I always thought that nerds had a specific topic that makes them nerdy. And geeks were more broad in their interests, and also able to function in the real world.
I agree, the idea is flawed. Though maybe if they have the TV series airing sometime after events in the MMO. Say the MMO starts recording and noting events happening starting in Feb 2012. But the TV series waits till later in the year to start airing episodes. Making the TV series months, behind the actual game. Might be too long to wait for that satisfaction of having a part in the plot, but it also makes room for 3 different demographics: The viewers, the players, and the ones that are actively following both, and trying to play/watch in accordance. I see this being hard to pull off.
If I were a player, would I have to sign a release, or agree to something, that says they can use my handle in their TV show? I just don't think they are going to take it well when 'ThEBigB@LLA2121!!11!!' seems to be wreaking havoc in San Francisco. Hopefully they have the sense to...ehem...correct any names of players that have significant impact on the universe. But correcting my also be bad as well.
BAM! Nice shot man, you make a very strong point. I think the only smart thing you ever posted was correcting my excessive space. I think MK352 is the smart one.
My name is Christopher Tryon. My "pseudonym" has nothing to do with it. As for "who is 'nobody'", that would be a valid question had I made "nobody" a proper noun. But it's not. Find your self a dictionary, and look up nobody. You might figure it out then. You might want to look up hypocrisy, and ignorance as well.
Oh look, this time the number is 403. I mean, I like Slashdot, but one pseudonym is all I need. I couldn't imagine the feelings you have towards Slashdot. You seem to be very mixed up. Tons of usernames, and nothing but hate-mongering.
Michael Kristopeit n (where n = some number) = OMG I can trollz on teh slashdots!
Way off topic, and I could be feeding trolls, but I just can't help it.
Michael Kristopeit, number 401 or 269 or enter some set of numbers, is always doing this negative comment, slashdot = stagnant crap. But yet, this guy has a great number of usernames. Seriously?!? Just go somewhere else. In case you didn't notice, nobody likes you.
"slashdot = stagnated" = Michael Kristopeit has nothing better to do.
Now for on topic. I love to hear about genius kids. One day this kid could be doing a lot of good for man-kind. I wonder how many other kids his age, or even younger, are currently using their brain. Whether for good now, or just for fun that could end up being good later. Just awesome.
I agree that guns made to kill people being on the streets is bad. It's always been bad, and it's tragic that it's already there. But it is. What I would like to see is strict, even tighter, even to the point of out right banning, of guns made specifically to kill people. and maybe safety classes or psychological screening to be qualified to own/carry guns made for hunting. We do it for driving, so why not projectile weapons?
To counter the expected "criminals will still have guns made to kill", anyone in there right mind, being educated, trained, tested, whatever, can defend themselves with a shotgun, or rifle just fine. And it probably would make very little difference to the outcome, if I and the attacker both had handguns, as opposed to him having an illegal gun and I having a shotgun.
I think you are right about people in the US thinking guns make them the biggest and strongest, and it is very unfortunate, and tragic things occur, like this shooting, or any shooting where innocent people are killed or injured. I have mixed feelings about guns.
I think certain guns should be illegal. The ones that are useful for hunting, are perfectly fine to me. The think that makes me lean towards the for guns side, is that our country sometimes seems to open to who is qualified to do so many things. Just about anyone can own a gun, and they don't have to have classes or tests to make sure they are mentally and physically capable of handling them. So for people like me who have taken classes, and training, for my family it's safer. There have been many times where I've been threatened at my front door, and all it took was telling them, I a gun and know how to use it, as of yet I have never fired my gun at another person, and hope to never have too. If guns were illegal, then the thugs with that "i'm an American and can do what I want" and will kill someone for it, will be the only ones with guns.
Another thought I've had, is that if this government that is supposed to be so small, and run by the people, gets to power crazy (which they seem to have been heading down that path for a while now), a gun might protect me from the police state thugs, and help those that are ready to over through the Police state.
That is a scary thought, but intriguing to think about actually having miners on the moon. Maybe with the discovery of these metals, it might encourage the private sector to get to the moon. Heck, if I had the time and the money, I'd pay for a space station in orbit around the moon. Have it be to collect what's sent up from the surface, and ship to earth, and also receive new equipment, personal, and supplies from earth, until my surface station can be self sufficient. Then I'd start selling gold, silver, what ever has real value, use the water for my surface dwellers, and when I've gotten more money (Because I spent it all setting up my awesome space operation) I'd start developing and then selling, space tours, more stations, real-estate, ships, and get some healthy competition out in the black. Then, plan for Mars, and eventually figure out the Asteroid belt.
