I also turn on the service that gives me a "New Terminal tab at folder" contextual menu in the Finder.

That's just clever obfuscation.

First time accepted submitter ZombieBraintrust copy and pastes from CNN.com

Sure, for things that can use ssh keys it works great. This is how I connect to various git servers.

But in the case of this hack the services that were compromised were Amazon, Gmail, and iCloud web pages. All things that authenticate with user/password and not SSH keys.

How would SSH agent help here? They used social engineering at Amazon to get common account info, then further used social engineering to get the password reset on his Apple ID.

Once they had his Apple ID they logged into the iCloud service and issued remote wipes on all his devices that he had activated the wipe option on. Since he used the same credentials everywhere they were able to get into Twitter and Google as well.

As for loosing all his data, he should have had a backup. Apple makes this super easy on iOS using iCloud and on OS X using Time Machine.

You can get a Mac mini to use for around $600 and it works just fine for development.

Not sure if you are joking about the USB thing or not. You just plug the device into a USB port and then can run the debugger, profiling tools, packet capture and all that directly on the device.

Oh we never had those, but I gave them at birthday parties a lot.

Getting them stuck in the roof of a nearby house was always awesome!

I had the Viper that would shoot the dart all the way, before the recall.

Also, this. http://www.theonion.com/articles/fun-toy-banned-because-of-three-stupid-dead-kids,290/

It's because they are EFI32 and not EFI64. I have a 2,1 as well. Without a soldering iron these aren't going to become EFI64 logic boards.

You can complain about it here or head over to http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html , install a 64-bit boot loader, and be done with it.

The OP might not have stated it too well, but STP and .local domains are two well known, but separate, issues that have occasionally created issues for Mac sysadmins. These issues have been largely resolved over the years though.

For what it's worth, Cisco recommends always using portfast on endpoint ports and Microsoft recommends not using .local domains.

The Shuttle only pulled up to around 3G on launch as well via a combination of throttling down and course changes.

I was wondering about that. TFA (and TFS) makes it sound as if they simply stockpiled parts before it broke down and now didn't know what to do.

It seems that the Danny Sullivan in TFA is not the Danny Sullivan I would have expected to comment on an article about cars!

The '@' isn't how you define a constant. It's shorthand for creating a NSString, since most everything in Obj-C needs objects to function.

Like jcr said, you aren't calling methods, you are sending messages to objects.

Why on earth does it hurt to name the parameters when you send the message? You can look at the code and know exactly what it does. When you type the code autocomplete kicks in and you know exactly what the method of the class is expecting. It's not like this stuff is new, the basics are nearly 30 years old at this point.

I mean if you really want to go crazy you could say that none of the languages are unnecessary. Why would you ever use a pointer when you could just go to the address in assembly?