How do we weigh the personal advantages, and public risks, of technology use?

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At one point, he characterised comments criticising the settlement as "whines" and said critics sought "a grab bag of personal advantages for Microsoft competitors".

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While personal approaches have advantages for many people (like my wife), they require much more training, reduce consistency, and cost more.

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Conservative AM Janet Finch-Saunders argued that the current draft budget proposals do not provide adequate funding for the procurement of technology systems to realise the full advantages of sharing personal Health and Social Services information.

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And yet, quite aside from Mr Blair's personal beliefs, there are big advantages for Labour.

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Perhaps one of the many advantages of working with a personal financial planner is simply having someone who will celebrate your successes.

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Kennedy had several advantages over other legislators in forging personal relationships.

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The reasons given were primarily data confidentiality (fear company information would escape) and productivity (fear employees would unproductively apply their time to personal efforts.) These CIOs saw no advantages to social network applications, only risk.

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If the fact that Pius XII was a pope gave his sainthood cause some inherent advantages, in other ways it made perceptions of his holiness less immediate and less personal.

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