For that matter, what if there isn't a manufacturer's shop in my town? I'm going to let my car drive itself to the next state and back, when it's already in need of repair? Um, no. You may have less local auto repair shops, but not none.
Same with rest stops. Over-the-road trucks won't need them, but the majority of highway traffic is cars. The people still need a restroom, even if they don't need a rest stop for fatigue reasons.
As an alumni of Oglethorpe University, I would bet I'm the only one that reads HN (Anyone Else?).
You pass by the steal doors of the Crypt on the way to the Book Store. It was my observation that students didn't really care about the Crypt itself, but that in order to build it they had to gut the indoor pool.
70+ years later they still don't have a pool nor offer any Computer Science / Computer Engineering classes.
Yes, Windows has many more exposed security risks. Mac's have around an 8-9% market reach right now. As Apple's market share raises you'll see more and more viruses targeted at Mac's as we have in the last couple of weeks. Let's see what happens if Apple ever is able to get 25%+ of the market using Mac's.
In 16 years of using Windows with no Anti-Virus software installed, I have never gotten a virus. Maybe Microsoft should do a better job of educating users on what not to click on.
I run a company that does IT Support for businesses. Once a week or so, I'll have a CEO bring in his kids Laptop with a virus and a good number of times it was caused by their kid using some p2p file sharing program and downloading and running cracked versions of software which contained the virus. This is not yet as big of a problem for Apple as the number of software titles in general is much smaller and thus people downloading cracked copies which might contain a virus is going to be smaller.
What about a firewall? Because I have seen Windows machines infected through no fault of their users within your 16-year period (Blaster being the most triumphant example). Admittedly this is probably a minority of malware installs out there, but I think it gives Microsoft a little too much credit and their users not quite enough to suggest that it's 100% caused by them clicking on ILoveYou.jpg.exe.
