It's the same like everywhere in Asia. You walk to mall, nearest street store or market and buy a sim card. Usually they also offer cheap unlimited plans for internet. If you need more time, you just buy refill card. If you need a phone, those can be bought from malls and markets really cheaply too.

Because it's legit and the moral thing to do?

No. Just because they patented it doesn't mean they're actually using it. Companies patent lots of things all the time.

Nokia has several phones with Linux, already.

I don't see why this is so usual bitching subject about it. So after all you people aren't happy that Linux gets to smartphones, even if it means it's on low end phones?

WP7 for high-end phones make a lot of sense because it's already done and is especially tailored towards those. It doesn't make sense to start again with Linux. Nokia has tried to get that done for the past few years. It even has MeeGo already. Why haven't you bought a MeeGo phone?

Sure, it might be used for blocking malicious links now.. but what about when competing social networks, like Diaspora, emerge? Looking at Facebook's history I'm sure they will use it to block users moving to Diaspora and reading about Diaspora. It will be used as an opinion suppression tool.

It's not really surprising. Almost always anti-piracy groups start making noise when summer is starting. Feels like they're trying to scare off kids.

I just hope someone at FBI and NSA remembered to notify FTC that it is their operation.

Yep, other browsers like Opera have had this feature for a long time. How does it even close internet? It just speeds up your browsing.

Sexting isn't "starving of attention". It's just a little sexual act, or to make others day a little bit more pleasureful, or for the any other reason adults too it. Teens, especially towards the adulthood, aren't as stupid as adult seem to think. People just usually draw that picture based on non-complete images, and things that stand out (the bad things).

We used to send nude pictures of ourselves with my gf when we were teen, and it was both for the little thrill, sexual pleasure but also for feeling love towards the other person. When we later broke up it never did cross my mind to spread them to internet. Things change, and while it hurts, you don't have to be an ass about it.

It's sometimes funny when you read about parents writings on the internet, especially slashdot, how it feels like they've completely forgotten how it was to be a teenager. Of course, you didn't have smartphones, but you had the equivalent stuff anyway.

And of course, I don't live in the US where showing a nipple on TV is a huge thing (but killing people and other violence is just fine), so maybe I'm more liberal because of that too, but you just have to accept that sexting is usual and is what teens do. Even if you didn't get to do that as a teen.

So I take it people are also granted freedom of speech as long as they say what you agree with? Likewise, people should be free to use and share software and code as long as they don't share it to someone you disagree with.

Microsoft has full right to charge licensing fees for the technology they did R&D for and invested in, especially when other companies are profiting from said investment.

Like Google with Android?

I hate it when people always seem to take the phrase out of context and apply it to mean any kind of security, like network security or the old Windows/Linux battle. It's a completely different kind of situation, and in the former it's especially true that security by obscurity is a hardener layer. It's also why Linux has managed to stay as (consumer) malware free to day, even though it still has a fair share of its own worms and other security problems.

Their CEO did nothing visible? Things take time you know. And what's the line about shareholders. Usually in Slashdot people hate companies because they only do something that pleasures their shareholders. Now you're crying that they made a decision that didn't.

Linux-friendly and developing companies defend their patents too.