Storm Warning

Baggypants · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: Storm Warning

Front page of Slashdot folks, http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/1638222 batten down the servers, Splice the Java sail and all that tommyrot Very Happy

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

i was about to post something similar...

so anyone with slashdot accounts, or just time watch out for slashdot fud...

Baggypants · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

Are we having a competition who can find the most outrageous piece of FUD? If so I'm in with

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

So far, it's better than the usual drivel, which surprises me. It's still /. of course Razz

Smokey

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

ah slashdot. how i love thee... until you talk about my junx.

send in the apache warriors!

yoxi · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject:

Oof, well, I just let rip on the slashdot page - I've been wanting to say this for aaages.

People really need to be more honest with themselves.

- padmavyuha (yoxi)

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

indeed. lots of slashdotters like to talk, but rarely like to walk.

me? i like to walk. well, hike mainly. oh, and from the bar to the bathroom. and back. always back.

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

ok, this guy is great

why can't more be like him?

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:35 am Post subject:

Well, really it's just the standard "RTFA" counter-argument.

So some douche wants to not RTFA and make a big stink about how the "people" should organize and provide downloads of something that will be freely available to the world in two weeks.

If this person or any other clown wants two weeks of "fame" of taking away donations to a free software project, so be it. I hope their strategy continues to be successful when Sun pulls the hundrends of millions of dollars spent on development of OOo.

Granted, any torrent hoster will have their few weeks of fame among the Mac pirate community. Give it a few weeks and then it'll be over since, at the end of the monh long EAP, there's no longer any logical reason for them to exist.

And don't try pull the "what about the starving people" angle. Due to purchase and licensing costs of OSX they aren't going to be using macs in the first place.

Godspeed sleazebag torrenters. Those downloading such a torrent are merely freeloadres and would never have probably donated to us in the first place. Let guilt be upon both you and them. (along with a plague of locusts and perhaps your brita filtered water turned into blood).

ed

yoxi · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

Hmm... I just don't have the emotional stamina for all this, I'm getting out of the /. again. There's a thin line between righteous and self-righteous and it's hard to tell when I've crossed it! It's good that there seem to be plenty of folk willing to generate antifud over there too.

- padmavyuha

OPENSTEP · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:59 am Post subject:

I do like /. and usually each day find at least one news story that's interesting to me. I tend to no longer pay attention to the comments since, for the most part, they're pretty predictable on /. Call me a holdout, but I still haven't succumbed to the "true way" of digg or boingboing. It's not /. that's the problem, it's the slashbots Smile

ed