Terrorists blow people up. You complain.
Governments try out all these devices to curb terrorists blowing people up. You complain.
What will make EVERYONE happy? Nothing. So, I say do whatever needs to be done to make us all even the slightest bit safer.
Our freedoms and rights aren't affected detrimentally by something like this. Sure, it would be another story if these things took full color
shots and stored the digital images in some name searchable database, but guess what? It doesn't....so what's the ruckus about?
1. the person viewing the scans are in another room. 2. the images aren't saved at all, they're viewed by the device for weapons, visually ok'd by personnel and then gone into cyber oblivion.
3. kids are people too, and terrorists will use ANYONE to make their point. 4. those of you thinking about cell phone snaps etc. - very difficult task because generally cells aren't allowed into
those kinds of areas and it would be very, very easy to trace the image leaked back to the person on duty at the time, so they'd have to be pretty stupid to do that.
Frisking/Patting down may be able to detect certain weapons, etc. Pad scanning (with the handheld devices) also detects weapons and such.
What though, stops the person who swallows something/inserts something anally or vaginally from recovering it in the lavatory and then blowing up or taking the plane hostage? Perhaps these scanners, that's what.
So before you discharge your very loud opinion on how wrong, invasive/pervasive this is, especially because they want to scan kids....first of all, rtfa and second of all, think about a scenario in which
a terrorist decides to blow a plane up with either something he can poop out, or his/someone else's chosen "martyred" child.
War on Privacy? Are you serious? What exactly do you have to hide or protect that would make you so paranoid?
Is it really that difficult to distinguish them?
1 has games and multimedia related progs and lacks a fax/scan/remote desktop app.
1 has fax/scan/remote desktop app and lacks games and multimedia progs.
1 has it all.
1 has very little of anything.
1 has just enough to get it into a low power computer.
I don't find it that confusing at all, and I'm sure that many other people don't either. It's not rocket science.
Many of these features people will find in a 3rd party product anyway, in the end you're paying for saving space and time....and you're paying for what you can afford.
I personally think that Starter and Basic as stand alones could serve to die off. Rename Home to something like Prime or Select and allow it to install different versions (ie: Value (the new basic) Premium (home premium), SOHO (mix of business and home), Business (business), Enterprise etc.) and sell 32 and 64 bit versions together, ie: allow 1 key to activate either 32 or 64 bit version. Then just sell 3 versions. Allow 1 key to activate Value, Premium and SOHO and 1 to activate Business and Enterprise, and then of course 1 to activate Ultimate. So for retail or OEM purposes, there would theoretically be 3 product boxes.
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Terrorists blow people up. You complain. Governments try out all these devices to curb terrorists blowing people up. You complain. What will make EVERYONE happy? Nothing. So, I say do whatever needs to be done to make us all even the slightest bit safer. Our freedoms and rights aren't affected detrimentally by something like this. Sure, it would be another story if these things took full color shots and stored the digital images in some name searchable database, but guess what? It doesn't....so what's the ruckus about? 1. the person viewing the scans are in another room. 2. the images aren't saved at all, they're viewed by the device for weapons, visually ok'd by personnel and then gone into cyber oblivion. 3. kids are people too, and terrorists will use ANYONE to make their point. 4. those of you thinking about cell phone snaps etc. - very difficult task because generally cells aren't allowed into those kinds of areas and it would be very, very easy to trace the image leaked back to the person on duty at the time, so they'd have to be pretty stupid to do that. Frisking/Patting down may be able to detect certain weapons, etc. Pad scanning (with the handheld devices) also detects weapons and such. What though, stops the person who swallows something/inserts something anally or vaginally from recovering it in the lavatory and then blowing up or taking the plane hostage? Perhaps these scanners, that's what. So before you discharge your very loud opinion on how wrong, invasive/pervasive this is, especially because they want to scan kids....first of all, rtfa and second of all, think about a scenario in which a terrorist decides to blow a plane up with either something he can poop out, or his/someone else's chosen "martyred" child. War on Privacy? Are you serious? What exactly do you have to hide or protect that would make you so paranoid?
Is it really that difficult to distinguish them? 1 has games and multimedia related progs and lacks a fax/scan/remote desktop app. 1 has fax/scan/remote desktop app and lacks games and multimedia progs. 1 has it all. 1 has very little of anything. 1 has just enough to get it into a low power computer. I don't find it that confusing at all, and I'm sure that many other people don't either. It's not rocket science. Many of these features people will find in a 3rd party product anyway, in the end you're paying for saving space and time....and you're paying for what you can afford. I personally think that Starter and Basic as stand alones could serve to die off. Rename Home to something like Prime or Select and allow it to install different versions (ie: Value (the new basic) Premium (home premium), SOHO (mix of business and home), Business (business), Enterprise etc.) and sell 32 and 64 bit versions together, ie: allow 1 key to activate either 32 or 64 bit version. Then just sell 3 versions. Allow 1 key to activate Value, Premium and SOHO and 1 to activate Business and Enterprise, and then of course 1 to activate Ultimate. So for retail or OEM purposes, there would theoretically be 3 product boxes.