French government-controlled-monopoly wants money from successful American companies instead of fixing their failed business models and economic systems.
If you offer people unlimited data, then that's what you get. If you are making people pay for data by KB, MB, or GB or whatever, then your end customers are already paying for the bandwidth. It looks like France Telecom simply is unwilling to upgrade their network on their own and wants to stick someone else with the bill.

The real plan is more subtle and the real goal is more insidious. The ultimate goal is to make Islam the dominant religion in the world, and make sharia law the primary legal system. The plan is to destabilize economies or just let them fall apart on their own (such as in many African countries today) and then move in with massive quantities of money to build infrastructure, revitalize the economy, etc. all in the name of Islam. The Islamic benefactors will then be viewed as benefactors and will gain influential positions in government, eventually in positions where they can enact their legal "reforms" to bring the country's laws closer and closer to sharia law and bring society closer to their ideal as defined by Islam. It will be a slow process so as not to cause alarm, though in smaller and less influential countries the changes may be done more rapidly because, I hate to say, the majority of the world simply won't care what happens to some really, really poor African country that is not even a tiny blip on the economic or political radar. Read the quote that Schneier had about one Al Quaeda "dollar" spent "defeating" millions of US dollars. The point is to cause economic instability and then have Islamic "benefactors" come in and save the day, at the cost of altering our culture to meet their requirements. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to explore the potential implications that this could have on US, Mexican, and Canadian societies. (Canada and Mexico will eventually be targets, my friends - they're just going after us first because we have more economic and political power, but I doubt they'll be satisfied until they control everything, and Canada and Mexico both have so much to offer that they should be fairly high on the list of next targets.)

In China, they already have pre-nudie-scanner airport-like security at the train stations - at least for the longer distance trains like Hong Kong to Guangzhou or to Shenzhen. They don't have these in the Guangzhou Metro yet, though. I've seen these at long distance bus stations too (HK to GZ again, for example). They even have them at the entrances to certain museums, the Guangzhou Science Center (which is an amazing science museum), and other similar attractions. No taking off your shoes, though. You just pass your bags through the x-ray machine and walk through the metal detector just like at an airport, but no metal-detector wand and pat-down like at the airports.

http://xkcd.com/695/ But this time it will be people...

(posted again because it seems the first time didn't work.) I guess the reverse is true too given the number of slashdotters who claim no Facebook use.

I guess the reverse is true, too, given the number of slashdotters who make it clear that they never use Facebook.

But it wasn't that great, apparently. Eccentrica Gallumbits said that Zaphod Beeblebrox was "the best bang since the big one."

There is a difference between precognition and predestination. There is a difference between knowing what someone will do (precognition) and making it such that the individual has no choice in the matter and will do what you have predetermined that the individual will do (predestination). The Bible makes it clear that everything is predestined. That is one major problem that most people have with Christianity. If you take the Bible to its logical conclusion, God created a certain number of souls for the ultimate purpose of subjecting them to eternal torment. Is this a loving and kind god?

These words will always exist. People will just come up with new ones. It's been done on TV enough. (Someone should compile a list of TV swear-words.)

One part is old - imitating the web browser error page, specifically the IE error page. I've had many a chuckle when running Galleon or some other Linux browser and seeing it pop up a well-imitated IE error page. The new part on this one is that they're checking which browser it is and making sure the error page matches the browser.

Unfortunately, this will only lead to a false sense of security and become a haunt for paedophiles looking for victims. It's sad, really, but how could Togetherville verify that a "child" signing up for an account is not some paedophile whose "parent" is the same person trying to fool the moderators of Togetherville?
It's a nice idea, and I hope they can find a way to make it work correctly, but I sincerely doubt it will work without extreme measures to verify identities that I doubt they'd be able to perform.

Yes, these exist.
I'm sure they have been in the US for years, but as I live in a small town in the US the only place I've ever seen these is in China. They are 3D (usually "in your face" type of 3D) with additional effects such as air jets, water sprays, and one even had a little rubber hose activated by air to simulate a snake under your chair. The most creative one also had several devices in the seats themselves to simulate being hit or touched by various things. It was rather strange, and it really freaked out my colleagues. My kids (two of whom were with me in Guangzhou on the trip) really enjoyed it.
For those of you who are saying 3D is a gimmick, you should try these so-called 4D movies.