The same Microsoft and OEM that think there is a market for Windows Phone? Where are they at on the phone market right now? 1%? 2%?

What kind of typo brings you to a porn website?

I was in that bookstore last saturday, it's a great place. The only downside (for me) is that they obviously mostly have books in Dutch, which I don't read.

Actually, it was not her, it was Michèle Alliot-Marie who offered French "expertise" to the Tunisian government. Both are french, women, and politicians, but that's all they have in common.

You do realize you're talking about Afghanistan, right? Where "formal" education is probably (barely) equivalent to highschool in a western country?

Yeah, I'm sure most afghans have access to US education... I mean, the plane ticket is probably more than what they make in a year, but sure...

I'm sure the people in Afghanistan have access to the same education as the people in California...

With the "calculators" they give you here in Belgium, it's not an option.
Except for the initial login, everything you do in your online banking requires you to type in both the amountof the transaction AND a challenge in the calculator, and the challenge is specific to the transaction. The responses is then calculated using both the amount and the challenge
At most, your attack would allow you to get in my online banking once, not to take anything.

Signable bootloader come as a "feature" on most modern chips. It's then up to the phone manufacturer to decide wether they want to sign theirs.

Perhaps your carrier removed it from the rom that came out with your device, but mine didn't remove it on my HTC desire, neither did they remove it on my samsung galaxy Ace, or my samsung galaxy tab.

Samsung didn't make the nexus One, HTC did...

None of previous HTC phones were "open", except for the dev phones. The G1 was locked, and was only rootable through exploits. It's been that way since HTC delivered its first windows mobile phones years ago.
The facts that those exploits were relatively easy to find did not make the phones "open".

The bootloader signing is only the latest weapon in HTC arsenal, and one that's much harder to defeat, hence the outcry.

Wifi tethering does not require root on recent android devices.

If torrent links had been made available on the website, then I'm pretty sure someone who got there before it got slashdotted would have copied them here, allowing slashdotters to discover his music, which is not possible while the website is down

Well, right now, his website is apparently down, so it seems he made the wrong choice?
If he had put up bittorent/ed2k/... links instead of hosting the files himself, he might have avoided death by slashdot.

Your post has nothing to do with what I was saying, but anyway...
You think nothing's wrong with your setup, but you're saying it doesn't work like it does for most people... Think again?
Your ISP might throttle you, maybe you tried torrents with few sources?
Using usenet for downloading is like pulling a truck trailer with a moped. It works, but it was not meant for it. There are tons of protocols made for downloading large binaries, and NNTP is not one of them. (sfv files? Really?)