sudo rm -rf / ... see also xkcd

What we need is glasses that decrypt "Whiter whites! Brighter brights!" into "We added a little more bleach, a bucketload of fragrance, and slapped it in a fancier box in order to charge you more."

That's Digital's ReGIS command set, introduced in the 1980s. Even further back, the Tektronix 4010 terminal introduced vector commands circa 1972.

"By using a proprietary software to read..." Really? What is "a software" -- is that like a hardware, an information, or a clothing? You have a piece of information, not "an information" for example. The brochure should be corrected to "By using a proprietary program" or "a proprietary piece of software..."

So if you were tired of running MySQL at level one, now you can dial it down to zero with NoSQL or up to three with TriSQL... oh wait

So who do I pay to get a white pages residential listing, now that I have a mobile phone? Indeed, why does the white pages not list mobile phones? Having an unlisted number is rude to all your friends who might wish to actually find you.

The word is disorenting, I have been reliably informated. Your misuse of suffixes must be cessated and desistated, or your poetic license will be cancellated. Although "(dis)orientation," "information," "cessation," and "cancellation" are verbs, the corresponding verbs are "(dis)orient," "inform," "cease," and "cancel" -- no "-ate" at the end.

Eminently sensible. ".com" should have been "us.co." from the start

An added advantage would be automatic prepending of your local country code, and perhaps even your choice of second-level, if omitted -- so "http://ge/" would map to us.co.ge for USA users and uk.co.ge for users in Llandudno.

Plenty of fun to be had with this system too, http://co.co.chanel/ and http://be.me.up.scotty/ for starters.

Your thumb is for the space-bar. Your fingers are for typing. If you are giving us screens big enough to actually type, how about at least giving us transparent little home-row tactile-feedback bumps where the 'f' and 'j' keys are?

Actually this is the long-awaited stealth revival of IBM's PC division -- the PS/4. Internally it runs IBM's new Linux distribution, OS/4, and have the new integrated high-speed peripheral serial bus, MCA-Wire.

I would prefer 24x7 to 24x7x365, as the latter misses leap years. It is my understanding, though, that Windows Phones now have achieved five-nines uptime, running properly 9.9999% of the time.

Presumably the article refers to Direct Rendering Management and not Digital Rights Management. Any clue what GEM they are talking about? Unless it's a revival of Digital Research's GEM -- the alternate windowing platform that Ventura Publisher used to use. Article authors: Please expand acronyms with the first usage.

is TECO mode! 0LT$$

The article asks if anyone has composed other programming puzzles, like a parenthesis puzzle.

Any LISP program should qualify for that one.

Except that when you install package 513, you discover that you need 357 additional new support packages for it. The total number of packages changes too.