Right now when I get a support call in the middle of the night, I can bounce out of bed and remote desktop into my office pc to handle the issue immediately. How am I supposed to RDC into a down machine? So instead I will have to get dressed, take a cab to the office, get past security in the middle of the night, and finally boot up the machine. That takes an hour of time, plus the cab ride isn't exactly carbon friendly (I'd need a taxi ride because adequate public transportation isn't available in the middle of the night). Having this situation arise just 2-3 times a year would wipe out any savings from leaving the machine off, and that's not counting the cost of my time and the fact that clients will be upset that an issue that should have taken less than 5 minutes to resolve took over an hour.

He doesn't have the laptop so he can't submit the story. Dell knows this so they aren't worried.

I kept looking for the libertarian solution, which is to scrap public schools and privatize education so that parents can regain control of the children that they brought into the world. Why institutionalize children and train them to become lifetime wards of the state? A real fix for many of this country's problems begins with eliminating the public "education" system.

Will it have a "valmorphanize" button?

RMS might not be the choice, but it should be someone with vision. Tech should not be about record companies suing customers to maintain an outdated business model, stupid software and business process patents, paranoid monitoring of citizens, outsourcing jobs to cheaper countries, etc. CIOs seem to promote such things.

We need to get back to kids being excited about tech, folks in a garage or dorm room creating a product, the Internet being a fun place, etc. Bill Joy seems to be more in line with this. Some CIO or whatever from a company that just kluges together overpriced systems doesn't seem very enlightened to me.