you're Indiana Jones, you qualify right along with his employees in his comment.
"Derp de derp."
Clearly not everyone believes Snopes,
Snopes has been wrong about things in the past. Chances are there are things on their site that are wrong right now. Snopes will get things wrong in the future. People act like Snopes is the infallible word of god or something but it is not.
Have you actually read the Hutton report. Aside from the fact that it is a complete whitewash by a member of the establishment hand-picked by Tony Blair to clear him of any wrongdoing, it doesn't actually accuse the BBC of making anything up. At the end of the entire episode, I still have enormous amount of respect for the BBC and their journalists, and no respect whatsoever for the government or their lackey Hutton.
Then again, I suppose the BBC did make up the spaghetti tree hoax
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