You know it as well as I do: slashdot can be addicting. However, feeding that addiction comes with a huge price: the possible deformation of your brain from reading the typical slashdot poster's posts. Even browsing at +3 is not enough; the occasional idiot still gets through. Hard thresholds help, but they still don't reduce the idiocy, because you know it's there. In this article, I intend to provide examples of why I feel this way. If you disagree, you are wrong. Off we go:
...That's proof enough for me. Of course I immediately uninstalled the MS Antispyware after running it, but that's besides the point. I would never let it run in the systray because if MS's reputation for bloat.
Reputation for bloat, eh? If you cared so much about bloat, you wouldn't be running Windows, I'd wager. Not saying this guy has such a machine, but it pisses me off when people with these monster boxen (3GHz overclocked latest AMD piece of crap with 2GB of RAM) running KDE and all that good stuff complain about bloat. You've not seen the real effects of bloat until you've tried to use the latest IM client (generally an app that simply passes messages from a text box to the network with some conversion and protocol handling, and the occasional bell and whistle) that requires 40MB of memory to run on a "lowly" (I use that term loosely, as such a system should be more than sufficient) pIII/750 with 256MB of RAM. On to the next one...
It is now official. Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying <cue mindless bullshit>
I'm not even going to attempt to explain this steaming pile of crap.
Well, that somewhat wraps it up, I hope. I plan on adding more samples here before the heat death of the universe.