I find it pretty pathetic that comments which misscharacterize things mentioned in the article or in the various links are so highly moderated.

I hear you... hopefully someone will add the feature of being able to have it sync with your desktop. Sort of like the iPhone, Mobile Me, and Back to my Mac. If I could sync my mail with my desktop Mail client; play music from my Library; and access all my photos & documents... then I'd sign up happily. I also would be much happier if my data was encrypted while it transited it's way through the net.

Google isn't pointing this at desktops or workstation. They've said specifically it's for netbooks and smartbooks.

My feeling is that after the disaster that was the Bush Administration the brand name of " Libertarianism" came into vogue... so there are a lot of folks running around calling themselves Libertarians when they actually are not.

I'd love to see public canings for malfeasance and misconduct.

This is factually wrong. Ocean going transport represents a significant portion of all pollutions, including green house gasses.

It's not immediately clear to me that an Entourage going crazy with the cognito virus while managing my mundane tasks and access global information networks would be substantially worse than what's going on now with me & my ISP.

There is a pretty good Anime named "Ergo Proxy". The main character Re-l Mayer, has a folding e-folio like device with translucent screens which I have coveted since I saw the series.

Oh... and the sound track is pretty good too.

As a long time Mac user, I completely agree with you. I have long thought Apple did not take security seriously or at least did not devote the resources they should on security matters. Worse, I absolutely do not want to go through a decade of painful and annoying security problems (like the windows users went through) before Apple begins to put real effort into security.

On Snow Leopard, I've told everyone in my family to ignore Snow Leopard until some convenient time after Christmas or so. There's not much in it for regular users and I am not aware of a single application that really leverages the new technology found in Snow Leopard... so there's no rush upgrading.

Oh... one last thing: Wasn't OpenBSD doing this long before windows?

No. Remember they're talking about Wall Street.

On a more serious note, Nature Magazine has had several very interesting articles on economic & climatic modeling in the past few months... but I'm sure all of them are behind the Nature.com pay wall.

Don't sweat it. Y'all can always do what we're doing in Austria: Buy power from another, poorer, country which has a Nuclear Power plant on our border. See we don't have nuclear power in our country!

In Atlanta, Ga I was pulled out of the line for an airport security, threatened and subjected to scrutiny which can only be characterized as "harassment"... for making this exact comment.

no. we've had a variant but lesser hell for years. Which has led to a series of cargo cult like maintenance procedures for Mac OS.

Not that I really have a dog in this hunt but I think the comparison of colloquial English and computer communication protocols is an extremely poor one. Perhaps legal English would make for a better but still imperfect comparison... and that certainly has a long history of regulation, negotiation, contractual agreement.

Perhaps, it's just that the European Commission is just slightly less beholden to corporations than their counterparts in the US.

As far as I can tell their slowness to sign on to other corporatist things coming from the US has been a pretty good thing.