I'm currently working in Dubai, and I know about 20 people who use unlocked iPhones. I also see people with iPhones everywhere I go, as they are sold in all the phone shops here (unlocked, of course).
I also know a lot of people in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain who are using them... and the Middle East accounts for one of the highest numbers of mobile users anywhere in the world.
So why do they estimate only 20% of iPhones being unlocked? I always thought it was closer to 50%
This is indeed an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) very similar to the A.I. ARG "The Beast".. There's already a lot of discussion going on all over the web.. You can read this guide to get up to speed, and then browse the thousand posts in all the different forums..
If you want more info on what an ARG is go here
I think this is a good article, and ending the progression in 1998 was a typical conclusions since no major events occured after that. But why end it with the Bono Act when you have the DMCA right after it! What could be worse than your right being abused (as the author explains) than having no rights at all via DMCA. This just shows you how ignorat the majority of people are when it comes to this issue. Except for online geeks, this isn't an issue for people who would read that article and feel sorry for authors who died 80 years ago because their work is not released.
I was like.. watching a show.. on the tv... and it was like boom.. and then like.. the show was gone.. and I was like hmm? it devoured devoured.. my show.. and it was a really good show and I had to watch another show and it wasn't as good..
I'm sorry my comment sparked off your wrath, but I assure you I do not think the US starved the children of Iraq. This might come as a surprise to you, but the majority of the Arab world is actually AGAINST Saddam Hussein's regime. You really have to see the daily images of infants dying to understand how we feel.
No, the US did not starve children to death, but the US could help those children by removing sanctions which have negligible effect on Saddam Hussein. And if Saddam Hussein wanted to he could feed every single person in Iraq for 1000 years... It's like two children fighting over a doll, at the end it just gets torn in half.
Trust me I'm not blaming anyone, and nor are the majority of Arabs blaming the US. We're just sorry for the doll.
And it just took me 30 minutes to post this because it kept saying "you can't post to this page" which the FAQ explains as: "You're reading Slashdot from behind a web proxy that allows connections from any host. This functionality has been abused. Therefore, comments are not allowed to be posted from this address until the proxy is better secured."
It might have nothing to do with my proxy being in an Arab country, but it was working fine the last time I tried to post here (before 9/11).
For an Arab in the Middle East, some aspects of the internet have become frustrating. My credit card no longer receives the smooth transaction process pre-9/11. Half of all the purchases I tried to make through paypal, 2checkout, amazon, and several other vendors have been cancelled due to a "high fraud risk" because my credit card is from Saudi Arabia.
Last month, I tried e-mailing a friend who goes by the name of Jamal Bin-Laden (not related at all to the terrorists, he's not even Saudi Arabian). He replied not to MY e-mail but to a forwarded e-mail from my Bahraini ISP. Apparently they blocked the e-mail because of his name, read the contents, and when they saw I was only asking him to bring back some tiny M&M's from London (I'm addicted!) they forwarded it to him without even bothering to cover their tracks. There goes online privacy for you.
And on a related note, I had to cancel my post-grad plans to study in New York after all my Arab friends there came back. Let's just say people weren't very nice to them.
While this might have nothing to do with American legislation, it's somewhat ironic to see how 9/11 effected everyone negatively, Americans & Terr^H^H^H^HArabs alike.
May the victims of 9/11, the starved to death children of Iraq, and online rights all rest in peace.
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I'm currently working in Dubai, and I know about 20 people who use unlocked iPhones. I also see people with iPhones everywhere I go, as they are sold in all the phone shops here (unlocked, of course). I also know a lot of people in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain who are using them... and the Middle East accounts for one of the highest numbers of mobile users anywhere in the world. So why do they estimate only 20% of iPhones being unlocked? I always thought it was closer to 50%
This is indeed an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) very similar to the A.I. ARG "The Beast" .. There's already a lot of discussion going on all over the web.. You can read this guide to get up to speed, and then browse the thousand posts in all the different forums..
If you want more info on what an ARG is go here
Actually $9.99 is much better than being billed $16 for every album you ever downloaded from KaZaA!
I think this is a good article, and ending the progression in 1998 was a typical conclusions since no major events occured after that. But why end it with the Bono Act when you have the DMCA right after it! What could be worse than your right being abused (as the author explains) than having no rights at all via DMCA. This just shows you how ignorat the majority of people are when it comes to this issue. Except for online geeks, this isn't an issue for people who would read that article and feel sorry for authors who died 80 years ago because their work is not released.
I was like.. watching a show.. on the tv... and it was like boom.. and then like.. the show was gone.. and I was like hmm? it devoured devoured.. my show.. and it was a really good show and I had to watch another show and it wasn't as good..
it's kind of..
I'm sorry my comment sparked off your wrath, but I assure you I do not think the US starved the children of Iraq. This might come as a surprise to you, but the majority of the Arab world is actually AGAINST Saddam Hussein's regime. You really have to see the daily images of infants dying to understand how we feel.
No, the US did not starve children to death, but the US could help those children by removing sanctions which have negligible effect on Saddam Hussein. And if Saddam Hussein wanted to he could feed every single person in Iraq for 1000 years... It's like two children fighting over a doll, at the end it just gets torn in half.
Trust me I'm not blaming anyone, and nor are the majority of Arabs blaming the US. We're just sorry for the doll.
And it just took me 30 minutes to post this because it kept saying "you can't post to this page" which the FAQ explains as: "You're reading Slashdot from behind a web proxy that allows connections from any host. This functionality has been abused. Therefore, comments are not allowed to be posted from this address until the proxy is better secured."
It might have nothing to do with my proxy being in an Arab country, but it was working fine the last time I tried to post here (before 9/11).
See what I mean?
For an Arab in the Middle East, some aspects of the internet have become frustrating. My credit card no longer receives the smooth transaction process pre-9/11. Half of all the purchases I tried to make through paypal, 2checkout, amazon, and several other vendors have been cancelled due to a "high fraud risk" because my credit card is from Saudi Arabia.
Last month, I tried e-mailing a friend who goes by the name of Jamal Bin-Laden (not related at all to the terrorists, he's not even Saudi Arabian). He replied not to MY e-mail but to a forwarded e-mail from my Bahraini ISP. Apparently they blocked the e-mail because of his name, read the contents, and when they saw I was only asking him to bring back some tiny M&M's from London (I'm addicted!) they forwarded it to him without even bothering to cover their tracks. There goes online privacy for you.
And on a related note, I had to cancel my post-grad plans to study in New York after all my Arab friends there came back. Let's just say people weren't very nice to them.
While this might have nothing to do with American legislation, it's somewhat ironic to see how 9/11 effected everyone negatively, Americans & Terr^H^H^H^HArabs alike.
May the victims of 9/11, the starved to death children of Iraq, and online rights all rest in peace.