Actually, what he did is known to everyone who bothers to not only read headlines: He did trade some material. He did not pay for anything and wasn't paid. His defence is that as a Member of Parliament, he had get an idea of the extent of the problem and the structures of the scene. It is currently unclear whether that's legal according to German criminal law.
BTW, there's another public figure who is in possession of child pornography and even offensively showed it around: Ursula von der Leyen (dubbed Zensursula), the German Minister of Family Affairs. There was no investigation and no-one doubted that that had been legal.
In short: If you're part of the Legislative, you're obviously not supposed to posses child porn in order to make an informed decision about laws on child pornography. If you're part of the Executive, you're obviously entitled to possess child porn in order to show it around to the press to gain support for drafts of such laws.
For example, if the UN had control right now they would probably already have taken North Korea off the internet, along several other "undesirable" countries. Notice that despite the political climate, the US has not used DNS to take action against Iraq, Iran, China, North Korea, or any other country.
The US is much more likely to enforce embargoes by disconnecting a countrie's domain than an international body. An international body such as the UN is much more inert.
However, ccTLDs are not the real problem. If everyone else agrees that an agency chosen by the Chinese government should have control over ".cn", they can simply set up another root server.
The real problem is: Who runs gTLDs such as ".com", ".net", or ".info"? The operator for these TLDs is really chosen by ICANN.
The guy who invented fleece did this. He documented his invention but did not patent it. Because he had proof he invented it, prior art, nobody but he could patent it.
That's only true in the US, which has a first-to-invent system.
Most other countries have a first-to-file system; anyone who discovers the same invention would be able to patent it there.
Acutually, it's the total number of people speaking a language.
If the community is small, you HAVE to learn another language to be able to communicate with people who don't live next door. So you'll eventually learn it. Another consequence is that it does not pay off to dub anything.
If the community is large enough, you can easily get along without speaking any other language. Further, it's economically feasible to dub audiovisual content.
When it comes to programming, the natural language of the programming language is less important. There's only a handful of keywords that can easily be memorised. You could even replace those few keywords with symbols (e.g. "-->" instead of "goto", "!" instead of "not", etc.).
However, there's a lot more natural language involved when it comes to the names of functions and classes provided by libraries, the operating system, etc. Translating libc's function names, for example, might be marginally possible. However, when it comes to GUI frameworks such as GTK or KDE: no way.
It just makes sense to combine a music player and a phone into one product. A phone already has most of the hardware required, you just have to add a headphone jack and a bit more memory (which is getting cheaper and cheaper).
The iPod Touch is just the starter drug leading to an iPhone. You'll miss the mobile Internet pretty soon.
You can also easily purchase the tool to open your Macbook Pro. The battery is designed to be unremoveable, not unserviceable. Nor is the notebook designed to be 'obsolete' once the battery dies.
There is not European Department of Justice. The correct translation is European Court of Justice.
However, that's the correct translation but still wrong. The judgement was not made by the Court of Justice but by the Court of First Instance. Lego can still appeal to the Court of Justice.
Until recently, Apple sold products for the same number of currency units in Europe and the US. I.e. 1099 USD in the US would have been 1099 EUR in Europe. That wasn't too bad with an exchange rate around 1 EUR = 1.2 USD, and the Euro price including 15~25% V.A.T.
With the recent drop of the USD's value to a rate of 1 EUR = 1.55 USD, this no longer holds true.
Now, Apple has begun to adjust the prices... albeit slowly. They also seem to follow a policy where a product will keep the price until the next update, so they set the price a bit higher just in case the dollar regains some of its former value (of course, they also make more money that way).
between being "security conscious" and being completely paranoid. When it boils down to it, there's risk involved in everything we do. Nothing is completely secure and there's always a chance that something will go wrong.
Burying your head in the sand is not a solution, either. The goal is to avoid security problems not to ignore them because "there's always a chance that something will go wrong".
However, it's only the first step to ask: What can go wrong?
The next questions should be:
How likely is it to go wrong?
What happens when it goes wrong?
Often, you'll notice that you can take the risk. This saves you from paranoia.
The only reason you or any artist is granted copyright, is NOT just for profit. Profit is a side benefit. Copyright in its first forms was 100% a control method used by kings and rulers to silence those that would say bad things against them.
This is true for the Angloamerican concept of "copyright".
It has never been the case for Continental European "droit d'auteur", "Urheberrecht",... and Japanese "chosakuken", all of which are often imprecisely rendered as "copyright" in the English language. These are not based on regal privileges but on Natural Law.
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Given the way the math works out I'm going to say it's .015 cents per kilobit. AT&T claims he used 9 gigabytes. That is 9,663,676,416 bytesâ¦
Nope. Data transfer rates always use the SI definition where G = 10^9, M = 10^6, k = 10^3.
Actually, what he did is known to everyone who bothers to not only read headlines: He did trade some material. He did not pay for anything and wasn't paid. His defence is that as a Member of Parliament, he had get an idea of the extent of the problem and the structures of the scene. It is currently unclear whether that's legal according to German criminal law.
