Not to be harsh about it, but think back to high school and college and ask yourself if you would describe the people who were planning military careers as the "best and brightest" of your class.
This is true because they let infantry design and build planes right?
I sort of feel that this is problem comes from both the network side and the smart-phone users. The networks should be built better but also since these phones came out, a lot of people who only used computers for email, facebook, etc, pretty much stopped using computers for that and started using these phones instead.
I guess a good analogy for this would be a heatwave. The power companies are generating so much power, then all of the sudden everyone turns their AC on which starts causing problems with the power grid and causing brown-outs etc. Then the power company says, "don't use un-necessary power" but people still do. Kind of like when you see people watering their lawn in a drought. Because people have this mentality that "i'm paying for it, don't tell me how to use it." Then what they don't realize is that its effecting everyone else around them.
I'm not sure this is to detour people from stealing your top secret data.
I think this is aimed at stopping the average junkie from stealing a laptop from a college campus or coffee shop. If he hears "They can just disable it with a text message." No one is gonna wanna buy it if he can't turn it on. So he'll just steal your ipod instead.
But I don't think this is done well, because the average person does not use a ThinkPad, that's more geared at business and industry people. To really detour crime on that level, Dell would have to implement this.
This won't do anything for the corporate world unless they can track it, because someone stealing corporate data was hired and knows what he's doing. He's not just taking your laptop to reuse or resell it.
I think it's good intentions, but a waste of money and time if they release it like this. But then again, I don't really know anything to begin with.
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Not to be harsh about it, but think back to high school and college and ask yourself if you would describe the people who were planning military careers as the "best and brightest" of your class.
This is true because they let infantry design and build planes right?
I sort of feel that this is problem comes from both the network side and the smart-phone users. The networks should be built better but also since these phones came out, a lot of people who only used computers for email, facebook, etc, pretty much stopped using computers for that and started using these phones instead.
I guess a good analogy for this would be a heatwave. The power companies are generating so much power, then all of the sudden everyone turns their AC on which starts causing problems with the power grid and causing brown-outs etc. Then the power company says, "don't use un-necessary power" but people still do. Kind of like when you see people watering their lawn in a drought. Because people have this mentality that "i'm paying for it, don't tell me how to use it." Then what they don't realize is that its effecting everyone else around them.
The irony is that Plurk was probably coded on pirated copies of windows.
I'm not sure this is to detour people from stealing your top secret data.
I think this is aimed at stopping the average junkie from stealing a laptop from a college campus or coffee shop. If he hears "They can just disable it with a text message." No one is gonna wanna buy it if he can't turn it on. So he'll just steal your ipod instead.
But I don't think this is done well, because the average person does not use a ThinkPad, that's more geared at business and industry people. To really detour crime on that level, Dell would have to implement this.
This won't do anything for the corporate world unless they can track it, because someone stealing corporate data was hired and knows what he's doing. He's not just taking your laptop to reuse or resell it.
I think it's good intentions, but a waste of money and time if they release it like this. But then again, I don't really know anything to begin with.