Simpler than that, the T&C prohibits use of 3G for anything other than "the service", which is essentially whatever content B&N allows.

B&N can update the Nook OTA, right? If so, you are right, this won't even be a fight, it will be a smackdown. First thing devs are going to have to do is find a way to disable automatic updates, and probably spoof software versions, because I can imagine they will lockout non-updated devices.

@MiketheVee You know what would be really cool? If it shot a tube into the mouse, and then inflated it until it popped!

@DaHarder You must have missed something. The GUI is slow and awful and ugly, and the touch sensitivity is practically nonexistent. Notice that Youtube videos dont even play within the page?

@dsr1205 Sketchy Singaporean dude isn't Steve Jobs, and can't get away with that.

@Zweben
Unfortunately, I worry that joojooman there (Chandra) probably wrote the software...

@conscious
Hey, wanna take a look at my joojoo?

No one's HMO, PPO, or national health care plan is going to cover that. There are 61,000 finger amputees in the US, and assuming a median cost of $50,000/unit, that would be a one time cost of 3 billion dollars, not to mention the maintenance network you would have to have to maintain that many devices.

Kids these days...

So, existing social networking fails and MIT wins by using a pyramid scheme, which if it worked correctly would give exactly no money to charity, and none to MIT. Just proves not even MIT can have their cake and eat it too.

Note: Working correctly means that every person to locate a balloon was referred by someone who was likely also referred by someone, and so on, each referral halving the amount of money donated to charity for that balloon (starting at 2000 if the finder was not referred). MIT would have been smart to advertise their site through a third party or another social networking system, which would have lessened the number of secondary referrals, and resulted in more money for charity.

Its going to look pretty stupid if they end up writing a less than $1000 check to the charity. It will pretty much show that DARPA should have just set up a website and said, first person to spot each balloon gets $4000.