Haha, right. I can see your "local" curriculum now.
8-12: Jesus 101 12-1: Lunch 1-2: Abstinence 101 2-3: Science without big bang, evolution, and reproductive biology. 3-5: Why Muslims and Liberals Suck
What the small government crowd doesnt realize is that you need to go to a higher level of expertise to break through local bias and get access to some pretty smart people. Home schooling and putting too much power in the the municipal level has never worked. Its the last desperate attempt of those who are fighting for the conservative Bush-era culture war.
You should have made them a limited user and been done with it. If they ever need to install anything legitimately, which is rare for technophobes, you can walk them through how to log in as admin.
Ive had some of the worst users imaginable unable to break machines because they simply dont have the rights.
Im posting this from a 5 year old Inspiron 1100 running Vista. Granted I put 1gig of ram in here and installed a bigger/faster drive, but it runs great. Heck, I'm even using XP drivers for the video. From what "internet people" say about vista, this thing should be running horribly. I cant tell the difference from XP, except the UI is a little different and the UAC pops-up on occasion.
Im not going to the sing the praises of Vista. Clearly its not polished and it wasnt until SP1 came out and mature drivers were released before it was usable, but right now its just fine. If you can stomach XP you can stomach this.
Protected mode. UAC. Default non-admin user. I think its a bit more secure. XP is a nightmare in terms of security. Everyone is running as admin 24/7. Of course the real world merits of UAC can be debated, but its a step in the right direction.
>I don't use the Google Browser because I don't want all my browsing history and everything else put in their databases. I
The never expiring tracking cookie works on all browsers. Has anyone written a FF add-on that resets this cookie? If not theres always this easy way to do it:
>You may as well ask why the ISS doesn't have a lock on the airlock door.
I hate this attitude. I hate how people dismiss basic security because for some reason, to them, its impossible that something used in one setting couldnt be used in a different setting or in a different way. Dont be naive.
Building it yourself is the optimal solution. We just bought a Netgear ReadyNas. Its maxes out at 25/MBs. Thats not a network limition, thats the raid card/CPU limitation. The little beater CPU in there doesnt come close to the cheapest C2D.
Smallnetbuilder.com has tons of reviews and rarely do these things break 30/MBs. If speed is the most important thing then you gotta build your own. Grain of salt of course, the guy who reviews this stuff there is quick to sing its praises and not piss off the companies that advertise on his site and give him free stuff. Avoid Buffalo like the capacitor plague.
Of course there are advantages with a turn-key solution. I spent very little time with the readynas and it does everything we need. Cute little rackmount too.
To be fair, it was naive engineers who gave us SMTP to begin with. Accept any message without authentication? Craziness.
Of course this is all in hindsight.
I dont really see much spam, at this point domainkeys, reverse dns, filtering, etc have done a good job of keeping it out of the inbox, but its the bandwidth and server resources thats a problem. How can you stop people from using bandwidth without getting into some kind of national firewall (see china) or issues of censorship or even blocking entire countries.
Every ISP is free to explore these solution without the goverment. All the government did is draft a law to answer the legitimate question of "What is spam? How do we email our customers without lots of complaints?" So they defined spam and for legitimate organizations the law had a real effect, but no, it doesnt stop spam outright. It defines online marketing more or less.
I cant think of a less reliable piece of electronics than the ipod. Ive taken mine in several times. The original mini was a hard drive crash waiting to happen. The worst was that the 12 month warranty only lasted 6 months. After 6 there was a fee. So Apple cant even guarantee these devices for a year? Incredible. The photo ipod was my last ipod. I learned quickly.
I think what you meant is that aesthetics are more important and the illusion of quality is paramount in the minds of consumers. Afterall, white plastic coated in clear plastic is a whole lot of plastic. It feels like quality because its shiny and has some weight behind it. Metal feels more firm than plastic. Other than a simplstic UI, there's really nothing else to offer. Well, I guess there's the DRM and itunes store lock-in to look forward to.
>Am I the only one who didn't really notice a 10X speed improvement when moving from 100 Mbit Ethernet to gigabit Ethernet?
Well, youre probably not getting 10x. Depending on a slew of factors (your switch, cable length, etc) youre getting anywhere between 100 to 800 mbps. Have you tried any speed tests? With gigabit I can copy to my nas at 25 megabytes per second. At 100 I was getting under 12. So that's twice the speed for me, which is most likely limited by the CPU on my nas and not ethernet.
