Luckily, it's only 5 days, but yes, they shouldn't have to pay for a thing.
If I remember correctly though, the.org registry charges an excess deletion fee to if the grace deletion rate is over 90% (as in, 90% of the domains are just dropped after 5 days)
If you sell a knife, you do not know it will be used illegally.
If you put a link on a site, you also don't.
Because who says someone will actually download what's on that site.
What if it was just someone who was gathering links, like Google?
Do they use the material illegaly? No.
So if you work in a store and sell a killer a knife, without thinking we would murder someone with it, would you be guilty to helping him?
I don't think so.
Now seriously.. Allowing software patents in the EU will be a bad move.
It will take freedom of people to freely distribute their own software only due to an element of it beïng "patented".
This will seriously hamper the opensource community, something I have serious respect for.
100 GB of data on a DVD?
I think we're putting too much trust in those little discs, no matter how handy they are..
Would sure be very painful if you'd scratch it and lose 100 GB's of data.
Use it as a Wireless server?
How would you want to pull that one off?
I don't think the uptime would be very long, considering it's battery powered.. catch my drift?
Hmmm.. a system powered by batteries, but not the monitor?
So what's the use then?
Taking it with you to places without power? No. No power for the monitor..
Using it at home? No. You could just plug the thing in and not waste the poor batteries.
The only thing they have to come up with next, is either a monitor that runs off batteries, or just lower the prices of laptops. (Which would probably be a better deal then this anyway, since this new system will ofcourse cost lots of money.)
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Luckily, it's only 5 days, but yes, they shouldn't have to pay for a thing. If I remember correctly though, the .org registry charges an excess deletion fee to if the grace deletion rate is over 90% (as in, 90% of the domains are just dropped after 5 days)
If you sell a knife, you do not know it will be used illegally. If you put a link on a site, you also don't. Because who says someone will actually download what's on that site. What if it was just someone who was gathering links, like Google? Do they use the material illegaly? No.
So if you work in a store and sell a killer a knife, without thinking we would murder someone with it, would you be guilty to helping him? I don't think so.
Of course not, but it will make it harder for them though.. and solutions that are already patented by others won't be improvable be the community..
Now seriously.. Allowing software patents in the EU will be a bad move.
It will take freedom of people to freely distribute their own software only due to an element of it beïng "patented".
This will seriously hamper the opensource community, something I have serious respect for.
100 GB of data on a DVD? I think we're putting too much trust in those little discs, no matter how handy they are.. Would sure be very painful if you'd scratch it and lose 100 GB's of data.
the spammed user actually get something out of it and not just the government itself?
Hmmm.. it all depends on use. It sure wouldn't be good for a server for a production environment, but as you say, it could make a good demo platform.
Use it as a Wireless server? How would you want to pull that one off? I don't think the uptime would be very long, considering it's battery powered.. catch my drift?
Hmmm.. a system powered by batteries, but not the monitor? So what's the use then? Taking it with you to places without power? No. No power for the monitor.. Using it at home? No. You could just plug the thing in and not waste the poor batteries. The only thing they have to come up with next, is either a monitor that runs off batteries, or just lower the prices of laptops. (Which would probably be a better deal then this anyway, since this new system will ofcourse cost lots of money.)
And it might be best to start researching it as soon as possible before it will be massively exploited by someone who just found out how it works..