Yes but there is already infrastructure in place to combat CC fraud. Granted in India its not a good or reliable system but its a system none the less. And sat phones can be tracked whereas IMEI-less cell phones are not especially trackable.

Basically they are just forcing all their cellular networks to refuse connection to phones lacking IMEI numbers. This is hardly an international crisis. It just means that people are going to have to pay for their phone calls or pay to call in their bomb threats. No more free rides.

Clearly telemarketing in India is about to have a serious industry meltdown

Female geeks tend to be more intelligent and more independent. Their relationships frequently go sideways because their independence causes to refuse to compromise.

There are only three important things to consider.

First. Think of this like programming with ramming with rules. Together you create rules. Dont break them.

Second. Compromise. Successful relationships with independent women fail unless you can compromise. Always establish that you are compromising when it happens. It should never be assumed.

Third. Sex. Never compromise on sex. Humans are hardwired the associate sex and partnering up. When you stop having sex either you are your partner start looking for a new partner. Especially if she is independent. This is Hardwired. If you have friends that are new parents. You can observe this bug in the wild. Offspring tend to end ones sexlife for a while for various medical reasons. If both partners are extremely faithful the only perceived result is some sub-conscience guilt about considering sex from other sources; when they are less faithful its a little crazy how fast they start looking.
There was a female author who wrote a book about how having sex every day for a year had a near miraculous resurrection effect of her almost completely failed marriage. Sex = Not just important to men. Women tend to assume that after you are hitched that sex isnt that important. Maybe that was true in 1920 or 1950 but in 2009? Not even close to true. Any woman who believes that has a divorce to look forward to.

Rarely do fake pyramid scam companies collect real income in a recession with the increasing number of sufficient savvy consumers increasing. Therefore they must get their employees to pay the company instead of paying their employees. Its a law of reverse proportions scams (I made that law up).

Step 1 Create fake miracle product.
Step 2 Hire employees as product advocates swearing by the awesome majesty of imaginary hardware/service.
Step 3 Convince employees to pay employer instead of being paid themselves.
Step 4 PROFIT!!!!!!!!!! and Create a new identity to hide from the multi-state angry mob of rightfully vengeful customers.

I hope this gets modded up enough that people read it. An important point occured to me while read some earlier replies. The border issue is one of import control. The data on a laptop should be exempt. There is nothing there that the border has a right to search. Here is the simple and strangely not obvious reason why. The internet. There is no data on a laptop that they could possibily prevent from entering or leaving the country even if they searched each and every laptop or ipod and cell phone. Anything on your laptop could be sent through the internet. The only thing that giving them access to your data does is allow unwarrented and unreasonable access to your private life or the trade secrets of your company or business that the government cant legally get any other way. If they cant stop the data from entering or leaving the country anyways then there is no point where they actually have import control. If you are crossing with illegal drugs that is an import control issue. Drugs can physically stopped at the border if found. Data cannot be import controlled so they cant stop it or control the flow of it. Data lacks a neccisary physical component required for the flow of it to be controlled at the border. And it definetely lacks the physical component that makes a search of your bag acceptable. Bottom line. They want into your life. They want access to your medical info, your family info, your private life, your financial info, your company data. There is a huge untapped data market that the domestic spying programs would give their left eyes to get their hands on. And they know they dont have the right to the info which makes them want it more. Its also likely that there is a border agent out there that has a person collection of comondeered private photos copied off unsuspecting travelers. How do you feel about border agents copying perfectly legal private naked pictures of your girlfriend or wife? What checks and ballances are available to make certain there is no abuse of the system?