>Conventional hard drives are just too slow.
Not really. Current drives go way past the limitations of USB2. We need a faster USB. Firewire is dying so USB needs to take up the slack on fast local connections. Shame esata isnt taking off with the home market.
>It looks like Linux may even support this before Windows, thanks to the Windows 7 schedule
USB 3.0 will work like any device: with a driver. I expect both XP and Vista to have it as manufacturers will simply write their own drivers without waiting for MS to package it into a service pack.
Restaurant grease? Is this a joke? Yes, I know it works, but where are you going to get it all? In my town there is no way the grease that comes out of a hundred restaurants will be enough to handle the hundred plus thousand cars on the road.
My family owned restaurants when I was a kid. We didnt go through much oil. The fryers were changed every couple of days and that was just a few gallons each. Perhaps less than 20 or 30 gallons a week. Perhaps enough to power a couple short commute cars, that's it.
The critics are right: there's not enough biofuel out there to sustain the demands of your average driver. This is a bad policy decision as we are now going to have both food and fuel in contention for the same resource. The ethanol change in gasoline has raised the cost of corn. This is already happening.
Personally, I think electric cars and more nuclear plants are the best strategy right now. Most likely we'll still be debating about this in 20 years and using just as much oil because the green crowd has an irrational fear of nuclear. Oh well, more money for OPEC eh?
One drive should be "live" and the other archived. Considering we all own computers, throwing a 1tb drive into a box isnt so difficult. Hell, you could write a script to power it up once a month and then power it down, if people are worried about energy costs but dont want to keep it spinning 24/7. It doesnt need to be ever mounted.
Better yet both disks should be running in a RAID 1 array. This is a cheap solution, but its not a "toss in the closet and forget" solution. If this guy actually cares about his data I dont see why he cant spend 200 dollars or so for two drives and a raid 1 card.
I see this question at slashdot every couple of months. The answers are still the same. Keep it live on a disk until a better solution is found. Upgrade the disk every so often. That's it. Mods, stop posting the same damn question every month.
Really? If it lived soley in user space then it would be trivial to remove and couldnt do all the tricks that it does, namely installing services, registering dlls, and over-writing system files.
One of my users tried to install it and it failed. Something tells me your limited user config isnt standard. There's no shortage of shops that give write access to the c: drive and large parts of the registry because theyre too lazy to find the specific file or key they really need.
The issue is that people run windows running as local admin, so all you have to do is find a way to get some code to run. If you can find a way to break out of of the application and run some code youre golden. You dont need to do privilege escalation as the person double-clicking everything is running as admin. Most of these exploits dont work when you run as limited user.
If anything these recent exploits should be a pretty big hint to move away from the admin 24/7 way of doing things. Unix people learned this lesson long ago as they now user sudo or su and never stay logged in as root.
Wait, so AT&T and Comcast are efficient non-bureaucracies? Hahaha. Sounds like you've never worked for a big business.
Lets see, on top of all the handouts and monopolies they are granted they still cant build out capacity. In fact, the US is the world leader on filtering out and curbing torrent packets! So when the government FINALLY decides to move in and do something about it, we get more whining from slashdotters. Sigh.
>The effects of these buggers is reduces asthma, allergies, arthritis, and other issue from over-active immune systems.
So you say. Cam you site any double-blind studies by respected researchers publishing in peer-reviewed journals? It seems everyone has a crackpot theory on the immune system nowadays, yet I constantly am seeing a lack of results from these crazy ideas. Kids growing up "dirty" and kids growing up "clean" tend to have the same health issues as adults. Auto-immune diseases look genetic or perhaps post-viral, not environmental; and certainly not the results of "lack of harmful parasites in one's gut." I mean, what is this the 18th century?
Let the researches find a safe vaccine to Alzheimers. Dont experiment at home with your health.
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You seem to have an incorrect understanding of the US. Let me preface this by telling you that you are used to a top-down government with one set of rules for all. A "one ring to rule them all" philosophy. The US is exactly what its name implied, a group of states. Most powers you like criticize are not dictated by the federal government like in typical European countries, but are powers given to each individual state, which there is 50 of.
