You know who could do his job better? He could, by figuring out how to make his points in a nicer way. He's putting forward a false dichotomy, between dickishness and passive aggression.

No. OS X is Mach, *and* is BSD. These things are not mutually exclusive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

"Disco verbing"? What the hell is disco verbing?

Mod parent up!

Rap's been around for decades, too!

Not that I couldn't predict it, but the ignorance on display in this thread is mind-blowing. Especially from a group of people which likes to think it has exceptional intelligence and command of facts.

Something tells me that Coward, above -- and it's quite apt in this case -- doesn't know any black people.

So you're assuming that your dialect is "correct", and anyone else's is, a priori, a problem.

Convince someone with money that you can make money serving that market.

If that doesn't sound easy, well, perhaps entrepreneurship is not for you. (I know it's not for me.)

Who says you can't speak a language when you're mute? Sign language is speech.

My guess, based just on reading the news, is that Jake's detention had less to do with Tor, and more to do with WikiLeaks.

I think iPhones account for less than 20% of smartphone sales, world-wide.

(Disclosure: I own a modest number of Apple shares.)

Autotuning is dead, haven't you heard?

Only one of these utilities can be used to implement the others.