Speaking of thinking and being critical ... just what kind of market are you referring to? The red light district? We were discussing DRAM ...

PS: Your thinking in the last paragraph is a bit naive. Given:
1. A minuscule fine in proportion to profits.
2. Increasing the fine will take forever to implement: Evil Mega Corp. Inc. has a cadre of lawyers and lobbyists to make this so.
3. Corporations - while enjoying many of the perks of being human - are not, in fact human. It has no soul, no empathy no "feelings" at all. What they do have are software, accountants, and driven-to-succeed(-at-any-cost) types all over the upper middle and senior ranks.

These lead to (pick one)
4a. The fine gets folded into the cost of doing business at location X by automation. Since the cost to operate just went up the price to sell adjusts up as well.
4b. Busted here? Well, shoot, how about that market over yonder? Wonder how long we'll have to wait (answer for the US: about a decade for a two-term administration, 5 years for a one-shot) before we can game this market again?

Nice sleight of hand there. And I'm burning mod points here, so be nice and pay attention, please.

Should you so choose you can - under the law - commence charges, in civil court against the violator. You will have to show the court your standing (your privilege to instantiate proceedings) AND what unlawful or tortuous act was committed, and be specific about it.

Your attorney will tell you, the judge will tell you - and yes I'll point it out as well: Your feelings of being "stolen from" don't matter. What matters is the Law - which says you have a violation of Contract predicated upon Copyright Law, not an act of Larceny.

Your GPL example is also not Larceny.

In other words, guess what: No matter how big a bitch-fit tantrum you throw, no matter how much you wish it to be true, what you believe simply is not true - under the law.

There, fixed that for 'em.

Sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity for snark. "collective ecosystem knowledge". What the hell is that? Pure noise, bereft of signal is what that is. Some days I really mourn the death of literacy. This be one of those days.

Nope. During - and immediately after an assault, be that from pepper spray, baton or fist - precisely two thoughts or impulses will be bouncing around in the assaulted person's mind:
Fight
or
Flight

And from what I've seen in a half-century of living - either is likely.

Uh, no. I work in the tire manufacture business. The lot ID has always been - and still is - available for inspection on the outside of the tire. We call this the "serial plate", it's mounted to the mold. Look for a series of letters / numbers bracketed by impressions of what looks like screw heads: that's the serial plate. It's near the bead area. Granted, it may be on the inboard side and may require you to crawl about with an inspection mirror (or put the vehicle up on a rack), but no need to dismount the tire. Tire lot ID's were never on the inside of a tire. What people see there are impressions of the cure press' bladder lot ID, a different thing entirely.

What the law requires is for vehicle manufacturers to provide a way of reading tire pressures automatically and notifiying the vehicle operator of low and/or imbalanced tire pressures. The pressure transponder (an RFID-like device) is part of the valve assembly, not the tire.

Various tire makers have experimented with placing RFID tags into tires but with little success. It's a very hostile environment (high temperatures and pressures) inside the material while the tire is being cured, tags don't survive it very well.

It sounds to me like your being .... what's the word / phrase I'm searching for .... a concerned parent. Vigilant about the young'un. I.E. what you're supposed to be doing. That duty you owe the kid, yourself and us, the rest of society.

Get the answers to your questions (I don't have 'em). Do the fact-checking. Decide on a course of action.

Now an interesting question arises for Kargeneth's post:

You mean the school or the parent?

Specifically No. 1, Part A of Niven's Laws:

1A - Never throw shit at an armed man.
1B - Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

Myself, I'm following 1B with respect to this woman - whom, in the backstory behind this appears to be quite the nutcase.

So .... in the era before Google apps, at the end of the day you just left client documents laying about untended and exited the building without locking the door?

Rubber hose? We doan need no steenkin rubber hose! We doan need no super-whatis neither. We make two trips to machine: One to install hardware keylogger, one to pick it up and put in pocket and walk away.

Only fools use single-token authentication.

Let's try this instead:

wget http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984.pdf

or 2 page layout:

wget http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/1984-2.pdf

wget http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf

I have mod points. Happily sacificed. Now on the count of three - everybody wget 'em ;)

"License to read" == bullshit.

Duct tape.

Just tape the damn phone to you, like under an arm. Then you won't be bothered with having to keep the phone with you. Just position it so that the charging jack is accessible, plug it in while you sleep.

Now wasn't that easy, quick and simple?

On a less sarcastic note: You do know that nearly all cell phones use low power BT and that the 30m range is for absolutely perfect conditions? That in the real world of walls / wiring, metal clad big appliances and ambient noise that range can be as low as scant (single digit) meters?

I've got a feeling I'm one of the few (maybe the only) here who has ever programmed an analog computer. They had default settings, be they operational amplifier (electronic) or shaft/cam/lever (mechanical) designs.

Truecrypt - a product I'm right fond of and use - isn't going to be able to stand up to the cryptanalysis that some police forces will bring to bear. Their notion of plausible deniability differs: They'll believe you're telling the truth just before (or just after) your death by acts of torture.

I think a blend of well established practice and tech will serve them better. In the form of microSD passed hand to hand or via drops. They're small, elude most metal detectors and can easily hidden or easily disposed of should the need arise.

Methinks some ISPs aren't going to like this once it is released "for real".
From Comcast's TOS:

Prohibited Uses of HSI. You agree not to use HSI for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, "Web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.

That would be 1967, aka the Summer of Love.

Folks tell me I was there ... but I have no recollection of that event.