The ISPs say they've never been approached by a content provider with a request to pay for priority transmission... Presumably the content providers have thought about it. Maybe it's just not worth spending the money on?

I think the system they're looking for is the single transferable vote. With cumulative voting, various interests have to figure out how many candidates they have the numbers to elect and then organize their voters ahead of the election. With STV, the system itself does this all for them and gives fair, proportional results.

The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied

Bwahahaha!!!

Google docs even lets you organize split files in a folder and share the whole lot together. Death to rapidshare!

Google will also allow some data and applications to be accessed offline. Users will be able to listen to music and read eBooks without an internet connection, for example, as well as accessing files stored on USB flash drives. Any application that supports HTML5's offline mode will also be accessible without a net connection.

This basically opens up multitudes of possibilities for offline apps. If you can plug in a USB flash drive, why not a USB hard drive? If you can store and listen to music offline, why not video? And if everything runs in the browser, it just means that the API is javascript. You can do a lot with javascript.

Also, being open source means that forks can add whatever regular linux functionality they want.

I'm interested in what they're doing with X11. Anyone looked at the code?