>get abortions
Abortion is federally protected and the US has been a world-wide pioneer in rights for women, unlike the lagging European powers who have been 10-20 years behind. Not to mention, try getting one in Poland or anywhere with a strong Catholic majority in Europe.
>do soft drugs of various kinds
This is managed on a per state basis. I know there are lax rules for marijuana in California and Alaska for medical reasons. Define soft drugs while youre at it. I doubt I can syntehsize MDMA or GHB, sell it, or buy it in quantity in your country. Or anywhere in Europe. We have more in common with drugs then we do difference. One country with a tradition for hash coffeehouses isnt exactly a breakthrough.
>drink alcohol from the age of 16
States in the US use 21. I dont see a problem with this, especially considering our horrible rate of drunken driving fatalities and other social harm. To each his own. I doubt any humanitarian organization considers not being able to drink at 16 a civil right.
>get serviced by a hooker
Again, this is controlled on a per state basis. Nevada is famous for its hookers.
>get euthanasia
This is grey area all over the world. I think criticizing America for a right that most Europeans dont even have or recognize is being disingenuous.
>get married whether I'm gay, bi or straight
Again, this is done by a per state basis. There are at least two states that allow this now. It will be interesting to see this play out. Give it time before you criticize.
>get divorced
I dont know what propaganda you listen to, but all Americans can divorce.
>speak my mind
You, and most Europeans DO NOT HAVE THIS RIGHT. I can draw Muhammad cartoons all day and publish them to my hearts content without the EU sub-committe of oppressed rights of bigots sending me to prison. You guys are so far behind in this respect its embarrassing.
>drink on a sunday
So can I. There are dry counties in the US still, but they are local government actions. There is no federal law controlling drinking. There are no dry states and no federal law controlling drinking.
>have sex in public places so long as it's not visible from the street
Kudos to you. Personally I think its disgusting and unhygienic. I doubt any humanitarian organization recognizes this as a human right.
>go where I please (we don't need visa for 99% of the planet)
Huh? A US passport requires the least amount of visas to get around because of our influence. The exceptions are hostile regimes, budding world powers, and poor countries who need visa cash. Its incredible the places I can go to without a visa.
>None of which are freedoms I've seen Americans enjoy.
Youre wrong and ignorant. Perhaps you should have the right to be free from propaganda and get a proper education there in the Netherlands. You are ill educated on the basic politics of the world's only superpower and publically embarassing yourself. The Dutch minister of education would be blushing if he saw your post!
>bama will be president of the USA. Calling him "Leader of the Free World"
Well, he is. He will dictate world policy and is highly influential. When your ministers decide to do something big like war or treaties or whatever, they need to clear it with us first. Thats how the world works. Im not condoning it, but ignoring the power of the POTUS in today's world is being silly.
>no... "customers" to fall for the brainwash... hu, sorry... for the marketing overhyping our product, and who will blindingly throw their money at whatever product we manage to persuade them will be the best-game-ever-even-better-than-blowjob-and-beacon-sammich !
Corporations dont control you. What about some real personal responsibility? If people refuse to read reviews and spend their money wisely, then they are wrong and need to start acting like responsible adults. Dont blame advertising. Youre supposed to be critical of it. Shame so many arent.
Because people want desktop replacement gaming laptops. Did you really think that running a gpu and cpu at 100% in a tiny package like a laptop isnt going to get super hot? The laws of physics kinda dictate that it'll get hot when used for games. Heck, they dont even call them laptops anymore.
Buyer beware. Read reviews before you buy stuff. There's no shortage of small, cool running laptops.
Secondly, the GP is right, its all about marketshare. Look at all the rooted linux servers out there. Look at all the malware for windows. At the end of the day any computer controlled by someone with admin rights and who isnt paranoid about security is a risk.
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>Even better than state governments
Haha, right. I can see your "local" curriculum now.
8-12: Jesus 101
12-1: Lunch
1-2: Abstinence 101
2-3: Science without big bang, evolution, and reproductive biology.
3-5: Why Muslims and Liberals Suck
What the small government crowd doesnt realize is that you need to go to a higher level of expertise to break through local bias and get access to some pretty smart people. Home schooling and putting too much power in the the municipal level has never worked. Its the last desperate attempt of those who are fighting for the conservative Bush-era culture war.
You should have made them a limited user and been done with it. If they ever need to install anything legitimately, which is rare for technophobes, you can walk them through how to log in as admin.
