And CP/M

Nah.... I was just kidding. hehehe. Of all the vulnerabilities, the cloud is the absolute worst one. I can go a long way toward protecting my stuff locally, but having no idea of the service provider or their security practices, means you might do as well to trust your 10 year old son the Jerry Sandusky. The Elephant in the room, remains the fact that despite using as much encryption as you like, the bad guys can make your data inaccessible, the cloud is data suicide. Microsoft's cloud shutdown some months ago with only a bad security certificate was a shot across the bow. Just wait until cloud users get a friendly extortion note, for a few mil to get access to their data again, or have it simply destroyed.

Who will insist rightfully on a computer system that he can control.

As I told my boss once, I need to be able to let whoever is keeping me from getting the work done know that it is important to his or her employment.

And I've never had an outside vendor who doesn't think of me as "Just another customer". They'll take care of a few urgent projects, then invite you to go elsewhere.

So many bad things about cloud.

Because it is safe, secure, always up, and the way of the future. A company can lay off half or more of it's IT staff going to this wonderful cloud, and no more worries about backing up files, because the cloud saves money, is safe, secure, always up, and the way of the future.

Except when it isn't.

Fine, allow to rephrase myself without any lack of clarity.

Your idea won't work.

And even though the other ideas won't work perfectly, they will work a lot better than your ideas.

Now point out who said that since your idea won't work, we shouldn't do anything. And your idea of making sick people into criminals is morally repugnant.

Congratulations - you just slippery sloped everyone's argument. Don't do it your way, then you don't do it at all? In the world of infectious diseases, sanitation, and isolation and treatment while looking for a cure of the ill will do much better than your "solution". It's already been pointed out that under threat of ruination of one's life, one might be tempted to avoid treatment, especially at the beginning of the symptoms.

Despite your best wishes, being sick should never be a crime. And there are many much better solutions than yours. Stop watching Zombie movies.

Here's a little thing. With the attention to ebola lately, and knowing that people lie, hppens all the time, in courts, and other places, so as a doctor, I'd err on the side of caution.

The guy knew he was sick enough to go to the hospital when he showed up - perhaps there is a clue there.

In today's medical world, they have patients get dozens of tests for minor ailments.

So why on earth wouldn't they........ get ready for it, because it is subtle and not at all apparent............the sort of thing only savants and geniuses would ever ever think of......

Test him for Ebola! If I was the ER doctor, he'd be held until such time as I could rule it out.

I was wondering when a true man of science would come in and lay waste to my entire argument with such simple concise and logical reason

And most very respectfully, you are pathetic. You want to call me wrong, that's fine. You want to discuss like a big boy, fine. You apparently cannot. Go back to the Yahoo discussion boards - you'll fit right in.

A"Fucking idiot?" to put it in words you might possibly understand:

He who smelt it, dealt it.

I'm envisioning a CEO at the big yearly meeting checking for "unscrupulous executables" when he starts his PowerPoint presentation.

This is the problem with you apologists. You have all of these excuses for Microsoft's flaws, and all of your "I can't believe that you didn't (insert really unlikely geek action performed by normal user here) , so it's all your fault."

If almost everyone is too stupid to use Microsoft OS, despite normal or high intelligence, maybe it really isn't their problem.

It is really amazing how many things are not Microsoft's fault.

He shot his wad a long time ago.

Because your weird draconian sledgehammer method won't work either?

If someone thinks they might go to prison they might just stay at home. I'd rather be dead than in prison. If my life was going to be destroyed, I'll just stay home. Also, are you going to make everyone who gets the sniffles take a month off work? Might be ebola, right? Declare martial law in Dallas?

Your half assed ideas are laughed at by the ebola virus. If they worked, we could have stopped the 1918 flue pandemic in a week.

This!

Not to bring up Fox News, but I'll bring up Fox News. The Day before this Dallas shit hit the fan, they were all agog that Obama failed us in yet another bout of cluelessness, and didn't stop all flights from Africa, like the Europeans smartly and effectively did.

And now, Ebola is in Europe too, despite that.

No, you can't completely stop something like this - humans are too clever at going places, and we can't stop the world.

On the other hand, the response in Dallas was criminal. Doctors are supposed to be intelligent people. African guy shows up with disturbing symptoms. They send him home. What? a few questions might have been nice. Since it's in Texas, the nursing team and Doctors who worked on the guy should be executed in th eGrand Texas tradition.

Either that, or forced to room with the Ebola patients.

But also being Texas, I'll bet he was sent home the moment they found he had no health insurance.

The dogs, or the neighbors, want to live there? ;-)

BTW, thanks for your kind words.

You know, as much as I loved my late Sister and my late Mom, I hardly EVER "talk to them". But I never, ever pass by the kitchen window (which looks upon where my two dogs are buried) without telling them they're "good boys", and/or "Daddy loves them", etc. And same thing when I pass by their graves (they're buried side-by-side in separate, home-built, quilt-lined "coffins"), I always say at least "Hi, babies!" to them...

Yes, it is a profound thing to be the instrument of death for something so innocent, loving and loved. A VERY profound thing. Even though I know academically that I was doing the right thing, you can almost NEVER know whether THEY feel it's "Time to Go"... And that is what tears me up, and will likely continue to tear me up for some time to come.

And even though we have gotten a new Mutt (all my dogs have been mixed-breed), this one a sweetie-pie male Pit Bull mix that was being abandoned by (yet another) next-door neighbor who "Couldn't take him with them...", and have already had dozens of heartwarming and funner-than-fun, laugh-out-loud moments with him, there is still a hole in my heart where my babies C.J. and Little Bit live on...