As a kid in the late 80s and early 90s I had my Gameboy with me all the time. At dinner with my family I would play until my food came. Now granted I would put my game down, usually off as well and eat, as most kids would eat and stare at their phones now. This is also a parenting issue as well. My parents set some rules early on and would have had no issue taking my gameboy away if I didn't answer to questions or stop to eat. Another part of this is the helicopter parenting problem. Parents over protect their kids these days too much, never letting them deal with things on their own very young so they don't develop coping skills when they are away from parents influence more. I dealt with some very mean bullying in grade school and some of it did come from me being very sheltered by my mom, she meant well, but it also held me back from knowing about some things at the same time my classmates did. I really can't believe that a psychiatrist with 25 years of experience just wants to blame mobile phones for kids problems. She's pushing an oversimplified agenda/theory. Not only are more parents willing to take their rotten teenagers to a shrink they're expected to by society and sometimes forced to by the court when the teen acts out. Ms. Evans may see some glaring issues and maybe even have a valid point that kids are not unplugging enough, but it doesn't seem that she's looking at the bigger picture/data, she's looking at it through the eyes of her generation when parents just couldn't get kids to put the landline phone in their room down at night. As I saw my older brothers, 8& 10 years older than I, do and all the lectures my mom would give them about their phone use and the trouble they got into with it. Kids aren't meaner now than when we were kids, just more efficient and able to reach back into the bullied kids room when in our time it was just at school. This is the thing that we haven't figured out yet, how to teach our kids that school is not their whole life, the popular kids now probably won't be after school ends, this time will pass and something better will come.

AT&T can bite me, I have uVerse with 18Mbps and it chokes on Netflix and youtube. Im with AT&T cause I hate Comcast/Timewarner more and they are cheaper than cable internet as well (not by much). I really hope American politics can have some sense of decency restored. This Citizens united thing has flooded Washington with too much corporate money. Telecoms have no guilt, and theres not enough competition.

For all the comments on this being a bad decision, an attempt to make a political statement, it can also be seen as forward thinking. The investors involved in nurturing the endowments probably see the writing on the wall. With clean energy coming into its own, coal will be increasingly seen as unneeded and detrimental to the environment and humanity in the longterm. Battery Technology is about to explode with the introduction of Tesla's battery factories and silicons replacement, carbon nanotube materials that conduct electricity so much better. From my observance of news and company postings home battery use will increase and solar and wind energy storage will be enough to offset the need for coal power plants to take up the slack when the sun is down or the wind is not blowing. Stanford is well placed to see this movement at least in California, where Californians have been burned by the last decades brownouts and greedy manipulative power industry fat cats.

When I read the NYtimes article about this, I was disgusted. I shuttered my Chase/JPMorgan checking account about a year ago now and Im glad I did. I knew the bank was slimey but they dont seem to know what being low is. Its been one thing after another to show that they care 0% for their customers, I remember when I closed my account they didnt even try to keep me, not that it would have done any good. Congress shuts down one avenue for easy profits and they turn around and start nickel and dimeing(sp?) us even more and giving bigger bonuses to executives for screwing up and pissing away peoples pensions. Since when did anyone say that people who work on wall street as execs should live like gods with no accountability until someone with an even bigger stick is annoyed enough by the little people to whack the greedy/lying/s.o.s*** exec and put them in jail for a pathetically short amount of time in a federal resort? Move your Money! Message your representatives to amend the Dodd/Frank Act and make bankers work for their bonuses and profits instead of collecting them like drug dealers hand over fist....

Oh how absolutely true

We bought a phone system some months ago when we were moving into a bigger space. its really just for inside the two office locations, a few of our remote sales people have remote phones, but most just want their calls forwarded to their cell phones. We use Skype for engineering conferences but my phone mostly just collects dust, Ill call other extensions for ease and to keep my battery up, but I wouldnt miss it. Since Im in charge of simple changes to the phone server I have to know a bit about it, but I really dont like the system. I think my boss likes having a system but I think we could have gone another route. Perhaps in a few years when the system is long in the tooth I can persuade another route.

Oh please, what a joke, MS is simply trying to play like Apple and try to get people excited which is such a joke. It's a crappy browser and it always has been. I would shave my head if MS actually came out with something actually intuitive or standards based for their next browser, itll simply be more of the same, going it alone and trying to force developers and users to use their junky implementation of some well known web standard.