Wired reports on Tiger OS's (Apple's current pride and joy) inability to allow users to uninstall potentially malicious widgets (little programs that run on the desktop), and even provides links to concept attacks that Tiger users should try. This must be the stupidest design flaw in my book (it's as if the Apple developers came from Pluto and had never heard of macro viruses, trojans and worms), and reinforces my belief that the more functionalities an OS has, the more security loopholes there are. Now that Apple is trying on more developer-friendly functionalities for size, let's see its users boast that it is more "secure".

For the not-so-technically inclined, this flaw is tantamount to not having an anus because you believe all the food you eat, whether good or not, will stay in your body forever. This obviously is not true. We do shit from day to day, and pass diarrhoea when we eat food gone bad. That's what your anus is for, all rude and smelly farting aside. Not having an uninstall function for widgets is therefore akin to not having an anus- a surefire way of ensuring that you/ the machine dies amidst exploding fumes of toxic waste. Not a good way to go, even though I must admit it'll befit Apple's line of OS.

Personally, I think Mac is destined to live a sad life of an airy-fairy OS, good only for the arty farty ("The Airies") and those who like their machine shells fancy ("The Fairies"... snicker). I wonder if it even registers a blip on the OS radar of techies. I don't think so, and Hunter Cressall certainly hopes not.