And dogs everywhere cringe at this announcement. I know that my dog will hate me if this ever makes it to consumer windows.

It really doesn't matter if its government actions or civilian actions, a country has a responsibility to enact and enforce laws to deter it's civilians from attaching other countries. Otherwise they will be safe harbors, like China and Russia. In the event of an attach by their citizens, if a safe harbor is not willing to cooperate with other nations we have to right to protect our infrastructure .

They only had to stop for 8 hours after every 2 to 3 hours of driving. That sounds like a freaking blast.

Actually Alice has the capability, but implementing it is far beyond their skill level. When my brother took an intro to programming class he used Alice. So I decided to download Alice and see what I could come up with. I am a developer by trade, so it was not too difficult to get some basic AI running, but my brother spent the semester basically creating a story.

Why would anyone want to be stuck with FAT? There are several great file systems in use these days.

It also affected W2K3 servers.

And no one who was paying attention to the original details of the story are surprised.

I agree. I run an educational business that teaches how to learn Chinese. Advancing to fluency myself and now engaging with students day after day who are struggling to learn has convinced me that the major obstacle to student progress in most places outside China is institutional torpidity, and the fact that the structures that have emerged to organize and cheapen learning (classrooms, textbooks, etc.) don't allow students to learn at their own pace, or - in some cases - to learn at all.

People are frustrated and they are looking for alternatives. There are an increasing number of them available and I share the sense with you that a lot of these are happening outside existing academic channels. Given that systems to issue educational grants are already online, so it is unclear what this organization adds that the existing system doesn't.

The 'Apple way' for media gadgets is that you buy their hardware (no hardware cloning), and buy everything for it through them, so they have part of the revenue pie. It is not in their interests to open up their architecture. As such, the argument is not about choice of functionality, but of customers being wowed into buying the product, and then finding themselves OK (or not) with the exclusive media channels, which limits the functionality of their limited-rights purchases. There's one thing that has not yet been locked down: ordinary software for the computers - is that next?