the aluminum apple keyboard is absolutely horrific to type on. it is the single worst keyboard i have ever used, and nothing else even comes close. it is too low to the desk, it has crappy rubber mush switches, and the keycaps are rounded at the edges so your fingers get lost. my fingers start to hurt after about 20 minutes of typing on one of these nasty little keyboards. they're just awful.

now, the apple extended keyboard ii, that's a good keyboard.

most keyboards don't have microprocessors and memory. he didn't pick an apple keyboard for attention out of a field of identically vulnerable keyboards. he picked it because it was a special example with odd specifications that enable this attack.

there are a few logictech keyboards he could have picked (the programmable ones with the LCD and all that), but no, this is not some widespread problem. this is an apple keyboard issue.

Once we camped out near a river, in known bear territory somewhere in central California. We hadn't seen any bear tracks, but put our food up in a nearby tree anyway (because that's just what you do in bear territory).

At around 2 AM that night, we awoke to hear the sound of large animals moving in our campsite, accompanied by the rustling of what sounded very much like our bear bag. Getting a fire going as quickly as possible (meaning, a liter of white gas poured onto the nearest thing that looked like wood and then set ablaze), we didn't find a bear. We found a team of TWO bears attacking our bear bag.

The big one climbed up the trunk of the tree, just under the branch from which we'd hung the bag. The little one, presumably a cub of the big one, had climbed out on the branch, and in a series of small steps, had pulled the bag along the branch with one arm toward the larger bear, who could now reach it from her spot on the trunk, and who was shredding the bag to bits as all our food dropped out. The fire, of course, chased the thieving duo away after a couple of minutes, and they thankfully only got away with some sausages and most of a bottle of pancake syrup.

Of course, what we hadn't noticed was that this tree had basically no leaves or branches or bark on it anywhere. Based on the number of large scratches and claw marks all over the tree, we surmised that we weren't the first ones to try to hang our food from this tree, which was essentially a food collection station operated by the bears to tax any humans foolish enough to camp there.

The damn bears are smarter than you'd think.

I bought mine in 2004 and I have to pull out the antenna to use it.

oh my... you should at least upgrade to one with fewer moving parts, especially moving parts in a subsystem as critical as the radio!

The surprising part is that these are very fresh versions which are not included in many distributions.

that's not surprising, or you're not paid to administer linux systems.

really, now.