T-Mobile does this:

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Packages/ValuePackages.aspx

For $50/month you can get 500 voice minutes, unlimited text, and 2GB of data.

In comparison to AT&T, they offer a subsidized plan for $90/month and that includes 450 voice minutes, unlimited text, and 3GB of data. Let's say with T-Mobile you get the above plan for $50/month and a phone for $550. At the end of 24 months you will have paid $1,750. If you got AT&T and paid $200 for a subsidized phone, you will have paid $2,360 at the end of 24 months. This is pretty much the primary reason why I am a T-Mobile customer.

How exactly will a software keylogger installed on the operating system on the local disk be able to grab keystrokes if you booted off a livecd? If you are talking about hardware keyloggers, that may make sense for a desktop computer in where the keylogger lies between the USB or PS/2 connection. I really doubt that a company would go through the trouble to install a keylogger in the proprietary ribbon cable between the laptop keyboard and the motherboard.

For all you computer history geeks out there, here is a clip from Computer Chronicles of Susan Kare demonstrating the Mac back in 1984:

http://www.archive.org/details/Computer1984_3?start=772

I agree, I wish there was a kit I could buy to build a functional computer that could run a modern Linux distro. I know that they make a kit called "Replica 1" that you can build an Apple I clone, but I wonder if there is something out there more advanced. I was thinking how awesome it would be to assemble something like a Raspberry Pi and put it into a case with a similar formfactor as a ZX Spectrum.

Ever since Oracle bought out Sun, they went overboard with the licensing costs for Solaris. Remember a few years back when Sun will let you run Solaris 10 for free? Well no more, if you have a non-Oracle two processor server it will cost you $2,000 per year. You don't own a license, you are basically renting the privilege to run Solaris on a server for one year. Also, you only get one flavor of support which they laughably call "premium". Their support is a joke now, and in my experience the good Sun engineers left a long time ago. For starters, you now get to talk to an overseas helpdesk which logs your call and for severity one issues, they give you a call back in an hour (if you're lucky). It used to be you will call an easy to remember number (1-800-USA-4SUN) and you will get a live transfer to a knowledgeable engineer to fix your problem. A few years ago I used to be a staunch supporter of Sun and Solaris but it seems like Oracle has done everything to drive me away from Sun's hardware and software. I am pretty sure I am not the only one either.

Not to mention that they charge $45/month for just 4gb of data. I just priced out an iPhone 4 with 450 voice minutes, unlimited text, and 4gb of data and it came out to a whopping $104.99/month PLUS taxes. I pay T-Mobile $70/month for the same service. I'm not looking forward to being an AT&T customer once they acquire T-Mobile.

This is false. I own both a HTC G1 and a Samsung Vibrant which both have the US T-Mobile 3G frequencies and I had no problems using T-Mobile's prepaid 3G network in the UK. The only caveat is to make sure that the phones are unlocked so they will accept a UK SIM card.

What brand? Oracle has already re-branded everything that has to do with Sun. Try installing the latest update of Solaris 10 and looking at /etc/release:

                                        Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10x_u9wos_14a X86
                                        Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
                                        Assembled 11 August 2010

Granted, they haven't renamed all of the acronyms (built-in packages are still SUNW*) but I wouldn't put it past them. Sun Microsystems is a completely dead brand and means nothing now. I kind of wish IBM would of bought them after all.

Nintendo didn't pull the Virtual Boy because of its headache inducing red LED display, they pulled it because it was a shitty console that nobody bought.

Have you checked out the Lenovo Thinkpad USB keyboard yet? Supposedly it's the same keyboard ripped right from the notebook:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=55Y9003