Ive had some of the worst users imaginable unable to break machines because they simply dont have the rights.
Im posting this from a 5 year old Inspiron 1100 running Vista. Granted I put 1gig of ram in here and installed a bigger/faster drive, but it runs great. Heck, I'm even using XP drivers for the video. From what "internet people" say about vista, this thing should be running horribly. I cant tell the difference from XP, except the UI is a little different and the UAC pops-up on occasion.
Im not going to the sing the praises of Vista. Clearly its not polished and it wasnt until SP1 came out and mature drivers were released before it was usable, but right now its just fine. If you can stomach XP you can stomach this.
Protected mode. UAC. Default non-admin user. I think its a bit more secure. XP is a nightmare in terms of security. Everyone is running as admin 24/7. Of course the real world merits of UAC can be debated, but its a step in the right direction.
>I don't use the Google Browser because I don't want all my browsing history and everything else put in their databases. I
The never expiring tracking cookie works on all browsers. Has anyone written a FF add-on that resets this cookie? If not theres always this easy way to do it:
http://www.everythingisnt.com/archives/00002067.htm
>Its starting to look like the increase is due to people living in an environment that is 'too clean'
Cite multiple peer reviewed studies in respectable journals or else stop spreading New Age myths on the internet. Thanks.
>Its only drawback is the same as LOTR - it's very, very long.
The trick is to not read any of the sequels. If you must, you may read up to Dune Emperor but nothing past that. Trust me, by then you wont want to.
>You may as well ask why the ISS doesn't have a lock on the airlock door.
I hate this attitude. I hate how people dismiss basic security because for some reason, to them, its impossible that something used in one setting couldnt be used in a different setting or in a different way. Dont be naive.
How about more examples?
Anti-virus for a PDA?!?! Yes.
Anti-pirate weaponry on a cruise ship!?! Yes.
Antivirus on the space shuttle?!?! Yes.
Armed guards in churches?!? Yes
Bomb sniffer dogs at daycare??!? Yes.
Bulletproof armor for dogs!??! Yes.
Really? My ReadyNas 4TB was pulling 60-80W on idle.
FWIW, only could get 25/MBs with SMB/CIFS on a gigabit network.
Building it yourself is the optimal solution. We just bought a Netgear ReadyNas. Its maxes out at 25/MBs. Thats not a network limition, thats the raid card/CPU limitation. The little beater CPU in there doesnt come close to the cheapest C2D.
Smallnetbuilder.com has tons of reviews and rarely do these things break 30/MBs. If speed is the most important thing then you gotta build your own. Grain of salt of course, the guy who reviews this stuff there is quick to sing its praises and not piss off the companies that advertise on his site and give him free stuff. Avoid Buffalo like the capacitor plague.
Of course there are advantages with a turn-key solution. I spent very little time with the readynas and it does everything we need. Cute little rackmount too.
To be fair, it was naive engineers who gave us SMTP to begin with. Accept any message without authentication? Craziness.
Of course this is all in hindsight.
I dont really see much spam, at this point domainkeys, reverse dns, filtering, etc have done a good job of keeping it out of the inbox, but its the bandwidth and server resources thats a problem. How can you stop people from using bandwidth without getting into some kind of national firewall (see china) or issues of censorship or even blocking entire countries.
Every ISP is free to explore these solution without the goverment. All the government did is draft a law to answer the legitimate question of "What is spam? How do we email our customers without lots of complaints?" So they defined spam and for legitimate organizations the law had a real effect, but no, it doesnt stop spam outright. It defines online marketing more or less.
I cant think of a less reliable piece of electronics than the ipod. Ive taken mine in several times. The original mini was a hard drive crash waiting to happen. The worst was that the 12 month warranty only lasted 6 months. After 6 there was a fee. So Apple cant even guarantee these devices for a year? Incredible. The photo ipod was my last ipod. I learned quickly.
I think what you meant is that aesthetics are more important and the illusion of quality is paramount in the minds of consumers. Afterall, white plastic coated in clear plastic is a whole lot of plastic. It feels like quality because its shiny and has some weight behind it. Metal feels more firm than plastic. Other than a simplstic UI, there's really nothing else to offer. Well, I guess there's the DRM and itunes store lock-in to look forward to.
>Am I the only one who didn't really notice a 10X speed improvement when moving from 100 Mbit Ethernet to gigabit Ethernet?
