"very surprising that they've been sloppy enough to get caught"

You must be new here (to the US, not /.) ;)

Avoid them... or use them to set up a massive confidence game. Oooo that is a book just waiting to be written!

Almost an Ian Banks story. Almost!

Doesn't strike me as tateless. Seems to fulfill the definition of irony.

Now if someone had posted a happy post-bloodshed pictures of Syrian children eating ice cream cones and claimed it was irony I would strongly object! Although Ernest A. Hamwi, an American of Syrian descent, invented the ice cream cone, ice cream cones have nothing to do with revolutions or protest (except for the gelato riots of 1908) - thus no irony.

However, to be fair, if I take the long view that mentioning Steve Jobs is going to become the next Godwin's law, then yeah, that was pretty crappy thing to say - especially so early in the thread.

Although I don't use Firefox (much) I want it to be completely different from Chrome.

Firefox devs are full of great ideas and it's nice when something comes out that makes everyone say "hey, why can't my browser do that?"

If everyone jumps into the same look-and-feel trench then cool things stop happening.

hid me under a blanket.

My latest social networking invention, Hermitbook, protects against social analysis like this by not allowing messaging.

Damn I miss Hypercard. But I carry on: I can now embarrass myself with HTML and JavaScript - so, in essence, life is still good!

"To the victors go the spoils; to the losers go the Scovilles?"

Ah, thanks! I guess the governmentrestrictschemicalthatcanbeusedinmethlabs...edwhenthegovernmentshutsoffhisaccesstothatchemical tag should have tipped me off.

Kudos! Excellent reference. My hat's off to you, sir or madam!

I was going to put every word on the list in a poem, but words #1072 to 1074 are impossible to rhyme.

I stand corrected! Thank you.

Tim Cook is an interesting person, and having him step up made sense.

Levinson??? Now that's strange.

Iger? Jobs respected him. The guy understands content and polish. But he doesn't understand cultivating the cult.

Cultivating...

That describes Apple in one word!
LOL

I can't believe (most of us) are arguing about this like it is physical property,

There is no scarcity here. The Twitter account could be magically duplicated and I bet Twitter would be willing to do it if both parties agreed to it.

If were gonna throw this in the courtroom then won't it be proper for 17,000 followers to have a say in this?

Let's not open that can of worms. Not today at least. I'm tired. ;(