Nip it in the bud!

Not everyone is old enough to remember Barney Fife's repeated exclamations to "Nip it! Nip it in the bud!" when addressing various issues that face sheriffs and deputies. Most who aren't old enough have no doubt heard it from various sources over the years.

Purdue University is addressing the problem of students distracted by online viewing in classrooms in a novel approach. Purdue is throttling their bandwidth! Of course, this wouldn't prevent a student with an unlimited data plan on their phone from tapping into the streaming services, but it's an interesting traditional approach to the newer problems presented by mobile technologies.

Purdue University students who were hoping to sneak in an episode of Queer Eye during their economics lecture are out of luck. The university recently debuted a pilot program that restricts access to five popular streaming sites -- Netflix, Hulu, Steam, Apple Updates and iTunes -- during class time in four of its biggest lecture halls.