Recently I got the following letter from former Cingular (now AT&T). To make the long story short:
I was Cingular's (pacific bell wireless then) customer for last eight years and never had left San Francisco Bay Area for more than a couple of weeks. So, heil to AT&T's new bright management: they found that I was cheating on them all that time, leaving some place else for more than 50% of the time!
And now they kindly ask me to get lost and find myself a new carrier.

No problem! And I hope that someone from that "great" corporation is reading this now, and I can't miss my chance to be heard: Thank you, AT&T! You don't want my money - I don't need your lousy service. Maybe, Verizon will appreciate it more!
(highlights are mine) http://www.boudnik.org/~cos/temp/att.jpg
Cheers,
Cos

According to this OpenSuse Bug #201648
OpenSuse starts moving away from the was things were done in Unix before.

Namely, automount for hot-plugged devices is no longer supported by vanilla Linux. In stead, one has to use either KDE or Gnome to be simple able to automatically use pluggable USB drive, or camera, or else.

It seems like NSA and AT&T case is getting more and more momentum. After the noble refusal to dismiss the case, more hearings are scheduled.

I believe that the community can support EFF legal battle in its own way. Evil corporations aren't likely to understand any reasoning but the one, which hits them right by the wallet. If people will start switching from AT&T's services to other carriers and service providers and will be clearly stating their reasoning it will be really unpleasant punch to their guts.

I did it today and encouraging fellow netizens to do the same.

A small startup VCEL (stands for Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) had unveiled new social networking service for a cell phones.
All you need to do to keep in contact with you friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies.
Here we go: you can exhange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.
Very cool stuff!

P.S. Later addendum: I been asked by VCEL's folks to pass this message around: Due to quite massive incoming Slashdot's traffic we might've been missing a number of emails from potential partners and interested businesses. We are apologizing for any inconveniences it could cause and asking everyone to send their messages again, in case the first attempts were rejected or remained unanswered. Please address your email inquiries to VCEL's CEO Sergey Lossev at sergeylossev@vcel.net or slossev@vcel.net