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Sweden’s affairs in Cuba: a U.S. proxy and Julian Assange

Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again

Assange Case: Ny Knows the Girls Made it Up but Doesn't Care

Sweden’s affairs in Cuba: a U.S. proxy and Julian Assange

Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again

Assange Case: Ny Knows the Girls Made it Up but Doesn't Care

Dude, I'd be all-righteously on your side right now, but just, like, read the links. There's an abundance of material that shows he has no idea what he's talking about or, worse, has a crudely-formed idea that he peddles as ultimate wisdom. I'd agree it's strictly possible he blindly picked a corn with the idea as described in this article, but it's unlikely given his track record and the idea certainly should not be given any additional credence just because it's his. This story would not be here on Slashdot if it wasn't proposed by someone with a name. The entire intention behind debunking Gibson is to eradicate undue pre-trust in his name and instead have the proposal examined as if some random hobo had suggested it. Someone, i.e., like Steve Gibson.

The Sweden "court system" for this issue is almost a regular medieval political circus. Look at what Sweden has all but promised Assange in his "fair" trial: Solitary confinement before trial without access to his lawyers. Closed door secret court - no one will hear let alone be able to refute any testimonies. Three of the four judges to be (or appointed by) politicians! Not to forget that the case was closed before being reopened by, you guessed it, a politician - apparently because they say the girls did not know they were being raped at the time and it is up-to their court of laypersons to decide (I kid you not, crazy system Sweden has, huh). The rabbit hole of deceit by Swedish authorities goes way deeper than most would like to see however - in this case starting with the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, lawyer Mr Claes Borgström and their relationship with the Swedish Democrat party which stands to gain from this circus.

Who in the right mind would not try to fight for a fairer trial than this? I don't care if it is Assange or anyone else, Sweden should be ashamed of these "courts", if you can even call them that.

The only good thing coming out of this abuse is the increased scrutiny on the very broken European extradition laws - and perhaps some Swedish rethinking their leaders (although the last election shows this to be unlikely).

What tweets?

These tweets for example:

http://radsoft.net/news/20101001,01.shtml

'Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? #fb'

'Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world's coolest smartest people, it's amazing! #fb'

These were made the days immediately after she was "raped". Is that how you act after a rape? Call it hanging out with the coolest people in the world?

To make matters even worse, she tried to remove them after the fact...

It's amazing what people take for proof and sources to base their snap judge and jury judgement on in this case.

Yes, that is scary. I agree with you there.

Ok, thanks, I have no way of verifying that those claims and copies of deleted tweets are true. But if they are, then everything about the story on that page undermines the whole CIA conspiracy thing. It just shows that he messed with the wrong women (Christians..).

You present this timeline:
Women do not want to press charges (so how does anyone know what happened?)

Woman A said afterwards that she had not wanted to press charges but had gone to support the younger woman, who wanted police advice on how to get Assange to take a medical test.

Overzealous prosecutor "forced the issue." (How? What "Issue" is being forced? How did the prosecutor know?)

Director of public prosecution Marianne Ny decided to reopen the case, saying new information had come in on Tuesday. "We went through all the case material again, including what came in, and that's when I made my decision," [to reopen the case] Ny told The Associated Press by phone. She declined to say what information she had received or whether Assange, who was questioned by investigators on Monday, would be arrested. An arrest warrant issued on 20 August was withdrawn within 24 hours.

Later, a lawyer convinced the women to press charges. (Wait, didn't you JUST claim the prosecutor did that? How did said lawyer know about the case if the women never pressed charges?)

No, the prosecutor reopened the case, regardless of the will of anyone else. It does appear that one woman at least very much wants Assange punished... but only well after the fact. At the time when the alleged sexual assault was occurring she was more than happy to be there and enjoying the Julian Assange Experience.

Here's the timeline as I understand it. "Julian Assange is being harassed for slighting the feelings of two groupies who worshipped him before and after the alleged rapes and he's being hunted for something that's definitely not rape and not even a crime yet." There is plenty of evidence all over the place including multiple admissions from both women, deleted tweets made by one woman gushing about how happy she was about being with Assange which presumably included fucking him, relevant deleted blog posts, et cetera. The only question is whether there is a political motivation behind this, or it was just an opportune time to harm Assange without any concern by these women over the cost to freedom.

