Our society has changed rapidly in the last 10 to 15 years, technology has made its way to the middle with smartphones, tablets, etc. being ubiquitous, and yet I have to read the same utter nonsense in mainstream newspapers each time there is an article mildly related to computer technology.
"Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones"
Oh, please... seriously? :-(
In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and technology totally distorted by the media every time there's an incident of some kind. :)
"a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation" is a terrible description of source code, but I've heard worse.
"Its free, open-source variant, Linux [...] serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS". Simply not true. Android is linux. iOS is mach/BSD/Darwin/nextstep/OSX. None of which are derived from Linux.
