If stories of Microsoft's competence (heh heh) are to be believed (heh heh heh) then they already have a full test harness in place, and engineers tasked full-time with adding new cases to the system. Given what slips through, though, one doubts both their competence and also that they have a meaningfully representative set of PCs to test on. I'll grant you that would be difficult in the best case due to wide variation in the market, but the point stands.

Either you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or your cells didn't do the thing because of the genetic lottery. Now we can write everything off as luck, and never take responsibility for anything!

Sure it does. If you stay home, you don't drive to church, or to the waffle house.

Yes, by giving his wealth to those who need it, thus becoming not-rich of money, but rich of spirit. But he still won't be rich when he dies — once his wallet shrinks, perhaps the camel will fit

Sorry, but it sounds like Pope Francis has published a list of all the child molesters they know they've relocated. Can you drop a link, please?

Sadly, it doesn't include treating women like humans. He still believes they're inferior. I don't take him seriously on the subject of the poor, either; the vatican is still sitting on too much wealth. But seeing the pope agree with current science is a refreshing breath of fresh air. The vatican must surely have investments in companies whose management are not glad to hear this lot from the pope.

As a joe computer user, about all you can do with them that's meaningful is run XBMC or build a NAS. But you could buy something to do that for the same kind of money once you add a case and power supply.

If you want to get a bit hackish, these computers can control stuff if you add some relays or whatnot. That's who they're for.

Nonsense. That's only true if your lawyers don't have deep pockets, but Sony's do.

How long will it take you to visit Wikipedia or the IMDB before you buy tickets for a given film, to make sure it's not published by Sony?

Yeah, guess what? The kid's Xbox would integrate with Windows 7 or even XP just fine. But it still wouldn't play MKVs without PS3MediaServer or similar.

Well no. Sometimes you can find the bug, but you're not allowed to use the source. Common with closed-source products. They'll give you enough information to help them, but they won't legally let you help yourself. Because money.

Nonsense. You can see whether the light is on or not. We don't even know if god ever existed, let alone whether he is alive or not.

There's more to it than that, I don't know if a god can exist or not. That's why I'm not an atheist, but an agnostic. I don't claim to have knowledge that no one on earth possesses. Atheism is just as arrogant as theism.

That is irrelevant. The question, as asked, does not reveal whether one is not a theist, only if they are. You could just ask if I'm a theist. But I already answered that question, so you're just being redundant.

So, get to the part where it's google's fault that Microsoft is too incompetent to take security seriously?

You've really got to try to fix a few things before you can appreciate how uneven the situation can be. I've fixed some little things, they were easy. I've tried to fix some other apparently little things and failed, and found some other solution instead. Or not.

I do. China has empty cities in China for Chinese. They'll hand-pick the Africans they want and lift them up and make them into factory workers, eugenics by employment. Can't say I'm upset to see it, although it's sad it's going to happen under the Chinese.