I don't know how their computing stations are set up (in terms of physical location and security), but might it be possible to just ban outside media?

@Gothamite88: Haha! I'm sure some day they will move on from "get the ball in the hole" to "smash the other teams robot to bits". It would probably get more interest from the age demographic they hit.

@bungadunga: I've actually wondered about that before. It always seemed obvious to me that that color didn't fit into any of the wavelength maps I have seen.

Well, I can't fathom the scientific value of this launch. I can fathom the eBay value of "space cheese", however.

@Brian Wright: I want to support this view. It is even worse than that: They are not asking for money, they are demanding that companies share their philosophy.

I generally manage to get by without much gadget envy, but it is hard when Google is just giving other people cool gadgets to play with. Just signed up for the pilot program, but I should have done that a long time ago.

I can kind of see the logic here, but if I ever try it I will definitely be setting up an auto-reply telling people that I will not get their e-mails unless they send them again when I return.

Amazon has got to be one of the bigger companies you can go after, and their business model is based on high volume internet technology.

While there are undoubtable major plot holes involved with moon landing conspiracies... That is an awesome plot idea. Looked well done too.

That has to be the only headline I have ever seen with Zuckerberg's name in it that hasn't annoyed me.

@Titch: Besides the fact that your last statement is redundant (illegal AND against the UN charter? it is only illegal BECAUSE of the UN charter), Wikileaks did not release this information to report on that problem.

@jbouklas: I absolutely agree with this. I let it slide with the military leak, because they did uncover some murky stuff (though they still did so indiscriminately and irresponsibly).

@bramathon: Yeah, it is that manual numbering that I don't want to go back to. Making a bibliography has never been so bad to me, but when you are writing a 10,000 word document with 70 references you notice the numbering.

@Duffin: Well, they have to at least have flash drives work, and I consider two to be a minimum: It is painful to work with data off of a flash drive and not have a port available for some other use (say, a mouse).

The one major reason I have not used Google Docs: I cannot get by without a well integrated reference manager. For me, that means Endnote. If Google had a solution to that, I could probably get 90% of my away-from-home work done on Chrome OS. Without it, I would be lucky to do 25%.

Looks nice, though one USB port is a little tight. I suppose you are supposed to use the cloud for everything, so peripherals are dead?

@Bob Barker: It appears to be, which is great. Giving presentations on the go is one of my favorite uses for my current netbook.

A big factor for my Kindle is convenience. New releases do tend to be cheaper, which is good, and I have read a number of public domain books for free, which is great, but I have also gotten some of those in between titles for the sake of reading them on that device.

@kirtay: I was just thinking that :) It runs ok on Firefox, as far as I can tell. Definitely still a bookmark, but a good one.

@rnrxtreme: Good catch, I missed that. I guess I only saw the ones running on Windows.