... that you still see articles based on the question, "Why should I switch to Linux?" For all those still asking that question, the answer is, in a word, "Microsoft".

Put a few grams of C-4 in those phones and really put the "kill" in "kill switch".

Ununseptium sounds like a nasal condition caused by the consumption of cocaine.

Inadequate resources is hardly the exclusive domain of Open Source projects. Nor is a failure to adequately vet code particularly reflective of an open development model. The insecure, buggy code in the devices used in the world's infrastructue display those facts, perfectly. Device manufacturers tend to focus on hardware, underfund and understaff their software development and demand unrealistic delivery times. These are, by and large, proprietary endeavors.

If Joseph Campbell is to be trusted, the Upanishads describe a multiverse many centuries before this upstart whelp.

... a rail gun up the side of a tall mountain as a sort of first-stage booster stands a better chance of, ahem, taking off. (All puns intended.)

... the money. The technology is only touted in service to the pursuit of the money. Is that a paradigm that should be trusted? Is it any wonder that it always costs more than advertised in the recruitment brochure?

So, you're saying to really be safe, everything should be stored on trusty mag-cards?

Good to know. I guess all we have to worry about now is if they're using that untested double-density stuff.

Oh, great, nuclear war triggered by a head crash!

... a nice, old single-sided model, or one o' them newfangled double-sided ones?