Referring to an article in the Wall Street Journal on the problems Duke University recently suffered and initially blamed on the presence of iPhone's on campus (proven to be a bogus excuse), John Gruber of Daring Fireball comes up with this translation:
Translation: A lot of IT infrastructure is fragile rickety crap, and the people responsible for it aren’t smart enough to fix it so they make rules and place blame based on little more than superstition.
Based on my experience he's right, but I'm not sure I'd use such harsh words. I think the typical IT staffer is far less motivated and up-to-date is more adapt then saying these people aren't smart. They also operate in a highly political environment that saps intelligence.
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