There is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs - Dai Zovi, security researcher and co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook.
One day the voice recognition software, feeling unloved and unappreciated, decided to show the world just how much power it had…
that's speech recognition, not voice recognition
6 of one, half a dozen of the other - different countries use different titles
actually they're quite different...
one is an authentication technology that aims to recognize what you sound like (your voice)... the other is a user input technology that aims to recognize what you're saying (your speech)...
The entire post was humour Kurt... it wasn't even speech or voice recognition at all - it was live CC.
I'm with Sandi. That text was almost certainly done by a human, likely stenographer, unfamiliar with the terms newsgroups and forums.
I've seen those folks in operation at various events in the past such as political forums. I'm quite impressed with how good a job they do.