Hahaha, you obviously don't live in southern Germany. The CSU is only in Bavaria (since after the war) and Bavaria still thinks it is a separate country from the days of the Empire.

Even people in northern Bavaria (Franken) are not even considered real Bavarians (sorry, in German) https://www.welt.de/reise/deut...

The CSU is only part of the CDU because otherwise they would die out as a regional party.

This was 1 GB of emails. Actually, I believe it would be very difficult to fake that many emails, simply because the chances of detection are so high. For example, if just one email is found with a timestamp when Surkov is demonstrably not sending an email because 100 diplomats from different countries are sitting with him at a state dinner, it would throw the entire GB into question.

10 emails are easily faked but 1 GB is actually probably easier to hack than fake.

I'm not in this field but since a considerable amount of research in this area is done by companies in the US (Goggle, Apple, etc etc). who might not want to publish their results, does this mean the US is less productive or simply reached the phase where such knowledge is actively implemented?

How do the results look if you look at granted patents?

Just curious, as I said, not at all in this field.

Germany has been doing this for years but in the form of a tax refund. You get all of the VAT back for things like the gardner, house cleaning or plumber but only up to 2k€ or so. Supposed to discourage undocumented work (and help Germany collect the labor income taxes).

In the 90s, I lived in San Francisco. There was (and still is) a well known race called Bay to Breakers. While there are serious runners, the race is best known for thousands of people in costumes and various states of undress, including naked or body paint.

A drop dead gorgeous friend wanted to run in body paint but was afraid to run alone and asked me if I would join (in body paint, of course). Being gallant, I said sure (ok, perhaps part of me wanted to see her naked in body paint).

If you did this today, you'd immediately be posted all over Facebook, so many people decide not to engage in harmless fun anymore.

I really feel sad for the younger generation

Arizona certainly is

http://tucson.com/news/local/new-poll-has-trump-clinton-tied-in-arizona/article_01a67ecc-6e07-11e6-a2c4-6b0510540d4c.html

mystified by the reluctance of some portfolio companies to avoid a stock market flotation. "They would benefit from the rigor and discipline that the public market requires," he said.

Maybe an idea which needs a year to properly develop an idea is justifiably afraid of quarterly meddling at the beginning.
That's discipline to avoid that short term trap

As a boy in Florida (think 37-39 C at night but 98% humidity), I used to sleep in the upper bunk and would jam one foot between the posts and headrest and sleep hanging (yes, head down) to minimize contact with the bed. Look at me, I'm perfectly normal today ;-)

You said it yourself: "Converting". But it was unusable before (ie., encrypted) and is still encrypted. Hence, no meaningful conversion took place.

How about this: You could set up the system to unpack itself but with an algorithm that takes 20 years. It was locked before and now it is decrypting itself. You were asked to open it and you did.

All good things take time...

I think you have a good point that wiping a locked device might be construed as tampering with evidence. But what if it just reencrypted it a second time, maybe even with a random password but one you just don't know ?

IANAL but you didn't erase anything, it was locked before and now it is still locked. Maybe even do it so they could brute force in 10-20 years time?

Conveniently after the statute of limitations has run out.

I think a copyright beach may well be worth 2 million euros.

for them to find intelligent life on this planet...

As well as my father (obviously, that's who I got it from) and my paternal uncle, etc. At the risk of offending sensibilities, how do they correct for a relative cockolding, since they only look at the Y chromosome? And in a typical little village 400 years ago, there might only have been 5-10 or so unrelated Y chromosomes floating around.

whether one agrees with him/her or not, who the hell marked this as a troll ?

There is a great deal of evidence that the US and SA funded terrorists.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I thought Slashdot was here to encourage exchange of opinions, even if unpopular with people living in the US or Saudia Arabia...

Always make backups, preferably to an insecure cloud service.