Digital Misfortunes: Off-the-shelf end-user product mafia

Happy New Year everyone :-)

Although I planned to kick off 2009 with a much more inspiring article, I finally couldn't help it. I bumped onto a Digital Misfortune of such proportions that it was just impossible to resist the temptation.

Either it's me who is totally stupid or indeed software nowadays is designed by a blood-thirsty sadist mafia that plans to rule the world by killing all intelligent beings, or to be more exact, leading them to willfully commit suicide by banging their head on a wall, unable to stand the stupidity that surrounds them any longer. Some rock band had a song called "Mandatory Suicide"; now I think I finally get their message.