If you want more control, stop using the GUI and start using Powershell. Windows Server is designed to be used with Powershell. There's a lot of storage options that are only available from the command line that you wouldn't even know existed if you tried setting it up via the GUI. And you can do this remotely.
Unless my history is rusty, Newton begat the ARM chip that we all know so well.
I think the problem is that "good accuracy" is not yet to the point where the driverless car is less likely to run over a pedestrian at an intersection than a car piloted by a human. Until that threshold is met it's just a science experiment.
The end-user sees the IT person as nothing more than an electronic janitor who's sole purpose is to clean up the messes that they, the user, were too careless or too inept to prevent from happening in the first place. Thus, they don't bother to learn how to do things properly, they don't learn how to keep from getting a virus, they don't learn how to do even the simplest of things because "That's IT's job. I shouldn't have to know computers!"
That's the service they pay for, not having to "learn computers". IT is the data janitors. Most actual janitors don't despise the people they clean for, you know (of course, most actual janitors don't get hassled constantly either).
It's more like "is there anything else we can try to save Detroit from the evil non-Detroit manufacturers". Sadly, there's no saving Detroit.
"Classified" is a vague term, but computers holding "confidential" materials were affected (secret and above is a whole different world of computing). The machines were rootkitted by a foreign-owned company, and that rootkit phoned home. The DoJ was not amused.
None of the services listed are open source, so that is a red herring. Open source isn't even particularly important here, because your data isn't locked into any kind of a format - you can switch freely to any service at any time, and you have a complete copy of your data at all times. If you really need open source, there are options which require a server: SparkleShare works well for me, and I understand that OwnCloud has something that works decently as well.
My problem with the service is that it works poorly in a mixed-computing environment. It loses xattr between Mac and Windows (and probably Linux). It has some pretty bad behavior when faced with a filename that only differs due to case.
Now that's a good problem to occupy the attention of Google's "UI designers", who clearly have nothing useful to do with their time!
If they brick many US government computers, and it was deliberate they're in deep. The DoJ isn't so vigorous for consumer protection, but screw with government computers, especially those holding confidential information, and they get quite upset.
Bad analogy. If this was deliberate, which seems likely, there's no legal loophole which lets you destroy someone else stuff. With a court order you can go after unsold inventory with a vengeance, but not consumer gear.
None of which will matter if they end up bricking government PCs, no matter what their excuse is.
Sony was slapped with a fine so large the shareholders winced. The CEO resigned. The DoJ said they got the benefit of the doubt that the effect on government computers was unintended, but if Sony didn't learn the DoJ would simply
The NSA disagrees: all email ever sent is stored now, in their datacenters, next to the recordings of every voice call for the past decade. Your tax dollars at work..
That's good info, but they do push their annoying-as-fuck unneeded "improvements" by default. I'm tired of it - I've migrated my important email to Outlook.com now, and I'm sorting out my personal email now (harder to change as I search history more there than the financial stuff).
I've said it before on
Through the class-action lawsuit settlement, one presumes. This is pretty far over the line, and is likely criminal if it breaks any US government gear.
In the Sony rootkit fiasco, the DoJ made it clear that the only reason Sony would continue to exist in America was the presumption that the damage to government computers wasn't intentional. This was clearly intentional.
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