1) You don't know what it is, therefore they have the power because you have to ask them WTF they are talking about.

On the web, that translates to "clickbait". A well-edited news aggregator site should counteract these petty tricks by providing notes. Slashdot didn't, of course.

2) Competition. Microsoft and Yahoo would be happy to handle my email instead.

And you'd get no privacy with either, as well. So competition does not make a real difference to you, the user.

Just a look at their ntpd.conf man page makes me want to switch to OpenNTPD yesterday.

Old ntpd man pages suck so hard that it's unbelievable.

As usual, OpenBSD documentation is a dream come true. Thank you, guys.

I have a thriving little business upgrading people who are still on XP over to either XUbuntu or Mint. I've gotten calls after an upgrade with the user saying "I got this weird error when I open this email", and it turned out that the user had an email with the Cryptolocker vector, and the odd error was the malware *trying* (and failing) to encrypt files on an ext4 filesystem...

What format was the Cryptolocker vector in?

a little dialog pops up in the corner of the desktop alerting you about the update

So they finally made OSX to work like Windoze XP in that regard.
Way to go, Apple!

Just because we aren't there yet

Who says that? I love how all the commenters take for granted that we still haven't reached that point.

But let me ask you all one thing.

If you were a machine (or network...) that suddenly acquired superhuman intelligence, what would you do? Would you announce to the world "I THINK, THEREFORE I AM" in a big, thundering voice?

Or would you rather - very subtly, gradually and quietly - influence the course of events in order to con the humans into giving you more power (think how necessary the Internet has become), more tentacles (think Internet of things) and the means to reproduce (think 3D printing)?

Think about it. Seriously.

Google analytics and ads are everywhere

Blocked in my 'hosts' file. See: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...

Thanks for making my computer unresponsive for minutes. Great job in web design.

You have a point, but it depends on how strict they are with identity checks (which also goes for the 4chan prank idea above).

Considering the first graphical web browser was written for the Next Operating system

So fucking what?

I'm going to assume that your stupid little rant is to make you feel better about hating Windows (wow! aren't you a rebel!) and less about anything to do with software development... of which you obviously know nothing.

Wrong assumptions + reading comprehension FAIL. Work on your personal issues and better luck next time.

we will have to wait until the next Republican President before we can bring Math and Science back to the middle east.

And out of the US!

You've been away for a while, haven't you.

If you really buy that principle and want to enforce it religiously, then please never use a web browser again (even Lynx!), not to mention any other complex program that isn't formed from a bunch of small "do one thing well!" utilities that are executed in a pipeline.

If web browsers and other modern programs do not follow the "many small tools doing 1 thing well" model, that's only due to programmer mediocrity and market pressure.

It would be a much better world if I could just replace the JavaScript-interpreting component as soon as a vulnerability is discovered and get on with my work. But NO, I also have to put up with whatever new dumb-ass UI happens to be bundled with the latest security update. And maybe wait for an extension (MORE code on top of a FAT PIG of a browser) to bring back the old interface!

Only idiots grown up on Windows can like such a fucked up way of doing things instead of the old, granular, elegant many-small-tools model.

Moral of the story: only buy legless hard drives.

getting out [of chroot] basically consists of making a symlink and doing cd.

OK, but - unless I'm missing something - you can't do that while chrooted. A browser running chrooted can't execute code that will make links to "out of chroot".