Well, that's too bad, because I for one am not in the possession of fourth amendment protections. So as much as I think this is a wise and important verdict - irrespective of all the poisonous trees and parallel constructions - the US to me represents a clear and present danger to my privacy and my liberty.

There will not be a mandatory minimum. Just a maximum of at least to years.

There will not be a minimum sentence. Just a minumum for the maximum sentence. Difficult concept, but the idea is that each member state will have a maximum prison sentence of at least 2 years. Judges will be free to sentence someone to a month, if they so choose. Member States can also choose to have a maximum prison sentence of more than 2 years, but not less than 2 years.

This is a misinterpretation of the new rule. European law typically defines minimum values for maximum sentences. So: all member states will adopt a law that sets a maximum sentence of at least x years. There will not be a minimum sentence, since that is unconstitutional in a lot of countries.

But there are a *lot* of sites. A lot of municipalities use certificates issues by Diginotar as well.

Seriously? You are waiting for facial recognition in your eyeball? And you wonder why you have trouble hanging on to you girlfriends?

Which is true of people anywhere. In Holland, where I happen to live, people from the southern Limburg province are much more like the people on the other side of the border with Belgium than they resemble people from the north of the country, or even the center. Dialects are quite similar too over the border, whereas people from the North have trouble understanding Limburgers. And Holland is only 300 km long!

thank the mother of all ctrl-alt-del that I had my kid in a 3rd world country, that is now sort of 'up in smoke', have four valid passports and haven't been on radar in 15 years. As Robert A. Heinlein said alooong time ago: when it gets to this level its time to relocate to another planet. 3rd world will do in a pinch