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Comment The one question nobody has asked is... (Score 1) 964

by hrrY on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:36PM (#29205631) Attached to: Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One

How do you think that the african-american/ black Microsoft employees feel? Would they view this as "business as usual" or do you think that they might be offended? I would surely think that the consensus is probably split right down the middle in that context... Personally, I don't think that I would be able to help but feel a bit awkward at this point whether I was white or black(I'm black)but something like this could in fact create a rift in their business culture, because now they may have potentially damaged or tainted at the very least, the foundation of cultural diversity in their company...so at this point the white employees could be burdened with "white guilt" and the black employees will be burdened with the ever prominent sense of passive racism against them. So basically if there wasn't a racial line in that company before, then there surely is now. Way to go MS...

EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban 549

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @09:55PM from the being-nice-is-actually-an-option dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online community manager for Electronic Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on their behavior in the forums will be locked out of all of the EA games tied to that account: 'Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned. Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since it's all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature. All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it's what we have to do.'" Update: 10/31 12:36 GMT by T : Not so! Pandanapper writes "After a flood of complaints the EA community moderator APOC corrects his statement about how banning you from the forums bans you from your game access as well:"That said, the previous statement I made recently (that's being quoted on the blogs) was inaccurate and a mistake on my part. I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad."

Comment Re:Doesn't make sense. (Score 1) 1119

by hrrY on Thursday September 27, 2007 @04:01PM (#20773289) Attached to: Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

QFT. Mod up!

Submission + - H1B Outsourcing - A Sad Day for America Worker (businessweek.com) 1

Submitted by acole4ns on Friday June 22, 2007 @01:56PM

acole4ns writes: Well, I know many of us have heard rumors about such practices, but the attached BusinessWeek article seems to confirm our worst fears about H1B abuses. This story highlights just how easy it is to bypass a well-qualified US worker and tap into the pool of lower-cost H1B workers. A single quote from the article sums it all up "[O]ur goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker". This is a sad day for the American worker.

Submission + - Autonomous insect cyborg sentinels

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday June 22, 2007 @01:20PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "In a very brief article, AZoNano reports that nanotechnology is turning insects into flying cyborgs. Researchers from Cornell University have implanted 'microfluidic devices in insects before they hatch into fully grown flying creatures.' Of course, when they grow, these insects still carry the sensors. And if this works, they'll be used for monitoring and security surveillance. The article doesn't say that this project is funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which has a full Hybrid Insect MEMS program. The goal of this program is to realize 'cyborgs with most of the machine component inside the insect body to provide stealthy robots' at low cost.Read more for additional details and a picture of one of these cybernetic insects."

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