From the Author's Website: (follow the link that is the author's name)

Slashdot I guess I should just fess up and take the blame- I created Slashdot a long time ago, and now it seems to have grown into something pretty amazing. Come on down and check it out for news about Linux, Open Source Software, Legos, Games, Star Wars, Science, Technology and pretty much anything else that falls into the "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" umbrella.

So we already know this lune does not know how to read, and that he just posts to flame-bait. Could it be that he also is a slanderous, wretched, troll who seeks to dishonour the nerds we covet. I would prefer to think that then to think that the creator of this website is in fact an illiterate fabulist.

If the above quote is false, I say /. should sue the poster. If the above quote is true I say we should all boycott that which has been mutated by its own author beyond recognition.

Yes

be nice, you crude ignorant bigot

Dir? just redid the Google one, and it said 65536. Also did you not notice that 65535 is odd, in other words not divisible by 2. Therefore reading fail?

They told the world that. Seriously look up "Promised the Moon". I seem to remember a key argument in the original program was "Women are smaller".

There were more gang related deaths in Edmonton than Washington state one year. Idon't remember which year, it was just one of those statistics news people threw around that was scary and memorable.

Wow it sounds like your government is actually working. The Congressmen are concerned about their areas first (not the whole nation) and the military is concerned about the whole country (not a touch of prestige). I think this may be remembered as the best example of the American Government working. My heart goes out to all those who will loose their jobs over the F-22 plant shutdowns. But it is better than the drive to deeper recession caused by avoiding steps like this.

But then you would be Canada.

I went to a conference celebrating new and innovative authors, guess what it was hosted by a publisher which has an open submission policy. Publishers are not as bad as you make them out to be, especially the smaller ones. I will continue to support my favourite authors through publishers. And since when did a DX review commentary page involve music.
P.S. I like Capital Records.

You're right, I am stuck in the ideals of the previous business model. Someone comes up with an idea, writes a book, and submits it for review. Who the author submits to is based on the genre of the work, the location, and the size of publishing house. This submission is then reviewed, if there is something original and interesting about the work it is passed to an editor...

I firmly believe that an author should be paid for his or her work. Currently we must pay upfront for literature, and I for one am not willing to pay for something that has not been edited. I have read many independent works that are unedited, and many others that have been edited. The ones that were edited were infinitely better, and once they were edited by a professional, again the work was far more polished. I have no problem paying for that final product, once it is polished, but to pay for the first copy would not have been satisfying. Yes one great thing about e-readers is that to publish the publisher's minimum audience for any book drops from tens/hundreds of thousands to a few hundred (maybe a thousand). Which will in turn reduce the number of books that are dropped because they are good but believed to have little interest.

In summery, I will never pay for anything that has not been edited, just as I will never pay for music that has not been professionally produced. There are reasons for the existence of these constructs beyond your need to hate them.

P.S. While most of my reading is on a Sony 505, I still buy hardcovers of my favourite authors for my shelf.