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Microsoft Infected by Virus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cough-cough dept.

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."

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  1. What a ridiculous beatup by Saven+Marek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate microsoft with a passion. They suck. I irrationally loathe the company, their products, and everything they stand for.

    and even *I* can see that this is a bullshit article, a beatup of ridiculous proportions. Stupidest. Slashdot. Article. Ever.

    1. Re:What a ridiculous beatup by tktk · · Score: 5, Funny
      Stupidest. Slashdot. Article. Ever.

      No...wait for the dupe a few days later.

    2. Re:What a ridiculous beatup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Posting as AC:

      How did such a ludiciris article make it to the front page. Based on the comments by our own Cowboy Neal, I'd peg him to be an ignorant coward (i.e. racist). I'm a white american that has worked with a number of Indian s.w. developers, and I find this entire article to be flame bait'able.

      I will obviouslly get modded way down for this, but I hope those of you that browse at 0+ see this and realize how bigotted this submission really is.

      love and regards to my now newly lost respect for /.

    3. Re:What a ridiculous beatup by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Probably because the only section here devoted to rights like that is "Your Rights Online". Since Utah is not a website, database or server, I don't think it really fits. There is the very occasional exception, but this is not a forum for mainstream news.

      You might as well ask why the television show Good Eats has not covered the Utah incident. Or post angry comments in the KDE dot News. How about you send an angry email to 43 Folders asking why they haven't posted a story about it.

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    4. Re:What a ridiculous beatup by MasterSLATE · · Score: 4, Funny

      maybe its time you start to swallow

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    5. Re:What a ridiculous beatup by Mr2001 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The magic keywords are "spanish fork canyon". Here's a link.

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  2. I hate offshoring as much as the next guy . . . by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . but are we to believe that, if it weren't for offshoring, none of the tens of thousands of microsoft employees working in this country would ever go outside of the country - even overseas - and possibly bring back a flue or a cold or the mumps or something?

    Also, how do you bring back the measles? Aren't we inocculated against measles when you're maybe six years old?

  3. No, blame the terrorists by pieterh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What on earth has off-shoring got to do with this? People travel. People go on holiday. People work overseas. People exchange exotic diseases. It's hardly a feature of modern business practices.

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  4. Why not me? by Kaorimoch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I got a flu from some guy at work yesterday and Slashdot ignored my story submission about it. Not much difference really, is it?

  5. Be proud, Vicissidude by KingPrad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Way to go poster, this is a new low. You're actually gloating because an employee at Microsoft is ill and maybe spread it around. I think you've lost your sense of proportion. When you're laughing at a company because the day-in day-out engineers and accountants and other working folks are ill because you have a grudge against the company, that's fucked up.

    Vicissidude, You're a nut. And so is CowboyNeal for posting this crap.

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  6. Am I the only one to think by 2Bits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that ./ has been putting up too much of stuffs that don't matter at all?

    Come on editors, there are too many cool technologies, articles, hacks, etc, submitted but rejected, and then what we see is this kind of junk.

    Gee, jesus died for us and all we got is this lousy FA.

    1. Re:Am I the only one to think by Jaruzel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Y'know, it's all our fault.

      No matter how low and crummy /. articles become, we will still flock here, several times a day, to read said crummy and low articles. Then we will all bitch about it in the comments for several days afterwards.

      Now I _know_ I'm going to get flamed for this, but the /. editors are now running /. as if it were Microsoft; fobbing us off with sub-standard products and expecting us to be grateful, time and time again.

      Henceforth I now declare /. to be known as MSSlashdot. Expect an increase in factually incorrect badly typed articles to be posted before they are finished, only to be 'hotfixed' several days later when nobody really cares anymore.

      And to show that I'm kidding (but only slightly)...

      "I for one welcome our new http://slashdot.microsoft.com/ overlords."

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  7. Re:Is TFA really a troll? by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The issue is not whether it's factually true; the issue is whether it's newsworthy, and what the motivations are behind posting it. By definition, anything specifically designed to inflame controversy and disparage a certain group without having any other merit is a troll, whether it's factually correct or not.

    So yes, TFA -- or rather, the act of posting it to Slashdot -- is really a troll.