Well, youre probably not getting 10x. Depending on a slew of factors (your switch, cable length, etc) youre getting anywhere between 100 to 800 mbps. Have you tried any speed tests? With gigabit I can copy to my nas at 25 megabytes per second. At 100 I was getting under 12. So that's twice the speed for me, which is most likely limited by the CPU on my nas and not ethernet.
>Conventional hard drives are just too slow.
Not really. Current drives go way past the limitations of USB2. We need a faster USB. Firewire is dying so USB needs to take up the slack on fast local connections. Shame esata isnt taking off with the home market.
>It looks like Linux may even support this before Windows, thanks to the Windows 7 schedule
USB 3.0 will work like any device: with a driver. I expect both XP and Vista to have it as manufacturers will simply write their own drivers without waiting for MS to package it into a service pack.
Restaurant grease? Is this a joke? Yes, I know it works, but where are you going to get it all? In my town there is no way the grease that comes out of a hundred restaurants will be enough to handle the hundred plus thousand cars on the road.
My family owned restaurants when I was a kid. We didnt go through much oil. The fryers were changed every couple of days and that was just a few gallons each. Perhaps less than 20 or 30 gallons a week. Perhaps enough to power a couple short commute cars, that's it.
The critics are right: there's not enough biofuel out there to sustain the demands of your average driver. This is a bad policy decision as we are now going to have both food and fuel in contention for the same resource. The ethanol change in gasoline has raised the cost of corn. This is already happening.
Personally, I think electric cars and more nuclear plants are the best strategy right now. Most likely we'll still be debating about this in 20 years and using just as much oil because the green crowd has an irrational fear of nuclear. Oh well, more money for OPEC eh?
One drive should be "live" and the other archived. Considering we all own computers, throwing a 1tb drive into a box isnt so difficult. Hell, you could write a script to power it up once a month and then power it down, if people are worried about energy costs but dont want to keep it spinning 24/7. It doesnt need to be ever mounted.
Better yet both disks should be running in a RAID 1 array. This is a cheap solution, but its not a "toss in the closet and forget" solution. If this guy actually cares about his data I dont see why he cant spend 200 dollars or so for two drives and a raid 1 card.
I see this question at slashdot every couple of months. The answers are still the same. Keep it live on a disk until a better solution is found. Upgrade the disk every so often. That's it. Mods, stop posting the same damn question every month.
Really? If it lived soley in user space then it would be trivial to remove and couldnt do all the tricks that it does, namely installing services, registering dlls, and over-writing system files.
One of my users tried to install it and it failed. Something tells me your limited user config isnt standard. There's no shortage of shops that give write access to the c: drive and large parts of the registry because theyre too lazy to find the specific file or key they really need.
The issue is that people run windows running as local admin, so all you have to do is find a way to get some code to run. If you can find a way to break out of of the application and run some code youre golden. You dont need to do privilege escalation as the person double-clicking everything is running as admin. Most of these exploits dont work when you run as limited user.
If anything these recent exploits should be a pretty big hint to move away from the admin 24/7 way of doing things. Unix people learned this lesson long ago as they now user sudo or su and never stay logged in as root.
If youre willing to live with a 5% to 10% success rate (spammers dont get anywhere near 100%) then I can sell you one today.
>Shuffle it though an inefficient bureaucracy .
Wait, so AT&T and Comcast are efficient non-bureaucracies? Hahaha. Sounds like you've never worked for a big business.
Lets see, on top of all the handouts and monopolies they are granted they still cant build out capacity. In fact, the US is the world leader on filtering out and curbing torrent packets! So when the government FINALLY decides to move in and do something about it, we get more whining from slashdotters. Sigh.
>The effects of these buggers is reduces asthma, allergies, arthritis, and other issue from over-active immune systems.
So you say. Cam you site any double-blind studies by respected researchers publishing in peer-reviewed journals? It seems everyone has a crackpot theory on the immune system nowadays, yet I constantly am seeing a lack of results from these crazy ideas. Kids growing up "dirty" and kids growing up "clean" tend to have the same health issues as adults. Auto-immune diseases look genetic or perhaps post-viral, not environmental; and certainly not the results of "lack of harmful parasites in one's gut." I mean, what is this the 18th century?
Just a heads up to people interested in this.
