I believe that the reason people do not install Firefox, Safari, or Chrome is that they simply do not care. A computer is a tool for viewing friends' Facebook pages, looking up movie times, etc. The Slashdot community seems to be dogmatically resistant to recognizing this.

When presented with a variety of options on MS Window's first boot, they will click on the same little blue icon they have chosen myriad times before. This will change nothing.

Shhhh! What are you DOING?

You know how hard we work to keep the unwashed masses from knowing just what we physicists are actually capable of! You've undone decades of work with this one little post!

I'm sorry to do this, but I'm going to have to temporarily revoke your physics degree benefits. Until the society completes an investigation into your actions, you may tell people that you studied a lesser science. May I suggest chemistry?

As for the rest of you: We physicists are in fact as brilliant as you imagine. Do not anger us.