I've never been in a car accident and neither have any of my friends as far as I know, but I still don't doubt their existence. Requiring seat belts is pure FUD.
I think this option is better than Linux or F/OSS operating systems that would possibly require MORE training for their programmers and users to learn. My biggest frustration with F/OSS operating systems is that the user interface is counter-intuitive for a lot of Windows-friendly users, and even worse, trying to find an "old but stable" operating system is a mess as the F/OSS operating system support-base seems to be more focused on the latest stable builds rather than what mission-critical users would want: older software that has a longer history of running well for a given situation.
"Given the rather dismal penetration of Linux in the home market, I'd say that the demand simply isn't there. I don't know ANYONE who's running Linux as a home system who: A) isn't an IT geek; or B) didn't have it setup for them BY an IT geek who convinced them it was "better"."
That's because you can't buy systems with Linux pre-installed that easy. At least not in any store I've ever visited, and only in a few web based stores. Place computers running Linux side by side in the stores and sell them at a lower cost and I will bet money the situation would become different.
It has nothing to do with demand.
My swedish bank uses a credit card sized device which does some (unique for each user) magic crunching on numbers entered.
When you log in you are presented with random numbers which must be entered into the device, and the result is used to login within three minutes.
When you transfer money you must enter both the account number, and the amount, into the device and submit the results.
To me this seems secure enough to use public terminals for banking. I do.
Even if you forget to log out from the bank, very little harm can be done. You need to enter numbers to do just about anything except log out.
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I've never been in a car accident and neither have any of my friends as far as I know, but I still don't doubt their existence. Requiring seat belts is pure FUD.
I think this option is better than Linux or F/OSS operating systems that would possibly require MORE training for their programmers and users to learn. My biggest frustration with F/OSS operating systems is that the user interface is counter-intuitive for a lot of Windows-friendly users, and even worse, trying to find an "old but stable" operating system is a mess as the F/OSS operating system support-base seems to be more focused on the latest stable builds rather than what mission-critical users would want: older software that has a longer history of running well for a given situation.
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The Swedish armed forces seems to disagree with you:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/08/166235.s
"Given the rather dismal penetration of Linux in the home market, I'd say that the demand simply isn't there. I don't know ANYONE who's running Linux as a home system who: A) isn't an IT geek; or B) didn't have it setup for them BY an IT geek who convinced them it was "better"."
That's because you can't buy systems with Linux pre-installed that easy. At least not in any store I've ever visited, and only in a few web based stores. Place computers running Linux side by side in the stores and sell them at a lower cost and I will bet money the situation would become different.
It has nothing to do with demand.
My swedish bank uses a credit card sized device which does some (unique for each user) magic crunching on numbers entered. When you log in you are presented with random numbers which must be entered into the device, and the result is used to login within three minutes. When you transfer money you must enter both the account number, and the amount, into the device and submit the results. To me this seems secure enough to use public terminals for banking. I do. Even if you forget to log out from the bank, very little harm can be done. You need to enter numbers to do just about anything except log out.