So can someone explain to me how you can be convicted of both conspiring to do wire fraud AND for doing it? Doesn't the latter cancel out the former, or do you also get convicted of conspiracy to attempt a murder, attempted murder AND murder when you kill someone?
Conspire to murder person A, attempt to murder person B and actually murder person C. Someone else can take the wire fraud analogy.
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But seriously, a TV with built-in video conference features might be useful, as long as they don't go and invent their own standard for it. I have been playing with the thought of setting up sort of "virtual windows" between separate office spaces, to allow a different, ad-hoc mode of communication between people at different locations.
Foreign governments and educational institutions have access to the Windows sources, too.
How do they know it's the same source that was used to compile the binaries? And MS could just deploy a few more back doors any time, using their auto-update infrastructure.
I still think that a more likely place for intentionally placed exploits is in the CPU. Common operating systems have enough unintentional flaws for a long time, with more coming out very major release.
The question then is how on God's Green Earth have so many people deployed this stuff and not audited it thoroughly (or at all)?
Because your client will want new plugins every week, gets tired of asking you everytime, and wants you to set up the permissions so that the GUI plugin installer works ("what do you mean not a good idea? the last site I had worked that way and I never had any problems with it"), then proceeds to install all the plugins he needs to make his blog on cats and other larger-than-life stuff buzzword compatible.
Here's my idea: require the company to define the value of the patent (i.e. how much inventing it cost) with the patent application. And the patent application processing fee is 10% of that value. The patent owner can only sue for damages up to the patent value.
If you actually used a billion to make that invention, then 10% of that is a small price to pay for protection of the investment. If you're a troll, you need to be a troll with very deep pockets. And hopefully some part of that 10% fee can be used to properly review patent applications and establish a court that specializes in handling patent disputes so that lawsuits can be streamlined.
Won't help with already issued patents though.
A contract, a real life contract, needs a real signature on a real piece of paper
I don't know about Italy specifically, but in most places you do not need a piece of paper with hand written signatures to have a contract. Paper contracts are used for "important" stuff because it offers a simple way for proving afterwards that there indeed was a contract and what it's terms were.
If a written contract was necessary, how would two illiterate people agree on things?
At least, no storm that could cause an outage. I am not sure there are european cities that have this risk.
There are cities that can get flooded when there's an unusual amount of rain. Not sure if that would cause large scale power outages though.
Also in northern Europe (Scandinavia + Finland), rural areas suffer from outages caused by trees falling on power lines. Those can take days to get fixed if the "storm"* hits a wide enough area.
* A strong wind + rain/snow associated with it. We don't have stuff like hurricanes up here.
Next time when you start a program from Windows start menu, watch closely your computer. You can see that there are no elves taking the old computer and bringing a new one. So it's still the same computer.
However, if the software being started is a truely remarkable, almost magical software such as a Strong AI (brought to you by Strong AI labs, patent pending), then who knows, maybe there will be elves.
Fear of being judged for it? How about the rest of us who have a fear of being shot by them when they go crazy. The mentally ill should be registered like sex offenders and shouldn't be out without supervision.
I think we need a disorder classification for people who are obsessively trolling the internet.
... still waiting for that success though.
It's not really that complicated, take shovels and brooms and go dig them up. The world's population is still increasing, there won't be a shortage of manual labor.
The generation gap would have to be handled by the same system that takes care of nights. Or alternatively, non-critical functions of the society will stop for a moment. Office slaves will have a day off from that cold white LED glow of their workstations, and will get some time to enjoy the company of their families and friends. Temporarily running out of electricity won't be the end of humanity. Until/unless we get usable fusion power, we may just have to adapt.
Too bad it's made by sony though.
Too bad any potential alternatives will mean giving more money to Microsoft. And it's hard to beat the evil of MS tax.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
