"...it has now become impossible properly to police the Internet..."

Impossible properly? Wossat, then, some new kind of impossible, is it?

AT adds: No, It's an un-split infinitive. Look it up.

I've been in Riyadh last year and it's true. Switch on your bluetooth in any busy shopping centre and you'll see a big list of others with bluetooth on. Some names were in arabic, which I couldn't understand, but some just wrote their phone number. I spoke to the locals at work and they all say this is the way to hook up with a girl. That's one of the reason why they have family only shopping days during the weekend, if you're single, you can't enter the shopping centre.
At the end of the day, Saudi youths do all the things young people do in the west, it's just that the system makes it a bit more difficult, but not impossible. :) Of course, this is something that the Muttawa will never admit to and they try to portrey Saudi Arabia as the perfect Islamic, family oriented place to live.

what a load of claptrap. This isn't news, we've been doing it since the advent of bluetooth. approx 8 years then.

It's become such a problem, we've even learnt how to turn BT off...something I am sure many in the UK would like to do...:)

Wahhabi? the master? one of 7 slaves?
I'm surprised this doesn't present a confusing role problem.
Why has nobody demanded that Bluetooth change the terminology?!

Of coarse the wahabbee guys need mobiles.
how else they gonna keep track of their 72 virgins?
wonder what network has the best coverage in alah land?

"big flaw in your communication method there mate,
stupid method of communication, crap article applicable to anyone and anything anywhere not just the saudi's 'romance' game."


you send your message with a phone number.... jeez does a yank need to spell it out for you?

This has been going on for quite a while maybe in saudi arabia it's starting to catch on but all over the middle east. Specifically north Africa, Lebanon, Jordan and qatar.

Lets see, I send bluetooth message to female in passing car - car drives off. With a range of 10-15 metres I doubt she is going to be able to reply in time!

Big flaw in your communication method there mate, 
stupid method of communication, crap article applicable to anyone and anything anywhere not just the saudi's 'romance' game.

surely the inquirer has better technology issues to report on - please don't go down the dailytech route........

I knew that one technology or another will finally penetrate the chastity belt of the Saudi society.