Fisher Technik has long ago been surpassed by Lego.
When I was a child Fisher was big, but Lego Technic has completely replaced them in the retail space.

I would rather recommend starting out with Lego Technic, so they can learn the basic mechanics, and then add PF (Power Functions), and maybe end up with Mindstorm. But starting with Technic sets, you can see if they will have an interest.

You can run any software you want an all IOS devices.
In worst case (no jailbreak), you need to pay $100/year per 100 devices to sign all you warez with your own key.

It can't be signed by the EU before they change many EU laws, human rights laws etc.
Disconnecting people from the Internet is not an option, as that is becoming the only way to communicate with the government, report taxes, sales/purchases of houses etc.
Paranoid Americans without a working business model for their old tech can't stop all development in this world. The reason they don't sell that much music anymore is not because people copy it, it is because people do not have time for music, they spend the time on games, TV, Internet etc. And most music worth buying was made more than 10 years ago. They do not produce much good music these days. It will be difficult to make a "100 best hits from 2000-2010".

Italy makes lots of designer stuff. Stuff of same or lower value than competing products, but sold solely because how it looks. So it is important for the EU to protect designs.

EU does not recognize software patents.

BTW: Multitouch is a patent that Apple holds. So just prevent all competition from recognizing more than 1 finger would kill the competition.

Samsung is a company that had inside knowledge, producing to Apple, which is why they are in front of the competition.

It is you that do not follow how things are working.
Phones and other devices (computers ?) actually uses the MAC address of wireless access points to do geolocation. You do not need to associate, but the SSID being broadcast in the open does comes with a MAC address, which is what most wifi databases actually use. This database is built through wardriving, and probably updated with client software on a multitude of devices.

A place like Copenhagen Airport tracks smartphones moving around with WiFi enabled, by the way of monitoring MAC addresses. They can anonymously follow you from arrival until you leave the airport. But it is used for congestion discovery and stuff like that, and to see where people are waiting or spending their time while waiting. MAC addresses is the hottest thing in WiFi location these days.

Bubblesort is a good way to show it to children.
You can show it on the blackboard. Then assign each child a number, shuffle them, and then let them move around, and do the comparison.

If many children, you can make smaller groups, and finish with a merge sort (lowest number of the 3-4 rows steps forward).

Another simple one is making a maze. Then ask them how to get thru, given that you have breadcrumbs at your disposal. The algorithm might be turn right at every opportunity. Backtrack if cul-de-sac, and turn left, then stick to turn right. You need to make some special case, like a loop in the labyrinth (So you will get back to your breadcrumbs). Development is figuring out how to describe it in a way a computer will understand. It does only what it is told.

These are two examples of different difficulties. But gives a view into development. And the maze is a bit game like.

In most countries, a law like this would never be approved.
I think there is a higher law that says you can not be convicted for crime you have not done.
So if you are not downloading warez, they can not be penalized for that.

This is a law waiting for high court to throw it out.

Would like an invite as well.
pope (at) my.terminal.dk

Apple's App Store allows you to pause and resume downloads. So that would be fine. Not sure if you can script it though.

Spent 100 hours writing a new "fart" app, put it on the app store, see 10+ mio downloads, and you can use that to get to an interview.
Get a degree. Or just sell your experience the right way. And believe in your self.

Do not try to be too modest when writing the job application form. I have been sitting through many interviews where all the listed skills where actually areas of interests that the applicant thought sounded interesting, and would like to learn about. It is better the exaggerate a bit than being too modest, as long as it is within safety limits (i.e. you know enough to quickly become proficient).

A degree might help in some areas. But experience beats education for most jobs. Then you can always get something like a CISSP certification, which people has great respect for, but really is a trivial test, testing little knowledge in many areas (Non-IT folks find it hard though)

Microsoft just did its first step in imporving Skype. They cut the Asterisk plugin license.
They are trying to make it an isolated island. Call this an improvement if you wish.

There is only one way to go. Open standards, and FaceTime :)

It must be the Monty Python chocolate then.
The one from: Whizzo Chocolate Company

See transscript if you have no clue
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode06.htm

Encrypt password + salt with public key.
It is strong, probably close to as good as a hash. You can add the MD5 as additional salt to get longer ciphertext.

Then protect private key, and use only when government needs it.

That should be easy to implement, if encryption is legal in France.

I agree, Asymetric encryption / public key with salt. This should be close to a one way hash for hackers.
The safety then depends on how secure you store the private key. Should be stored offline.

But then there is the session cookie that the friend on the wifi can use almost forever.