I have regular debates with a friend who shall remain nameless about the nature of Mac security, after which (most of the time), I simply conclude that he and I actually live on separate but colocated planets where the computers work differently.

You know, like Earth-1 and Earth-2, Barry Allen meeting Jay Garrick.

I expect these debates will last until Doomsday, given the different facts on our respective Earths. That said, I suspect that one of the many causes of our disagreements is that we get our facts from different sources. I suspect (but really don’t know) that what he knows about the Mac comes from places that are a lot further away from the “bare metal” than mine are. (That’s one of the many advantages of hanging out with Mac developers. I’m sure the others will come to me eventually.)

So it was with some amount of glee that I read this takedown of a Business Week article by the Macalope. Maybe I don’t have the rhetorical chops to point out when mainstream tech writers are idiots. But it’s nice to know other folks do.