I'm glad you are a senior engineer. Mind if I pick your brain?
I won't pretend to understand quantum logic. But how would arranging for photons (Or electrons, or whatever you want for your object), to take a random step in a random direction, help computing? Doesn't computing depend on expected actions with expected results, as opposed to random possible actions with maybe even more random possible results?
Or would this new machine expect that position of particle 1 would be in position A, or B? Observe and get either A or B. If B do this.... If A do this...
But even that sounds like expected actions with expected results. Darn spooky mechanics!
I wasn't aware that there was a way to rip DVDs from Netflix. I thought they had some kind of strange way that the video streams. But I could be confusing the DVDs and the Watch Instantly content.
I agree about the menus, and the unskippable content. Though in Media Player Classic, I usually can just tell it to go to title menu. Which is still a pain! The most interaction that I want required is maybe all the navigation buttons. Play/pause, Stop, Fastforward/rewind. And maybe a button on my remote to go to the menu if I so choose. I like the menu when its only purpose is to choose between widescreen and not widescreen.
I hope they don't hide it. Let's hope that it doesn't get to the point where we can no longer find out what is in our food. But there will always be a rational informed decision I believe. Even if they hide the ingredients behind newspeak, if we don't know what is in it, or we know that what is in it is bad, we shouldn't eat it.
But you are right, if our only available food is what we can get from the market, then it would be kind of them not to hide what the put in it.
He might be a big fan of hypoglycemia. Which could make any driver as dangerous (if not more) as a drunk driver.
Sugar is not bad, too much sugar is bad. Too little is bad too. My mother, and my Bother and Sister-in-law are all diabetic. I could tell you why, because they didn't pay attention to what they are eating. I could have as many sodas with sugar or HFCS as I want, and be perfectly fine, because I consciously do not want too much.
I am an EMT student, I have learned about diabetes in class, and seen it in my family. Honestly, unless you were born with it, if you get it, it was probably your fault, unless something else was wrong with you.
Bottom line is, how about we all quit complaining about what it is they put in food, and just choose what you eat carefully.
Also, if they couldn't properly connect it to the nervous system, the patch of skin it stimulates could be on the same arm, maybe under where the prosthesis fits. It may be my elbow feeling the tingle, but after a while, I will adapt to recognize that tingle as being somewhere on the back of my fake hand.
If you are getting nightly builds of Firefox mobile, there is nothing new here. I got excited about a new release, only to find out, I've been on this new release for months now.
I think if they went with the plot of the Dafydd ab Hugh adaptions of Doom (The first 2, not the last 2 novels), Doom would make an excellent movie! But I think the games that have for small universes, with focus only on specific people, don't do well for movies. Like Mario, it's too dependent on Mario, the Princess, and Bowser, and the story is mostly the same, with no real movie like elements. But they are fun games to play. Halflife on the other hand, can be about others in that universe, and the universe is so well established and detailed, that you could make a movie, with a story you never heard, without changing the original storyline at all.
Of course, I would love a Halflife movie, that gives you as much to know as the first game did. Bad things happened, aliens are popping in, youngest fittest, luckiest scientist, is able to get out. If they did it right, they could even have Gordon Freeman silent through out, except for some grunting, and the occasional mumble. I picture all the other scientists, being more experienced and older, interrupting Gordon every time he tries to say something. And Gordon being the kind of person that thinks, "Ok I'll do as you say!".
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. But the earth was with out form, and void. This sounds a lot to me like he just created all the junk the universe is made of, without form could be nebulous gases, or the debris from the big bang.
Then he said "Let there be light". Ok, so maybe we now have stars. all this formless matter was forming into balls, and got hot enough to create light. Maybe he planned this, if he created the universe, he would obviously have to understand physics. Then the next part starts to talk about the firmament, so now we are creating earth. It says in the midst of the waters, so now we have to assume there was a lot of water. Rather than all this creation being literal to us religious types, a lot of us can think out side of what we see on paper. Maybe Moses didn't understand all this science and universe creation stuff, so he was told in a way that makes sense to him. Maybe we did understand it, and we lost most of the story to time, but most of the story doesn't matter, what really matters is who created it and for what purpose.
