Yahoo answers and the infinite dumbness….

The more I go on the french Yahoo Questions/Answers, the more I’ m amazed about human stupidity. People that want us to do their homework. Others that don’t even try to understand what the source of the problems can be (your computer crashes ? (Buy more RAM|Reinstall Windows|Buy another computer)). Lots of “Windows-is-a-piece-of-shit-but-I-still-use-it”, and some linux zealots…

Browsing aimlessly on the “Computers & Internet” section if pretty instructive about the average Windows user and it difficulties. Most seen questions are:

• My computer is slow? Why?
• How can I get rid of these popups that appear for p0rn sites?
• My computer gets ages to start up.
• Emule: (takes ages to download a movie| where can I download it ? | has low Id | is donwloading illegal ?)
• How can I switch back from IE7 to IE6 (yes, really plenty of this one)
• I’ve got a virus. What can I do?
• I deleted some precious file on my computer. How can I get them back (from a poor girl that just had defragmented her disk after having deleted the files)

It seems computing still has a lot of challenges for the 21st century. Much more challenging than graphical eye candy, burning windows or 3D cubes: just making a computer being usable for the masses.