You present this timeline:
Women do not want to press charges (so how does anyone know what happened?)

Woman A said afterwards that she had not wanted to press charges but had gone to support the younger woman, who wanted police advice on how to get Assange to take a medical test.

Overzealous prosecutor "forced the issue." (How? What "Issue" is being forced? How did the prosecutor know?)

Director of public prosecution Marianne Ny decided to reopen the case, saying new information had come in on Tuesday. "We went through all the case material again, including what came in, and that's when I made my decision," [to reopen the case] Ny told The Associated Press by phone. She declined to say what information she had received or whether Assange, who was questioned by investigators on Monday, would be arrested. An arrest warrant issued on 20 August was withdrawn within 24 hours.

Later, a lawyer convinced the women to press charges. (Wait, didn't you JUST claim the prosecutor did that? How did said lawyer know about the case if the women never pressed charges?)

No, the prosecutor reopened the case, regardless of the will of anyone else. It does appear that one woman at least very much wants Assange punished... but only well after the fact. At the time when the alleged sexual assault was occurring she was more than happy to be there and enjoying the Julian Assange Experience.

Here's the timeline as I understand it. "Julian Assange is being harassed for slighting the feelings of two groupies who worshipped him before and after the alleged rapes and he's being hunted for something that's definitely not rape and not even a crime yet." There is plenty of evidence all over the place including multiple admissions from both women, deleted tweets made by one woman gushing about how happy she was about being with Assange which presumably included fucking him, relevant deleted blog posts, et cetera. The only question is whether there is a political motivation behind this, or it was just an opportune time to harm Assange without any concern by these women over the cost to freedom.

You present this timeline:
Women do not want to press charges (so how does anyone know what happened?)

Woman A said afterwards that she had not wanted to press charges but had gone to support the younger woman, who wanted police advice on how to get Assange to take a medical test.

Overzealous prosecutor "forced the issue." (How? What "Issue" is being forced? How did the prosecutor know?)

Director of public prosecution Marianne Ny decided to reopen the case, saying new information had come in on Tuesday. "We went through all the case material again, including what came in, and that's when I made my decision," [to reopen the case] Ny told The Associated Press by phone. She declined to say what information she had received or whether Assange, who was questioned by investigators on Monday, would be arrested. An arrest warrant issued on 20 August was withdrawn within 24 hours.

Later, a lawyer convinced the women to press charges. (Wait, didn't you JUST claim the prosecutor did that? How did said lawyer know about the case if the women never pressed charges?)

No, the prosecutor reopened the case, regardless of the will of anyone else. It does appear that one woman at least very much wants Assange punished... but only well after the fact. At the time when the alleged sexual assault was occurring she was more than happy to be there and enjoying the Julian Assange Experience.

Here's the timeline as I understand it. "Julian Assange is being harassed for slighting the feelings of two groupies who worshipped him before and after the alleged rapes and he's being hunted for something that's definitely not rape and not even a crime yet." There is plenty of evidence all over the place including multiple admissions from both women, deleted tweets made by one woman gushing about how happy she was about being with Assange which presumably included fucking him, relevant deleted blog posts, et cetera. The only question is whether there is a political motivation behind this, or it was just an opportune time to harm Assange without any concern by these women over the cost to freedom.

What tweets?

These tweets for example:

http://radsoft.net/news/20101001,01.shtml

'Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? #fb'

'Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world's coolest smartest people, it's amazing! #fb'

These were made the days immediately after she was "raped".
Is that how you act after a rape? Call it hanging out with the coolest people in the world?

To make matters even worse, she tried to remove them after the fact...

It's amazing what people take for proof and sources to base their snap judge and jury judgement on in this case.

Yes, that is scary. I agree with you there.

More info about the accusations: http://radsoft.net/news/20101001,01.shtml

Doesn't look like the case has any merit unless Sweden has so batshit insane laws that no one should be extradited there.

