$269/yr, though that may have gone up for newer subscribers. (http://www.corcell.com/)

I've found two screens invaluable at work -- try opening an IDE, browser(s), database, code repository, etc. on one screen... no. If you're willing to lug the weight, it sounds great. I wouldn't want to travel with it (and my wife REALLY wouldn't want to travel with it), but I would consider it for "limited mobility" use. With that many cores, it sounds powerful enough to usefully run a database & web server; and connectivity these days is such that you could well have those available on your wireless network anyway.

Dilbert's Garbage Man. "Who would throw away a perfectly good robot, when all it needs is a neuro-spectrum field calibration?" "You can borrow my __X__ [time machine, ...]." But yes, Asok and Alice are up there.

Maybe the FBI would be more interested...

Why not send the data to "law enforcement" in real-time, and let them worry about storing it?

You're thinking Douglas Adams here. "Paperweight" is the traditional term, though you don't see as many these days.

Might work for a while, but probably not longer term. "Available" doesn't mean "looked at," so anyone who might get caught will probably be OK until they irk someone who knows about the program.

Is it just me, or does anyone else have a hard time believing that anyone (that reads /.) spends THAT much time "coding" HTML, that dealing with a compressed format... which will surely go over well with one's colleagues... and is a good candidate for a code-obfuscation contest... would be useful?

"Who here doesn't think a TNG-style Holodeck would lead to the downfall of our civilization?" Don't forget: Lt. Barclay (the one who was always in some sorry circumstance -- turned into a giant spider, or whatever) eventually managed to pull himself out of that trap. If he can do it, so can Humanity!