Yes, but GPP did not specify "a production desktop platform". My point was that blanket "X OS is the most insecure" statements are largely pointless. With enough effort and expertise you could secure any OS, or you could exploit any OS, even when airgaped. With enough ignorance you could misconfigure even the most secure OS. The devil is in the details.

Please, the most insecure OS in the world is Linux (Damn Vulnerable Linux)

The problem is, I can't tell whether you're joking.

Thank you good sir, this is how I know I succeeded at sarcasm.

Why all this garbage? What we want is General Computing Device that we can configure and fully control. The rest will come.

So sooner phone manufacturers get out of software business, sooner we will get over walled garden's walls.

Exactly. I don't know how you could complain that modern cars are not reliable after regularly doing this and still having it drive every day for well over 120,000 miles.

For people not mechanically inclined - redlining engine in neutral is fundamentally bad idea. Engines designed to operate under load, when you do this unloaded you are causing all kinds of internal bearing damage. More so, automatic transmissions are not designed to be repeatedly shifted into Neutral-Drive at highway speeds. When you shift back into Drive, the resulting torques will damage clutch disks, eventually resulting is slipping gears. Additionally, cars equipped with automatic transmissions are not generally equipped with flex disks, so the resulting shock of a N-D shift at speed will also put wear and tear on your differential, drive shaft (if RWD), CV joints and wheel bearings. Not unlike dropping clutch while high-revving with a manual car. Only you don't have flex disks absorbing most of the impact.

I ignored it as I knew from past experience, that this car had no major problems.

I am with you, the other day I was patching mission-critical server when I noticed SMART errors. I ignored it, as I know from past experiences that this server had no major problems.

At some point, at above 90% load the server started random kernel panics. Any lower load than that would be without any problems. I decided to have sysadmin check it out. He wanted $480 for a new hard disk. Without fixing, this "server would permanently lose data one day" he said.

Well, stubborn as I am, I ignored his advice. I added couple months on it without any problems at all. When it kernel panics, I would just reboot it...At one time, I thought my reset button may be dirty - it wasn't.

People like you is why I don't buy used cars. It is unsafe to ignore check engine light, if you don't trust the dealer, then get cheap OBDII reader and scan error codes yourself.

If BG was a bit more realistic, all other ships would have been parked in orbit and used to send out spam.

What you describe is unpleasant, but unlikely to have broad negative impact. Sure, you will hear about it on the new now and then.

What is more dangerous, is that with two way communication car makers will be able to implement DRM schemes. So no more aftermarket alternator for you, shell out for $1000 for a new part that will have to get authorized form headquarters.

This, as many other recent regrettable episodes, is a manifestation of misandry epidemic symptomatic of entrenched matriarchy unwilling to check its privilege. Propagating harmful learned gender stereotypes (boys don’t count) results in a society where disenfranchised young men are disempowered and prevented from reaching fulfillment and happiness.

If this works really well, then war and/or genocide will be the only way to keep population down. The alternative to death from the old age is much more uglier.

..what is this, I don't even.

I made a lowbrow joke, deal with it people. (or not, as indicated by most responses)

Now I understand why most UIs are so awful, they must have been coded by blind programmer on the team.

No additional development is required, just reuse the code that was written for NSA backdoors.