While I agree that the bible, including Genesis, has flaws, and plenty is wrong, I think most of it is just incomplete. But as the Scientists in TFA have said, our religious beliefs can't be included in our understanding of the universe. So all this arguing is completely useless.
But if you would like, you can tell me some more about the bible that is "absolutely 100% wrong regardless of your interpretation", and I can probably tell you why it's not wrong. But just like politics, you and I maybe are just set in our ways, and we'll probably keep proving each other wrong all day long with no real productivity.
I agree with this fully. Being a religious man myself, it disappoints me how closed minded religious thinking CAN be. I like to take a more open approach, I believe God created the universe, me, and everything involved in it, including the laws and theory's we've discovered on how we came to be, and how the universe works/is made. I will not limit MY God to a very narrow understanding. If God can create the universe, than I am sure he would understand the best way for life to exist, and one of those ways could very well be (and most likely is) evolution. I mean, if any god were to create the universe, he/she/it/third gender would be the greatest scientist to ever live!
Now they need to genetically engineer fish to consume crude oil. It may mess up the future accountability issue, but it sure can save a lot of animal life.
Sexual assault doesn't have to be done by adults. Just recently in Arizona there was a Liberian girl raped by a group of young boys. IIRC the oldest boy was ~15. These kids won't choose to be victims, they may not even know if they do become victims.
I think I understand the Lawyer's concerns. These children are taught not to engage is sexual activity, but then they are told that sex is safe with a condom. So now little Jimmy may be convinced by his teacher/priest/coach that what they are doing is ok because he/she is going to use a condom. Or, young children will think it's ok to diddle around with each other because they found contraceptives, and we end up with another girl or boy raped, by children.
I think sex ed should be about the reproductive system, and the state should leave it to parents to talk about contraceptives and abstinence. Which ever the child's parents prefer.
Oh of course, mindlessly obeying would be a stupid thing to do. But you did miss my point, did you even read my whole post?
Assuming my analogy has me ignoring all the obvious things you should do while driving, gets you no points, anywhere.
But I'll humor you, let's say I did slow down, I looked, assessed the situation, the sign says "keep left", and the left seems to be a safe route (for more reasons than the sign, because we slowed, and did all those obvious things that our drivers eduction taught is), and yet there is a ditch that can't be seen till you are in it. I mean, should I get out of my car and look?
I may not have said it, but a driver should know not to mindlessly follow the sign. This should be obvious. But go ahead and read the rest of my original post, so you can get my point. After that, you can tell me what you disagree with, rather than nitpicking my imperfect analogy.
I have my license, so I am qualified to operate a vehicle. If I follow the sign that says "Stay Left" and it leads my into a ditch, was that MY fault for trusting a sign that should be protecting me?
You might say "You should know when to trust the software or not, if you don't know who made it, don't trust it." Well, there is Bobs signs, there is Lyles signs, Anchor inc. etc... All make road signs. There may be some I don't know, but what I do know is that sign has been able to protect me before, even from threats I have still not seen.
When I get a message from AVG that says there was some kind of threat found, I trust it, and it delivers a solution, and fixes the issue. If I were to get a message from something that looked exactly like AVG, it may fool me, I trust it, I'm screwed. Who's fault was that?
I don't doubt I'll be modded down for this, because everyone loves to jump on and be upset at Microsoft on Slashdot. But think about this, Windows is popular, not everyone uses it just because it's the only option. I installed Ubuntu less than a month ago, and had the worst experience in getting support, or help from this "Community" that claims to have a great alternative. TO something that already is working! Needless to say, I need to reinstall anyway because now all I get is some screwing static, instead of my desktop.
As long as Windows is the most popular OS, it will be the most insecure, just by the sheer number of people attacking it. Regardless of how secure they try to make it, someone will find a vulnerability. I see Microsoft's solution to going after (at least some) of the people responsible for the attacks that the average user has to deal with, is admirable. Regardless if Microsoft makes any money off of it, at least they are also trying to solve the issue.
If a cobbler makes me a shoe, and that shoe is a good shoe, and I can walk/run/hike in it, this is good. If I unsuspectingly step on a nail, that goes clear through the sole, who's fault was that? The cobblers? I'd shake his hand if he went after the Bastard that dropped that nail.
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You do that? What a geek!
I always thought that nerds had a specific topic that makes them nerdy. And geeks were more broad in their interests, and also able to function in the real world.
