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Pavel Durov has been indicted in France in front of an investigative judge, he is released from custody on a 5 million euros bail and is forbidden from leaving France during the in…

> Similarly, in Civil law jurisdictions (those that take traditions from the French) judges regularly rely on past rulings by respected judges. You are indeed correct in most of yo…

We don't know if they tried to get a tax ruling beforehand. And unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the case to speculate on it.

The French gov can only give prosecutors general instruction and those have to be written down. Oral instructions and individual instructions (prosecute that case, drop that other …

Sales office or not, the important aspect of this raid is to gather business data, not technical data. And emails are probably the most important thing they are after.

>this can happen in France given the way in which laws are prosecuted, I am a French lawyer. So I have to disagree. This is not the case here. The prosecutors are plainly saying th…

Disclosure : French law is my field of work but I only have knowledge of this case by the media (which is terrible in legal matters in France, really, worse than the US sometimes).…

> Edit: Remembered one more: Juries deciding whether murderers are guilty or not. Simply unthinkable over here. Ironically the horror of this scenario is fuelled by the US/Hollywoo…

So Yubikey would work. It identifies itself as a Keyboard to the OS.

> Especially as one can't force CSS to stop calling it color. Actually... It's (jokingly) possible :) http://spiffingcss.com/

So what are you proposing in this case, that the original poster had kept the Wikipedia title? Or that the linked Wikipedia article shouldn't have been posted at all ? Because hn's…

About the blue color and color-blindness problem... It depends on the colors badges can be, apart from blue. If they can be yellow or green... that might be a problem because of tr…

I've lived in part of the poorest region of Brazil in 2004. Most people I knew in middle class could afford at least a computer good enough to download things on emule or kazaa (BT…

I've lived in part of the poorest region of Brazil in 2004. Most people I knew in middle class could afford at least a computer good enough to download things on emule or kazaa (BT…

In most of Europe, actually, laws can be retroactive... What is forbidden is a harsher criminal law. For example, creating an incrimination by law after a crime has been committed …

It's because in France and Belgium we have a category, called "Magistrat" that contains both the judges (independent, neutral etc.) and the prosecutors (neither independent, nor ne…

Actually, it's not exactly two investigations. In criminal cases, if you face at least 10 years in jail, the investigation is not headed by the prosecution or the police, it's a sp…

Hahahaha. You're funny. Ok. So I'm doing a strawman... But you're not doing an argument from authority ? So let's be clear. Bell's theorem is not an "old thing". I mean, what serio…

"If you have a particle (such as a photons, electrons, or molecule) and have it physically interact with another particle, and then separate them, the result is that they can then …

Oh, I'm happy to tell you that you should read a bit about the No-Communication Theorem. Here, this post explain it fairly well : http://lesswrong.com/lw/q2/spooky_action_at_a_dist…

... Quantum teleportation as a mean of transmitting information ? You know that as of today, QT is completely unable of transmitting data... It transmits a quantum state instantly …

Hum. If someone is saying that men can't take care of children. He or She is not a feminist. You know that not every women is a feminist right ? Now... the problem is that the judi…

The Church had almost nothing to do with the catacombs in Paris (I don't know about the others, but IIRC in Rome it's also more complicated since they were created at a time where …