How do you "hover" with a touch interface?

You don't.

If my laptop were stolen, I'd be using all of its capabilities against the thief (in fact I have Undercover installed). I'm sure whatever software they have will log IP addresses, but the webcam just provides more evidence.

I agree on the second point, however I dispute the first. If the laptop is reported missing by the pupil it was given to then the school is well within their rights to activate the webcam. If my laptop were stolen would it be illegal to use the webcam to identify the thief? Of course not.

No, the lawsuit alleges she said that.

Before we all get carried away decrying this school district, we must bear in mind that almost all the information we have comes from allegations in a lawsuit. The school district are innocent until proven guilty as far as I'm concerned. I have no reason to trust the family's lawyer over the school district's superintendent. The only concrete fact that the two parties agree on is that the laptops have tracking software. The district says they've only used on stolen laptops, while the lawsuit says that it was used in a disciplinary matter. Time will tell which is most accurate.

I assume what the GP meant was that the pollster measured their height in meters and their distance from birth in miles, and didn't convert between them.

Although that may hold up for Apple in the USA, I suspect it wouldn't in Europe. I suspect all you would have to do in the UK to have your warranty honoured would be to threaten to go to Trading Standards.

The belt clip doesn't fit? AT&T may actually have done you a favour there.

Really? If I were a giant squid, I'd take the freedom to roam the worlds oceans over living in a fairly small glass box any day.

From Wikipedia:

Giant squid and some other large squid species maintain neutral buoyancy in seawater through an ammonium chloride solution which flows throughout their body and is lighter than seawater. This differs from the method of floatation used by fish, which involves a gas-filled swim bladder. The solution tastes somewhat like salmiakki and makes giant squid unattractive for general human consumption.

This came about as a direct result of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church meddling in political affairs for centuries.

It's kind of ironic that Catholic Europe and Anglican Britain have ended up becoming some of the most secular places on Earth, despite having little enforced separation of church and state (indeed, the head of the Church of England is also the head of government in the UK), whereas the rigid rules of the US constitution led to possibly the most religious Western nation.

Yout seem to be a pretty transparent poll. I'm amazed two people modded you up, given your basic factual errors. Apple announced and demoed office software at their event, it has 10 hour battery life watching video. Even if in real use it gets half that, it's still pretty amazing. And usability? It means something different than what you think it does.

Care to share the university you attended with us?

I am ashamed to admit I spent ~20 minutes troubleshooting a USB TV tuner before realising I'd plugged it into the ethernet port. It really does fit very well.