Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500

thanksforthecrabs writes to let us know that the Linux-sponsored Indy 500 car had a rough day at the track this weekend: it was the first car to crash on the track and finished dead last. Joost sponsored a car that came in a respectable seventh.

Re:(union linux-geeks nascar-fans)

[Anonymous Coward]

Given the amount of cool as shit tech that goes into racing, if there was ever a sport embraced by geeks, racing would be it :P

Re:Good Publicity

[drinkypoo]

I wouldn't have even heard about this if the car didn't crash!!

There was a slashdot story about it, so you have no reason to complain HERE about not knowing about it.

Actually, there almost wasn't a story here; out of about twenty or twenty-five submissions that I saw cross the firehose on various days, only one was not written by a complete fucking idiot.

Some had the URL only in the submitter's name. Some had no links; some of those had the URL in the text, and some didn't. Most of the rest had stupid pithy comments about linux. Some of them had people whining about how it hadn't appeared on the front page yet.

This is the standard state of affairs. It turns out that slashdot isn't actually a more intelligent group than any other bunch of people who like computers and have web access; probably 90-95% of the story submissions suffer from the same problems. There would be a lot more stories on the slashdot front page if the majority of people who submit them weren't dumbfucks. The sad thing is that a lot of the submitted stories are quite interesting, but a leet-speaking myspacecase would do a better job with the submission. At least kids know how to make links in HTML.

Re:Good Publicity

[forkazoo]

This is the standard state of affairs. It turns out that slashdot isn't actually a more intelligent group than any other bunch of people who like computers and have web access; probably 90-95% of the story submissions suffer from the same problems. There would be a lot more stories on the slashdot front page if the majority of people who submit them weren't dumbfucks. The sad thing is that a lot of the submitted stories are quite interesting, but a leet-speaking myspacecase would do a better job with the submission. At least kids know how to make links in HTML.

Sadly, yes. I have been spending quite some time in the firehose myself, and it is pretty terrible. IMHO, the firehose needs some additional options besides just a thumbs up/thumbs down.

This submission should be on the front page.
This submission is terrible but the subject should be posted on the front page.
The subject is terrible.
The linked-to article is obviously stupid/hoax/idiotic, but merits some discussion anyway.
This submission is on the same subject as (identify another submission)

This way, the editors could see, "Hey, this block of 20 submissions were all identified by firehosers as being of the same subject, and the subject is considered important, I'll look at a few of the submissions and cobble together something."

Re:No...

[Splab]

Well crashing the car did give them maximum exposure imo. I mean, instant youtube, going to flash around all the usual linky sites and even got a short mention on the channels showing it - more exposure than anything ending under top 10 (and not crashing) I think.

Re:Of course it crashed..

[Shinmizu]

My favorite industrial era border is that one the Romans build in England.

Linux car crashes first

[thoughtlover]

The irony is surreal...