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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."
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
The site's slogan is "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Slashdot is often criticized for intentionally posting story summaries that many find inaccurate, highly biased, and/or inflammatory and that incite heated posting, while ignoring news or commentary on issues which outsiders may consider more serious or important (see Slashdot subculture) - this is mostly acknowledged, and frequently even celebrated by the community itself.
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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