Pretty much every television set out there runs Linux. But if you have an app on a Panasonic TV, can you run it on a Samsung TV, or even a different model of Panasonic TV? Usually you can't.
There is plenty of ways to spin it as something interesting to the public.
If they are buying on Silk Road, they are probably not your average pot-head. They probably have jobs and a reasonable amount of money. They were using "sophisticated hacking techniques" to attempt to cover their tracks (ie they used the Tor Browser Bundle and a Bitcoin wallet).
Also, go after them, and you can find out where they bought their bitcoins from. Some of the people selling bitcoins are the people selling drugs on Silk Road.
You need to use a real address if you want to buy stuff, and in the UK at least, you don't need to have that much before it is "possession with intent to supply". People could have been buying wholesale on Silk Road and selling it on the street, and even if they weren't, if the quantities were more than about a day's supply they would get charged with that anyway.
But have they made any money from anyone within the jurisdiction of the City of London Police. Just in case you don't realise, the City of London is the smallest city in England, with a population of just over 7000 people. Most of what people think of as London is covered by other cities and boroughs such as Westminster, and the Metropolitan Police looks after them.
Price is total size of the economy divided by money in circulation. DPR's money isn't in circulation, so doesn't affect the price until such time as he does decide to start spending it. If his money is destroyed, it will never enter circulation, so will never cause prices to rise, but it won't cause them to fall either.
However, Silk Road was a very large part of the bitcoin economy, and it is no longer there. Some people will move to alternative markets. Some will stop buying drugs with bitcoin altogether because they no longer consider it to be as safe as they used to think it was. That could lead to a large fall in the value of bitcoin (increase in prices of those things still available in bitcoin, ie inflation).
There's two things here. In Europe, the TV station that first broadcasts a program has exclusive rights to broadcast it for the next 50 years. That is what is expiring soon with Dr Who. Other TV stations will then be able to broadcast it without asking the BBC for permission to broadcast it. They will still have to ask the creators of the program for permission to perform the work. It the creators are individuals, their copyright expires 70 years after they die. If it is a company (eg work for hire) then it is 95 years after the work was created. The key point here is that the expiry of the broadcasting copyright makes no difference to your rights to distribute the episode via bittorrent.
The people who actually performed the music own the mechanical reproduction rights to that particular recording, but that doesn't stop you from getting your own musicians to do another recording of it.
People are getting confused here. It is only the broadcast rights that are falling into public domain, not the public performance rights.
If you take for example The Snowman, Raymond Briggs wrote the music. He retains the copyright on the music until 70 years after he dies. He is still alive so the clock hasn't started ticking yet. Other people have copyright in all the cartoon drawings, and I believe they are all still alive. The copyright exists on them until the last of them dies. Channel 4 first broadcasted it about 30 years ago. They own the copyright on the act of broadcasting it on public television anywhere in Europe for 50 years. There is about 20 years left to run on that.
So, if for example RAI (Italian TV station) wants to broadcast it, they must get permission from Raymond Briggs, from the cartoon drawers, and from Channel 4. In 20 years time, they no longer have to ask Channel 4, but they still need permission from the other copyright holders.
When they size 20kg of cocaine "with a street value of $3.6m"[1], they don't sell it, or at least they are not supposed to. They destroy it. Maybe they will treat bitcoin the same way?
[1] I have no idea if that is the real street value of 20kg of cocaine. I made the number up, just like they do.
It is not entirely clear that bitcoins are legal. Obviously the feds will seize any criminal property regardless of whether it is otherwise legal criminal property such as cash or precious metals, or illegal criminal property such as unsold inventory of drugs. The illegal criminal property will be destroyed, and the legal criminal property will be sold to help fund their operations. If bitcoins are held to be illegal criminal property, then they will have to destroy them, but probably they will keep them as evidence for now.
The NSA is not permitted to spy on Americans. The Canadian equivalent is not permitted to spy on Canadians. So they spy on each others citizens and exchange information.
