Lack of wireless is Nature's way of telling me I should stop staring at my
computer and go interact with other people and my environment.
-- R

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]>wrote:

> Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> I'd fire anyone having a company spreadsheet or document on their laptop
>> and not in the cloud.  Or company email on their computer (POP rather than
>> IMAP).  It is just too expensive and dangerous.
>>
> LANL, for example, mandates full disk encryption on hard drives.   Hard
> drives are cheap.   I'd much rather put up with this than not to be able
> study a paper that was stranded on an IMAP server.   But IMAP or POP is not
> the issue, the issue is connected vs. disconnected.   Wireless is not
> everywhere and where it is available, it is not reliably high bandwidth and
> low latency.
>  Marcus
>
>
>
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