You can change that in Facebook > Privacy Settings > Who can look me up? > Who can look me up by e-mail or phone
Simply change from "Everyone" to either "Friends" or "Friends of Friends".

Alternatively, do not give Facebook your phone number.

In iOS you can disable Location-Based iAds in the Settings > Location Services > System Services page. In fact, I disabled everything in that page in my system because these hidden Location Services were eating my battery away.

Only if Airlines fully insured them for theft or loss. Right now they will pay you 400$ or so per bag and that doesn't cover the cost of any decent laptop, so that would not happen.
No business traveler could travel if they had to check their laptops, iPods, Phones, Blackberrys and those would not be insured.

Funny that nobody knew what Chandler worked on. Now we can say we do!!

Canada started a policy to fast-track Immigration (not Visa) processing for H1B holders - http://www.immigration.ca/permres-pnp-h1b.asp or http://www.canadavisa.com/strategic-recruitment-stream-h1b-visa.html

I guess the US loss is Canada's gain!

Shouldn't Mac OS also have come with other browsers then?
What about the iPhone, which does not even allow other browsers to be used in its OS?
I'm not in favor of Microsoft, but Apple is not that much different.

He simply shows that he could read the RFID tag of the passport. Where's the new passport created (as in "Cloned") with it?

Sure, it's bad to be able to read the RFID information, but let's not over blow what is being done here out of proportion.

Back in 2007 15% percent of people in America did not have a land-line. They only have Cell Phones. See article here. This number is probably bigger today.

Some cell phone companies block users from installing *anything they want* in their Windows Mobile devices (AT&T for instance). In the end it's about the user experience, and their perception is that these phones do not allow installation of apps, unless you purchase them from the carrier's website.

You may say that unlocked phones allow installation of any app, but then, their price is not as attractive to the end user as the subsidized iPhone price is.

Cell phones and PDAs in America are simply a money making machine for the Cell Phone operators. The iPhone, Android are the first steps to open this market and move it away from the operators, with more variety and options, but we still have the censorship of Apple for their App store.

Let's hope the Android takes off and becomes a standard, so that we can have the freedom to control our own phones.