Comment Re:Seriously? Do your own job. (Score 1) 286
I think you're getting old and crotchety. In my day, you'd start doing your research and educating yourself through USENET groups. Then #freenode on IRC. Why do you deem Ask Slashdot an inappropriate place to begin a geek's self-education?
Where else, then, should one begin? Google is a corporate entity with advertiser influence and paid links (*cough* do no evil *cough*), and frequently the offerings on faqs.org are anemic or out-of-date.
Maybe some enterprising geeks could comb through the most commented Ask Slashdot postings, cull the best of the 5-scored postings and summarize them into a BBS-style Ask Slashdot FAQ. (This is a good place to learn; let's not flame those with questions beneath our current, personal level of knowledge, hmm?)
just my