Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus 237
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."
How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:5, Insightful)
Article is yet another dupe....original article can be found here [slashdot.org].
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.
Dupe... once again (Score:3, Insightful)
Zonk (Score:4, Insightful)
The original story. [slashdot.org]
-Peter
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:5, Insightful)
Think I'll get modded redundant this time?
No subscription for me (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:1, Insightful)
*sigh*
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:3, Insightful)
Normally, I can't stand when people bitch and moan about duped stories. Sometimes they're duped from months ago, and even I forgot they were ever posted.
Normally, I would moderate such bitchings as "Offtopic" or "Redundent".
This time, I'm very disappointed. This was:
a) Very, very, very recently posted already
b) Was a very distinct headline to begin with, about a major corporate SNAFU and not relating to Google, Xbox 360 vs. PS3, Microsoft is teh evil!, etc.
c) Generated a lot of healthy discussion - this wasn't a topic that got ignored the first time.
Oh well, I guess its technically not hurting anyone. Its just annoying as hell.
Ok, I'm done ranting. Go ahead and moderate me Offtopic or Redundent.
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:2, Insightful)
OTOH, these blatent dupes seem to be one of the things that comprises slashdot's character. We certainly wouldn't want it to become a Fark clone or anything else as insipid.
Re:No subscription for me (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:2, Insightful)
a- the original article summary didn't mention an mp3 player. ("Creative Zens"? WTF's a Creative Zens? Who cares?!) I didn't give it a second glance and didn't know it was a dupe till just now
b- the original article summary didn't mention serial numbers- NOR did the articles pointed to- this is very useful and important info. But yeah, that info should have been put in as a reply to the original post, just as the orinal post should have been clearer.
ScuttleMonkey- you're not as bad as Zonk, but you're still a bad monkey.
Dear Slashdot, (Score:5, Insightful)
- 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.
Dupe Checker? (Score:2, Insightful)
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:
"dupe"? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
When "News for Netrds" Mattered (Score:4, Insightful)
How do the dupe articles make it through when I submit [slashdot.org] 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".
Re: How many more times, Zonk??? (Score:1, Insightful)
At least the OP hasn't sunk to your level of apathy.
We wouldn't all be saying dupe if... (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:No subscription for me (Score:5, Insightful)
Last time I checked, I don't get reimbursed for slashdot comments I make. Slashdot gets a few thousand comments per day, so that's several hundred man-hours of donated content they get per day.
Meanwhile, half a dozen so-called editors have done very little to improve the site lately and only marginally more to improve editorial quality. There's the disconnect: They cover servers and bandwidth, we provide 99% of the content.
Barrier to entry: being the behemoth it is, slashdot (like Microsoft) is partly to blame for the lack of competition. A lot of competitors have tried, few can get critical mass because everyone still uses slashdot.
I paid (once!) for a subscription, but have watched slashdot editorial quality actually go down. Heck, even their new countermeasures suck: when I go out of my way to notify the editors of dupes or egregious factual errors, they make tabloid-caliber alterations ("WidgetCo is dead!" becomes "Is WidgetCo Dead?") rather than fix or cancel the news story outright.
To carry the Microsoft analogy a step further, being forced by circumstances into depending on Slashdot, I'll find ways to rebel. I go out of my way to avoid enriching Microsoft, whenever some small step is possible. This ranges from avoiding MSN and other Microsoft products, to advocating alternatives whenever company needs are flexible enough. Dialing down my subscription settings and bypassing Slashdot's ad revenue would be an equivalent protest against Slashdot editorial laziness.
Given the above, boycotting Slashdot stands a better chance of helping *my* situation than the alternatives.
Now, how am I'm selfish when I donate my writing without compensation? How am I being selfish when I punish a vendor that refuses to improve after an implicit contract for improvements was made with my donation? How exactly am I being selfish to deny that same vendor any additional income from advertising to me? I AM being selfish to want slashdot to either fix itself or die, but it is a selfishness that is the utter essence of capitalism or evolution: things should have more than marketing or inertia as their means of existing.
If none of that sways you, it'll probably not matter if you reread your rant, changing context to Microsoft (or the RIAA) and adjust the circumstances:
or (disclosure: the above opinions weren't mine until 5 minutes ago, probably won't be 10 minutes from now. Why? See Devil's Advocate [wikipedia.org]. I own 10 shares of Microsoft. I donated to Slashdot. Neither gives me any satisfaction.)