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1) Thanks for the reference, I'd always wondered about that. What song is it from?

It's called Stuart.

2) I think the problem with your theory is that it was already (at least partially) flamebait in the original context. Flamebait is flamebait, even if it has a pop-cultural basis.

No, it was +5 funny in its ORIGINAL context. The song (a story really) was meant to be funny, like all their other songs. If you want anti-flamer flamebait try some Republican party speeches.

3) "The Mods REALLY hate the Dead Milkmen." => You ignore Hanlon's Razor.

Not really. They don't like the Dead Milkmen and are therefore stupid. There I said it. :D Either way Hanlon's is irrelevant to the observation.

4) Even insightful, informative comments which are unconnected to the topic of the article are fair game for Offtopic mods. That would, of course, include this comment.

Wow. Just ... Wow. So a joke about martians is offtopic in a slashdot article about martians. Typical /. moderation logic; this only confirms point 4. :D

Flamebait?

Sheesh... turn in your geek card, mod!

http://www.deadmilkmen.com/lyrics/stuart.html

They're in it with the queers. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God.

"And the Gray Aliens"

No no no... GAY aliens! They're in it with the queers! They're building landing strips for gay Martians! I swear to God! You know what, Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people here in the trailer park.

Long answer short, NO.
http://www.deadmilkmen.com

God, I thought I was the only one. I played "Stuart" (CD purchased legally :-) for one of my co-workers and he agreed that it explained quite a bit about my personality. Been listening to Milkmen since "Bucky Fellini" around '88 or so, seventh grade I think.

Filet of Sole, baby!

Now we know how Rod got his ride, his parents really did drive to the Bahamas

Sad, but true.

Here's more.

GarageBand looks okay and all, but they totally dropped the ball on the name. For one thing, they broke then "clever" iName scheme that the rest of the iLife suite uses. For another thing, they missed a chance to get an oblique 80s punk rock reference, which clearly all software should aim for. How could they have fixed this?

iRock

Or if they wanted to go for that trendy leetspeek "we meant to mis-spell that, thankyouverymuch", they could have used...

iRockz

Is it too late to go put new label stickers on the packaging, and to change out the strings in the software? I hope it's not too late...

Joe - Wow, Pretty good Jim Morrison impersonation there.
Rod - Yeah, I hope those guys have a good sense of humor and don't take us to court. Joe - Uh, what's the court?
Rod - Never mind that,
Joe - Oh, you mean like the People's Court?
Rod - Well, that's another story; the important thing here is you gotta ask me how I'm gonna get down to the shore.
Joe - Uh, how you gonna get down to the shore?
Rod - Funny you should ask, I've got a car now.
Joe - Oh wow, how'd you get a car?
Rod - Oh my parents drove it up here from the Bahamas.
Joe - You're kidding!
Rod - I must be, the Bahamas are islands, okay, the important thing now, is that you ask me what kind of car I have.
Joe - Uh, what kinda car do ya' got?
Rod - I've got a BITCHIN CAMARO!

http://www.deadmilkmen.com/lyrics/stuart.html

Exactly. Ban agriculture and eat the hippies.

The problem with that is there are fewer applications available for Linux, there's no long-term development road map, and there's a higher technical risk in using it.

If Microsoft doesn't want to make a seriously embarassing admission - namely, that there are valuable applications out there for Linux - they can't afford to consider Linux as a development platform, unless they don't consider Office to be an application with a signifigantly large following.