Relax, you only have to start worrying when the tech support "guys" start sounding like HAL 9000.

Spell checkers? Dang, it's not every day one gets Nazi'd by a Hogwarts graduate...

Read the article? You must be new here...

Obligatory:
http://xkcd.com/504/

True enough, but what you can do is use airpower to knock out every tank, armored car, APC, artillery piece, truck and jeep that ISIS has destory their infrastrucutre and with it their economy. Then equip their enemies with heavy weapons train them in tactics likely to work against an ISIS whose arsenal has been reduced to AK-47s, SAWs, RPGs and mortars. With the way ISIS has been behaving I'm pretty sure the locals people in places like Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan can be relied upon to grab these ISIS assholes wherever they can be found the moment they get the chance to do so and kill them in way's that would make you regurgetate your dinner if you witnessed it. Pretty much everybody from Washington through the capitals of Europe, Amman, Damascus, Erbil and Baghdad to Teheran hates these assholes worse than the black plague.

So what was the crew of the Cole supposed to do? Blast every speedboat that came within 300 meters of their ship with a 20mm cannon? ...and before you say yes, consider the amount of shit that would hit the fan if some foreign warship blew a speedboat out of the water in New York harbor because, and I quote: 'Well Admiral sir, it looked uuuhhh.... threatening' ? Unpopular as the notion may be with some people, you can't just sail into a harbor in a foreign country and start shooting up speedbaots that you feel _might_ be a threat. Harbors in Asia and the Middle East are crawling with all kinds of boats and collateral damage is a certainty. By the sound of it that admiral is planning to field a swarm of small autonomous boats that can be deployed by a warship to patrol around it, surround any intruder and block him, allowing the warship to escape, prevent the intdruder from escaping or just destroy him depending on the ROE in that particular location. What precisely is ididotic about that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... no matter how hard you try to make Aspartame look more innocent than bunny rabbits and fluffy kittens It still creeps me out that Donald Rumsfeld had a hand in getting it FDA approved and bringing it to market.

Considering the stupid and corrupt dirtbags that we elect to rules over us, who are we to question the intelligence of cephalopods?

That will change...

Why standardize? Apparently you can have different size cups.

Heh? I thought it was one breast to each cup?

Colloquially known as the: Nothing-should-ever-change brigade

Ford was a 'fringe' brand too. Then the Ford Model-T hit the market and the Ford brand took off. Every car company, hell every company period, that manufactures something you can put a brand logo on starts off as a 'fringe' brand. Ferrari is more of a niche brand, for most of their history they have been a small volume manufacturer that caters to the super rich elite, they remained a niche brand when they created watered down versions of their super sports cars to appeal to the less illustrious segment of society that is merely extremely well off and they remained a niche brand when they tried to create cars like the Fiat 'Dino' to sell to the wealthier segment of the unwashed masses. Tesla, on the other hand has the technology and the potential to repeat some of what Ford achieved in it's first years. That is to say if the people running Tesla Motors can overcome their current fascination with the $40.000+ luxury car market and use that technology to produce a 21st century Model T that beats the crap out of the competition on price and in the miles per kolowatt department. I'm not holding my breath though. Theree are some very decent and affordable electric cars that are already being shipped by European and Asian manufacturers while Tesla claims they won't have one in the sub $40.000 range before 2017 at the earliest.

What is the FSF complaining about anyway? That Apple is hesitating to adopt their GPLv3 licensed version? Then Apple is a member of a large crowd that apparently includes Linus Torvalds who also has reservations about using GPLv3. Meanwhile Apple's version of BASH is freely downloadable and user modifiable which AFAIK is what the FSF wants. While it is certainly true that Apple should have quickly pushed a patch for this problem the FSF made a blanket statement that just isn't true.

Wooosh! The OP made the rather sweeping claim that:

Which covers a bit more than just BASH, he made the mistake of claiming that OS X is entirely closed source which it demonstrably is not. You can patch a bug in the VPN daemon in OS X yourself, now try doing that with the corresponding Windows component. You can do the same with a bug in the version of BASH used by OS X, fix the bug, patch the code, compile it and install it on your OS X box. Now care to try and patch a bug like this in the native Windows shell? I'll let you figure out why you can't do that unless you work for Microsoft.