Its homeopathic "science" which is a ridiculous concept.
Oh, and the people who try this? Their skin turns cobalt blue forever.
Let the researches find a safe vaccine to Alzheimers. Dont experiment at home with your health.
You seem to have an incorrect understanding of the US. Let me preface this by telling you that you are used to a top-down government with one set of rules for all. A "one ring to rule them all" philosophy. The US is exactly what its name implied, a group of states. Most powers you like criticize are not dictated by the federal government like in typical European countries, but are powers given to each individual state, which there is 50 of.
>get abortions
Abortion is federally protected and the US has been a world-wide pioneer in rights for women, unlike the lagging European powers who have been 10-20 years behind. Not to mention, try getting one in Poland or anywhere with a strong Catholic majority in Europe.
>do soft drugs of various kinds
This is managed on a per state basis. I know there are lax rules for marijuana in California and Alaska for medical reasons. Define soft drugs while youre at it. I doubt I can syntehsize MDMA or GHB, sell it, or buy it in quantity in your country. Or anywhere in Europe. We have more in common with drugs then we do difference. One country with a tradition for hash coffeehouses isnt exactly a breakthrough.
>drink alcohol from the age of 16
States in the US use 21. I dont see a problem with this, especially considering our horrible rate of drunken driving fatalities and other social harm. To each his own. I doubt any humanitarian organization considers not being able to drink at 16 a civil right.
>get serviced by a hooker
Again, this is controlled on a per state basis. Nevada is famous for its hookers.
>get euthanasia
This is grey area all over the world. I think criticizing America for a right that most Europeans dont even have or recognize is being disingenuous.
>get married whether I'm gay, bi or straight
Again, this is done by a per state basis. There are at least two states that allow this now. It will be interesting to see this play out. Give it time before you criticize.
>get divorced
I dont know what propaganda you listen to, but all Americans can divorce.
>speak my mind
You, and most Europeans DO NOT HAVE THIS RIGHT. I can draw Muhammad cartoons all day and publish them to my hearts content without the EU sub-committe of oppressed rights of bigots sending me to prison. You guys are so far behind in this respect its embarrassing.
>drink on a sunday
So can I. There are dry counties in the US still, but they are local government actions. There is no federal law controlling drinking. There are no dry states and no federal law controlling drinking.
>have sex in public places so long as it's not visible from the street
Kudos to you. Personally I think its disgusting and unhygienic. I doubt any humanitarian organization recognizes this as a human right.
>go where I please (we don't need visa for 99% of the planet)
Huh? A US passport requires the least amount of visas to get around because of our influence. The exceptions are hostile regimes, budding world powers, and poor countries who need visa cash. Its incredible the places I can go to without a visa.
>None of which are freedoms I've seen Americans enjoy.
Youre wrong and ignorant. Perhaps you should have the right to be free from propaganda and get a proper education there in the Netherlands. You are ill educated on the basic politics of the world's only superpower and publically embarassing yourself. The Dutch minister of education would be blushing if he saw your post!
>bama will be president of the USA. Calling him "Leader of the Free World"
Well, he is. He will dictate world policy and is highly influential. When your ministers decide to do something big like war or treaties or whatever, they need to clear it with us first. Thats how the world works. Im not condoning it, but ignoring the power of the POTUS in today's world is being silly.
>no... "customers" to fall for the brainwash... hu, sorry... for the marketing overhyping our product, and who will blindingly throw their money at whatever product we manage to persuade them will be the best-game-ever-even-better-than-blowjob-and-beacon-sammich !
Corporations dont control you. What about some real personal responsibility? If people refuse to read reviews and spend their money wisely, then they are wrong and need to start acting like responsible adults. Dont blame advertising. Youre supposed to be critical of it. Shame so many arent.
Because people want desktop replacement gaming laptops. Did you really think that running a gpu and cpu at 100% in a tiny package like a laptop isnt going to get super hot? The laws of physics kinda dictate that it'll get hot when used for games. Heck, they dont even call them laptops anymore.
Buyer beware. Read reviews before you buy stuff. There's no shortage of small, cool running laptops.
Virii isnt a word.
Secondly, the GP is right, its all about marketshare. Look at all the rooted linux servers out there. Look at all the malware for windows. At the end of the day any computer controlled by someone with admin rights and who isnt paranoid about security is a risk.