I tried and failed (googling iphone and sexy doesn't really give the results I want in this case). Care to hand out a link or two?

Your state has invented the IRL EULA. Congratulations!

Wow, you're angry. But it makes me curious - what troubleshooting options have you tried? Booting from installation media? Reset PRAM? Booting from an external hard disk? Putting the computer in Target Disk Mode and examining the logs from another computer?

Mind you, they don't necessarily need access to the device internals to detect that it's running malware. There are products for ISP's that detect traffic patterns that indicate an infected computer, and then isolate the computer in question in a sandbox network where all HTTP requests go to a support page with cleanup tools and links to anti-virus vendors. I guess you can employ a similar strategy for wireless networks.

(My employer used to have such a product, I think it's still in use in some Finnish broadband companies.)

While this used to be true, it isn't anymore (try installing iWorks, iLife, XCode ...). For complex software (say, you want to be able to run code post install, or install several packages at once), Apple recommends using PackageMaker to create pkg or mpkg bundles that are installed using the OS X Installer application. Also, OS X has package management that keeps track of what you have installed and what files belong to which application. See man pages pkgutil(1), installer(8) and packagemaker(1) for more information. Also, read Apple's Software Delivery Guide.

I pay €55.50 per month - about $82.30 - for 100/5 Mbps, using the most common cable provider in the Helsinki metropolitan area (Welho). So while it's cheaper here, it's not by orders of magnitude. (I'm sure there are cheaper providers available, but these are the kind of prices most people are subject to.)

I'm reading at +4 and right now there are 7 (or 9, depending on how you count) posts very critical of Apple, while 2 posts are trying to downplay the bug as not a serious issue. So you're not exactly going against the current here...

I'd say that this community is appropriately critical in this case. No pitchforks, but lots of angry voices (and very few apologists).

This is interesting to me. Does a personal bankruptcy in the US result in that the debts are cancelled? In many (well, some) European countries personal bankruptcy is different from a corporate bankruptcy in that you do _not_ automatically get rid of your debts. Instead, you lose access to all your finances, anything you earn will be under the control of a "good man" who will take care of all your money for you, giving you a weekly allowance for living expenses (and you are not allow to buy anything other than the bare necessities) and then using the rest to pay off your debts. This will go on for as long as needed, or, if it's clear that there is no chance that you'll ever pay off your debt, you may be eligible for debt reduction (after having lived for many year on the allowance only).

Unless you're building Vista or a full Linux distro you should be building several times per day, and certainly not on a weekly basis. Preferably on each commit. My team produces tens of builds on a busy workday. Naturally, testing should be done automatically as well, as a part of the team's standard continuous integration system.

How is it a conspiracy? To me it sounds more like a company meeting the demands of a (big and important) customer.

I still have not seen one single artist that actually made a career this way.

I could easily think of two Swedish artists that made it to the local top charts (and several foreign) after starting out only by putting their music online for free (not P2P, but Myspace and personal homepages): Basshunter and Miss Li.

I'm pretty sure it's possible to find more examples with a bit of research.

It surely does, especially as the daylight hours get longer as the summer approaches. People watch a lot of TV series and movies during the dark winter hours, and much less during the light and warm summers. Note that in northen Sweden, sun doesn't set at all during summer, while in winter the sun never rise. In the more populated areas, like Stockholm, it's not quite as bad but the difference in the amount of daylight is still very big:

http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Sweden-Facts/Worth-knowing-about-Sweden/Time--daylight-hours/

The way that it really works in Europe

Of course, there's no such thing as "how it works in Europe". Yes, in Europe a phone is generally more detached from the subscription than what seems to be the norm in the US, but there are almost 50 different countries in Europes, all with their own little quirks and specialities when it comes to how mobile telephony has been implemented. Some countries have laws requiring GSM phones to be unlocked while allowing 3G phones to be locked. Some countries do not allow locked phones at all. Some countries let the market decide. The EU may harmonise the market a bit within its 27 member states, but generally lets the local governments decide how they want to implement things (and it's worth remembering that there are still some 20 European states that are not part of the EU).

It's quite possible for Mobile Safari in iPhone to be vulnerable without that making the phone pwnable. For example, one reason could be that the iPhone OS kernel is only able to execute signed code - unless the phone has been pwned and the signing restrictions disabled. There are probably ways around this from userland, too, but I guess they are pretty hard to find and even harder to exploit. And also, owning Mobile Safari would only give you a uid 501 process, from there you'd have to find some way to escalate your privileges to root.

This whole "Why MS? They've got money!" thing stinks more of people here's biases

Who are these people? Most of the highly moderated comments here so far seem to say that this is a non-issue and that the story is a troll. In fact, I just counted, and reading at +4, there are five comments who agree with you, while one comment is neutral and one disagrees.