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Comment Re:So lemme get this right: (Score 4, Informative) 45

Normally, your phone is not reachable by the public network, the attacker has to be within the LAN to sent an XML packet to your phone. And if you have a SIP phone reachable from the outside, it still sits behind a Session Border Controller, which only forwards SIP, but not XML.

So yes, the severity is low, as the attacker has to be within your LAN in almost all scenarios.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 200

The problem I have with laws like this is that you ONLY catch the stupid people anyway.

Always remember: They have to succeed only once. Yes, a smart criminal might get away again and again -- until he doesn't get away any longer because of some stupid mistake. Outside of our special talents, knowledge and education, all of us are stupid.

Comment Re:Death traps. (Score 1) 451

Irrelevant. The moment they aren't banned in other countries and getting to be the norm there because of decreasing accidents, less traffic jams, better utilization of roads and lower impact on the environment, some will rethink their stance and reintroduce them again. It might be a 10 years delay, but I think self driving cars will be the norm.

I for instance would buy one as soon as they are affordable.

Comment Re:My experience with bilingual people (Score 1) 274

The Thirty Years War is in fact a series of several wars fought in parallel or in succession. But it started out as an inner German civil war, and until 1631 it mainly was. Bohemia was multilingual, true, but it was a domain of the Habsburgs, which in turn were Germans. The mainly protestant Bohemians seceded from Habsburg and choose Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1618 as their new king, who was German too, which started the war (and caused Frederick V to be called "winter king", because his reign endet in the Spring of 1619). Then Germany was split into two alliances, the League (the Habsburgian Emperor and mainly catholic German countries) and the Union (the protestant German countries with the exception of Saxony).

The League tried to conquer the Union states with two armies, the Bavarian army led by Gen. Tilly, and the Imperial army lead by Gen. Wallenstein (Waldstejn), who was Bohemian despite his German name. They devastated most German protestant countries till 1631, when the King of Sweden entered the battle to "save Protestantism".

When France entered the battle, it was trying to oust the Habsburgs from Spain or at least to weaken the Habsburg influence in Europe.

Comment Re:He's not always right. (Score 3, Informative) 214

First of all: Software has a special place in the world. Software is a distilled form of knowing how to do things. Software is a way to actually store work: You do the work once and then use it again and again without further effort. Software itself doesn't degrade, it just might lose its uses. Software can be endlessly replicated with an effort that is minuscle compared to the effort necessary to create it in the first place. Once in the world, software is not a scarce good.

And yes, it is your choice what do do with the software you write yourself. No one will ever tell you different, except your employer. It is also your choice to smoke, to tell racist jokes, to not ask for help, to let your house rot away and to spend all your money on blackjack and hookers. Richard M. Stallman has no rights to your software at all.

But you too have no right to other people's software, because they have the same rights to do with their software as they like. If you want to get access to it, you have to play nice. You can spend huge amounts of money, which is the market economy way of doing things. But why? Software per se is no scarce good. The only reason you would have to spend huge amounts of money for a good that is easily replicated again and again is because other people don't play nice too.

Richard M. Stallman set up some rules how to play nice when it comes to software. You are not required to play nice. But then expect others not to be nice to you too.

Comment Re:My experience with bilingual people (Score 1) 274

Europa's leaders always could talk to each other, because they came from the same set of aristocrate families and because they spoke either Latin in the Middle Ages or French later. The German Emperor Wilhelm II. for instance was the grandson of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, nonetheless they waged World War I against each other. And during the Hundred Years War between England and France, the kings of England were still talking French as their native tongue, as they were descendents of northern french dukes (and they were in fact battling for their continental heirloom in Northern and Western France, the so called Angevin Empire). The Thirty Years War, the most devastating war until the World Wars in Europe, was mainly fought between Germans.

What ever the reason was for the many wars in Europa, the different languages weren't.

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