This brought a smile to my face. Two groups that are bad for society -- one a dictatorship, the other an ignorant mob -- expending their energy on each other.

I feel like the neutral dwarf army at the end of The Last Battle, standing by while the armies of Lord Tirian and Shift the Ape beating the crap out of each other. (Not to get too nerdy with my allusions....)

The only downside would be if the battle increased the visibility of either group. I just hope the media ignore them while they scratch and pull hair on their playground.

This barely merits a response, but what the hell. Where to start?

>Journalists are only allowed to print facts that have been independently verified by their editors.

O.K., I can find three errors of fact in this sentence:

1) "Allowed"? By whom? The Federal Bureau of Truth? You posit an authority where there is none.

2) "...to print facts". You've never heard of an opinion column, or advocacy journalism?

3) "...independently verified by their editors". I don't know what newsroom you work in -- I'm guessing it's none, ever. But as a working writer of over a decade, including a few years in what could fairly be called "journalism", with dozens of editors, I've never once heard of an editor checking a writer's *facts*. That's usually impossible, for one thing. What are they going to do, return to the scene of primary reportage by turning back time? Re-interview the reporter's sources? Get an advanced degree that duplicate's the writer's?

The rest of your post exhibits the same Making Shit Up school of knowledge. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Oh, no worries. I've been on /. long enough to know that everything becomes a dick-measuring fiasco. ;)

Thanks for posting one of the first *useful* comments. I'm going to use it as my soapbox. :) I'm the story's source, and never meant to suggest suggest number of commits implies code quality or anything of the sort. Dries doesn't feel that way either, as his comment shows. I was just celebrating it, as one celebrates a birthday -- and asking who the "oldest" person is.

This comment made more sense than the original post.

Is that possible?

Saturday Night Live made a cinema-verite thing of David Spade getting a tattoo. He was nervously chatting with the artist during the process, and one of the things he said was:

DS: "Did you see that talking pig movie?"
Tattoo guy: "Yeah, I did."
DS: "Oh, you saw The Net?"

For some reason I remember that 15 years later....

(Hint for those of you under 18: "Babe" came out at about the same time.)

By odd coincidence I was writing for a magazine called "The Net" (Imagine Publishing) at the time.

Cabbies, yes. Buses, maybe. But I can't see any automated system replacing truck drivers. Driving is only one part of their job: They also load, judge equipment conditions, manage intermodal connections.... All those things might eventually be automated. But GoogleDrive by itself won't do the job.

American bills are made of a linen/cotton blend -- that's why they don't shred in the wash.