You don't actually know many librarians, do you?
THIS! Libraries get all kinds of shit dumped on them from all directions and tend to be the only ones really being the champions for personal rights and privacy!
How do you know that public libraries won't have these machines installed?
I can tell you from experience that we (libraries) only filter because we pretty much have to in order to continue to receive federal funding. Unless the feds push it on us, we won't be installing any of these copiers. Censorship sucks and most librarians hate it and fought very hard to stop it from happening in the first place.
I converted my wife to Ubuntu after the 8th virus in 3 months. I did buy Crossover Pro for Photoshop, but that's about it. She loves how much faster her laptop is. She games on Facebook, uses Evolution for email, and OpenOffice for writing, etc. She's got Hulu Desktop installed, and will dock her laptop to our home theater system and watch TV that way. The number of "Hey hon, can you look at this?" type things have gone down incredibly. She's been on Ubuntu for about 18 months now, and can't fathom going back. So, I don't think that your point of, "Granny just stopped asking for help" is really valid. People are people, if you mess up their PC, you'll hear about it at every family gathering.
Rather than just doing a full out conversion with my wife and son right away, I've gone the dual boot route on all three of our laptop computers and when (not if) the time comes that one of them gets malware again, I will have them log in to the Ubuntu side for a few weeks before I get around to fixing their Windows systems. We'll see how that goes.
All the ISP's do that and as I have told my friends and family repeatedly over the years, DON'T under any circumstances let the installer near your PC with that thing, it's not needed and can only lead to problems.
I will second that. When my current cable/phone/internet provider came and setup their equipment, the installer was beside himself because I wouldn't let him touch my computer. He tried the "required for this to operate" excuse. I told him that I was an IT professional and that I knew he was full of it and that if it was required, he could take his equipment home and I'd cancel my service. He asked if I would at least make the ISPs home page my start page. I guess they needed the inflated traffic stats.
Bloodsuckers, all of them.
Blood isn't the word that popped into *MY* mind!
If the police ask you questions, the only appropriate answer is "My lawyer's name is ____."
I just had a very detailed conversation with my son about this the other day. We watch several of the crime shows and one of the officers said that they'd be better off telling what they knew now and would get into less trouble or something like that.
I explained to my son about the right to remain silent and what you say CAN AND WILL be used against you and had him tell me what that meant. I also explained how even the most innocent comments (i.e. "I never cared for that guy.") could be used to make it look like you have motive.
Bottom line was that I told him that regardless of what any authority figure said or what type of pressure they applied, he was to only ask to call me and I would come (with a lawyer if necessary). I would urge you all to have the same talk with your kids. Better safe than sorry.
windows 7 is to vista what win98 was to win95. if people still aren't understanding this, they have problems
To me it's more like Windows 7 is to Vista what WinXP was to WinME.
That's because their parents are the ones footing the bill... ouch.
Not in my house. I pay for my son's cell phone but he pays for his own texting with his allowance. Funny how one can learn to control those texts when footing the bill.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
