Why anyone would like to have LTE base station of their own? There is this technology called WLAN that you have been able to buy for more than then years and have your private wireless network where you need.

WiMAX (or similar like Flash-OFDM) do have some uses, but most likely to serve some niche markets. LTE is just another radio technology mobile phones support: like UMTS and HSDPA was add after GSM, so will LTE be available

For me it has been sufficient to have in laptop both WLAN and bluetooth to connect via mobile phone. In many cases I do not even bother to check for open/public WLAN as they may be limited with allowed protocols or they modify traffic by inserting advertisement. UMTS provides mostly just fine bandwidth I need for my work. And in places with bad UMTS coverage one does not find open WLANs too much either.

There exists WLAN APs that have 3G phone in it. Just SIM card in and you can just use (and share, if you like) connectivity via WLAN. Similar one for Flash-OFDM and most likely for WiMAX and LTE exists soon too.

BTW: UMTS does support using WLAN as radio interface: if your home has bad coverage, but you have ADSL line and WLAN AP, your phone can resort using WLAN access for calls too. Just WLAN is more energy-hungry compared to GSM and UMTS native radio network.

With unlimited dataplans the laptop use dominates traffic volume. I do not remember now exact figures, but in one European network more than 95% of traffic volume is from laptops. The network has unlimited dataplans starting from 9.95€

It is funny to see US carriers to cripple phones to save their business model.

That was total crap, was he selling some solution for it?

At first, I do not know any large-scale deployment of Mobile-IP. 3G networks provide mobility below IP and they do not use any "complex network triangulation" in it. Mobile-IP does have its weakness, but AFAIK the latest RFCs should provide quite solid (not worse-than-fixed) protection from DOS.

You can somewhat DOS high-speed data channels in 3G networks by sending packets with at intervals, but that is limited to single sector in base station, so that is not a big problem either. Battery drain DOS can be a real problem, but that is pretty much solved if you close your browser and your data channel is closed. If you do not have active data connections, nobody can sen you packets.

Again, was it some North-Zimbabwe 3G provider that took hit from 4.5GB data transfer? Last time I checked, it was less than 10 second traffic volume at small-country 3G providers. From "peer-to-peer Web sites".

This seems to be a very nice option. I just tested (on 9.04) and seems that the guest was given a home directory at /tmp/ but had no acceess rights to /home (even if /home has mode 755). According to spec, the AppArmor is used to limit access.

Much better than system I used earlier (passwordless guest account with only local gdm login allowed).

You are right: it is not possible to give "you can read all my email" right to employer. If, for example, you are leave (or sick) and your manager thinks that there is a critical information in your mailbox, he cannot just ask system admin to open your mailbox and get that message.

To read the message, the employer must first try to contact you to open the message. If that fails, then there is certain procedure how a needed message is first searched (basicly email subject, sender and date are only allowed). Then message is opened and all of this (including opened message) is recorded and handed to you when you came back.

Well, the Finland has nowadays one of most stricts privacy laws. What Nokia wants to do, is the thing US companies do routinely every day claiming that they has to do it to protect shareholder value.

The law at present proposed form is nowhere close to laws (if one exist) in many "civilized" countries, not to talk about totalitarian countries. Like one not-so-democratic east of Finland, and one we-listen-your-communication west of Finland.

It is actually quite funny, that the existing law is known as "Lex Sonera" (Sonera was a former state-own telco now part of TeliaSonera). The former CEO of Sonera wanted to find out which employees leaked information to press by getting call records of many people (board members, other employees and journalists). This obviously backfired and we got one of most strict implementations of EU privacy laws.

Now Nokia with other companies wants to get some of those rights back (earlier the law was unclear for computer communications, but the right of privacy existed there) they unofficially had before that. Of course, we as citizens and employees do not want to give that away. Even if I need to do extra tricks when I do my work to keep user data private.

I personally like very much that Finnish law tries to protect employees: often the situation in working life is quite uneven and the employer has upper hand in many cases. Laws put some limits on that, even if cannot protect in all cases.

The number of rejected votes has been less than 1% in most muncipal elections.

In Finnish voting, a number of choisen candidate is written in booth by pen on paperboard sheet, that is then folded, stamped by official and put into ballot box. Many of invalid votes can be considered as protest votes (vulgar drawings, names of fictional charactes), but some of votes are rejected because number cannot be clearly identified (like 1 or 7). In larger cities, there are more than 100 candidates, so numbers can be upto 3 digits.

It is not that uncommon to have laws that are older than the nation. For example Finnish criminal law dates to 19th December in 1889 (Happy 119th birthday!) and is given by Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

Of course, it has been updated many times, last time 14th November this year.