You can protest outside of a business, but if you are physically stopping people from entering the building the answer is yes you can be arrested. Protesting is making your feelings known, not forcing your will on them.

"The iphone 3GS was discontinued in september 2012 (as in up until sep 2012 people were still buying them new on 2 year contracts usually "free") and it isn't supported with ios7 released in september 2013 one year later." No not it is not supported by iOS7, but they released a iOS 6.1.6 update for the iPhone 3GS just today so you can't say it is not still supported and updated.

Isn't this like Ford telling Toyota owners to buy a new Ford because a Chevron tanker ran aground?

Actually neither Sprint or Verizon will activate a phone not originally purchased from them. And neither will activate a phone reported stolen by an owner. Honestly this seems like a problem strictly for phones with SIM cards.

Article doesn't say.

1. Make fake website taking preorders for hot new item. 2. Submit story containing URL to News sites like Slashdot declaring site a fake. 3. Watch fake site shoot up in Google rankings due to links on popular news sites leading to tons of sales. 4. Profit! An editor seriously fell for this?

I seen ton of expensive stuff sold, and you can bet the ink has dried on the contracts before any requested change was made to the item that would possibly decrease the value to another seller. If I'm selling my house sure I'm gonna clean it up, put on a new coat of paint, and pressure wash the siding.... but if you tell me I have to rip out the in-ground pool and put in a tennis court before you will buy it you can bet I'm gonna get a signed contract and the money in escrow before I even cancel the pool cleaning service.

I think people are upset because they delayed info because they wanted it to be correct... then had it be incorrect anyways. So as a consumer/victim I ended up with incorrect info 2 days late, and then gave it more credibility because they had time to figure it out instead of judging it as just out info that may or may not be fully correct. I would prefer knowing of the possibility my info was stolen ASAP and then continuing updates as more info is given. Holding off telling me gives me no opportunity to protect myself, and I rather be on alert with the wrong info then thinking all is well with no info.

From FCC Site:

Phase II E911 rules require wireless service providers to: * within six minutes of a valid request by a PSAP, provide more precise location information to PSAPs; specifically, the latitude and longitude of the caller. This information must be accurate to within 50 to 300 meters depending on the type of technology used.

If your willing to bet your life on 6 minutes and 1000 feet that's fine, but I rather not. Sorry, what's that, you use a GPS based system and your in a heavily constructed bank or office building? I guess you can try and hit the bad guys on the head with your phone... though the old "brick" phones where much better at that.

The Zyxel Hotspot Gateway G4100 v2 does this, it's not under $200 but around at $500 with printer it is a affordable solution.

Actually wouldn't a hooker want to screw the customer as LITTLE as possible?

Didn't we just blast Toyota for having a completely closed system, that only 1 laptop in the US could access.... but now we blast everyone else for having an open system because it can be hacked?

Given physical access to any system it can be hacked.

Here is the missing links:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/04/28/melbourne-banksy-street-art.html

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_2_0_t&ct3=MAA4AEgCUABqAnVz&usg=AFQjCNErhVxz8bHDdfGDdi5fhOOSg3qxFw&cid=17593745138431&ei=PGfYS7CQH4PC8wSzvZuXAg&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Fvictoria%2Fmore-banksy-street-art-in-melbourne-20100428-ts54.html%3Fautostart%3D1

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_3_0_t&ct3=MAA4AEgDUABqAnVz&usg=AFQjCNEsUfIyFhXFwCLurPxuIXL7jMgM5A&cid=17593745138431&ei=PGfYS7CQH4PC8wSzvZuXAg&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Farticle-1269215%2FMelbourne-Council-orders-Banksy-street-art-painted-mistake.html%3Fito%3Dfeeds-newsxml

You must work in a big corporation, small businesses often don't have common hardware, so imaging and sysprep for each individual PC is not going to be faster then using a floppy.