In general it is a good philosophy if the school are not under the influence of economic forces, like Apple or Windows ...
* If school would use GNU/Linux instead I thing the students would get a much deeper understanging of the OS.
* A lot more peaple would use Linux and thus GNU/Linux would have a much wider spread.
* The school wouldn't have to pay for the OS.
The only thing I don't really agree with is the last one: "Integrate source control with other tools"
I actually find this quite annoying. Not only does it often become very talking, but often it is not as good as its "not integrated" counter part.
One of the biggest problem in the industry is that there are to many bad programmers! The sad thing is that these kind of people spam all the employers, which make it a lot harder to filter out the good from the bad.
On the other hand their work tend to give all the rest of the us work when they just hit the wall with something hard.
"We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in Diablo III. Thank you for respecting our position."
Why would they to this? The money you pay for your game is as good if you play it on some other platform.
"They’re not exactly forcing Blogger users who currently run Opera to migrate to Chrome, but they are making Opera untenable, and suggesting Chrome in its placev"
I have also had this feeling that Google is trying to monopolize the web. Hopefully this is only a misstep or my paranoia.
Chrome is very nice browser, but so is also Opera!
>I know a computer user who almost had a $300k sum stolen because his laptop was owned. He has had to resort to having a second laptop used exclusively for accessing his business bank accounts in order to feel some security. He's not dumb: he makes more money than virtually anybody reading this and has an undergrad in math.
So what you saying is that just because you know some smart guy that owns a lot of money, UEFI is a good solution for fighting malware. I'm not so sure that UEFI is really gone help your friend to be more secure ... maby feel more secure though, which of course is a valid point but probably not because he will see thru it. Maby you friends laptop was due to a bootloader hack but there is easier ways to hack computer then that. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to do anything about the risks but not this way, because this do only do it harder for everyone else.
Is secure boot really gone stop any malware? It will surly make it harder for anyone else to use a different OS. I mean malware is really a huge problem but isn't the majority of it, not related to bootloader.
A perfectly legitimate question! This certainly would fix MOST of the malware problems. It is only when the user can't be trusted to decide this by them self i.e they are tricked into install something bad.
Or it might be that the security reason, isn't the only reason for Microsoft to push this?
I use it almost every day, but in a very limited way and I can't say I really understand it I just have a feeling that it you could use it so much more