Linux good for specialty things - a niche - but not ready for prime time general use by masses. 10 reasons:

1. Spend hours trying to get Linux to work with frequent hardware or software hiccups.
2. Boss not happy.
3. Not good for me when boss not happy.
4. Company not happy. Not good for boss when company not happy.
5. Company paying him (and me) pay for Windows software that can be used out of box more or less.
6. Work get done
7. Boss happy
8. Company happy
9. Boss get paid. Boss get to eat, sleep indoors.
10. Me get paid. Me get to eat, sleep indoors.

If the power company is like the local ISP monopoly where I lived until earlier this year, most of the activity was financial: companies buying and selling each other. The ISP tech who told me this while working at my house said little to no money was put into infrastructure for the past 20 years or so.

Used it overseas during my career and most English channels were encrypted/subscription. Only English free channels I saw were news (occasionally) and infomercials. Years ago I read that there were sidebands on the C-band signals that contained radio and data but never investigated it.

Originally up to 5 computers was free. When that number went to six - my elderly parents and relatives, plus my accessing my files at home while I'm on the road - I started paying a reasonable annual subscription fee. Now for $49, then $99, for only two computers, it's not worth it. I know several small business owners that were paying this subscription for access to a similar number of computers in their offices. Neither they nor I need/use the "gee whiz" junk of LMI Pro. We're all leaving because LMI is no longer worth the cost.

Drummer in our band in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003-2004, was a teacher at International Schule of Frankfurt. USED to be a high-school teacher in Baltimore. Broke up a knife fight between two girls and HE got into trouble for allegedly touching one of the girls "inappropriately" as he tried to pull them apart. That HE or one or both of the girls could be injured was immaterial. He basically said, "F**k this!" and is still teaching in Germany.

Common sense is dead!

Me too, but my wife says I'm still a horse's ass

First thing I thought of was if the network is to be considered a "medical device" does it now become subject to additional taxes under ObamaCare?

Friend of mine put it nicely a few years ago: "Once you get into your early thirties employers care more for your experience than your education."

German extension phones also cannot be used to pick up and listen to or join another phone conversation happening in your house, unlike US extension phones. This law was put into place decades ago in a reaction to the Nazi days. Seems to me the requirement to secure your wireless connections may be related legally.

We have had a generation, maybe two, that have been pushed through school with self-esteem pushed above academics, creating a situation where (as summed up by a friend of mine,) "we have a nation full of kids who are dumber than a box of rocks but feel great about themselves."