Windows Embedded for Point of Service has nothing to do with XP, which is a desktop OS, and you have no need to wait for malicious software to bork your system, as you are quite adept at fscking it up yourself (clearly.) For the record I don't give a shit if you put from the rough; there are hetero-douchebags and homo-douchebags. Clearly you could go either way.

The Malicious software removal tool is an application. It is not part of the XP OS. They can provide updates ad infinitum for the MSRT application (which runs on XP as well as other versions) and it won't change the fact that the XP OS is EOL'ed.

"My system works."

10 out of 10 virus writer's agree! You are too stupid to figure out that while it is working for you, it is probably working as well or better for the botmaster(s) who own your computer.

Maybe you wouldn't be an idiot if you could figure out that if "supported OSes get b0rked on a regular basis" then you'd have to be a real moron to venture into the wild with one that hadn't been receiving regular security fixes for a year.

Of course, you are full of shit, because the only OS that gets borked on a regular basis is Windollars.

You already admitted that you had to hack the registry douchebag.

Yes. You are right. You just don't understand what you said. Apple made security improvements. XP no longer makes security improvements. Ergo, it is reasonable to believe they improved security in a way that means XP can't access the system with the new security, since XP only has the old garbage. Understand now? It really isn't that complicated. Seriously.

It isn't a perfectly functional machine you moron. It hasn't received security updates in a year! How stupid can you be? And nobody is forcing you to upgrade. You have the option of continuing to use outdated software that isn't supported and then cry like a little girl when exactly what you were warned would happen happens, and your system is no longer allowed to play with the rest of the world.

"Not entirely true."

Oh, no. I assure you. It is entirely true. You are applying updates that weren't designed for the OS you are running, and you use a kludge to do it. That in no way suggests that Microsoft didn't EOL XP last year. I assure you. They did. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe them?

You locked yourself out when you were too stupid, incompetent, or lazy to stop using an OS that was EOL'ed last year. Newsflash: Not only is it true that companies aren't going to support your incompetence in perpetuity, it is further true that they have been somewhat irresponsible for allowing XP users access to their systems for this long. Perhaps nobody told you that your OS was already a petri dish for viruses prior to all security updates ceasing a year ago.

"It doesn't work on an iPhone, third party apps aren't allowed to steal information from you typically on iOS where as that is on by default on Android and its completely acceptable to steal your data."

That is by far the most ridiculous thing I have read all month.

Keep up with what? You clearly are talking out your paper asshole and have no idea what the various terms you are throwing around with impunity even mean.

Your statement "An operating system has a API through which you communicate with it" broadcasted to the world that you had no idea what you were even saying.

Then this beauty: "Much like a protocol"The fact that you don't evidently know that protocols and APIs are virtually completely disparate is almost sad.

You wrap it up in a way that wouldn't make it more apparent how clueless you are if you launched a tour on the talk show circuit to announce it and ran for office as the candidate who is "Just as Clueless as the Little Guy!"

"both kernel and application are turing complete" ... Serioulsy ... you are kidding us and trying to make yourself out to be the biggest moron ever to post on Slashdot, right? If so, Bravo Sir.

OK. Maybe you'll understand it in simpler terms. How many people in the world are there that never get hungry?

" And they're the people saying GMOs will feed the hungry when GMOs are mainly targeted to countries where there are no hungry people."

Name just 1 country that doesn't have hungry people.

"An operating system has a API through which you communicate with it."

You are joking, right? Out of curiosity, as you are communicating with your OS, do you use Pascal or C calling conventions as you type?

"Much like a protocol."

Considering that "protocol" allows me to type 'sudo rm -rf /' Turing doesn't actually give an fsck at that point now, then, does he?

Do you not realize that you are running an Operating System, written in a Turing Complete language, and that it is only possible because the other problems can (and have) been addressed? Also:

" Now solve all the other problems without knowing what they are ."

Just because you don't know what they are doesn't mean that they aren't well known and understood.