That's why they leave it to the third parties.

They encouraged me way back when they were expecting us all to "upgrade" from XP to the piece of shit known as Vista. Windows, while getting better in stability thanks to NT, only got worse and worse with every version when it came to bloat and shittier defaults (XP required me to turn tons of useless shit off and tweak gazillions of settings to make it tolerable, but when I did it ran very fast and smooth). Vista, by comparison, was downright terrible.

As far as security goes... come on, it's Windows. No matter what Microsoft says and would like us to believe, it's the same fucking operating system. Microsoft might patch things here and there, but usually *after* the vulnerability has already been exploited as a response to real malware that is already in the wild. They can't do much with the operating system, because it would hurt compatibility and user friendliness by breaking shit.

To hit the power putton and turn it on?

That would be easy enough. If it is ransomware the person writes, just get yourself infected by it and willfully pay the ransom.

I only have five Shitcoins. What's the current exchange rate?

Too bad the other products are crap too. Firefox has become crap because Mozilla has turned it into Chrome (which in my opinion is crap) with a new name. They're shitting upon all that once made it great and Chromifying the living fuck out of it. If I wanted to use Chrome, I would use it. Unfortunately, by using modern day Firefox, I am *still* effectively being forced into using Chrome, just rebranded.

Wait--so you're saying that being beaten with clue sticks too much could even be hazardous to your health when done in excess? I swear, is *anything* fucking safe these days?!?

That was AWESOME. That is all I have to say.

The second someone hacks my refrigerator and makes my beer get warm, someone is going to DIE...

And worse, with the future these dumbasses want, even light bulbs will be connected. So once an intruder has bypassed the fridge, surely it will be nothing to disable all the light bulbs, so good luck even finding your way to that warm beer in the first place!

LG really is simplifying shopping; just add their name to the boycott list and avoid.

Totally agreed.

There's nothing left to watch. Netflix sucks ass.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one...

You only just now decided to do that? I jumped off that sinking ship known as XP when the dark storm known as Vista started approaching and became too close for comfort. This was 2004-2006... there was a brief transition period during tht time when I was dual-booting but almost always using Linux, but since I blew away those NTFS partitions I never looked back. It's been great.

I *loved* Hover! I put so many hours in that game.

I also was a fan of Monster Truck Madness, 1 and especially 2. Such a great modding community way back then, more tracks than you could possibly imagine. Loads of great ones from "Yeastman" and I distinctly remember one called "Darkstar" or something by a designer called Oliver Pieper (sorry for fucking up the name if I did, which is entirely possible--this was almost 20 years ago).

I wish they would re-release those games for purchase on GOG.com... I'd buy them all again.

All I can think of when reading this thread is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...