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  8. Coming VERY soon... by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Measles.A

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  9. Borg picture by LesDawson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm disappointed the /. editors didn't change the usual borg picture for one with nice red spots on it ...

  10. Measles outbreak, five dead. by i_like_spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps the employee traveled to Indonesia.

    There's a measles outbreak there.

    So far, five people have died.

    1. Re:Measles outbreak, five dead. by cperciva · · Score: 4, Informative

      Perhaps the employee traveled to Indonesia.

      He might have travelled to Indonesia, but he was in France when he contracted measles.

      I don't think that Microsoft off-shores many jobs to France.

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  11. Re:Seems an interesting risk to me by Mortiss · · Score: 5, Informative

    Explain how is this relevant to off-shoring specifically. Its definitly not anything unexpected...

    Viruses were jumping continents since mass transit systems were in place. People were travelling for business purposes for good many years, often got sick and infected entire offices with a flu strain, but somehow i dont see that as worthy of a frontpage.

    Although that brings another matter to the focus: Vaccinate before you travel! (yeah i know, none for measles yet... our lab is working on it right now)

  12. more fun inside!! by KingPrad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...and HAHAHAHAH remember when that Enron janitor died of AIDS? oh my god and back in the 80s two engineers at IBM had the whooping cough! they DIED!! HAHAHAH god it's so great and just!! Can't wait to find out another chinese guy died of bird flu! And if we wait a few more seconds we can laugh about some more children starving to death in North Korea! MY GOD THE HILARITY NEVER ENDS!!!??!1111 lol dudez. Okay back to being serious: can we do a mini-poll on whether the poster and editor are high, drunk, or just natural assholes?

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  13. A new low for Slashdot. by mrseigen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm no fan of Microsoft or outshoring myself, but this is quite possibly the worst and most insulting article I've ever seen posted to Slashdot.

    Editor and the OP need to have their heads examined, and possibly find something new to do with their time.

  14. Sigh by atari2600 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can someone mod down the idiots who thought this was funny and posted "funny" stuff about Windows service packs and Outlook so that they can get some karma. Kids, please grow up. Mod me troll or whatever but this article is very much in bad taste. As for the morons, who thought this funny or saw this as a chance for karma-whoring, i feel sorry for your pathetic lives.

  15. Bill Gates is a major funder of Measles research. by ron_ivi · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here's the link regarding the Slackware founder's Mystery Illness.

    Also worth noting, Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest funders of measles research programs.

  16. daily ms bashing by eqkivaro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i have to admit that the biggest reason i visit /. is to read the MS bashing. i personally don't have anything against MS, but it's fun to read MS bashing comments.

    that said, i'm really disappointed that this article was posted.

  17. Re:Bill Gates is a major funder of Measles researc by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also worth noting, Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest funders of measles research programs.

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  18. MS Employee? by DavidD_CA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe there's another article, but the one linked in the summary doesn't mention anything about this person being an MS employee. It only says the person was at the MS cafeteria.

    This is anti-Microsoft FUD at its best.

    Counter-headline: "PENGUIN GETS RABIES, INFECTS FIREFOX."

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  19. I have Moderator points... by bigmouth_strikes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and this was the first time I actively looked for a way to mod submitter and posting editor down.

    Worst. Story. Ever.

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  20. Serves them right for not getting their shots by Nice2Cats · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Ignoring the whole question if this can even remotely be considered news -- nobody in a rich Western country like the U.S. should get the measles, ever, because they should have gotten their shots. Even if your parents were idiots or religious freaks who didn't do their duty to protect you from a well-known danger with a low-risk procedure, as an adult you are responsible for protecting your health.

    So, to get something good out of this article: Go check if you defenses -- your body's defenses, not your computers -- are up to date. How about tetanus? Polio? At least consider Hepatitis B, even if you are a nerd and don't have sex and faint if you even hear the word blood. These things don't have to happen.

  21. The Ultimate Slashdot Article by Cardinal+Biggles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bashing:

    1. Microsoft
    2. offshore outsourcing
    3. places outside the USA in general (you know, those dirty, disease-ridden places where Dubya drops the bombs)

    ...all in one totally irrational article!

    Wow. I stand in awe of the article's author, story submitter and the editor that was so quick to accept it. Amazing work, guys!