Two very common computer things that shouldn't exist

The first is spam.

I mean, really.  People are sitting around, running machines so they can send out this crap and somehow, remarkably, they make money doing it.

Who responds to this nonsense anyway?

Yet somehow, somewhere, someone does.  And again, someone else then makes money.  Further proof, yet again, as if we needed it, that "There's a sucker born every minute."

The other thing that shouldn't exist is hacking and hackers.

At lest, the hackers that just do it for hacking sake.

I'm not talking about the international espionage hacking of one country vs. another or the hacking into a bank, for example, in an effort to steal millions--or billions of dollars.  At least you can say they've got a goal and a reason and purpose, albeit wildly illegal.

I'm talking about the computer hacking that is just so the hacker can see if they can do it.  Apparently these guys have nothing better to do than just hack for hacking's sake.

Now, if those same hackers could use their time, instead, to create some beautiful, elegant, simple, truly effective security program that would work on even just Microslop, I mean Microsoft computers, they'd be trillionaires.