On second thought, I might be a little harsh in my criticism of Windows. Given the infinite number of different hardware combos & the vast amount of programmers who have their fingers in the collective pie, it's amazing that they work as well as they do. Quite amazing actually.
I guess that my main beef is with the net & the abuses by unethical companies (although they don't believe that they are unethical), individuals & organizations (governments?) by gathering & greedily storing insane amounts of data on everyone who has ever accessed the net.
For example, Google Streets is a great technology (burglars probably like it) in some ways, but when they were driving by our houses with their camera car, why were they listening for local wifi routers & jealously storing this data? The Aussie government took them to task by insisting that the data gleaned there was disposed of. Something tells me that it is still stored somewhere. For what purpose it is hard to fathom...
TAM
