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This is somewhat off topic, but I've always thought of Library Genesis as a modern-day Library of Alexandria. Both contain vast stores of priceless knowledge, and both employ(ed) somewhat less than optimal means of obtaining their books.

I wonder if the individuals who wrote that report can see the similarities too. It's going to be a sad day if they manage to raze LibGen as well.

Disappointing, but a good reminder to not trust 3rd party services with sensitive data regardless.

There's a distinction made between individuals that follow society's rules and those that break them on a massive scale for financial gain (or other reasons).

Great concept, but I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with a plugin that sends a list of active files to a website (even if it is SSL-secured).

The discrepancy between what's written on the board and what the students copied down on their papers in that picture is bothering me just a bit.

Think free as in freedom, not as in beer.

Not available on Win8 x64?

I've seen this article five or so times now, but what's always missing is what they did that counts as "hacking" the tablet. Was it changing a (hidden) setting in the camera preferences file? Disabling some sort of monitoring software (and if so, how)? Reverse engineering a preexisting binary on the device?

Is there any word of a 3G version? The free 100MB/month is the only appealing thing I can see about Chromebooks right now.