I thought they were nerds...

While reading "this Slashdot blurb":http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/25/1328205.shtml?tid=95&tid=158&tid=218 about floater ads (heh, I said "floater") I realized that people on /. looooove to bitch about the NYT's "soul-sucking registration", and will do so at every opportunity in an article intro. Do they just want to remain willfully ignorant of the "NYT permalink generator":http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink and continue to rage against the machine? You would think that something like that would spread quickly among the nerdarati.