While I don't have the faintest idea what the maximum penalty for owning child porn is in Germany, they certainly won't get any more than that. Some of them will - as I heard in the news today - get away with fines.
Up to 2 years of prison sentence or a fine (paragraph 4 sentence 2). In practice that means in most cases they will indeed get away with a fine especially if they don't have a criminal record. Culprits can also be banned from their profession if their jobs involve work with children (e.g. teachers).
But with this kind of crime social stigmatization (think: public trial) can be much harder than the criminal sentence itself.
That is not fair. Perl is the language of choice in the newspaper industry because it matches the product: both are write (print) once, read and understood only in a very short time after production. And of course they are recycled and reused in a similar manner: old newspapers become recycling paper and Perl code ends it's short lifetime as free disk space;-)
So, we have had war-driving, war-flying and now war-sailing. Not much left to do. How about some war-fucking? Have as many one night stands as you like, take your Wi-Fi equipment with you and dive into it:
# pump -i dck01
The girls will really like it, when you start to discuss their signal-to-noise-ratio after you're done. And don't forget to publicly announce each open access point you've found:o)
It's really not fair to mention Ruby in the same breath as Python. Think about just one thing: How can you explain this funny indention-makes-my-function-body-thingy to an non-programmer? I guess you can't (unless you are lucky and your victim was a Fortran programmer in a former life;-).
Let's face it (even if you are a Python zealot): Ruby is much more readable. Believe me!:-)
What's unfortunate about an OS having a longer lifetime?
In general, there is nothing wrong with long software lifetime. But IMO Microsoft operating systems lack the quality that is needed for a longer lifecycle. I guess the reason for this is simply the abscence of a workable longterm concept for their operating systems. And without such a concept there is no evolution of an OS but permanent change which doesn't provide for continued maintainance of prior versions.
I suppose it's not the mere number of bugs that is relevant, it's exploitability that counts. It's not a coincidence that e.g. the extended support for Win 98, 98SE and ME was announced in January 2004, after the desaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H less successful year 2003 (SQL Slammer, Sobig, Blaster).
No, because their very own bugs force them to obey the wishes off their customers: customers seem to use OS software longer that MS think they should, hence they tried to control the lifecycle by ceasing support. What is the consequence of this?
Millions of unpatched machines out there spreading viruses and spam all over the internet. And what should Microsoft's reaction to that inconvenient side effect of using MS products be: "Sorry, no more support!"?!? That should easily make for the biggest PR desaster in corporate history. They simple realised that and adjusted support to the longer lifetime that their OSes unfortunately have in the wild.
I'am not an expert, but it think that the SMTP specs say that the decision whether an incoming email will be accepted or not has to be taken on the basis of the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO fields.
How can you guarantee with such non-standard behavior that the other MTA does not mistake this for a transmission error and retries the delivery several times? I couldn't find an error code to signal "never come back with this message".
Whether fibre to the desktop is available (and affordable) is a question concerning the access networks and not the backbone networks in the first place. And, actually, fibre networks can hinder the roll out DSL technology.
Here in Germany we have a somewhat divided situation:
After the German reunifacation in 1990 the incumbent, Deutsche Telekom AG, installed a modern fibre network in the newly aquired eastern states of Germany - even the local loop is based on fibre in most places (OPAL system). In the old, western states of Germany the majority of local loops is still build upon copper cables and common ISDN equipment.
About two years ago the nation wide roll out of ADSL for home use started (for private customers: 768 Kbit downstream, 128 KBit downstream). But as standard DSL systems need copper wires to operate on, only a very small percentage of house holds in the eastern states can obtain DSL, whereas it is widely available in the western states.
Although they have one of the most advanced access networks in whole European buried in their front yard, the best internet access they can get is 64Kbit ISDN with a metered tariff (there is effectivly no ISDN flate rate available in Germany anymore).
This leads me to the conclusion that mere fibre capacity is not the solution, but can be part of the problem.
The alternative for missing DSL broadband access (fibre to the desktop) is not offered for private customers, yet (and within Deutsche Telekom's pricing scheme I guess we would have to pay around $500 per month plus traffic if it will be introduced some day).
And the best thing for the incubment: There are no effective obligations for local loop unbundling if the access network is (partially) based on fibre. Thus other telcos can't compete on this market.