I agree, the idea is flawed. Though maybe if they have the TV series airing sometime after events in the MMO. Say the MMO starts recording and noting events happening starting in Feb 2012. But the TV series waits till later in the year to start airing episodes. Making the TV series months, behind the actual game. Might be too long to wait for that satisfaction of having a part in the plot, but it also makes room for 3 different demographics: The viewers, the players, and the ones that are actively following both, and trying to play/watch in accordance. I see this being hard to pull off.
If I were a player, would I have to sign a release, or agree to something, that says they can use my handle in their TV show? I just don't think they are going to take it well when 'ThEBigB@LLA2121!!11!!' seems to be wreaking havoc in San Francisco. Hopefully they have the sense to...ehem...correct any names of players that have significant impact on the universe. But correcting my also be bad as well.
BAM! Nice shot man, you make a very strong point. I think the only smart thing you ever posted was correcting my excessive space. I think MK352 is the smart one.
My name is Christopher Tryon. My "pseudonym" has nothing to do with it. As for "who is 'nobody'", that would be a valid question had I made "nobody" a proper noun. But it's not. Find your self a dictionary, and look up nobody. You might figure it out then. You might want to look up hypocrisy, and ignorance as well.
Oh look, this time the number is 403. I mean, I like Slashdot, but one pseudonym is all I need. I couldn't imagine the feelings you have towards Slashdot. You seem to be very mixed up. Tons of usernames, and nothing but hate-mongering.
Michael Kristopeit n (where n = some number) = OMG I can trollz on teh slashdots!
Way off topic, and I could be feeding trolls, but I just can't help it.
Michael Kristopeit, number 401 or 269 or enter some set of numbers, is always doing this negative comment, slashdot = stagnant crap. But yet, this guy has a great number of usernames. Seriously?!? Just go somewhere else. In case you didn't notice, nobody likes you.
"slashdot = stagnated" = Michael Kristopeit has nothing better to do.
Now for on topic. I love to hear about genius kids. One day this kid could be doing a lot of good for man-kind. I wonder how many other kids his age, or even younger, are currently using their brain. Whether for good now, or just for fun that could end up being good later. Just awesome.
There are only 11 kinds of people. Those that want to delete it, those that want it to stay, and those that couldn't care less.
I agree that guns made to kill people being on the streets is bad. It's always been bad, and it's tragic that it's already there. But it is. What I would like to see is strict, even tighter, even to the point of out right banning, of guns made specifically to kill people. and maybe safety classes or psychological screening to be qualified to own/carry guns made for hunting. We do it for driving, so why not projectile weapons?
To counter the expected "criminals will still have guns made to kill", anyone in there right mind, being educated, trained, tested, whatever, can defend themselves with a shotgun, or rifle just fine. And it probably would make very little difference to the outcome, if I and the attacker both had handguns, as opposed to him having an illegal gun and I having a shotgun.
I think you are right about people in the US thinking guns make them the biggest and strongest, and it is very unfortunate, and tragic things occur, like this shooting, or any shooting where innocent people are killed or injured. I have mixed feelings about guns.
I think certain guns should be illegal. The ones that are useful for hunting, are perfectly fine to me. The think that makes me lean towards the for guns side, is that our country sometimes seems to open to who is qualified to do so many things. Just about anyone can own a gun, and they don't have to have classes or tests to make sure they are mentally and physically capable of handling them. So for people like me who have taken classes, and training, for my family it's safer. There have been many times where I've been threatened at my front door, and all it took was telling them, I a gun and know how to use it, as of yet I have never fired my gun at another person, and hope to never have too. If guns were illegal, then the thugs with that "i'm an American and can do what I want" and will kill someone for it, will be the only ones with guns.
Another thought I've had, is that if this government that is supposed to be so small, and run by the people, gets to power crazy (which they seem to have been heading down that path for a while now), a gun might protect me from the police state thugs, and help those that are ready to over through the Police state.
Kind of reminds me of Fringe! Except there are no mirrors, or windows to alternate universes. Ah I love nerdy stuff!
