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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.
It's not a problem with Windows! The operating system is okay! It's digitally signed!
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!
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...
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
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...
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