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Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus
TheChillPill wrote to mention a Register article which reports that Creative has instituted a recall for some 5GB Zen Neeons. The reason? About 3,700 were shipped with the Wullik-B email worm. From the article: "Creative is reporting that the virus affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680 that have shipped in Japan in late July. According to a translation of Creative's statement (in Japanese) on the security flap the firm has temporarily stopped shipping Zen Neeons players while its partners assist in the recall of the infected batch. The firm said it has identified the source of the outbreak and fixed the problem. Creative said the virus contamination issue was confined to Zen Neeons players and didn't affect any of its other products."
Article is yet another dupe....original article can be found here.
Seriously, Zonk...this shit just isn't funny anymore. Perhaps you view your endless dupe posts as some sort of clever social commentary...or perhaps you've just taken a few too many sniffs of the huffing rag. Either way, we're getting pretty damned sick of it.
Do us all a favor and resign. While you're at it, wipe your hard drive and smash your modem.
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Oh my, I just can't believe how irresponsible Creative is being. This is the second time that they have shipped 3700 of these players with this exact same virus in less than a week!
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
Stop the dupes!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/ 30/0118252&tid=184&tid=220
holy crap. never knew that.
Wonder what a virus sounds like through those earphones? Ashley Simpson?
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Does their patent cover this too?
Like deja vu all over again.
The original story.
-Peter
The question is, who owns the patent on shipping MP3 players with viruses? Will they take legal action?
Only 1 left in stock--order soon!!!
It's been said a million times, but this is precisely why I won't pay for a slashdot subscription. Nor will I click on any ads. Even if I see an ad that looks interesting (which is fairly often, I'll open a new tab and browse there manually rather than give slashdot the traffic revenue. An occasional dupe is one thing, but when 25% of the stories on the front page are dupes from YESTERDAY, it's clear that OSDN doesn't give a shit about quality.
this is getting old and so are you
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Eat them anyway!
Karma be dammed, you'll read them
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It's good to see that Taco worked incredibly hard to make Zonk the editorbot in his own image...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Actually, the virus causes reposts on the slashdot homepage. Apparently, he bought himself a Zen recently.
Now, *that's* Creative.
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Come on, Slashdotters. What's with the frowns on everyone's faces. Why is everyone taking these dupes so negatively? Just think of these dupes as reruns. We would love to crack jokes about Windows viruses, talk about how Linux should be used for everything, talk about how "creative" stuffing viruses in MP3 players are, and....
Oh, scratch the sarcasm. These dupes really are annoying.
So how long until we see a dupe of this dupe?
Seriously, searching the site doesn't take long, and now uses Google to do it, A quick search of Creative and virus would have found the original. You see?
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To late, folks.
*raises glass*
To late!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
What a wonderfully Creative way to distribute virii!
You know, with just the tiniest bit of effort, it would be SO easy for you not to suck out loud.
- take two seconds to see if a story has been posted before. sounds hard, but I hear computers can do amazing things these days.
- proofread submissions. you're allowed to change them. you know, like an editor.
- don't put an obnoxious slant on every little thing. more reporting, less commentary. if you have something to say, I hear slashdot allows comments nowadays. (comments, commentary... hmm. note to self, investigate possible connection.)
- cache. for fuck's sake, it's not funny anymore. if you don't want to put yourselves at risk, use coral or a similar service. They exist for a reason.
- contact small sites. which would you rather do: "scoop" other sites by an hour and reduce the server to molten rubble after 15 minutes, or contact the admin ahead of time and post the story two hours later? this is what separates responsible adults from behaviorally-challenged fuckwads.
- and once you've earned some credibility back,
- ???
- Profit! Until then, I refuse to pay to subscribe until you behave like a responsible outfit. one you quit behaving like retarded woms, I'll happily subscribe, knowing that you're a great source of links to interesting stories that I *didn't* see two days ago on the same site.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I'm disgustipated.
I can't post from home because some crud-bucket on my ISP has misbehaved and slashdot is blocking me from posting there. Such creativity and innovation! Examples:
- Bar posting due to a spate of negative mods (never mind net total is positive.)
- Time delay for initial post
- Time delay between posts, longer for AC
- Content check for CAPS, too few letters per line, oddball characters appear too often, etc.
YET(!) no dupe checking code to help the editors avoid this common pitfall. You can see where the priorities lay.A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
First take a look at his Slashdot page : www.slashdot.org/~zonk
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This article refered to a virus, while the previous "dupe" refered to a worm. Maybe the guy thought that the 2 cases are different? Heh.
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Normally I'd side with all those screaming "DUPE!", but this is a new article on theregister about this issue (1200 GMT 2005-09-01), so it's not like the links or even the summary are duped. Especially since this time they're talking about the recall rather than the discovery of the virus.
As an aside, what was up with the first article? A link to a babelfish translation... was no english version available? If that's all we had two or three days ago, it seems to me that this new article reference is a good thing.
Let S_n = {nst+us+vt : s,t in Z \ {0}, u,v in {-1,1}}. For all n in Z where |n| > 2, Z \ S_n is infinite... right?
They could license it and make millions!!!
Reminder: Apple owns 1/255th of the internet.
I have resisted bandwagoning the dupe article issue but my spin is a little different...
How do the dupe articles make it through when I submit articles that get rejected - like news on non-volitile MRAM replacing volitile DRAM and how Freescale is getting closer and closer to this being reality.
That's something nerds can sink their teath into, but the editors reject it for "more of the same".
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
We wouldn't all be saying dupe if the title wasn't:
...". At that point it would seem like this is a followup and not just another indication that the editors don't even read their own site.
Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus
Zonk in Slashdot
The last one was titled:
Creative Zens Ship with Worms
ScuttleMonkey in Slashdot
Now, what would maybe make this not a dupe, or would irritate me less, is if the new title was "Creative Announces Recall for Infected Players" (including text like "Tuesday we reported that Creative sucked, but today
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
Just so y'all know, it links to a porn link site.
Might have the courtesy to warn people next time, asshat. Thankfully, I took today off.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
I want to know when we're going to have a topic image for Dupes. :)
I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
A far superior site is Digg.com. Users decide what gets posted, and just a scan of today's front page reminds me of the old Slashdot frontpage of yesteryear.
There's even an interview with one of the Mythbusters! Cool.
"Sufferin' succotash."
...as I commented the last time this was posted (full translation here).
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