yeah man and what of firmware downloads for a bunch of the hardware like bios, game cards, cdrom drives and stuff how many times man have you seen a gpg signature how many times man have you seen checksums to go along with it tell me man how we arent fucked on a daily basis by all of this proprietary hardware and software?
     
the bullshit on windows systems never ceases to fascinate me:
     
INSTALL this bullshit program with no available source code and we promise it will work as advertised.
     
(goodfellas voice over) you want more options? fuck you - pay me. you want faster updates? fuck you - pay me.