You are making an unwarranted assumption here. Even during the "Room 641A" controversy, the claim was made that the FBI has black rooms directly on premises with multiple content providers.

The classified slides that are being leaked show something different. Assuming those interception points are CALEA-related doesn't really make sense - do you really think, with regards to CALEA, the FBI only started slurping Apple traffic in October 2012?

Google search supports AROUND(n), which limits results to those pages on which the two words are within n words of each other.

If you can't articulate what the implications are of using Google Apps for Education, then at least one of the following is true.

1) You don't actually have sufficient understanding of the situation
2) You're the wrong person to attempt being the spokesperson for the "opposition"

You need to be able to articulate your specific concerns regarding use of the service - not just make hand waving statements. If its bad that students have a "digital footprint" from age seven, explain *why*. And, even then, be aware that others may not share your concern (or may have adopted a fatalistic attitude about the situation).

I'm old enough (and have been at UW long enough) to have used Metacrawler back when it was still a University of Washington experimental offering. Later it became my first introduction to the wonderful world of a grant-developed product turning into a commercial windfall for someone - I felt betrayed when the ads and sponsored listings showed up.

I'm somewhat more inured to that situation now, but it does still bug me.

Wikipedia says her luxury yacht was named "Nina", which might sound something like "Minnow".

Although I hear that she pronounced it Throat-Warbler Mangrove.

Some of us Yanks get regular reminders of that fact. One reminder we Slashdot denizens receive is when a European Slashdotter feels compelled to talk about how much more sophisticated and enlightened they are, when compared to their American counterparts.

But a Canadian! I expect better from them...

Is that why their home is called "Mountain View"?

I guess I should have prepended the following:

ATTENTION: I AM ABOUT TO MAKE A JOKE.

As Albert Einstein said: "90% of reading Slashdot is half mental".

In the words of Albert Einstein: "I never said most of the things I said."

Yeah, it's not as if the term "Metropolitan Police" could refer to any large city's police force...

Since it's not premeditated, it's probably going to be a significantly lesser charge than murder.

I guess that's the problem - I'm in my early 50s. I heard them the first time around.

Grecian Formula.

Yeah, I was going to comment that Microsoft's keen business sense appears to be functioning pretty consistently these past several years.

If the NSA is confiscating people's Steely Dan collections at border crossings - I, for one, will consider that a public service.