I would have agreed with you if I hadn't recently get a hold of my new Galaxy S4. Although it not labelled as Qi anywhere, the wireless charging mat adheres to this standard. Same goes for the other newer Samsung devices. Given the number of sold units by the company, you might well say Qi is widely adopted.

Maybe the biggest difference in absolute impact between super/standard versions of a term :-)

...is this time a what-if.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/

"What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker" someone asked shortly ago. What are the odds of that!

(hint: news say they found the bombs were built inside pressure cookers)

If they'd do it that way, then all prosecutors would need to do is to compute checksums of copyrighted material and check it against this database. Comprises the whole concept of the client-side encryption, therefor I would suspect this is not what they are referring to in the TOS.

I could imagine that it pertains to shared files not being kept seperately in two accounts but only linking to the same encrypted container - then the decryption keys would need to be shared too of course.

One import detail is missing in TFA and on /.

They are currently trying to fine them 20.000€ for the violation of their order which is of course laughable. It might become more intersting if this goes to court because then the fines could increase rapidly.

That said, I am regarding the current move by ULD more as a kickstart for something bigger, because if

a) Facebook abides, which is highly unlikely, everybody wins
b) Facebook denies and pays 20k, then they are admitting to violate the law
c) Facebook denies and does not pay, it will go to court possibly to upper instances leading to a general ruling.

Mind you, the data protection officials in this small state in Germany's north have a history of pissing corporations to prove our rights, so I am very interested to see where this one goes ;-).

Here's a source for the 20k fine. You may run it through a translator service of your choice.
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Klarnamenzwang-Datenschuetzer-droht-Facebook-mit-Zwangsgeld-1770733.html

then we could download the draft off some obscure chinese website by now. Hmpf.

j/k

Yeah you may rest assured that it was intended to be a joke.

(Admittedly grumpy - but that's how we kid where I do live)

You mean like .. a lottery? Yeah, perfectly reasonable ;-)

One thing might be GCC is licensed under the GPL while LLVM/Clang are under a BSD(-like) license.

> The philosophical status of the wavefunction [..] would seem to be an unlikely subject for emotional debate

Well not to me. I guess any subject a given amount of people put lots of effort in can arise emotional debates. *Especially* if the subject in question is discussed philosophically.

They don't contain mercury and therefor will not make you ill if a buld breaks. I recently saw a TV report on this. A whole family sick because one CFL bulb dropped in the basement, the child losing its hair, having memory issues and high risk of getting cancer.

Not wanting to be alarmist here, but it might be worth the extra bucks for the LED.

I'd say the Facebook Like-Button qualifies as "confines of its own web site" as you will send a request to it. This is not spooky at all and everyone should know by now that Facebook's attitude about privacy is evil, whether he's Internet literate or not.. Too less news for news imho :(

Wrong, there is no actual problem with forgetting your ID, as there is no obligation to carry one with you - exception is the driving license when operating a vehicle. Actually the police may demand you to fetch your ID at home or whereever it may be, and they might demand to bring you there themselves when they think you might flee. But I think that only happens when you're in suspicion for something.

What TFA forgets to mention is, that the ID card remains valid when you kill the RFID chip, as it still allows a person to be identified. Also, the fingerprint is a voluntary information to be stored. Most people won't know or bother and just let them store it anyway, though. For my fellow citizens: get yourself a new ID card w/o RFID just now (it is only a few Euros more expensive when you "loose" your current ID). If you have to get, for some reasons, an ID card with RFID on it, just put it in the microwave oven for a minute or so. Chaos Computer Club has proven this to kill the chip reliably.