There's only one flaw in that plan. At the moment, without "the average slashdotter, developer, linux guru," your grandma and the rest of the general public will probably never learn about Ubuntu, much less try it out.

Well, as long as you have your unsupported suppositions, I guess that should be good enough.

Christ, what an asshole.

Why do Slashdotters think that "user experience" means "useless flashy graphics?"

The command line should be good enough for anybody! Your grandma should either learn vi or she doesn't DESERVE a computer!

Ah yes, "something better," why didn't we think of that earlier? It's so simple!

Because not discussing the economic impact of a disaster on a technology website will totally help those people. Much in the same way that not discussing other, more trivial stories will cure cancer or address world hunger.

And then we can all expect scenes like this in our future.

My personal choice might seem a bit odd, but I'm going to go with The Insider, Michael Mann's movie about the big tobacco whistleblower. For the most part, the movie is a very credible, down-to-earth drama. But midway through there's a bit where the wife goes downstairs where the computer is, and without warning (or user input) an email delivers and opens itself, playing a big red animation that goes WOMP WOMP WOMP WE'RE GONNA KILL YOU WOMP WOMP WOMP. I expect stupid shit from movies like Hackers or The Net. Ridiculous computer-magic just comes with the territory. But when it comes out of left field in a movie with plenty of verisimilitude otherwise, it's especially annoying.

Well, the twice-yearly whining about it sometimes raises my blood pressure, if that's what you mean.

And then go on the Internet to complain you got a much better hand job from Carrie Fisher back in 1984.

I guess fresh waves of fanboy indignation don't register with the Force.

It would be an interesting debate to have on what is the WORST part of The Phantom Menace..

No it wouldn't. It stopped being interesting in 1999 when the movie came out, and hasn't become any more interesting since.

Public transportation is socialism. If you want to get to work, get a job and buy a car you liberal bum.

Options > check "lowbandwidth" and "simple design," perhaps? And if you think Slashdot has gone overboard with the design elements, I can only conclude you haven't visited the rest of the Web. Sorry, it's never going to be 1996 again.

Yeah, good point. No website with a stupid, non-intuitive domain name was ever successful.