It's probably all just empty posturing; but these companies know the recent revelations regarding the US government's reckless behavior has the potential to single-handedly kill their nascent cloud businesses.

And, perversely, that may be our only hope. Congress will cow-tow to big businesses a lot more readily than it will listen to the citizens they purport to represent. If it's a danger to profits, they may slam on the brakes.

After all, we saw how quickly the iTunes Store withered and died after the DRM got removed from all that music. It'd be crazy for the publishers NOT to double down on DRM!

He's gotta cover those mortgage payments for Lanai somehow...

Yes because as we've seen in business, the higher ups never choose their own personal devices and then expect their IT folks to make them work with the company infrastructure. No, I sure don't read those sorts of stories every week.

I was recently running a poll, and I found out that at least 20% of our department faculty own a Surface tablet of one sort or another - and that was before this move was announced. 20% of our faculty, and that's assuming none of the non-responders own a Surface.

I was seriously shocked. Android and iOS tablets are apparently less popular than Surface among our EE faculty. We've got some pretty close ties to Microsoft, but that is still surprising.

Nope.

I tend to think of speed tests as largely pointless. When I'm connecting to some site or server, there are too many other culprits that can (and do) affect the transmission of data back and forth between my device and the remote one. It's not generally the network I'm on, unless I'm on EDGE.

I get T-Mobile LTE on UW's campus already.

Nope, T-Mobile offers one as well.

And even with their limited plans, you don't have a cap - you just get throttled to EDGE speeds if you go above the cap.

Yeah, I was going to post the same thing, more or less. We've got four lines - we're paying $110 for that because I added 2GB/month to one of them.

AND if you happen to go over your bandwidth quota, you just get dropped to EDGE - it's slow, but you still have data access.

I've seen enough people here not get (what I consider to be very) obvious jokes that I don't see the problem.

And most of the time it doesn't appear to be a language or cultural issue either.

Yes, it worked so well the first time around...

Personally, I think the Tablet PC lesson was - that combo is the worst of both worlds.

Yeah, live sports is the killer. But at some point I'm probably going to decide its not worth 60 bucks a month just to watch my crappy local baseball team.

In common Slashdot parlance - yes.

For the rest of the world... Not so much.

The archaeologists were using Apple Maps - turns out it was actually Phnom Penh.

Apparently there's also a secret constitution we're not allowed to see...