MacBook air doesn't have a touchscreen, or the iPad form factor.

People will buy this.

The Surface Pro isn't out yet, this story isn't about it. We have no idea if it will allow secure boot to be turned off, though I believe it will because they're marketing to corporations, and their own guidelines for the Windows 8 branding say it must be user configurable on x86 hardware.

If Microsoft follows their own policies for the Windows 8 badge, it must allow users to turn it off (just not on ARM).

Are you saying useful navigation software cannot run on x86?

Even if the price tag wasn't enough that they probably purpose built, or ported some software, Macs can run more than OS X.

TSA has done checkpoints and searches in Amtrak stations too, such as this one. It's just not as prevalent (yet?).

"Does Google give third parties access to my organization's data?" in the link you shared (and where I got my information) states they do so in compliance with the Privacy Policy, and later references the exact section of the privacy policy. Google Apps for Business Terms say they do provide the option to disable Google's sharing of ads, but this does not seem to prevent other aggregate data mining they may do (of search terms or location history, for example), they say nothing to contradict this anywhere.

Exactly what I said. Paying Google Apps organizations and users are subject to the same Privacy Policy as users of Google's free services. They are paying for a product offered by Google and are still subject to Google's data mining and information gathering processes.

In the case of Google, even paying customers are still the product.

Tor hidden services do not use exit nodes. There should be no traffic outside of the tor network.

The summary mentions "The FCC studied the question several years ago but found insufficient evidence to support lifting the ban at the time." It is not talking about the FAA ban.

The FCC also bans cell phones and some other wireless devices in aircraft, not only the FAA.

It is only takeoff and landing, otherwise you can use them in airplane mode, or even with wifi enabled.

They will likely point out that you can use any address for a Google Account, not that it helps with Gmail.

It's actually the interpretation by the Library of Congress. You also won't be able to legally unlock phones after sometime next year, but you can still root the OS.

The tablet laws affect any tablet that attempts to prevent rooting, using the anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA. A great example of legislation being abused to its fullest.

Honestly not sure... it did hit us on a couple of old boxes, but fixed itself pretty quickly, and we definitely weren't using the affected navy servers. tick and tock are supposed to be used only by gov, and stratum 2 servers. Maybe some servers forwarded the wrong information?

This is the only solution that really makes sense, also the only one that will really work with a drm system included that may demand immediate updates at times. It's the same process used by Google for things like Chrome and Earth. One for deb, one for rpm, with internal logic to add the repos in apt/yum/zypper. Third parties such as Arch or Gentoo can write their processes to pull in that package, open it up and install the files where they need to go, as they do already.

Essentially, it's a non-issue for the distros. They don't really even have to support it.