I don't think he was talking about heartbleed. I think he was talking about GOTO FAIL

Who would complain about a *default* password they didn't like? They already bought the widget and have the ability to change the password... Who bases their buying decision on the default password of the device?

I used to always recommend download.com to non-technical users as a trusted source for freeware.
 
Now, unless it is available through the ninite.com installer, I don't recommend users download anything themselves.
 
I just went through a major ordeal with my mom's computer where I ended up having to ship the thing to me in order remove the infestation of malware she got because she was trying to install driver software herself. The stuff was basically making her computer unusable. I had to rebuild the box and remove her admin rights to her own machine just to protect her from herself.
 
I feel really bad for non-technical Windows these days....

I am in full support of this. I feel the same way

I am basically your friend, minus the self-righteousness. I don't own a car and I get everywhere I need to go by bike, train, bus or, if I need to, taxi.
 
I am very aware of the burden I put on friends and family sometimes and so I will go out of my way to make my own arrangements to attend gatherings. Sometimes my transit by bus is as much as 5 hours round trip if I have to go out to the suburbs (my daily commute to work is around 2.5 hours total).
 
It sounds like your friend is kind of an entitled prick.

I am sure there are lots of reasons.
 
I believe that some of the problem is that it takes a team of vastly experienced *nix admins to cobble together all the appropriate software projects AND make them work seamlessly together to do things that are fairly natural on the Windows side.
 
I am thinking of things like deployment tools, central authentication and SSO systems, backup / restore systems, roaming profiles with automounts, file system quotas and ACLs, etc etc.
 
Obviously, all these things are quite possible but it takes a team of very experienced people to pull all this stuff together. Whereas on the MS side, a single moderately experienced Windows admin can pull this stuff together relatively easily for even a medium sized business.

Yes, Dell tests things so rigorously it is hard to believe that their laptops overheat and burst in to flames....

to farm gold for me.

Except that I don't believe you can be "enlighted" and still believe in traditional gender roles.
 
All I see here are men who see the writing on the wall and don't want the last bit of power over others to slip through their fingers

or perhaps the truffle shuffle?

You just need to glue flux capacitor to that thing and then hope you (don't?) get hit by a lightning strike.

Out of the way PEONS! Your betters are posting on the Internet!

unless it is a horn-less unicorn....

Tor was developed by DARPA and is funded by the NSF and the US State Dept.
 
I think your fears are a little unfounded.

And this is precisely one of the reasons why I cringe when anyone says the government should be run more like a corporation...