We are having more flares than a Star Trek movie!!!

One of my favorites Sci-Fi movies... the sequel? Not so much.

Late summer at the time the photograph was taken?

Season change makes a big difference at any height

Still, how many bottled water companies have been busted selling filtered faucet water?

I can imagine it's something like that hot planet from The Chronicles of Riddick.

Well... right now is showing a black ribbon.

and the rest 0.01% will hardly tell if he/she is alive anymore.

The Oracle has always being misleading in its answers.

Dial-up???
That thing still exists???
I haven't even seen a dial-up modem for sale anywhere for years.

And this is Chile... I expected more from that big developed/industrialized empir^h^h^h^h^h country up north!!

If you don't mind reading in Spanish:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/tecnologia/2012/01/02/519679/desde-hoy-companias-desbloquearan-gratis-celulares-por-internet.html

http://www.guioteca.com/tecnologia/desbloquear-el-celular-que-significa-y-como-se-hace/

Almost any phone can be unlocked instantaneusly from the carrier's web form.... except iPhones... only Apple can unlock their phones... you have to fill a form (by pen at the carrier office) and wait for 15 days for the iPhone to be unlocked.

That is incorrect. You can take your number to any carrier you want... if you've got credit for buying a phone, then you still have to pay for it.
You sign two, independent, contracts one for the phone service (that by law you can end anytime you want), and another one for the leasing of the phone.

Greetings from Chile ;-)
(somebody turn off the heat please!!!)

The language is still spoken by the Rapa Nui Inhabitants.
(or a derivative taking in consideration a couple hundreds of years since the tables were written)

Not actually a ciphered text , but.

Any chance to use these techniques to finally be able to read the only written language of the Polynesia? (rongorongo from Rapa Nui)

The ability to read these "tables that speak" was lost due to the slavery of the Wise Elder that had the knowledge.

Law in Chile has a term for that "Hurto por hallazgo" (theft by finding - or something like that)
and it is treated very similar to simple theft.