In Britain this is what is known as bollocks.
I don't think so. My experience suggests that Sosigenes' post is rather perceptive and that the AC parent has (a) not had much contact with the higher education system since he graduated and (b) has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. AC may be right to whinge about clueless recent graduates who know nothing. But Sosigenes correctly identifies why there are so many bad graduates around. it is all down to the belief that the Blair-era govenments had that just because it was a good idea in the 1970s to increase University participation from 8% to 20% [1] it must necessarily follow that it is a good idea to increase it again from 40% to 50%. As a result, we are now wasting large amounts of money (taxpayers' and the students' own) sending people to bottom of the barrel universities to get meaningless qualifications. Just recently I have noticed people asking what a University degree is actually for, what sort of person can benefit from it and what other career paths exist. And about bloody time.
Of course, AC is right that snobbery needs to be beaten out of people ASAP. No-one is impressed per se by the fact that you went to Oxbridgeperialstolchesterburgh rather than an ex-polytechnic. But the fact remains that if you went to one of those places and did well there then a lot was expected of you and you achieved it. If you went to City University of Scuzzborough (formerly Scuzzborough Poly) you may well have excelled and be a good job candidate. But you will be a very different person from the majority of your classmates.

[1] All statistics and dates are made up. But they give a general impression of what actually happened

They didn't all agree, just ask Monsieur Diesel.
I think you will find that he was Herr Diesel (although he was born in Paris).

I could give a shit
You mean you couldn't give a shit. Your homework is to watch:
David Mitchell's soapbox (series 2 episode 2)

I look forward to the day when the floating googlemobiles have been all round the canal system of England and I can work my way up Foxton staircase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxton_Locks) without leaving my desk.

At last we will be able to get rid of all of those useless hairdressers, telephone sanitisers and middle management types.

Surely they mean "orbiting"? "Circling" even? But "circumventing"?
I was about to make the same point, but the OED gives several meaning for "circumvent", one of which is "To go round, make the circuit of." Still, it is not the way that most people use the word; I think we can conclude that TFA is not written by one of the web's better science journalists.

Is it darker than #000000?
Nope, they say it reflects "less than 1% of the light falling onto it". So it could be as light as #020202 (but not #030303).

I've been using linux for almost a decade so I really don't the state of other OS's
I think you accidentally the entire OS market (or most of it, anyway).

Members of Parliament in this context.

If you read the article you will note that a supplier is soon to release a European version that outputs the RGB directly and which can be connected to the SCART input on your PAL TV.

At home I went for the "annying computers of SF" theme: orac, eddie, hal, holly ... Mind you, it's a good job I don't have many machines: the next name I can think of is "computer" from ST:TNG. I guess I could also add marvin and data. A windows machine was called frogstar because it was particularly stupid.

At work (a University meteorology department) we used to use cloud types (cumulus, cirrus, stratus ... ) and there are now a few other naming schemes dating from when we merged several departments into one bigger one.

Wait a minute, I thought that the drug in the jug was the pill from the till. Or was that in the gateau from the chateau? Maybe I'm just being distracted by the thought of Vikki Michelle in WWII-era silk nightwear ...