They're Justified, and they're Ancient, and they drive an ice cream van....

Linux support at my university is on a "best effort" basis (which usually means you get to talk to me). To be honest, I've never had to address wireless issues, but I can't think of any reason why one couldn't connect--it's as straightforward as WPA2-Enterprise gets, I reckon. iPads and Apples have no problem. At a guess, I'd say the faculty are ~15-20% Mac users and growing all the time.

As a side note--when I got nominated the academic support Linux guy, I was terrified I'd get sneered at by rocket scientists trying to write device drivers for cyclotrons or something. I was--am--super relieved that problems usually turn out to involve things like firewalls and fstabs. :)

Sorry, but I beg to differ--if/when the company is caving under pressure from the U.S. Senate, it becomes a free speech issue. Likewise, if there's a law in any state amounting to "Don't talk about DUI checkpoints" then that is also a free speech issue. I could accept an argument that it's constitutional to outlaw telling a drunk about a checkpoint so s/he may avoid arrest, but such a law would be extraneous at best, since there are already laws forbidding conspiracy and aiding and abetting. But that's just my opinion, of course. I don't necessarily expect anyone to agree with it.

If it was an app to help protesters in Syria avoid the Army, these selfsame senators would be screaming about how Apple is assisting a dictatorial government quash its citizens' natural right to freedom of speech. Make no mistake, this *is* a freedom of speech issue. It is no different than calling all your friends to let them know about a checkpoint.

Well... we've been here since 1693, which is a pretty long track record for North America.

I'd be fine with that...if I got off at 4!

I was going to say, FINE! Fix it: keep DST all year round!

The dean of my local law school commented once that Law & Order is actually not bad as far as that goes--his comment was that whenever he'd think, "Objection!" an objection from one of the TV lawyers wouldn't be far behind.

Using time and money to create joy and whimsy is, and always will be, worthwhile. It's part of our humanity, all the arts, and a big swath of science and invention. I am glad we have people who do such things, and people who enjoy them, rather than everyone being a practical curmudgeon such as yourself, AC.

I've been reading the NLT Bible on the one-year plan (done tomorrow!) and the one that really surprised me was the reference to horse cocks.

In the 90's, the two expensive peripheral cards I bought were, respectively, a 3DFX Voodoo video card, right before they went out of business, and a GadgetLabs Wave 4/24 sound card, right before *they* went out of business. Cutting edge fail!

Hooray, Slashdot is news for ME!

SPOILER... It was "twin language" if I recall correctly.

Uh, oh. Leave it to some open source-oriented site to fork "Bohemian Rhapsody."

No, the other one is a real poster.