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Microsoft Infected by Virus
Vicissidude writes "It appears that a Microsoft worker returning from overseas brought back a case of Measles with them. In fact, they had been back, working, and spreading the disease at Microsoft and other places in Redmond for at least four days prior to being discovered. Somehow I do not think that Microsoft included in their cost-benefit analysis of offshoring the potential wide-spread infection of their company. Perhaps they should include that risk in the future."
Mod me down -- I don't care:
So if it happened at Apple or Google, would it get the same writeup at Slashdot?
If you want neat news for geeks, I suggest you try: reddit.com
Much less b.s. than Slashdot, which lately seems to get worse.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_
I know he swears, but this is just going to far. The constant dupes, the stupid editorialising.
There is a large part of the community who really dislikes this stuff and it is normally voiced politely. The message hasn't got through yet, so maybe let's mod a swear-word post up.
Seriously I am pissed at this stuff too. Esp. when you see some of the thoughtful submissions that get rejected each day.
Fuck you coyboyneal.
If you want neat news for geeks, I suggest you try: reddit.com
Most people come here for the comments. I'm not seeing comments there. So it's not really an applicable alternative to slashdot. I'd love to go to somewhere that's like slashdot, but without the bullshit. Unfortunately nowhere but slashdot has the comments (in any significant quantity anyway. A favourite is technocrati (or whatever it is) which gets 10 comments a day if lucky).
You know what I have to admit I am really tired of this shite.
People this is a group effort. Sure the editors find some articles and put them up.
But for the most part the stories say SoandSo says....
IF YOU WANT BETTER STORIES SUBMIT THEM!!!!
bleah it ain't that hard
Exactly, stuff like this makes me absolutely sick.
Come on, it's not news worthy, obviusally a amateurish stab at not only microsoft but against the people that work there? disgusting.
How about the fact that there has been no mention of the massive US rights violation that happened in utah this past weekend? it's all over other news about how lots of kids (15-21) had their heads bashed in by Utah police masquerading as army soldiers for no excuse other than to beat up some kids and "send a message" that attempted to be legal outdoor concert/parties are unwelcome?
how about the video of a kid having a machine gun mashed in his head because he asked a question?
Nice to see slashdot IGNORE that.
Nope we get immature rants like this story that only blacken slashdot and oss in general. the story should have been, "microsoft has a disease spreading in it's ranks, we all shoud take note of this and how it might happen to the rest of us."
It could have been informational for the rest of us to learn how it happened, how to prevent getting infected yourself or at least reduce your chances of getting something from travelling coworkers.. nope it needs to be a hatefest.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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Now people, don't edit it there.
That's funny.
I've submitted sites, and NONE of them have ever been accepted. It's not like I had a badly written summary, or the link wasn't interestng. Some editor probably looked at it and "this doesn't elevate Linux to a higher pedestal", or "this doesn't bash Microsoft as much as we'd like", and then clicked the Reject button.
The biggest problem with this site is that the people who read it do not have the control of what's submitted. If they did, instead of the editors, you'd see much more interesting and constructive content.
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