If you live in the USA, your phone should exchange no information with the network when it's switched off - that the FCC regulation.
I can tell by experience that most electronic equipment in Europe complies with FCC regulation (to number some on my desktop: cordless phone, wireless mouse and keyboard, router, monitor, USB DVD recorder, speakers...)
Yes, I'm kinda curious and read most labels on anything (courious, bored, whatever:P). So if you live outside the US, you can be pretty sure your phone doesn't work when it's off.
Then they actually can't sue the woman for something she hasn't done, can they? I mean, they might have some [bogus?] evidence that there was actual file trading over that line, but they can't sue her for it. It's like she getting charged with murder because there was one at her place.
If they happened to find the trader (say, her child, grandchild, whatever), and she's legally in charge of him, they could sue him and she'd get responsible for it. But then, they'd have to identify who was it.
They can't sue anyone blindly (warning: "can't" means "should not be able to in a world that makes sense") and hope to get away with it by burying them in bureaucracy and lawyer talk... right?
This stigma's been pursuing society for ages. There's still some fear (call it fear, call it respect, call it heyiwonttouchititmayburn) towards science, whereas Arts are a far more familiar field.
Maybe it's got something to do with science always ending up being a filter for students; teachers make it feel as if it were designed only for 'smart' people, and somehow generate some kind of disdain from pupils.
Everybody here forgot that KDE is made with the help of mainly unpaid and anonymous contributors? Didn't anyone take account of the fact that KDE e.V. is more like a charity that like an enterprise? Did anyone know that the amount of money directly collected by either the kjs or the konqueror teams from selling their products amounts to zero?
I'm sick of this Windows/KDE comparations (not the mention the Windows/(GNU/Linux) ones). You Windows weenies will have a point against gratis and free software as soon as M$ stops charging for their products and support.
Besides, if you don't believe whether the patch solves or not the problem you can go and get a diff yourselves. Easy, huh? Try that somewhere else.
You only seem to be bearing the economical aspects in mind. But let's take a wider look, please. Just to point out two examples:
Many cryptographic algorythms are developed outside the US, due to their restrictive laws on strong cryptography exportations. Most of this kind of development could disappear just because on cryptography patents in EU.
Doesn't any US citizen use software like KDE? Both free and not-so-free software developed in EU could suffer the adoption of such a patent system.
I don't think the average US citizen will notice the implantation of SwPat's in Europe, at least economically. Most of them don't own any part of a large corporation such as IBM or MS, to whom will most of the benefit fly. I think it's time to get realistic. Losing EU as a coding machine is a great loss. Especially when taking the Free Software view...
This directive had been previously discussed in Spain in barrapunto, and we got to the conclusion that it's a head-on collision against three important articles of our Constitution (by important I mean they're essential rights and won't be easily changed).
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I can tell by experience that most electronic equipment in Europe complies with FCC regulation (to number some on my desktop: cordless phone, wireless mouse and keyboard, router, monitor, USB DVD recorder, speakers...)
Yes, I'm kinda curious and read most labels on anything (courious, bored, whatever :P). So if you live outside the US, you can be pretty sure your phone doesn't work when it's off.
And what does he actually do with the Whiskey???
Then they actually can't sue the woman for something she hasn't done, can they? I mean, they might have some [bogus?] evidence that there was actual file trading over that line, but they can't sue her for it. It's like she getting charged with murder because there was one at her place.
If they happened to find the trader (say, her child, grandchild, whatever), and she's legally in charge of him, they could sue him and she'd get responsible for it. But then, they'd have to identify who was it.
They can't sue anyone blindly (warning: "can't" means "should not be able to in a world that makes sense") and hope to get away with it by burying them in bureaucracy and lawyer talk... right?
Do Yourself In?
You're not one of... those guys , are you??
If only I had an unspecified amount of money... *sigh*...
This stigma's been pursuing society for ages. There's still some fear (call it fear, call it respect, call it heyiwonttouchititmayburn) towards science, whereas Arts are a far more familiar field.
Maybe it's got something to do with science always ending up being a filter for students; teachers make it feel as if it were designed only for 'smart' people, and somehow generate some kind of disdain from pupils.
Everybody here forgot that KDE is made with the help of mainly unpaid and anonymous contributors? Didn't anyone take account of the fact that KDE e.V. is more like a charity that like an enterprise? Did anyone know that the amount of money directly collected by either the kjs or the konqueror teams from selling their products amounts to zero?
I'm sick of this Windows/KDE comparations (not the mention the Windows/(GNU/Linux) ones). You Windows weenies will have a point against gratis and free software as soon as M$ stops charging for their products and support.
Besides, if you don't believe whether the patch solves or not the problem you can go and get a diff yourselves. Easy, huh? Try that somewhere else.
Oh, God, you hit the Security through Obscurity issue there!
Have you ever googled for some prolific hacker of Windoes code?
You only seem to be bearing the economical aspects in mind. But let's take a wider look, please. Just to point out two examples:
I don't think the average US citizen will notice the implantation of SwPat's in Europe, at least economically. Most of them don't own any part of a large corporation such as IBM or MS, to whom will most of the benefit fly. I think it's time to get realistic. Losing EU as a coding machine is a great loss. Especially when taking the Free Software view...
Send the World's Biggest Magnet to orbit round the Earth! (Remember to attatch some politicians to it in order to clean both Earth and near Space)
Was that speedin', officer?
This directive had been previously discussed in Spain in barrapunto, and we got to the conclusion that it's a head-on collision against three important articles of our Constitution (by important I mean they're essential rights and won't be easily changed).