The main thing is that you have to turn your stash of illicit bitcoins into real cash for most things. Someone trying to sell a load of bitcoins is going to attract attention from the authorities, and from that, they can figure out if you got them from selling drugs, which is definitely illegal, or from running a massive mining rig, where arguably legal, and it would be financial services regulators that would consider it rather than drugs enforcement people.
Any evidence they want to present in court has to be backed by a warrant. Of course they almost certainly did other surveillance first to figure out where to target the search warrants.
Why do we assume that the NSA or any other Government TLA employs the best brains in the industry. If you work for the government, you get a reasonable but not very exciting living wage. Work in the private sector and you get the chance to make millions on stock options when your invention is successful. How often does the government manage to make anything that is even fit for purpose, never mind better than everything else out there.
In Excel 2013 for example Alt+4 and Alt-Gr+4 do two completely different things.
Alt+4 presses the 4th button on the Quick-Access toolbar, which in my case in the "Print Current Sheet" button. Alt-Gr+4 enters the € symbol at the current insertion point in much the same way that Shift+4 enters the $ symbol or Shift+3 enters the £ symbol.
There is no Right Alt key. There is an Alt-Gr key, which isn't needed in the US, but in Europe, you need it to type characters that aren't on the main keyboard. For example, using my UK keyboard, Alt-Gr + 4 will type the € symbol, and Alt-Gr + e will type the letter é.
Personal data is already defined in EU law. The Fermilab data set is not personal data. The book almost certainly isn't either. The linux distro is definitely not personal data.
You can run desktop applications on an iPad or Droid slab by using Remote Desktop, VNC or similar, except that in the time it takes to try and control an application designed to be used with a keyboard and mouse on a touch screen, you could drive back to the office and just do it on your desktop computer.
People may think they want to run desktop applications on a tablet, but believe me, they don't.
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Pretty much every television set out there runs Linux. But if you have an app on a Panasonic TV, can you run it on a Samsung TV, or even a different model of Panasonic TV? Usually you can't.
There is plenty of ways to spin it as something interesting to the public.
If they are buying on Silk Road, they are probably not your average pot-head. They probably have jobs and a reasonable amount of money. They were using "sophisticated hacking techniques" to attempt to cover their tracks (ie they used the Tor Browser Bundle and a Bitcoin wallet).
Also, go after them, and you can find out where they bought their bitcoins from. Some of the people selling bitcoins are the people selling drugs on Silk Road.
You need to use a real address if you want to buy stuff, and in the UK at least, you don't need to have that much before it is "possession with intent to supply". People could have been buying wholesale on Silk Road and selling it on the street, and even if they weren't, if the quantities were more than about a day's supply they would get charged with that anyway.
But have they made any money from anyone within the jurisdiction of the City of London Police. Just in case you don't realise, the City of London is the smallest city in England, with a population of just over 7000 people. Most of what people think of as London is covered by other cities and boroughs such as Westminster, and the Metropolitan Police looks after them.
Most of the younger presenters speak in an Estury accent, or some other regional accent rather than a BBC accent.
Price is total size of the economy divided by money in circulation. DPR's money isn't in circulation, so doesn't affect the price until such time as he does decide to start spending it. If his money is destroyed, it will never enter circulation, so will never cause prices to rise, but it won't cause them to fall either.
However, Silk Road was a very large part of the bitcoin economy, and it is no longer there. Some people will move to alternative markets. Some will stop buying drugs with bitcoin altogether because they no longer consider it to be as safe as they used to think it was. That could lead to a large fall in the value of bitcoin (increase in prices of those things still available in bitcoin, ie inflation).
They would have got permission and paid royalties for it.
There's two things here. In Europe, the TV station that first broadcasts a program has exclusive rights to broadcast it for the next 50 years. That is what is expiring soon with Dr Who. Other TV stations will then be able to broadcast it without asking the BBC for permission to broadcast it. They will still have to ask the creators of the program for permission to perform the work. It the creators are individuals, their copyright expires 70 years after they die. If it is a company (eg work for hire) then it is 95 years after the work was created. The key point here is that the expiry of the broadcasting copyright makes no difference to your rights to distribute the episode via bittorrent.
We do look at who wrote the script.