BTW, there's another public figure who is in possession of child pornography and even offensively showed it around: Ursula von der Leyen (dubbed Zensursula), the German Minister of Family Affairs. There was no investigation and no-one doubted that that had been legal.
In short:
If you're part of the Legislative, you're obviously not supposed to posses child porn in order to make an informed decision about laws on child pornography.
If you're part of the Executive, you're obviously entitled to possess child porn in order to show it around to the press to gain support for drafts of such laws.
For example, if the UN had control right now they would probably already have taken North Korea off the internet, along several other "undesirable" countries. Notice that despite the political climate, the US has not used DNS to take action against Iraq, Iran, China, North Korea, or any other country.
The US is much more likely to enforce embargoes by disconnecting a countrie's domain than an international body. An international body such as the UN is much more inert.
However, ccTLDs are not the real problem. If everyone else agrees that an agency chosen by the Chinese government should have control over ".cn", they can simply set up another root server.
The real problem is: Who runs gTLDs such as ".com", ".net", or ".info"? The operator for these TLDs is really chosen by ICANN.
While you may not be able to disable it, nothings stops you from having your mother's maiden name generated by apg.
It would make more sense to translate that into sane, metric units:
1/27.5 mpg = 8.6 L/100 km
1/42 mpg = 5.6 L/100 km
However, to compare it with EU goals you'll also need to calculate the CO2 emissions:
8.6 L/100 km: 206 g/km (petrol)
5.6 L/100 km: 134 g/km (petrol)
8.6 L/100 km: 232 g/km (diesel)
5.6 L/100 km: 151 g/km (diesel)
HA! They don't really know anything about it.
That's obvious.
However, it's not funny to have the Internet be taken away by people who access the Internet by reading a hardcopy made by their staff.
The guy who invented fleece did this. He documented his invention but did not patent it. Because he had proof he invented it, prior art, nobody but he could patent it.
That's only true in the US, which has a first-to-invent system.
Most other countries have a first-to-file system; anyone who discovers the same invention would be able to patent it there.
Acutually, it's the total number of people speaking a language.
If the community is small, you HAVE to learn another language to be able to communicate with people who don't live next door. So you'll eventually learn it. Another consequence is that it does not pay off to dub anything.
If the community is large enough, you can easily get along without speaking any other language. Further, it's economically feasible to dub audiovisual content.
When it comes to programming, the natural language of the programming language is less important. There's only a handful of keywords that can easily be memorised. You could even replace those few keywords with symbols (e.g. "-->" instead of "goto", "!" instead of "not", etc.).
However, there's a lot more natural language involved when it comes to the names of functions and classes provided by libraries, the operating system, etc.
Translating libc's function names, for example, might be marginally possible. However, when it comes to GUI frameworks such as GTK or KDE: no way.
Unfortunately, the US and UK not only brought their language but also their units of measurements to international aviation. :-/
No way.
It just makes sense to combine a music player and a phone into one product. A phone already has most of the hardware required, you just have to add a headphone jack and a bit more memory (which is getting cheaper and cheaper).
The iPod Touch is just the starter drug leading to an iPhone. You'll miss the mobile Internet pretty soon.
You can also easily purchase the tool to open your Macbook Pro. The battery is designed to be unremoveable, not unserviceable. Nor is the notebook designed to be 'obsolete' once the battery dies.
There is not European Department of Justice. The correct translation is European Court of Justice.
However, that's the correct translation but still wrong. The judgement was not made by the Court of Justice but by the Court of First Instance. Lego can still appeal to the Court of Justice.
Just leave out mysql_real_escape_string, then. I mean, who's gonna enter strings where it would be needed anyway?'; DELETE FROM important_data_table;
The same trick works for htmlspecialchars.<script src="http://example.com/maliciousscript.js"></script>
No, it's not "worth it". There's no market for IP addresses (yet?), so they don't have any market value, no worth.
That's the problem with prognoses. They're not 100% exact. Especially those about the future.
*arp*
There is no problem with knowing a MAC address.
There is no problem with knowing other small pieces of information, which seems to be useless.
However, there is a privacy problem with knowing a lot of these small pieces of data.
Your IPv6 address will include your computer's MAC address, not your access point's.
Until recently, Apple sold products for the same number of currency units in Europe and the US. I.e. 1099 USD in the US would have been 1099 EUR in Europe. That wasn't too bad with an exchange rate around 1 EUR = 1.2 USD, and the Euro price including 15~25% V.A.T.
With the recent drop of the USD's value to a rate of 1 EUR = 1.55 USD, this no longer holds true.
Now, Apple has begun to adjust the prices ... albeit slowly. They also seem to follow a policy where a product will keep the price until the next update, so they set the price a bit higher just in case the dollar regains some of its former value (of course, they also make more money that way).
Burying your head in the sand is not a solution, either. The goal is to avoid security problems not to ignore them because "there's always a chance that something will go wrong".
However, it's only the first step to ask: What can go wrong?
The next questions should be:
Often, you'll notice that you can take the risk. This saves you from paranoia.
It has never been the case for Continental European "droit d'auteur", "Urheberrecht",
These are not based on regal privileges but on Natural Law.
Of course, if the keyboard is supposed to give enough power to more demanding USB devices, it needs more batteries.