Yeah, it most likely is a regional thing. In Denmark (and i believe it similar in the rest of the nordic countries) we refer to it as Ecological, or in danish Økologisk. Often these products are then prefixed with Øko in normal conversation, but it is similar til ot he german use of Bio, or indeed "organic" products from english speaking countries. In Denmark these products can additionally be goverment certified as "Øko" with a nice red mark on the packaging: http://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/Foedevarer/Oekologi/O_maerket/Sider/forside.aspx (in danish, sorry)

They should be in the clear legally, unless they participated. Otherwise every sleazy bar owner somewhere would be criminally liable if a big enough collection of criminals frequented the bar.

The laws against harboring criminals usually apply only to fugitives.

But if your reliability depends on the same cloud as your competitor, the reliability is basically the same.

Actually, this has happened in the danish parliament as well a few times.

Since nobody can be experts on all subjects the danish representatives usually follow the spokesperson on the topic of the legislation thats being voted for. If they accidentally hit the wrong button the voting machine, the rest might follow.

Actually 2580 and 0852 is the middle row of keys from top to bottom or vice versa. I agree with the strangeness of 5683 though.

At least in danish traffic law, it is illegal to drive in to a blocked intersection, but yeah, that can be tricky when a lot of roads filter into a single one, as it might be all but impossible from some of the roads to actually move forward.

Actually, when he referred to cross platform. I believe he was saying OS X and Windows, which are both rather well supported. I agree completely with Moonlight being completely useless though.

Not exactly. They are running on a rather low budget almost exclusively from what people donate. A lot of the stuff they have gotten has been donated by the manufacturing them. This isn't a a rich kid having fun, this is two nerdy danish engineers trying something crazy.

They are launching from sea to also escape a lot regulation in Denmark which would have to be followed with a launch on land.

Secret Service hasn't been a part of the Treasury since march 2003. Now it is also a part of DHS.

Actually MPEG can be a container format as well, as in MPEG-2 Transport streams or Program streams.

Well, i think the proponents of DRM solutions mostly recognize that it is not a perfect solution, it can however be effective at keeping the copying of content to a minimum. It is all about minimizing piracy for the movie studios, they know they can't completely get rid of it. Even if they could get rid of it, then who would they blame for shitty revenue ;)

Some would claim, that neither does the US.

I agree the process to add an exception is a bit long and overly complicated.

That being said, having a device generate a new self-signed cert on every boot seems like really bad security. It more or less invites man-in-the-middle attacks, since you are not relying on the SSL cert to be the same. So as long as an attacker presents you with a self-signed cert you would just accept it.