No, they aren’t suing or being sued… they are preventing their entry into the legal profession. Why?

I work routinely in environments where a camera cannot physically be present (e.g., federal court), which really limits what I can carry with me. For instance, I’m a Mac guy, but there’s no way to order a MacBook without a built-in webcam (which I’ve never used on the machines I’ve owned that have had one). Ditto the iPhone. I’m left with a BlackBerry 8830 and the bottom rung of the [W|L]Intel portables. Even then, when I ordered a Dell Mini 9, I had to wait more than a month because I specified no webcam when I placed the order. This is a relatively common (government, law, sensitive corporate environments) requirement; what have other Slashdotters done? Disabling the camera with a script or somesuch won’t convince the $12/hour security guard that there’s no camera. How can one easily find portable devices without a built-in camera?

That is the ONLY reason I still own a PC. It is REALLY frustrating. I have to question how serious they are to be in the business world? Professionals are not interested in video chatting with their pre-teen buddies. (Of course that is sarcastic, I use video chat, but not in my legal job.) Why is it so hard for them to see that a webcam needs to be able to be special-ordered as excluded. Not to mention that some parents simply do not want their kids to have webcams.