>You: Computers have made my life much easier.
>Harvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money.
>Note the slight difference there?
yes - but you missed the bit about efficiency. "Computers have made my life much easier." is usually how we express efficiency.
Over a decade ago I did a stint at a hospital looking after the pathology database. When it was down and paper records were required then lives were at risk due to the lack of efficiency (time spent accessing paper). It honestly scared me!
I'm sure things are much much more reliant on computers now. Computers are not just for the hospital admins.
What exactly would you do to secure those sort of apps into a "sensible implementation" that allows me to limit write access to the home folder?
This seems like a job for virtual machines. Run each one in a separate instance, and that instance is for all intents and purposes their "home directory". Something goes wrong, simply reset the machine's disk image and restore user data from a backup.
And, of course, once you're running apps in a VM, the host can use Linux and get all the security/stability/efficiency advantages of that on top of Window's app support.
Last.fm has streamed 275,000 years of audio around the world.
I'd love to know how much of that was stuff like Britney Spears
First, there's no such this as Chrome (from Google)...Maybe you should use your brain...
Maybe you should check your facts.
"Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier."
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol