IOW: you didn't win, so you deride the contest rather than congratulate the winner.

On the tech specs, it's clearly listed as a quad-band phone with 850MHz compatibility. Given that AT&T's 3G in on the 850MHz band, I thought this meant the Nexus S would work fine at 3G. I recall the N900 wouldn't work on AT&T's 3G (but it would on Edge), because the phone's radio only supported 900MHz.

Or am I missing something here?

When I was in grade school, we used to fling sharpened pencils like crossbow bolts, using several rubber bands for higher tension. It wasn't uncommon to draw blood from these toys... and there would be quite a firefight whenever the teacher turned his or her back toward the class to write on the board. So, I think that's why the summary mentions "materials to build weapons," but it's still a stupid idea to ban pencils.

Isn't this precisely what a security or network consulting firm would do? Company X pays the company $y per year to take care of all connection-related issues, and even information management. What Apple has done is bring this to the individual consumer, rather than just corporate clients. What's so bad about that?

Just playing devil's advocate here; I'm the proud owner of a Nexus One myself, but I also work in IT.

Even before Katrina, many of the devastated areas in New Orleans weren't exactly prime real estate. So I don't think it's fair to say that people will "pay plenty" to live in poor conditions. Don't you find it more likely that these proposed cities will quickly turn into conveniently off-shore ghettos?

You know, a lot of people would say that same thing about their computers. And if you're thinking of devices like the Nexus One as "basically just a phone," you haven't spent time with one. Even calling it "basically just a computer" is selling it short; this thing has a faster processor, more RAM, and more storage space than my desktop computer from ten years ago. And it fits in my pocket.

If you want to be all "Get off my lawn" about smartphones, be my guest. But the influx of mobile computing is happening with or without your personal consent, and I think there's a lot of good to come of it, if we do it right.

No. I have a Nexus One and am extremely pleased with it. The unlocked bootloader means I can run whatever version of the operating system I want. Google releases the source code months (in some cases, maybe years) before most phone manufacturers get around to offering an update, but modding communities like CyanogenMod have an extremely fast turnaround. They build for many different handsets, by different vendors, patch often (there are nightly releases available if you're into that), and don't seem to have any bias about device manufacturers.

Google did allow this system to be open, but people didn't vote with their dollars by buying the Nexus One in big enough numbers. I wouldn't stand for having a computer that restricted the software I'm allowed to run on it, and I don't see any reason to change that philosophy for using a "smartphone."

While I acknowledge your penchant for information security, I fail to see how information on a non-networked computer is useful. If we're tearing out our network cards in 2010 (note that the very notion of non-embedded networking hardware is rather old-hat), let's just go back to poking at clay tablets with sticks! All this new-fangled technology is for the birds, right?

TFA is about ensuring that computer security improves to meet new challenges. That is both harder and more noble than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which you seem to propose as a reasonable solution.

I'm certainly not trying to minimize molestation

Burn him, burn him!

Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.

The best jokes are never understood on first telling.

Back to the subject at hand, however, why not consult the Chicago Manual of Style? To cut to the chase:

So, in our efficient, modern world, I think there is no room for two spaces after a period. In the opinion of this particular copyeditor, this is a good thing.

Seems pretty reasonable to me, and it's from quite a credible source. Read the full page for justification (no pun intended).

It will be more than a decade before humans even attempt another trip outside of Earth's orbit.

What about India's and China's plans to go to the moon, six years and three years away, respectively?

While I'm sure you're joking, cats actually do tend to respond well to sibilant names. So in this case, "Missy" is a name a cat is likely to respond to.

Googling around at work didn't yield any articles that were both in support of my claim and cited other sources, so you'll have to perform the research yourself. I've had many cats over the years, and this seems like a reasonable observation to me. A good relationship with your cat and reasonable training usually means the cat will respond to whatever its name is, but a lot of this has to do with the cat recognizing the owner's voice, more than the actual sound the human voice is making. Much of human-range languaging phonetics are sophisticated enough that both cats and dogs are largely in the dark about them. (See Levin, 2007 for more on that.)

Yep, no GNU/Linux means no remote backups.