I picture this very similarly in my head.

Indeed, it seems weird, but understandable. I can only talk from what I know; ie. Qt development. There, it's technically possible, but often advised against for anything bigger than trivial fixes. It's common to have more than one maintainer of a given functionality for that reason. However, sometimes, a subject simply lacks the necessary manpower of knowledgeable-enough folk for efficient cross reviewing. The maintainer is given a certain amount of *trust*. Not sure about this, but I think reviewing maintainer submissions would simply create too much of an overhead in a project the size of Linux.

You hit the nail on the head. Another blablablahhh story on slashdot. It's called cooperation people, you can't expect 100+ developers to efficiently work on seceral projects interchangeably without coding standards. And no, it's not the role of the text editor/IDE, it's part of the job.

Just for your reading pleasure, Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://synesthesiam.com/?p=218

Just wait for war to break out in Korea, Samsung will be facing down pretty quickly!

Would be nice if Slashdot was a little more international sometimes... :)

If he really was computer-litterate, he would have known that a hammer is less effective than overwriting his drive two dozen times with trash... cops wouldn't have a chance, IMO.

everyone read about this yesterday, slashdot... :(

Please don't remind us that one must now associate Star Wars with Disney. It makes me feel funny.

The problem is people trusting Apple© maps! When using anything else than main roads, always carry a real map, made by your national geographic institute. Any others are toys.

You don't say!

Too bad "You can't post & moderate the same discussion." because I would definitely have moderated your comment up.

Yet another less-than-noteworthy "news" article, ideal to generate clicks & comments...

Seconded. Slashdot looses credibility on stories like this... talk about "news for nerds, stuff that matters" ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ygUoVOtFY