America going down the technological pan

Subject: Mozzerella?
Hey
Please refer to your article: Firefox still making headway against Microsoft IE
It's Mozilla - not Mozzeralla. That's a cheese dude.
Please fix - the makers of Firefox deserve their right name to be displayed.
Thank you

Subject: Remove H1-B Restrictions
Re: King Billy Gates wants more foreign engineers
His majesty, Bill KBE, would have more credibility if he would simply admit that he thinks Western IT workers make too much money. When my company advertises for an open technical position we are flooded with resumes. O.K. perhaps it is a tsunami of resumes. After plowing through them and culling ones based on advanced degrees and certifications then the pile is small enough to actually review.
Let me also point out that I teach Java programming at one of the local colleges part time. I am one of those "advanced degree" people who is wondering which subsequent career will be best (residential electrician or auto mechanic) when this gig is over. My class was cancelled this last term due to lack of interest, so I took a course in speaking Chinese. Kids are simply not signing up for technology coursework not because they are stupid, but the job market is simply not kind to those who invest their time and effort into such fruitless endeavors.
I am not exactly a positive role model either. My B.S. is in robotics engineering from the University of California. I maintain a State engineer's license and I have a M. Sc. from Drexel U. in Philadelphia. I describe my career as "hanging on." My wife kindly reminds me that I should have become a dentist or orthodontist since I am good with my hands. I used to view those careers as "trades." How dumb was that? I have two friends from my engineering school completing law degrees.
Bottom line is Bill wants cheap labor. Nobody in America is going to pay the American Univeristy price of admission for a degree which provides little career prospects and rewards. So America will continue to decline technically simply because there is no real incentive to pursue such endeavors.

Arthur

Subject: Not So 1337 Hacker Story
Dear Mr. Hales,
I do not believe the choice of news that you have chosen to deface the Inquirer with with. It's something you'd expect to see on bash.org, which anyone that's been around the net for more than two years knows is completely false.
In the next several days/weeks/months, the original website will post a confession saying that the ordeal was faked and they feel bad for doing so, a la the Chernobyl-motorcycle-riding girl. There will hundreds of twits posting on serious forums throughout the internet saying 'I told you so' and I will be one of them.
If not, this story will trickle down into the idea cabinet of MSNBC or Wired, to be used in emergency situtations; when real stories start running dry. As it gets run in the general media, Joe Sixpack-Sparks (the guy who everybody thinks is into electronics and computers but can't tell the difference between KDE and GNOME or needs an instructional video to change their hard drive) will get a chuckle while the rest of the Internet folk will hear this story for ntieth time and moan and groan in agony from the brainlessness of the story.
Thank you and I bid you a good day,
Nik B. Toronto, Canada

Subject: Hacker deletes own hard drive
Thank you so much for that article! That was the best laugh I've had so far today.
Jason

Subject: Hacker deletes own hard drive
the term hacker is way too cool, for an idiot scriptkiddie that doesn't even know that 127.0.0.1 is used as home-ip for every computer. i've seen this chatlog appear about 2 weeks ago and although it was funny to read i refuse to believe it has actually happened.

Subject: Hacker deletes own hard drive
the inq had a bad name of spreading gossip, just when i thought things got a bit more reliable, i see this dumb joke :(
how can other websites use the inq as a source when things like this are being posted :s

Subject: Hacker deletes own hard drive
Hahahaha, this is the funniest article I have ever read on the INQ. Unbelievable... I know how he must feel, I guess I was an elite hax0r at one time too.

Subject: 3G phone masts cause cars to behave like sulky teenagers
The RIF pumps, at the BP station, Bagshot have been interfering with car's central locking and alarm systems since the earily 90's I use to drive a Jetta that would not unlock/switch of the alarm system remotely on the forecourt. You had to manually unlock the drivers door, which triped the alarm, get in, close the door and wave the keyfob around for 5/10 seconds to turn off the alarm.

Subject: Campaign to make OS/2 open source begins
This is not really a flame sine I am not opposed to open sourcing OS/2 -- used to have it on my PC and liked it very much. But why don't you push Corel to open source Wordperfect under Linux??? Now that would really be something worthwhile. Ted Swart µ

Subject: Question for the editor
Please see that the correct people get this email.
I visit theInquirer.net website several times daily, and one thing that I have consistently noticed is that the articles are riddled with mis-spellings and wrong words. I often times email the authors to notify them of mistakes, but almost never get a response - and the mistakes go unchanged. The only author that has responded and immediately corrected mistakes is Paul Hales.

As professional writers I would think a spell check would be in order, and of course, knowing correct grammar would be useful as well.

I may make mistakes in my writing, but I'm not getting paid to write, unlike the "professionals" contributing to The Inquirer.
Mark

I didn't think we e'er made spelling mishtakes - Ed. µ