The people who actually performed the music own the mechanical reproduction rights to that particular recording, but that doesn't stop you from getting your own musicians to do another recording of it.
Correction: It was Howard Blake who wrote the music. Raymond Briggs drew the cartoons. Both are still alive.
People are getting confused here. It is only the broadcast rights that are falling into public domain, not the public performance rights.
If you take for example The Snowman, Raymond Briggs wrote the music. He retains the copyright on the music until 70 years after he dies. He is still alive so the clock hasn't started ticking yet. Other people have copyright in all the cartoon drawings, and I believe they are all still alive. The copyright exists on them until the last of them dies. Channel 4 first broadcasted it about 30 years ago. They own the copyright on the act of broadcasting it on public television anywhere in Europe for 50 years. There is about 20 years left to run on that.
So, if for example RAI (Italian TV station) wants to broadcast it, they must get permission from Raymond Briggs, from the cartoon drawers, and from Channel 4. In 20 years time, they no longer have to ask Channel 4, but they still need permission from the other copyright holders.
When they size 20kg of cocaine "with a street value of $3.6m"[1], they don't sell it, or at least they are not supposed to. They destroy it. Maybe they will treat bitcoin the same way?
[1] I have no idea if that is the real street value of 20kg of cocaine. I made the number up, just like they do.
It is not entirely clear that bitcoins are legal. Obviously the feds will seize any criminal property regardless of whether it is otherwise legal criminal property such as cash or precious metals, or illegal criminal property such as unsold inventory of drugs. The illegal criminal property will be destroyed, and the legal criminal property will be sold to help fund their operations. If bitcoins are held to be illegal criminal property, then they will have to destroy them, but probably they will keep them as evidence for now.
The NSA is not permitted to spy on Americans. The Canadian equivalent is not permitted to spy on Canadians. So they spy on each others citizens and exchange information.
The main thing is that you have to turn your stash of illicit bitcoins into real cash for most things. Someone trying to sell a load of bitcoins is going to attract attention from the authorities, and from that, they can figure out if you got them from selling drugs, which is definitely illegal, or from running a massive mining rig, where arguably legal, and it would be financial services regulators that would consider it rather than drugs enforcement people.
Any evidence they want to present in court has to be backed by a warrant. Of course they almost certainly did other surveillance first to figure out where to target the search warrants.
Why do we assume that the NSA or any other Government TLA employs the best brains in the industry. If you work for the government, you get a reasonable but not very exciting living wage. Work in the private sector and you get the chance to make millions on stock options when your invention is successful. How often does the government manage to make anything that is even fit for purpose, never mind better than everything else out there.
That is actually the idea. You will be able to use your existing charger with your new phone, so less landfill waste will be produced.
I have a charger with 4 USB ports, so my phone, iPod, iPad and Kindle can be charged at the same time using just one wall socket.
It is an integral part of the operating system, not the kernel.
In Excel 2013 for example Alt+4 and Alt-Gr+4 do two completely different things.
Alt+4 presses the 4th button on the Quick-Access toolbar, which in my case in the "Print Current Sheet" button.
Alt-Gr+4 enters the € symbol at the current insertion point in much the same way that Shift+4 enters the $ symbol or Shift+3 enters the £ symbol.
UK Keyboards are used in Ireland, and in the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, where € is their national currency.
There is no Right Alt key. There is an Alt-Gr key, which isn't needed in the US, but in Europe, you need it to type characters that aren't on the main keyboard. For example, using my UK keyboard, Alt-Gr + 4 will type the € symbol, and Alt-Gr + e will type the letter é.
Personal data is already defined in EU law. The Fermilab data set is not personal data. The book almost certainly isn't either. The linux distro is definitely not personal data.
At the risk of starting a war, KDE is the flagship linux desktop.
You can run desktop applications on an iPad or Droid slab by using Remote Desktop, VNC or similar, except that in the time it takes to try and control an application designed to be used with a keyboard and mouse on a touch screen, you could drive back to the office and just do it on your desktop computer.
People may think they want to run desktop applications on a tablet, but believe me, they don't.