What a lame article. Summary: eBook readers haven't caught on yet, so China isn't mass producing them. Um, duh, thanks for the news.

As I sat in traffic for 20 minutes this morning to return 2 books to the library to avoid late fees, I thought to myself -- this is just stupid.

We cut down trees to make paper, print on it, then drive around in our cars to transfer the paper from one location to another. Or pay UPS to ship paper from Amazon to our house, where we read it, then put it on a shelf for 10 years. How quaint.

This is kind of old news. AT&T has allowed this for years, using Narus hardware.

After 9/11, the NSA + CIA became heavily involved in searching for terrorists via any means necessary. They were granted access originally under the pretense of monitoring international phone calls, but this monitoring also gave them full access to major ISP/backbone networks.

This is explained in a very logical and believable way in the book "The One Percent Doctrine" -- an interesting read.