I completely agree. For a while I worked as a design engineer. The hoops we had to jump through to cover our butts were staggering. It was the insane amount of CYA needed that made decide to switch to what seemed a better choice at the time...network engineer.

The wow factor is nice, but I still haven't seen anything that makes want to switch over.

Ubuntu is a great way to go. The community is very newbie friendly.

Meh. It may be good for a display model but that's about it.

but...but...with their porn filter what's the point? j/k

Bethesda is the name of a hospital that's been around at least 20 years. Maybe they should have their lawyers take a look at Bethesda Softworks. hehe

I, for one, welcome our new martian overlords.

I think the poster was refering to worms that go for open shares. I have no idea what the percentage of worms do that though.

As netadmin who works for an ISP. I understand why they're doing it that way as well. I don't thank that user's should let us get away with it though.

hehe

After re-reading I see that I completely missed the points being presented. I thought we were discussing botnets only for some odd reason. Yes USB devices are a definite risk.

I know this and nowhere in my post did I say otherwise.

Yes....but without a net connection the only way a virus has to transmit personal data is to load it to the usb drive and hope that you plug it into another computer with one. Which means that it increases it's chances of being caught since it's increasing its footprint. I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm just saying that the person writting the virus will most likely ignore that method of attack. Since most people with a comp have some type of net connection.

I think you're right. Which is why don't plan to use it. The problem is that when a very successful company starts something like posting a person's real name for the whole world to see. While making boatloads of cash from it. Other companies will do the exact same thing (since it worked so well for the 1st company). Soon there will be no companies offering similar services without the requirement of using our real identities. That's why you see people going crazy over privacy issues.

You got that right. I shudder to think how cold my crappy college apartment would of been without it!