Yeah, Jesus Fucking Christ. Microsoft does something good, going carbon neutral by trying to reduce their energy use and paying for carbon capture through trees and such and the entire comment threads are just anti-Microsoft crap:
"Carbon neutral doesn't mean anything"
"Google was already carbon neutral"
"i don't like windows"
"microsoft is going to fake it"
"blah blah blah"

Why can't we just be glad they're doing something they don't need to for social (and sure reputation) good?

Spell check? Who still uses that? The green and red squiggly underlines totally removed the need to ever use spell check.

You like things that everyone else hates, so...... you're a hipster?

Maybe you should learn how to tell jokes better.

He posted the article so we don't have to pay the $32 to get past the paywall.

I come to slashdot to learn about cool things and find that I learn quite a lot when someone who knows what they're talking about expands on the article with an in depth comment on the science or history behind the topic. For the videos, every comment is "Give me a transcript" or "This is an ad" and frankly that's because the subject matter sucks. I think it could be a great idea, but the content really needs to be better. We're all nerds here, we can handle something technical and interesting rather than PR buzz speak or "look what I can fit in my Jacket!" (really? WTF.) We already have YouTube, we don't need another.

Although what I'd really like /. to focus on is making a fucking mobile site that works. The /. demographic has a higher concentration of smart phones than the normal population and we like to use them, but slashdot looks like crap on every mobile browser I try and is hard to read without paning around all the damn time.

Also, thanks for providing me with thousands of lost work hours for free :)

Oh shit, how did I miss that? I didn't see a /. article about google maps doing that (and I avoided the internet on 4/1). Dragon Warrior was my first video game and I've made custom maps for them and everything. DQ forever! That is so awesome. Thanks for the heads up!

My eyes! Oh god! I thought old geocities and myspace pages were bad... This bitch needs to go to jail just for that website design alone.

Wow. That is brilliant. And insane. I can't believe I hadn't heard of it yet.

Rhetoric solves nothing and I believe I was quite polite enough in responding to someone who suggested that I'm not American enough to continue to be part of the United States. Dissolving the Union would cause untold amounts of problems, economically and politically. and would solve none of the issues you seem to have. Besides, the nation is only on the brink of civil war if you believe the nuts whose job is scare everyone in order to raise ratings so they can sell you more crap. I've been in almost every state and worked or lived in several of them, north and south, east and west. There are plenty of Americans in every state that could be called bible thumpers, just as there are plenty of overly enthusiastic atheists. Most Americans are somewhere in the middle with maybe some religion, but also an understanding and appreciation of science, even if they don't really understand much of it. Stereotypes of the southern and midwestern states as ignorant raving Jesus humpers shouting "I aint no damn monkey!" are nonsense even if there are a few of those people out there.

My original statement stands. Yes, I am a Real American. And a southerner. And a person who understands science. Please take your secessionist bullshit elsewhere.