Fear not, there is always maemo. I actually heard it was better than Android and is closer to debian. I think its LGPL too. Really we just need open handsets to start community porting. Maybe some n900 users can chime in?

It is astounding that this law has ALREADY been abused. Thank for the informative link.

Technically intelligence is quantified on a standard curve, so the amount of idiots should be the same as the amount of smart people. If you are smart (literally), you should come to terms with the fact that non-smart people will always outnumber you.

Israel saw this coming and preemtively banned the iPad.

I get it. Your an illegal immigrant.

cat /dev/null, it will provide you with a very concise summary =)

Actually, the United States does not have an official language although Arizona as a state does, so your usage of "country's official language" is incorrect. Suspicion requires belief that a person is commiting a crime. Being out of the ordinary does not constitute reasonable suspicion of immigration status, especially in the examples you cite. For your reasoning to be consistent, it would have to apply to all races. Would a white person at 3 am walking to Denny's be a suspect for illegal immigration? Probably not. Your "suspicions" imply racial profiling since the examples you cite are all within a citizen's rights and expressing those rights does not indicate a person's immigration status.

While your point is valid...I think the bigger issue with enforcment is how it effects the citezenry. Warning (here comes a hypothetical): What if you are a citizen but speak accented english, or you prefer to speak another language. A cop suspects you are an immigrant and demands immigration papers. Does the cop detain you at that point? Do you need to carry papers to prove citizenship on demand? Does this lead to frequent detention? It just seems unreasonable and ambigous to enforce something like this without encroaching the rights of citizens.

I think you are misunderstanding that presumption. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Anyone can accuse you of any crime at any time. Being temporarily detained or arrested until get a trial, is NOT a presumption of guilt. You have the presumption of innocence in court becuase it is the prosecuting party that assumes the burden of proof for their accusation.

I'm suprised they are not worth more since they represent a great point of entry for social attacks. Think Personalized spam (i.e. "Hey John, I think Laura wanted you to buy this for the concert you are attending next week"), targeted dictionaries, localized phising (i.e. location data deploys phising to compromised machines near you). Once you break a single friend in the "network" you gain additional information to everyone in that scope, so the return on entry is very promosing. An attacker can begin profiling ideal targets in the guise of friends. Ah, so many possibilties. Such a gold mine.