New nook says: no root for you!     [Thanks Ken]     1. What I
hate about this is when you buy hardware, you expect to own it.
This is just like Apple products. “If you can’t hack it, you
don’t own it”    2. Brian says:      Damn. Glad I got mine at
launch then. The sad thing is I was getting the impression they
were okay with rooting, since no one has been abusing the 3g and
they haven’t put any security measures in the firmware updates.
3. Nemo says:      @Henrik-I agree, but the difficulties placed
in your way when hacking hardware like this do make the task
more interesting right? Hopefully the day will come when you
really do own what you pay for, but in the meantime at least
this common business model gives us some good exciting
challenges to overcome.    4. MS3FGX says:      Nobody here is
against getting their hands dirty with their devices, but in a
case like this where the earlier versions were pretty much wide
open and there was no abuse of the system, we shouldn’t HAVE to
go through that sort o