I think the last windows system you supported was in the 1990's too. Business versions of Windows 7 have two ways to do remote support depending on the level of access the organization wants to institute.
As far as VB macros, yes "...with great power comes great responsibility." to quote Uncle Ben. Flexibility for end-users has always equated to to additional complexity in the software life cycle. Perhaps you'd have us go back to the command line (oops, forgot about the SSH reference, OK so you can start X windows).
As far as malware, as soon as Linux becomes a major player on the desktop (just broke 1% market share depending on whose study you read), you'll get your share of all that good badness but for now, what hacker wants to waste their time? Even the Mac, at almost 3% market share has already seen some proverbial stuff hit the supposedly impenetrable shell (Unix) and they don't even have to deal with the myriad of hardware that Windows and Linux do. Be careful what you wish for...
Well they've been trying to overturn the 2nd Amendment for years so why should this surprise you. If they can't change the actual wording legally, they will just change the meaning of the words in the amendment, screw historical context, intent and such. I agree that the government is too involved in the day-to-day lives of its citizens and the more people become dependent on the government to manage aspects of their lives, the more aspects they will try to manage until there is no freedom left. If anything good comes out of this recession, it may be the force that eliminates many stupid social engineering projects due to lack of funding.
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I think the last windows system you supported was in the 1990's too. Business versions of Windows 7 have two ways to do remote support depending on the level of access the organization wants to institute. As far as VB macros, yes " ...with great power comes great responsibility." to quote Uncle Ben. Flexibility for end-users has always equated to to additional complexity in the software life cycle. Perhaps you'd have us go back to the command line (oops, forgot about the SSH reference, OK so you can start X windows).
As far as malware, as soon as Linux becomes a major player on the desktop (just broke 1% market share depending on whose study you read), you'll get your share of all that good badness but for now, what hacker wants to waste their time? Even the Mac, at almost 3% market share has already seen some proverbial stuff hit the supposedly impenetrable shell (Unix) and they don't even have to deal with the myriad of hardware that Windows and Linux do. Be careful what you wish for...
So this should rule out California as well...
Well they've been trying to overturn the 2nd Amendment for years so why should this surprise you. If they can't change the actual wording legally, they will just change the meaning of the words in the amendment, screw historical context, intent and such.
I agree that the government is too involved in the day-to-day lives of its citizens and the more people become dependent on the government to manage aspects of their lives, the more aspects they will try to manage until there is no freedom left. If anything good comes out of this recession, it may be the force that eliminates many stupid social engineering projects due to lack of funding.