Obviously Apple's infallible security is worth the cost. Oh wait.

Of course if you own your own home, you can put in all the ethernet you want.

In theory, yes. In reality it means knocking lots of holes in the walls, drilling through floors, etc, etc.. That gets expensive / time consuming. The previous owners of my house had the thing (built 1890) wired with coax and it all runs on the outside of the house. I settled for running one CAT6 cable from my office on the 2nd floor to the basement. Otherwise I'm stuck with WiFi.

No, in a Typhoon class submarine.

Flying cars aside, the fact that it is 2014 and there is a great deal of communication going on in arbitrary 140 character chunks is ridiculous and shortsighted.

The "From:" header has been spoofable in ASCII since the beginning of e-mail. Given its unreliability, you are foolish if you put much stock into it.

So, if we have a union and we go on strike, can we put the servers on strike too?

"HTTP Error 525: Host is on strike"

..they'd be spending most of their time in the left-most (slowest) lane.

You mean the right lane, pal. No wonder you're getting driverless cars so soon. UK drivers don't know the correct side of the road to drive on!

Nothing you read should ever be assumed to be true. It does not matter whether it is written on Wikipedia, on a dead tree, or some other website. Critical thinking and fact checking are paramount. Does it smell like BS? It probably is.[1]

[1] This statement was retrieved verbatim from a 6,000 year old marble tablet in the hills of Shangri La. So it must be true.

According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.

Now that's the kind of justice we need in the real court system!

"Bitch! I already told you you were guilty!"

This is a fantastic snippet to take out of context: "inaccurate posts aren't edited by moderators or community and are often supported by a circle jerk of clueless idiots". It's going to be my forum sig for every forum I belong to!

My computer isn't assembled right now, you insenstive clod!

No Stryker variant mounts a Bushmaster. So, either the vehicle was a Bradley or the weapons system was likely a M2 .50 cal machine gun or Mk19 automatic grenade launcher.

"Lead the way!"