Sometimes you have to wonder how some people get employed. Pulling little (!) events from the last week of my life, I could count probably 10-20 instances of fucktards who don't really deserve to be alive, let alone to be paid to fuckup something as routine and mundane that they happen to call a "job", however, the thing that just set me off is a little article on XtraMSN.
The article in question is about, of course, you guessed it, the W32 Blaster worm. Oooooh! How scary. Yeah well it's a bad fucker, but that's not the point. The point is this little paragraph here:
Your computer can be infected simply by connecting to the Internet. Tools to fix the problem have just been released and if you are running one of the operating systems mentioned above, it is vital you protect your system from this worm.
Urm, "just made available"? The patch has been available for quite a few weeks now - anyone who has kept themselves moderately uptodate with their OS patches need not blink an eye. What kind of hysteria inducing crap are the media of today trying to impose on the average schmuck who doesn't know better than to believe any piece of rubbish they happen to read? ITS ALL TRUE BECAUSE I READ IT ON TEH INTAAAAAAAAAAARNET!!!!!!!11111134
People sometimes comment about the fact that I rarely read newspapers / watch the news / browse shitty syndicated websites that rehash the same shite. Well, I think articles like these are a good piece of reasoning as to why not. Is lack of information really any worse than being filled with misinformation?