That is a scary thought, but intriguing to think about actually having miners on the moon. Maybe with the discovery of these metals, it might encourage the private sector to get to the moon. Heck, if I had the time and the money, I'd pay for a space station in orbit around the moon. Have it be to collect what's sent up from the surface, and ship to earth, and also receive new equipment, personal, and supplies from earth, until my surface station can be self sufficient. Then I'd start selling gold, silver, what ever has real value, use the water for my surface dwellers, and when I've gotten more money (Because I spent it all setting up my awesome space operation) I'd start developing and then selling, space tours, more stations, real-estate, ships, and get some healthy competition out in the black. Then, plan for Mars, and eventually figure out the Asteroid belt.
I'm glad you are a senior engineer. Mind if I pick your brain?
I won't pretend to understand quantum logic. But how would arranging for photons (Or electrons, or whatever you want for your object), to take a random step in a random direction, help computing? Doesn't computing depend on expected actions with expected results, as opposed to random possible actions with maybe even more random possible results?
Or would this new machine expect that position of particle 1 would be in position A, or B? Observe and get either A or B. If B do this.... If A do this...
But even that sounds like expected actions with expected results. Darn spooky mechanics!
I wasn't aware that there was a way to rip DVDs from Netflix. I thought they had some kind of strange way that the video streams. But I could be confusing the DVDs and the Watch Instantly content.
I agree about the menus, and the unskippable content. Though in Media Player Classic, I usually can just tell it to go to title menu. Which is still a pain! The most interaction that I want required is maybe all the navigation buttons. Play/pause, Stop, Fastforward/rewind. And maybe a button on my remote to go to the menu if I so choose. I like the menu when its only purpose is to choose between widescreen and not widescreen.
I hope they don't hide it. Let's hope that it doesn't get to the point where we can no longer find out what is in our food. But there will always be a rational informed decision I believe. Even if they hide the ingredients behind newspeak, if we don't know what is in it, or we know that what is in it is bad, we shouldn't eat it.
But you are right, if our only available food is what we can get from the market, then it would be kind of them not to hide what the put in it.
He might be a big fan of hypoglycemia. Which could make any driver as dangerous (if not more) as a drunk driver.
Sugar is not bad, too much sugar is bad. Too little is bad too. My mother, and my Bother and Sister-in-law are all diabetic. I could tell you why, because they didn't pay attention to what they are eating. I could have as many sodas with sugar or HFCS as I want, and be perfectly fine, because I consciously do not want too much.
I am an EMT student, I have learned about diabetes in class, and seen it in my family. Honestly, unless you were born with it, if you get it, it was probably your fault, unless something else was wrong with you.
Bottom line is, how about we all quit complaining about what it is they put in food, and just choose what you eat carefully.
Also, if they couldn't properly connect it to the nervous system, the patch of skin it stimulates could be on the same arm, maybe under where the prosthesis fits. It may be my elbow feeling the tingle, but after a while, I will adapt to recognize that tingle as being somewhere on the back of my fake hand.
If you are getting nightly builds of Firefox mobile, there is nothing new here. I got excited about a new release, only to find out, I've been on this new release for months now.
I think if they went with the plot of the Dafydd ab Hugh adaptions of Doom (The first 2, not the last 2 novels), Doom would make an excellent movie! But I think the games that have for small universes, with focus only on specific people, don't do well for movies. Like Mario, it's too dependent on Mario, the Princess, and Bowser, and the story is mostly the same, with no real movie like elements. But they are fun games to play. Halflife on the other hand, can be about others in that universe, and the universe is so well established and detailed, that you could make a movie, with a story you never heard, without changing the original storyline at all.
Of course, I would love a Halflife movie, that gives you as much to know as the first game did. Bad things happened, aliens are popping in, youngest fittest, luckiest scientist, is able to get out. If they did it right, they could even have Gordon Freeman silent through out, except for some grunting, and the occasional mumble. I picture all the other scientists, being more experienced and older, interrupting Gordon every time he tries to say something. And Gordon being the kind of person that thinks, "Ok I'll do as you say!".
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. But the earth was with out form, and void. This sounds a lot to me like he just created all the junk the universe is made of, without form could be nebulous gases, or the debris from the big bang.
Then he said "Let there be light". Ok, so maybe we now have stars. all this formless matter was forming into balls, and got hot enough to create light. Maybe he planned this, if he created the universe, he would obviously have to understand physics. Then the next part starts to talk about the firmament, so now we are creating earth. It says in the midst of the waters, so now we have to assume there was a lot of water. Rather than all this creation being literal to us religious types, a lot of us can think out side of what we see on paper. Maybe Moses didn't understand all this science and universe creation stuff, so he was told in a way that makes sense to him. Maybe we did understand it, and we lost most of the story to time, but most of the story doesn't matter, what really matters is who created it and for what purpose.
