dyefade's Journal: Slashdot is a strange place

yeah, slashdot can be strange, as is often observed.

see this post, linked to the mars rover article.
it's been modded down as offtopic, which is true, it is away from the topic of the article, but there is a lot of truth in the comment, and now that I have moderator points to burn (well three left now), I'm tempted to mod the post up... I probably won't, but it just makes you relise how shallow Slashdot, and the IT/tech/research industry as a whole can be. People here (including me), get all excited about some new game or software update or whatever, but miss the fact that there's a whole other world out there somewhere. Ho hum.