Would a chromebook make a good travel laptop for this sort of situation? Let's say you have two Google accounts, one with a bland public persona and one with any sensitive information you care to work with. Delete your sensitive account from the machine before you transit through customs and add it back when you get to a safe(ish) network. Keep all your data in the cloud.

I wonder what Chrome OS does with local files of deleted users?

I'm not sure I'd right off the USPS. Their parcel business seems to be growing rapidly, with very competitive prices for small fixed price boxes.

I think the big shopping mall anchor stores (Macy's, JC Penney, etc) are all likely to fail in the next 20 years. Sears is already a dead man walking, Penney's is close and the others are living on borrowed time.

The combined Reddit/4Chan photo collection was pretty crappy and lacking in metadata. The website from which the pictures of the two high school kids that got "fingered" by Reddit was very upfront about stating that the picture of the two of them from Page 1 of the NYP was taken 3 hours before the bombing. Photos from the same source closer to the time of the blast don't show them or the bomb in place yet. This could have been used to discard them as subjects if that info was more widely known.

The police/FBI had a huge advantage in that they had all relevant surveillance camera imagery plus everything 4chan had, plus more, including the eye witness reports of the surviving victims. They were probably able to correlate that imagery to cell tower call records and narrow down what phoes were in use right there and then, including the bombers.

After using a Samsung Chromebook for my casual evening browsing habits for a few months I find myself loving the light weight. A 3 pound laptop is something I can keep in my lap all evening comfortably, without wishing I had a desk to throw the thing on to give my legs a break.

You could tow a trailer with a big battery pack in it. Or call for the roadside delivery of one if you're dead.

Buy a $20K financed over 5 years and put anything left over into the kids' college fund is how it really works.

It has the potential to be much cheaper once the startup costs are payed off. Just consider the parts count in an internal combustion engine vs. an electric motor driven by batteries. It's at least a 100:1 difference.

Also, think about all the service calls you won't have to make for oil changes, air filters, fuel filters, spark plugs, and so on. And 5 years down the road you might get to retrofit your car with a battery pack that doubles your range.

Facebook is where my relatives post updates. Google+ is great for information from Google related products like android and chrome os. I tried sharing some pictures on Google+ and while the picture sharing is/was better than facebook I don't think anyone saw them.

I think it's fair to say that Kodak adopted digital imaging about as well as Xerox adapted all of the ground-breaking technology out of Xerox PARC. That is, not well at all.

Many people say they should've gone into the camera business but I don't think that would've worked. Not many American companies can compete in the world of consumer electronics these days and the digital camera business is mostly a consumer electronics industry.

Maybe they should've tried to create the iTunes and iPod of photography. Take your pictures with whatever camera you want, but if you want to make your pictures look their best plug them into the eKodak kiosk or iKodak software for your home computer and we'll make them look better, and allow you to share them with Granny online or send her some pretty photo albums. Sort of iPhoto meets Flickr meets Facebook.

I haven't got that many awkward friend requests. Once I got a few HS friends I surfed through their friend lists for familiar names and made some selective friend requests. But I also just surfed through a lot of HS acquaintance info pages and photos to get a sense of what they're up to.

Sadly, the "girl that got away" has never shown up on FB or at the one reunion I attended. Forever a mystery I guess.

Not everyone gets to go to a college where they "really" have fun and make friends. Some save money by going to community college during the best party years and then have to get serious when they finally go to a real school.

Some just never make a connection in college. I went to a big state school and had a great time, no regrets really. But thirty years later I have a dozen facebook friends from HS and only 1 from college, and that one is pretty tenuous.

This was one of the "features" of iTunes that Apple put in place to placate the piracy crazed record labels. Dragging and dropping MP3s from computer to iPod and back again through the file system was regarded as a piracy enabler and the record labels wanted to at least keep it from being so easy that any 13 year old noob could do it. That is, after all, their target market. Apple went one step farther and extended that process to every kind of file on the i[Pod|Phone|Pad]. Then as the iTunes market matured they've been relaxing those restrictions just a bit.

I think all the Archos products got bad reviews, in the "wrong touchscreen technology, slow processor, last years OS and no Apps store" level. The Fire doesn't have all those strikes against it. The Nook Color needs to be hacked to be a full featured tablet and that shuts a lot of the market out.

The most unlikely part of the planted explosives theory is that the demolition charges could've survived the plane crashes and ensuing fires without any malfunctions. Remote controlled, wired or wireless demolition charges don't do very well in really hot fires. The wires lose their insulation and short. The explosives themselves melt and/or catch fire. If there are wireless receivers involved they are susceptible to all kinds of fire damage and radio transmission interference problems. And videos of the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 show very clearly that the collapses started exactly where the airplanes struck, so the hijackers would have to have aimed exactly where those indestructible demolition charges were planted, on different floors on each tower, for some reason. It just strains credulity way too far.

Maybe Apple just hasn't looked at the home theater market that much, beyond trying to build an iTunes store for it through the AppleTV.

But technical challenges? Really? If a mouse and keyboard vendor like Logitech can make a halfway decent IR remote like the Harmony a big league player like Apple can do it better. I suppose the big challenge is making an XBox360 or PS3 work too? Really mind blowing challenges there I'm sure.