While I agree that the bible, including Genesis, has flaws, and plenty is wrong, I think most of it is just incomplete. But as the Scientists in TFA have said, our religious beliefs can't be included in our understanding of the universe. So all this arguing is completely useless.
But if you would like, you can tell me some more about the bible that is "absolutely 100% wrong regardless of your interpretation", and I can probably tell you why it's not wrong. But just like politics, you and I maybe are just set in our ways, and we'll probably keep proving each other wrong all day long with no real productivity.
I agree with this fully. Being a religious man myself, it disappoints me how closed minded religious thinking CAN be. I like to take a more open approach, I believe God created the universe, me, and everything involved in it, including the laws and theory's we've discovered on how we came to be, and how the universe works/is made. I will not limit MY God to a very narrow understanding. If God can create the universe, than I am sure he would understand the best way for life to exist, and one of those ways could very well be (and most likely is) evolution. I mean, if any god were to create the universe, he/she/it/third gender would be the greatest scientist to ever live!
Now they need to genetically engineer fish to consume crude oil. It may mess up the future accountability issue, but it sure can save a lot of animal life.
Sexual assault doesn't have to be done by adults. Just recently in Arizona there was a Liberian girl raped by a group of young boys. IIRC the oldest boy was ~15. These kids won't choose to be victims, they may not even know if they do become victims.
I think I understand the Lawyer's concerns. These children are taught not to engage is sexual activity, but then they are told that sex is safe with a condom. So now little Jimmy may be convinced by his teacher/priest/coach that what they are doing is ok because he/she is going to use a condom. Or, young children will think it's ok to diddle around with each other because they found contraceptives, and we end up with another girl or boy raped, by children.
I think sex ed should be about the reproductive system, and the state should leave it to parents to talk about contraceptives and abstinence. Which ever the child's parents prefer.
Oh of course, mindlessly obeying would be a stupid thing to do. But you did miss my point, did you even read my whole post?
Assuming my analogy has me ignoring all the obvious things you should do while driving, gets you no points, anywhere.
But I'll humor you, let's say I did slow down, I looked, assessed the situation, the sign says "keep left", and the left seems to be a safe route (for more reasons than the sign, because we slowed, and did all those obvious things that our drivers eduction taught is), and yet there is a ditch that can't be seen till you are in it. I mean, should I get out of my car and look?
I may not have said it, but a driver should know not to mindlessly follow the sign. This should be obvious. But go ahead and read the rest of my original post, so you can get my point. After that, you can tell me what you disagree with, rather than nitpicking my imperfect analogy.
I have my license, so I am qualified to operate a vehicle. If I follow the sign that says "Stay Left" and it leads my into a ditch, was that MY fault for trusting a sign that should be protecting me?
You might say "You should know when to trust the software or not, if you don't know who made it, don't trust it." Well, there is Bobs signs, there is Lyles signs, Anchor inc. etc... All make road signs. There may be some I don't know, but what I do know is that sign has been able to protect me before, even from threats I have still not seen.
When I get a message from AVG that says there was some kind of threat found, I trust it, and it delivers a solution, and fixes the issue. If I were to get a message from something that looked exactly like AVG, it may fool me, I trust it, I'm screwed. Who's fault was that?
I don't doubt I'll be modded down for this, because everyone loves to jump on and be upset at Microsoft on Slashdot. But think about this, Windows is popular, not everyone uses it just because it's the only option. I installed Ubuntu less than a month ago, and had the worst experience in getting support, or help from this "Community" that claims to have a great alternative. TO something that already is working!
Needless to say, I need to reinstall anyway because now all I get is some screwing static, instead of my desktop.
As long as Windows is the most popular OS, it will be the most insecure, just by the sheer number of people attacking it. Regardless of how secure they try to make it, someone will find a vulnerability. I see Microsoft's solution to going after (at least some) of the people responsible for the attacks that the average user has to deal with, is admirable. Regardless if Microsoft makes any money off of it, at least they are also trying to solve the issue.
If a cobbler makes me a shoe, and that shoe is a good shoe, and I can walk/run/hike in it, this is good. If I unsuspectingly step on a nail, that goes clear through the sole, who's fault was that? The cobblers? I'd shake his hand if he went after the Bastard that dropped that nail.