They tell ya, 'Never hit a man with a closed fist.' But it is, on occasion, hilarious.
You can't outlaw poor taste.
Sure you can. Many such laws are still in effect. And given that "taste" is highly subjective, those laws are usually as stupid as they sound.
DoS attack against the ToR hidden service; from inside the ToR network.
Cute idea, but it won't work. TOR hides things really well, and even if you managed to find one server, the admins could easily start another instance of its software on another machine.
> And yes, the company would then have broken the EU directive and would face the courts.
How would the EU courts find out?
They wouldn't.
When will candidates who are actually qualified to represent science or at a minimum show an interest in it be the representatives of science with regard to political decision-making?
When a majority starts using their brains to vote. Which means, probably never.
What was the point of winning either World War if, in 2012, someone can be casually arrested by @Kent_police for burning a poppy?
The point was that from 1945 to ~2010, they could not be so casually arrested.
Liberty is not static; it must periodically be re-conquered from those who would deny us.
The GPL protects the user's rights and the Free software engineer's rights.
The BSD license protects the closed-source programmer's rights.
So why would anyone prefer BSD? Because they're on the payroll of closed-source companies.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.