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Well, you know how ants are attracted to sweet things? That's the idea of a honeypot-the idea is to attract hackers to the honeypot, presumably with the hopes that they don't reach your real stuff. Give them something to play with and keep them busy so that the rest is safe.

I don't see anything wrong with using the more traditional methods of back up. They are not too expensive, if you use something like a large drive externally to back up (or two, one stored fire and flood safe off sight).

You can look up info online about the potential clashes of hardware. I've never really found it to be a huge problem though, and I think that there are way too many fears here about it. The basic stuff is easy, get the right type of memory and so on.

Unknowing I agree with that, but at the same time there can be ways around things, especially for a smart child who is technically minded. I think that a combination of approaches works best, especially when you have several children needing computers which makes it harder for you to supervise.

That's an interesting theory and if it worked it could make your trap more secure than anything else ever could be. If it worked then it would be wonderful but you'd need to work some to make it seem totally unprotected.

Its the same as everything-industry was automated by turning our jobs over to robots. And now we are seeing IT professionals done away with the likes of thin clients, not needing so much of our attention-I feel like a traitor for helping our company put things in place!

I disagree with whether they can compete with PCs. I think that they can-they don't need to have the uber fancy architecture because their OS doesn't pound the poop out of them. The OS is way less resource intensive than windows-as it should be, especially since it is a BSD linux based OS.

Well you see you can get machines that are otherwise going to be thrown away. You wouldn't have to pay for them potentially, and thus playing around to find what bits work together shouldn't be too bad. You can read up online and learn enough-it is not hard to do at all.

I really don't like the idea of that type of brain interface. I studied the potential when I was in university and it really did unsettle me. Sorry but I don't like the idea of someone having the ability to access my brain-and they would, the interface would work both ways.

Think of computer security today. Do you want to get a virus that wipes out your memory?

That is fairly common with Windows-they have been chasing Apple for a long time. They really do need to be a little more innovative if they want to retain their market share.

I would think that the biggest use for these would be students. Someone who needs to have a machine to take note on in lectures but doesn't really want the weight of a traditional laptop.