Steve Johnson’s article Jeeves? Ask him not cracked me up, primarily because of the first paragraph where he says, “though it strikes me as shortsighted to strip your site of its best-known personality, sort of like NPR dumping Bob Edwards.”

Yup.

From the Wall Street Journal: ‘Worms’ Turn on Apple Macs, Bigger Target as Sales Boom

From the article: “Users of Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh computers have long enjoyed the technology equivalent of a safe neighborhood, where the viruses and security nuisances that bedevil far more common Windows PCs are practically nonexistent. Now, as the Mac is seeing some of its best sales in years, bad guys appear to be casing the joint.”

Well, of course; while OS9 was relatively safe from viruses (they could crash the machine, but couldn’t do much else - with no underlying command-line interface, it’s much more difficult to run arbitrary code, and even if you did, it was more difficult to exploit that overflow), once Jobs took over, scrapped the existing OS 10 code and decided to use unix (a la NeXT) as the basis of OSX, it was obvious this system could suffwer from exactly the same problems as Windows. Even Microsoft moved away from the underlying command-line interface (way too late, of course), while Apple took a giant leap backwards.