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Why Does Windows Still Suck?
RatBastard writes "SF Gate's Mark Morford asks: Why Does Windows Still Suck? After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection, Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger over the never-ending security flaws in Windows. Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
Why would you let your SO attach an unpatched and unprotected PC to the Internet? Would the author let her walk SF's Tenderloin after dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Because it's still Windows.
Why Does Linux Still Suck?
I haven't had enough Microsoft bashing today, I was starting to get a bit punchy!
It's not a problem with Windows! The operating system is okay! It's digitally signed!
The McAfee site claims a whopping 91 percent of PCs are infected.
What is Microsoft's market share in the PC market again?
NEWSFLASH # 4
Profit?
Jonathanjk.com
Do you have to patch your brakes, or update your steering defintions on your car just to make it safe to use?
You don't drive a Ford I take it...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Try connecting an unpatched Solaris 2.6 box to the internet. Within a day it will be hacked and much more dangerous than any hacked Windows PC.
Caleb
damn it, i'm sick of all the windows bashing.. it's an awesome OS... comes complete with a calculator and a paint program, not to mention the ability to clean your disk (i don't know how they do it, but they must have some crazy washer/dryer system inside) I hear this grinding sound inside my computer so that must be it. Also, it has the ability to change the background picture... how freakin' cool is that!? I can put up a picture of my cats!!! IT'S RIGHT THERE ON MY MONITOR!!! What more could you ask for in an OS?! Come on people!
me fail english, thats unpossible
Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger...
The same question could be asked about a few other things in North America....
I caught the Mountain Wumpus! He gave me his treasure chest ($100) to let him go free again.
I can already tell this article will find itself in league with the all-time great classic technical-discussion.slashdot.org postings such as:
-Why does Windows still blow?
-Why does my Tux tattoo still itch?
-Why can't I still get a date?
and now back to the fallout shelter...
...but as soon as you are online you are hit by worms.
Did anyone else just get an erotic vision flash in their heads when they saw this stuff? Man, I've got to quit watching so much hentai...
That reminds me of an email I got the other day when I asked the user if she had MS Word. I'll paste it here:
"I have microsoft explorer xp, but don't think it's microsoft word. It's call word perfect."
I can see it now - him sitting across the room, her with a laptop on a table... then she reaches around the back of the table and saying "Now I'll try out the internet connection".
Slow motion... the guy throwing himself across the room as the hand with the RJ45 inexorably moves into place faster than he can arrive.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
ALl you need to make it a great scene in a movie is for the laptop to shake, slide off the table, then explode in a huge fireball when it impacts the carpet as the guy knocks her out of the way.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I play games and use linux exclusively. I have an xbox.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out the xbox runs a custom win2k kernel, i know, that doesn't count)
You must be new here.
Put your coat on when you go outside. Wear your seatbelt. Put on SPF 30. Lock your doors. Tie your shoes. Kill the power before you do any electrical work.
Typical slashdotter. You didn't say "Wear a condom."
Why is Mark Morford's SO so abjectly stupid?
Hooking any computer up to the Internet unprotected by a firewall is like having unprotected sex with everyone you see--you will catch something. Should we have sympathy for the chronically stupid? I say "no." I'd wager she's a blonde, too.
Heck, if I could get a contract with my employer that forced them to send me a check even though I screw up everything I do, I definately would go for it.
That is called a "Union". Popular for that very reason...
Definitely. Longhorn is 100% secure due to the fact that you can't infect or compromise vaporware.
Also, Longhorn is the only OS that can play Duke Nukem Forever.
Share and Enjoy!
Has Windows stopped beating its wife yet?
And there will be G5 Mac minis by the time Longhorn ships. I could buy a Mac mini now, and upgrade to a newer, faster one before the Windows platform is written with security in mind.
I play games and use linux exclusively. I have an xbox.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out the xbox runs a custom win2k kernel, i know, that doesn't count)
That doesn't make any sense, you can't just arbitrarily decide what does and doesn't count
I have lots of sex and with women exclusively. I also have sex with other straight guys.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that having sex with another guy is gay, i know, that doesn't count)
I have a lot of fun and don't do drugs. I like crack cocaine
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that crack is modified cocaine, i know, that doesn't count)
I'm good at solving problems and never use violence against any person to do so. I smack my wife around.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that women are people too, i know, that doesn't count)
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
And aren't Jaguars famous for being finicky unreliable peices of expensive shit?
don't forget unsafe.
You didn't ask me what I meant. I was being a smartass.
So you're a mac user?
I'm a gamer.
this is Informative?
Well, weren't you informed that I'm a gamer?
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Sheesh...
A dedicated Mac user that loves macs is from San Fran and probably gay want's to know why everyone doesn't want to hug a mac.
Isn't a lot of the problem with Internet Explorer and how it integrates with Windows?
Better question? Will anyone be reading post # 1600 in this thread?
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.