Well it depends, there are many smart people in Pittsburgh (Lifelong resident here) just the people in power seem to be corrupt criminals trying to make money for their stooges. Also, Pittsburgh's significant elderly population tends to favor criminal idiots over any real reform. This city is trying to hard to make a come back but it seems that the powers that be are hell bent on making sure youth culture is oppressed. (See independant G-20 converage for recent examples). I don't necessarily dissagree with the tax on principle, however it's just another lump tax to be redistributed to Pittburgh politians.

Maybe I'm just lucky with Linux and unlucky with windows but.. 1. Over the last year I've done quite a few OS installs, so far Linux, especially Ubuntu has worked better out of the box than Windows XP. I have had to open my computer and look for model numbers to track down drivers for most computers when installing Windows XP. 2. Overall It takes less time and knowledge to get a binary Linux distro up and running then it does for windows (at least in my experience) I definitely agree that Linux still has a nice handful of significant problems, but honestly I think Windows has just as many, most people are just more familiar/ used to Windows problems than linux problems.

But it's also harder to spread worms and such to less popular systems , it's one of those things where a mac would have to be connected to at least one other mac, which would have to be connected to another mac. I mean that could account for a least a portion of the ratio.

I mean back in the nineties I remember hearing about so and so bought a second hand laptop and it had 4000 CC#'s on it, or so and so bought a desktop and had all the passwords for company X's servers. Really it seems kind of overblown for this to make news, it was just a dumb mistake.