Kymermosst's Journal: Slashdot Sigs

Today, I've decided to explore some sigs I've seen recently, and possibly criticize them. This removes my temptation to reply with an offtopic post. Anyway, here goes:

I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without dupes, typoes, and articles the editors didn't read.

Oh, the irony! The plural of "typo" is "typos". (This may have been intentional on the part of the .sig writer, but seems unlikely in this case).

Coming soon: Firefox 1.5, Ubuntu 6, Windows Vista, and whatever Google/Apple produce next. Exciting times.

Firefox 1.5 has been out for a couple of weeks now. And the launch of Ubuntu 6 and Windows Vista isn't all that exiting to me. Nor anything from Apple, for that matter.

---- Booth was a patriot ----

This little curiosity brings up visions of good southern gentlemen putting their white sheets on again. I usually agree with the posts made by the person who now has this sig... I hope he doesn't mean what I think he means.

Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.

Precisely why I don't discuss my employer on slashdot.

[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]

Well, honestly, it was probably already illegal to go shooting up a schoolyard. Passing more laws does nothing to stop criminals. But you probably meant that guns should be banned. Again, how does that stop criminals from obtaining them or other deadly weapons?

If you like my comments: iPod nano for you! [freepay.com]

Why do people fall for these things? Who voluntarily subjects themselves to all kinds of ads and participates in the associated 'free offers'? I'd rather just shell out the money for an iPod (not that I want one).

-------- -------- Support Wesley Clark for president!!!

He's a nutjob.

Come on, try to hack my 31337 firewall! [127.0.0.1]

That one is... sadly lame.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl

Cute. It's a Caesar cipher with key 'n', and the encrypted part is, of course, "only outlaws will have privacy".

Well, that's enough for today.

Update:Removed spurious 't'.

Booth wasn't a patriot?

[KnightStalker]

I assume that's referring to John Wilkes Booth. Of course he was a patriot: he obviously supported the country he chose to be a citizen of, the Confederate States of America. If American revolutionaries can be considered patriots, then so was he and for that matter so was Lenin. Being a patriot doesn't imply that someone's goals were desirable or admirable, just that they didn't spend their life watching 19th century TV.

For a commenter to go out of his way to point it out probably does imply something, but

Re:Booth wasn't a patriot?

[Kymermosst]

True enough.