I think you're right about a lot of people charging their devices overnight. While we could debate the reasons why we've gotten to a place where that's necessary, charging overnight should be as simple as setting the phone down on your nightstand with the Nexus 4's inductive charging dock (called the wireless charging orb). I've always been a fan of docks, and I'm hoping this becomes more mainstream so that a dock like this could be interchangeable with multiple devices (which should already be possible since it's using the Qi wireless charging standard).

Could you share where you found that expenses number?

ThinkGeek wasn't part of the purchase.

In Geeknet's financial results last quarter, ThinkGeek's revenue is growing and looks like the most profitable part of the business. The media sites (Slashdot, Sourceforge, and Freecode), on the other hand, are producing less than 1/3 of the revenue of ThinkGeek and are decreasing. So it looks like Geeknet is trying to focus on the more profitable pieces and extract whatever value it can from the media sites (dumping Slashdot to focus on Thinkgeek).

As to what it mean for Slashdot, I think we'll just have to wait and see.

In this article, it mentions that the revenue for Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode (the 3 acquisitions) was $20 million last year. I'm not totally sure what it means to sell them for 1 year's revenue, but the article interpreted that fact as as a suggestion of trouble within the 3 sites.