Not a bad safeguard in the US, but what about foreign companies and transactions, alot of people have dealings with companies from many countries and your US SSN just isn't a factor.
Out and out identity theft might be ruled out but someone with your personal information could still cause you serious problems.
Insurance works on the *cough* law *cough* of averages, different shocks affect different people so a single shock can be covered by the insurance company for far less than the cost of said shock. There is not enough diversification in something like this.
If there are developments against the GPL or a very popular software pack gets into strife (openoffice or such like), then their are huge liabilities that the insurance company can't meet and everyone sinks.
Just how does one determine the profit losses from the time spent compliancing software etc?
Most people don't know what they are doing in windows, even kids with good marks at school and college continually do and say really really stupid things. people are stupid.
3 billion dollars isn't that much relative to tax income, it's more of a token amount. HDTV is a good thing, it's an advance in picture quality and interactivity, you'd all be up in arms if the government weren't helping its implementation.
part of the government's job is to grow the economy and assist business, so don't be so suprised when they do so with tax dollars. and yes, the lobbying and backdoor payments is disgusting, but it's not as bad as it is nearly anywhere else in the world.
Seeing a terminal in the local pub running Windows of any kind just makes me cringe!
I work at a bar and we use IBM terminals running XP, they don't crash very often, but it does happen, and if you want it to happen (i.e. im bored and i want to play freecell) you can crash the program pretty easily. The crashing wouldn't be a problem if you could just choose not to have anything but the POS program running, plus it'd be way cheaper and we'd own the code (charged 10k+ to fix some small interaction changes (how we log in to do sales) and it took them over a week, pathetic).
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Not a bad safeguard in the US, but what about foreign companies and transactions, alot of people have dealings with companies from many countries and your US SSN just isn't a factor.
Out and out identity theft might be ruled out but someone with your personal information could still cause you serious problems.
Insurance works on the *cough* law *cough* of averages, different shocks affect different people so a single shock can be covered by the insurance company for far less than the cost of said shock. There is not enough diversification in something like this. If there are developments against the GPL or a very popular software pack gets into strife (openoffice or such like), then their are huge liabilities that the insurance company can't meet and everyone sinks. Just how does one determine the profit losses from the time spent compliancing software etc?
Most people don't know what they are doing in windows, even kids with good marks at school and college continually do and say really really stupid things. people are stupid.
3 billion dollars isn't that much relative to tax income, it's more of a token amount. HDTV is a good thing, it's an advance in picture quality and interactivity, you'd all be up in arms if the government weren't helping its implementation. part of the government's job is to grow the economy and assist business, so don't be so suprised when they do so with tax dollars. and yes, the lobbying and backdoor payments is disgusting, but it's not as bad as it is nearly anywhere else in the world.
Seeing a terminal in the local pub running Windows of any kind just makes me cringe! I work at a bar and we use IBM terminals running XP, they don't crash very often, but it does happen, and if you want it to happen (i.e. im bored and i want to play freecell) you can crash the program pretty easily. The crashing wouldn't be a problem if you could just choose not to have anything but the POS program running, plus it'd be way cheaper and we'd own the code (charged 10k+ to fix some small interaction changes (how we log in to do sales) and it took them over a week, pathetic).