Maybe instead of flying over the midwest, you stop by and see that wind mills are all over the place. I'm in Iowa and live 5 miles away from a nuclear plant. That smoke you are seeing? It's coming from Appalachia.

If these are company blackberrys then you are probably screwing up by telling people to back up their contact information. Many times IT departments are informed first, so that kind of information can not be backed up, particularly in cases of sales personnel or anyone who could take those contacts/emails to a competitor

Yes, but one would hope that any company allowing said laptop to connect to their company VPN has local policies/software in order to minimize the infection risk. Yes, split tunneling is a larger security risk, but those risks can be mitigated.

This is true and I every time I set up of a VPN for someone I mention this. That said, for many people, they are likely VPN'd in order to access certain files while needing access to the internet. Browsing through most company VPN connections is painfully slow and inefficient.

One of the stipulations the U of Texas required before joining the Big12 conference was that TV money was NOT split equally. You only get TV money when you are on TV. And guess who is on TV the most? UT.