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Public Computers

Does any one know why major corporations spend top dollar on new "state of the art" computers and then have the IT department dissable so many features that they funciont only slightly better than an engineering calculator? Being sure to disable right clicking, save image as and numerous other features.

There is an ironic art to it. First of all they disable so many features that you can't even let Microsoft Word use web services, next they refuse to allow users to have Firefox and, finally, they still respect the work of malware writers to allow them to worm their work in through Internet Exploder. They,of course, protect the machine with Nortan's Anti-virus. So many cycles are lost that not even Lance Armstrong could find one. The end result is a CPU that moves about as fast as a glacier.

To think, these are the educated people on this subject. I gotta wonder how these machines are supposed to make us more productive. I find it more likely they will drive someone postal.

Of course they explain it is because it is a "public" computer and they must protect the network and such. Double irony... Public computers have adminstrator only private features...

Of course they explain it is because it is a "public computer"e and they must protect the network... heh


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