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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."
. . . 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?
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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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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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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I'm disappointed the /. editors didn't change the usual borg picture for one with nice red spots on it ...
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)
...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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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.
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.
Y'know, it's all our fault.
/. 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.
/. 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.
/. 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.
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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.
Also worth noting, Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest funders of measles research programs.
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