Here's what Loki has been up to, in the guise of women and Swedish prosecutors: http://www.abacus-news.co.uk/news/10/wikileaksconspiracy7.php http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101018,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/rants/20100905,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/1/20100917,00.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320

Anyway, do you have a reference for Yoran's statements on weak Windows security? I must have chosen the wrong keywords when I looked for them.

Read his congressional testimony here:

http://kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/subdocs/022404_yoran.pdf

Note the frequent mention of specific Windows threats, something you will find few government people doing. Many trade press publication will often mention a new threat without regard to specific OS dependencies (and 99% of the time it's Windows). The company goes to great lengths to make sure its names aren't taken in vain in public.

He has been associated with user groups that are critical of Windows, but my guess is that his true feelings on the subject are uttered mostly off the record.

http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=764

http://radsoft.net/rants/20090318,00.shtml

In any event, the hiring of a former Microsoftie is the main issue here. Is he required to divest his stock options? I don't see that spelled out.

And another one.

Lex Orwell: How They Voted

Camilla Lindberg was the only MP to break ranks and vote against. Birgitta Ohlsson is in the same party but she only dared not vote.

What's curious - beyond wimpy Fredrick Federley who the day before made such a spectacle talking about his mother along with Annie Johansson - is the leading members of the opposition including former minister of justice Thomas Bodstrom (who was behind the bust of The Pirate Bay) and Mona Sahlin (who may be the next prime minister) had previously voiced opposition to the proposal - but guess what? On the day of voting they didn't even bother to show up!

The bill passed by a very narrow margin - only five votes. If the above people had voted against; if Henrik von Sydow who was also highly critical had voted against; if a few others who had gone on record as being opposed to the bill had voted against; then it wouldn't have passed into law.

Camilla Lindberg received over 140 flower bouquets for what she did. Somebody has to send a message to the MPs who should have been there as well. (Of the 67 who were not there to vote there were 34 opposition MPs which means if all had been there the opposition would have gained yet another vote.)

I guess they're supposed to be representatives of the people? Several journalists asked them to vote with their hearts - they did not mean they shouldn't show up for work at all. Especially with such a crucial issue. It's inexcusable. Possibly typical but particularly in this case inexcusable.

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

More stuff with more of the Swedish stuff translated into English.

'Ja' to Lex Orwell
Lex Blair
Orwellian Update I
To the Vote
Lex Orwell & Intent
Lex Orwell - No for Now
'I Have To Be Able to Look Myself in the Eyes'

The reasons are the same for video as for documents: magnetic media degrade quickly,

The myth of bit rot on hard drives is just that- a myth. It's been perpetuated for two decades by the idiot Steve Gibson, selling his own snake oil (Spinrite), and unfortunately, not enough people are calling him on it. I thought it actually did something too, until I read that post from someone who actually knows how modern drives work. As the author points out, there's a track that can only be written at the factory, and if what Gibson claimed were true, ALL drives would be dying left and right after a few years. Funny how I've found drives made almost a decade ago working just fine now...

The problem hasn't changed; it's mostly obsolescence in drive interfaces, and the drives themselves (for tapes.) PATA is common these days, but everything is going towards SATA, for example.

Both DAT and 8mm were in common use as little as 6-7 years ago...but you'd be fairly hard pressed to find a place to but either now save eBay. And...do YOU want to entrust a backup to an ebay drive?

SpinRite is not the solution. Read this straightforward debunking of SpinRite before you purchase it: http://www.radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/20060123, 00.shtml

or install zonealarm. and don't turn off the firewall. I've never had to turn off my firewall

Well yeah - DUH - and no wonder...

a customized HOSTS file

Sure. But the origin of this and the easiest way to do it is with this little gem:

ftp://radsoft.net/pub/bloatbusters/silencer.zip

VCRs are how Valenti today dances for the peanut gallery. Without the promise of revenues on rentals and sales, Hollywood might have to pay people honestly and 'up front'.

