[ale] [OT] Need to lock down a Windows laptop

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Tue Apr 12 07:52:47 EDT 2011


JD wrote:
>>> She needs to learn how to secure her PC, and sadly, she needs to get
>>> hacked in order to learn it. I speak from experience having a teen girl
>>> crying over her broken PC and forcing her to reload it herself.  These
>>> days, knowing how to do that is like knowing how to change a flat tire,
>>> IMHO.
>> <<more snip>>
>> You expect somebody to know how to change a tire???? You monster!!!! That 
>> is why God gave us phones and AAA memberships!
>>
>> Silly sarcasm aside, probably a good idea. Both to expect offspring to 
>> reload their systems, and to expect every driver to know how (by doing) to 
>> change a tire.
> 
> Before my father allowed me to get a drivers license, I had to show him
> that I could change a tire.

Same here.  And Dad drilled it into me that you always stopped to assist 
a lady or elderly folks when they have flat tires.  As it stands, I've 
changed more strangers flat tires then my own.  The last one was for a 
girl headed to KSU for class.  I was on my bike, stopped and changed the 
tire for her.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson


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