I just had this conversation with a coworker:

"Microsoft has--"

"Yeah, I saw."

"Well...they didn't have a choice. They're halfway there."

"Do you know why your smartphone isn't working?" "What direction should you walk in towards civilization (no, not Civilization)?"

I understand why you are using the, um, epithet "public pretender"...but when I got to the phrase:

I read it as "repretended themselves".

You're right on the denotations...but I think by connotation and common use, there's a difference. For example, there is no way the US government is reporting bugs in its fighter jet code to Coverity, even anonymously. Maybe we can call military "ultraproprietary" or "hyperproprietary" or "guys-in-black-suits-etary." I think maybe the "standard" is the old average - in past years, with no way to accurately get data, error rates were estimated at 1 defect per 1000 lines. Now they're lower - either code is getting better, or the old estimate was too high.

There is a huge third group: the military and aerospace industries. Unfortunately, their standards are even higher, like one bug per 420000 lines of code, so they're obviously not the group we need to make this math work.

Maybe the "industry standard" is whatever buggy math it is that makes that statement make sense to the original author?

The Wikipedia article (first link) explains that they have no natural predators, but there is a parasite that can limit their size.

This gives me a wonderful mental image of a big room full of people - one group is paid to state propositions, and the other (with lie detectors) is paid to state if they told the truth or not. You send your propositions to this group and they get back to you with true/false...they can even spend their spare cycles just like the computing@HOME projects, narrowing in on the answers to interesting scientific questions, like so:

Is there a room-temperature superconductor?

Does it contain element X, Y, Z,...;

then in combination does it include both elements X and Y, X and Z...;

and so on until we have the formula!

I can totally see the editors mangling the submission type. I liked your idea a lot! I also think that most of the "no gloves" people are insensitive through acclimatization: they make stuff hot often enough that they've just deadened/quieted the nerves in their fingers. (In other words your fingers are normal.)

This thread is surreal. It claims to be a book review. Most of "TFA" is actually complaining (legitmately) about the sorry state of cooking instructions on the web, which is a tangent (in the strictest sense) to the book review. We never return to the book review. Then, most of the comments are about how the submitter's fingers are too sensitive to capsaicin!

Your fourth link (cbu restore final, comodo.com) has the central problem promeniently displayed: the bar is at 50% but it says "0 seconds remaining".

YES.

I won't send text messages at all. The rates are ridiculous. They're marginally free for the phone companies, since they fit them into the "hey, phone, where are you?" packets that the network is sending anyway. Send me an email instead, an email that reads "Sorry, I'm getting off your lawn!"

Did anyone notice the legal document has wrong dates? Bottom of the first page: "This motion is made following the L.R. 7-3 conference of counsel which took place on August 21, 2013"

I've found most of the places where I'd want to use stillnotelf+maybebadguy@gmail... don't usually accept the plus sign in the email address. I can't tell if they aren't standards-compliant because they're lazy and ignorant, or as a deliberate ploy to prevent filtering...

I've been playing a lot of SpaceChem recently (got it from the Humble Bundle a while ago) and was surprised to find out it runs much better on Ubuntu than Windows. The Windows version has cleaner sound (bugs in the Ubuntu sound drivers) but the Ubuntu version has a bunch of extra features. The big ones are saving movies of solutions, and the ability to see the action inside factories while zoomed out in the landscape view (Windows offers only waiting markers in the latter case).