I don't think that anyone debates how easy it is to steal a bunch of pamphlets. I think it's more about the price of losing a bunch of pamphlets versus losing a tablet.

If only I still had mod points... so true.

I appreciate the idea of searching for extraterrestrial artifacts, but the moon does not seem a logical place for aliens to drop off their stuff. If anything, it seems far more likely that the earth would be such a place, seeing as it has life already (and has been far more active over the course of its history) so if it makes sense to search anywhere, it's here. I'm not sure what could really be accomplished by scouring the moon...

What are you talking about? There's no such thing as two.

Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you wanted to build a rig capable of playing Xbox 360 ports with graphics on-par with the console, you wouldn't need to spend more than $50 on a video card, if that. The whole computer would probably run you less than the Xbox 360, AND it would be capable of upgrades, not to mention a real operating system with real programs. If you really prefer the console controller, you can hook that up to your PC. If you really prefer playing on a TV, get a cheap HDMI cable, or place your PC by your TV. Besides exclusive games (which is entirely a marketing issue), there is no reason to use a console, certainly one like the Xbox 360, over a PC.

1.21 Gigapixels

Wow, at that resolution, you can practically see back in time...

I'll hold out for the social enhancement chip. Could use some pheromones right about now...

When I saw the headline, I thought Apache was going to warn retailers about selling HP touchpads...

When you're talking about books being phased out in a few generations, nitpicking about current OCR is irrelevant. OCR technology will improve, industrial design will improve, and it probably won't take more than a decade before all of the "kinks" are worked out of digital literature. And at that point, new generations will be born into it. I think it is a given that digital text will overtake print; it is merely a question of how long.

Okay, so they claim that the memory is denser than NAND, and cheap to boot. That's great. But TFA makes no mention of its performance. How does the read/write speed compare to that of NAND, or magnetic drives? Could the 3D architecture potentially slow read/write times? I'm not trying to make any claims here, but it's a little disconcerting that there is no mention of it at all within the article.