with a subject like "Two Words..." I thought you might be referring to "Two Worlds..." and thought to myself: "PLEASE GOD, NO!"

Google Earth + Layers, maybe?

that here in the USA, using a service like this (and subsequently being caught) can stiffen any penalties or jail time your may receive because you're actively obstructing justice.

This is bunk, as many people have said before... exercise is good medicine. Who wants to wager that the new "updated" version of Wii Sports, with the Motion Plus controls, will be put on a similar test and researchers will waste another couple of million dollars figuring out that moving around is good for Parkinsons.

That's right, she lives in or near Sammamish, WA, which means she's about 2 hours from Vancouver. Hmmm....

No it's 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

... is there really a cyber WAR going on? Are people dying? No? Then I don't want to hear about it.

Google seems to be doing EXACTLY what Amazon is doing with their Kindle book service, they're just going all in wholesale. Whereas Amazon waits for the book publishers and authors to explicitly authorize their content to be sold on the Kindle, Google is taking more of a "shoot first and ask questions later" approach. Since a presumably large number of these scanned works will be from Author's Guild writers, I don't see why the Author's Guild can't say "Sure, you can scan the books of our patrons!". But instead, they are douchebags and say "In fact, you can scan ANY* book and we'll collect on the revenue for it." Which, as we all know, is retarded. Google is trying to one-up all of the other online book stores by being able to offer EVERY book. The Author's Guild is giving them the unjustified legal means to do so.

I think they are mostly trying to capture the iphone / itunes / android / windows mobile / palm-pre marketplace mentality. Nobody is interested when it's called a "repository" but if you call it an "app store" people will download....

MOD PARENT DOWN He's using the exact market speak that Microsoft hopes we all adopt. Even if he's doing it in a mocking tone, it's still gonna help that re branded "live" search catch on as a verb!

Not if you're planning on flying to Missouri, it doesn't! In fact, I think their system is now smart enough to suggest a different vacation destination!

I am SO moving to Norway!

To do this would almost certainly imply there is some illegality to what you are doing. Therefore, a company/group/organization/whatever that set terms like this would almost instantly get sued into oblivion.

I imagine it's expected to be popular based on price alone. It's easy to see why the majority of people living in "emerging economies such as Brazil and India" couldn't afford a $400 PS3 or even $250 Wii. But if you can make a game console $100 or even $150, it will probably sell like hot cakes, despite the lack of decent titles.

But - the cake is a lie!