I meant the wireless 3G service provided by Verizon for every unit.

If your laptop is having an issue connecting to the net, then you should be on the phone with Verizon. If your laptop is having some other problem, you should contact the manufacturer - and it's not Google. Granted that Google did do the "support" for the Nexus One, but they also completely hid the fact HTC made it.

Excluding fire itself, obviously, because there certainly don't need to be people around for things to catch fire. No oxygen, no problems?

On your point about Counter-Strike, it's really disappointing to see most game developers (usually inside places like EA) moving to matchmaking and not releasing modding tools for PC. It's one of the big reasons I'm a PC gamer, as well as Valve being one of my favorite companies. Even more recently Fallout New Vegas has mod tools to let people create new content. There are a lot of Unreal Engine games that have the capability to be modded or have maps made but the developers don't allow it.

I misread that as PlayStations and the Department of Defense.

No, just sad.

Yes, because they have access to the financial network to attack it. ...

Or radar.

No, that's not what I meant. You and the GP are talking about distributed DNS that a client uses. For example, at home I use my ISP's DNS servers. This is what we want alternative DNS for, and I don't disagree with you. However, Amazon's service is for DNS nameservers. When I own a domain, I point the nameservers at ns1.example.com, ns2.example.com, which officially say that example.com points at 192.168.1.1. This is the service Amazon is hosting. You could do this at several places, but instead of hosting it yourself on your own server using BIND, or depending on someone else externally, you can use Amazon just like you are EC2 for your DNS.

I know it's not normal to read the article on Slashdot, but seriously? Amazon is offering DNS hosting. Think BIND, not OpenDNS or whatever.

Yeah, probably. If you're already running all their services, do you really want to manage BIND or equivalent by yourself? Linode offers DNS for their VM service, I'm sure others do too.

I'm confused. The study says there's no conclusive link, BUT they support the 18+ rating (which now allows these games instead of banning them). How is this a bad thing?

This will only effect smaller items, though. Shipping services would still be needed for the big stuff, and plenty of that gets sent around. I would assume that heavier stuff doesn't have quite the profit margin smaller items do, though.

Unfortunately this will be more like UDP, and the destroyed canisters won't get resent.

WebDAV?