There was a story a few years back about a uni in Louisiana where MS came in and replaced all the Unix boxes with 2K boxes and then fouled up completely. They tried streaming video for a football game and parts of the Bell South backbone came down, and the mayor had to go on TV to apologise, claiming it was a "glitch". When MS come to town, things get really screwed up.

Here's the news link - as you can see, that's almost three years ago. MS has been doing this for quite some time.

http://radsoft.net/resources/linux/rhd

www.WinInformant.com came back up a little while ago, the text of the "article" is basically what was quoted for the topic subject. I tried to do a little digging to find out if the author or the company he works for is affiliated/owned by MS, but wasn't able to really turn up a lot. However, I did find this little rant at one site talking about how the credibility of the author is pretty much nil. Can anyone else turn up other info?

Which is a bad thing for businesses, because they cannot keep their training schedule up to date.

Seroiusly, who would remove a feature from their app?

It happens all the time, whenever the cost of maintaing the feature exceeds the revenue.

This should require little bandwidth Obviously for some applications it may, and for some organizations they may already have sufficent bandwidth. However there is no doubt at all that bandwidth is a concern that you must ensure is addressed if you are considering using an ASP.

ASPs do this... it is standard practice.

However with ordinary system, if the vendor decides not to do so, then the customer can choose a different organization to do the customization. This happens all the time. With the ASP model the customer has no possibility of doing this.

Ever heard of SSL? TLS

Only helps with client->server connection, if supported properly by the server. Once the data is on the server it's now up to the server to hold it securely.

Which is a bad thing for businesses, because they cannot keep their training schedule up to date.

Seroiusly, who would remove a feature from their app?

It happens all the time, whenever the cost of maintaing the feature exceeds the revenue.

This should require little bandwidth Obviously for some applications it may, and for some organizations they may already have sufficent bandwidth. However there is no doubt at all that bandwidth is a concern that you must ensure is addressed if you are considering using an ASP.

ASPs do this... it is standard practice.

However with ordinary system, if the vendor decides not to do so, then the customer can choose a different organization to do the customization. This happens all the time. With the ASP model the customer has no possibility of doing this.

Ever heard of SSL? TLS

Only helps with client->server connection, if supported properly by the server. Once the data is on the server it's now up to the server to hold it securely.

I know how you feel, I still use a windows 3.1 program to mess with wav files. Why upgrade? I hardly use most of the features now. I guess I feel sort of fortunate to be using windows 2000 which has run pretty much every old program I have on it. By contrast, I know a lot of people that switched to XP , which told them to go pound sand when they try to install fairly recent programs.

Usually when something doesn't work, I find it's time to look for (open source) alternatives. If you're looking for something to rip CD's, try CD-DA X-Tractor, and as far as I know, Winamp works fine on XP and is free. When I didn't want to upgrade Corel Word Perfect 7, I switched to Open office. When ICQ stopped working, I switched to Miranda ICQ. Usually you sort of pay the price in dealing with the small quirks in these programs, but at least you have the assurance that they won't pressure you to upgrade... and hell, it's free to upgrade anyway, so why not?

Personally I really like the way These guys do things. You pay one decent fee ONCE, and that's it. Upgrades/fixes/whatever as long as you want.

This is not tiny. Tiny is Radsoft. These tiny apps are several hundred KB. Which is bloat. Radsoft's text editors for Windows are all under 10KB, their Explorer replacement is only 14.5KB. You want tiny, go where tiny really is. This tiny apps stuff is huge.

My definition of "small" these days is probably around 400k or less, depending on the app. It's crazy that people are writing multi-megabyte programs to do something as simple as restart the computer. (Or maybe it's just that everyone packages things in multi-megabyte installers.)

A while ago, I ran across rix2k power tools... little prorgams that tend to be under 100k in size. Then there's the Mr. Gibson and his "everything in assembly" philosphy -- also under 100k. Those are the only kinds of things that deserve to be called "tiny."

If you're taking up 1.44MB and want to be called "tiny", you'd better be an entire OS, an office suite, or a 3D game. :-)

see this analysis at radsoft:
benchmarks
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