BTW: If anybody is interested, the british regulator OFTEL has a recent benchmarking study online which gives a bit of insight into the situation in Europe's internet access markets (it also compares to some US states). It can be found at http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/research/2002/benchint1202_1.htm
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It's 14 years or younger: Sections 184b and 176 StGB (German Criminal Law)
Section 184b StGB (German Criminal Law):
Up to 2 years of prison sentence or a fine (paragraph 4 sentence 2). In practice that means in most cases they will indeed get away with a fine especially if they don't have a criminal record. Culprits can also be banned from their profession if their jobs involve work with children (e.g. teachers).
But with this kind of crime social stigmatization (think: public trial) can be much harder than the criminal sentence itself.
That is not fair. Perl is the language of choice in the newspaper industry because it matches the product: both are write (print) once, read and understood only in a very short time after production. And of course they are recycled and reused in a similar manner: old newspapers become recycling paper and Perl code ends it's short lifetime as free disk space ;-)
So, we have had war-driving, war-flying and now war-sailing. Not much left to do. How about some war-fucking? Have as many one night stands as you like, take your Wi-Fi equipment with you and dive into it:
# pump -i dck01
The girls will really like it, when you start to discuss their signal-to-noise-ratio after you're done. And don't forget to publicly announce each open access point you've found :o)
It's really not fair to mention Ruby in the same breath as Python. Think about just one thing: How can you explain this funny indention-makes-my-function-body-thingy to an non-programmer? I guess you can't (unless you are lucky and your victim was a Fortran programmer in a former life ;-).
:-)
Let's face it (even if you are a Python zealot): Ruby is much more readable. Believe me!
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/
In general, there is nothing wrong with long software lifetime. But IMO Microsoft operating systems lack the quality that is needed for a longer lifecycle. I guess the reason for this is simply the abscence of a workable longterm concept for their operating systems. And without such a concept there is no evolution of an OS but permanent change which doesn't provide for continued maintainance of prior versions.
I suppose it's not the mere number of bugs that is relevant, it's exploitability that counts. It's not a coincidence that e.g. the extended support for Win 98, 98SE and ME was announced in January 2004, after the desaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H less successful year 2003 (SQL Slammer, Sobig, Blaster).
Is this step really suprising?
No, because their very own bugs force them to obey the wishes off their customers: customers seem to use OS software longer that MS think they should, hence they tried to control the lifecycle by ceasing support. What is the consequence of this?
Millions of unpatched machines out there spreading viruses and spam all over the internet. And what should Microsoft's reaction to that inconvenient side effect of using MS products be: "Sorry, no more support!"?!? That should easily make for the biggest PR desaster in corporate history. They simple realised that and adjusted support to the longer lifetime that their OSes unfortunately have in the wild.
I'am not an expert, but it think that the SMTP specs say that the decision whether an incoming email will be accepted or not has to be taken on the basis of the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO fields.
How can you guarantee with such non-standard behavior that the other MTA does not mistake this for a transmission error and retries the delivery several times? I couldn't find an error code to signal "never come back with this message".
Whether fibre to the desktop is available (and affordable) is a question concerning the access networks and not the backbone networks in the first place. And, actually, fibre networks can hinder the roll out DSL technology.
2 /benchint1202_1.htm
Here in Germany we have a somewhat divided situation:
After the German reunifacation in 1990 the incumbent, Deutsche Telekom AG, installed a modern fibre network in the newly aquired eastern states of Germany - even the local loop is based on fibre in most places (OPAL system). In the old, western states of Germany the majority of local loops is still build upon copper cables and common ISDN equipment.
About two years ago the nation wide roll out of ADSL for home use started (for private customers: 768 Kbit downstream, 128 KBit downstream). But as standard DSL systems need copper wires to operate on, only a very small percentage of house holds in the eastern states can obtain DSL, whereas it is widely available in the western states.
Although they have one of the most advanced access networks in whole European buried in their front yard, the best internet access they can get is 64Kbit ISDN with a metered tariff (there is effectivly no ISDN flate rate available in Germany anymore).
This leads me to the conclusion that mere fibre capacity is not the solution, but can be part of the problem.
The alternative for missing DSL broadband access (fibre to the desktop) is not offered for private customers, yet (and within Deutsche Telekom's pricing scheme I guess we would have to pay around $500 per month plus traffic if it will be introduced some
day).
And the best thing for the incubment: There are no effective obligations for local loop unbundling if the access network is (partially) based on fibre. Thus other telcos can't compete on this market.
BTW: If anybody is interested, the british regulator OFTEL has a recent benchmarking study online which gives a bit of insight into the situation in Europe's internet access markets (it also compares to some US states). It can be found at http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/research/200