Excellent points.

Also, thanks for actually addressing the topic at hand.

Okay, I'll take the bait. How exactly does gender affect programming ability?

it's not a mispronunciation, per se. it's a perfectly acceptable alternative, which i've typically only haerd used by older generations of foreign engineers/physicists.

so, it's more like an idiomatic pronunciation.

You're being obtusely hyperbolic.

1. All the manufacturers don't take advantage of this. And most of them aren't as bad as Apple.

2. This hasn't been going on for hundreds of years; the world hasn't had a global economic environment for hundreds of years. It's been going on for a few decades.

3. Improving conditions in manufacturing plants in China probably wouldn't lead to a significant increase in price. As someone else mentioned in the comments, paying Chinese workers American pay rates for their labour would increase the cost of an iPad by $70. Compared to the price of the device, one may call this significant or not. Merely making the conditions of the Chinese labourers not completely and utterly horrifying would probably only increase the cost per unit by a few bucks, at most.

You're making up shit. Knock it off.

These articles regarding Apple's labour practices have been fairly regular for years, now. It's not that many people did not know about it; it's that many people choose not to care about it.

The graceful way is to actually write code properly. But apparently, it's far simpler to just spend five years creating a new language that nobody else is ever going to use.

[sarcasm] Well, if you don't like it, start your own search engine. Free market, private company, blah blah blah blah. This is totally not an abuse of a monopolistic position at all. [/sarcasm]

jumping around like a crack-addled kangaroo typically helps separate them, too.

idiot players was the main reason i quit WoW. they just made the game miserable.

your scale here is way off. public radio and nea funding are ridiculously small drops. it's absurd to even talk about cutting their funding to help balance the budget.

people really need to start talking about the biggest money suckholes of them all: defense, medicare, and social security.

wasting your time talking about penny ante stuff like npr and the nea is pointless. you're missing the big picture, and will literally accomplish nothing trying to take care of this problem by going after the smallest budget items.

see, the thing is, that later on in the article the general incompetence of the systems support people is discussed. i mean, they have 11TB of shared drive space so employees can share movies and music, but they don't have enough space on their servers to keep adequate logs of activity.

frankly, occam's razor applies, here. the reason you were told not to trust writing zeros is probably because the likelihood that you'd've screwed it up was too high. which is probably what happened to bradley manning.

also, writing zeroes takes a long time. thermite is much, much faster.