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NASA Hacker Wins Right to Extradition Hearing
E5Rebel writes "Gary McKinnon, the UK-based ex-systems administrator accused of conducting the biggest military hack of all time, has won the right to have his case against extradition to the U.S. heard by the House of Lords."
My sig is permanently on strike.
For some reason, I thought rights were something you have, not something you earn.
is not the same thing as the House of Lords. The Law Lords is the highest court in the British Commonwealth.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
- He scanned 65,000 machines in about "8 minutes" by "tying together other people's machines" using a 56k dial up connection
- During a hacking escapade he chatted to an engineer who "saw" him, via WordPad
- His connection was so slow he wrote a clever program that "turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering". Juddering ?! What kind of display was he using, a slide projector ?
- He couldn't save any of the pictures he downloaded but despite the "juddering" low resolution "It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made" and what with the slow connection, when he got cut off "I saw the guy's hand move across."
C'mon, this guy is an utter joke, none of the above is plausible. If any of these claims were anywhere near true then he is a script kiddy at best. Mentally unstable more like. See, some crazy Russian murdered another Russian spy in London with some nasty radioactive poison. Pretty serious right? Yep, a hell of a lot more serious than some gangster boss living in the UK is when a foreign government sanctions the use of radioactive materials on foreign soil. This is no mere assassination. What if the UK dropped a dirty bomb to the home address of the prime suspect in Russia ? That would be an act of war, wouldn't it ?I can see from your member number how you would have missed that discussion. I think everyone finally got tired of pointing it out. The editors and much of the newer members fit, lets say, a wider interpretation of the profile you might expect. Slashdot has gotten big. It's still fun, but don't expect it to be too rootsy. More like techsploitation. Like The Register, only without the witty write-ups but much funnier comments (trolls, idiots as well as the good ones).
Still, usually a good laugh to be found.
Quack, quack.
I may not be him, but theres a lot of info here: http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/usa-summary-eng
Great Intellect...
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/19/usdom13418
Reality is not what Bush preaches from his pulpit.
I assume that now you or someone else will post a large list of countries that have worse records?
Fine. But none of those are taking a holier-than-thou approach for excuses of invading other countries, are they?
Industrialized countries all used to have similarly have high birthrates until life expectancy started increasing as better hygiene and medicine made an impact together with improved food availability, and particularly as infant mortality dropped.
However, birth rates in most sub-Saharan countries have now finally started falling, coinciding with growing urbanization, and steadily dropping infant mortality. In fact, in some countries the birth rate have dropped by 20-30 percent over the last couple of decades.
The particularly high birth rates over the last decades was similar to those found in Europe a century ago, just as the effects of reducing infant mortality was creating a huge gap because people were still reproducing according to the old patterns. Further reductions in infant mortality combined with education and improved availability of contraceptives was what closed that gap and brought European birthrates down over the following decades.
AFAIK it's not that clear cut, the Russian constitution doesn't explicitly say no extradition at all under any circumstances, instead it states that there should be no extradition for certain crimes or certain circumstances and the reason the British government has pushed it is because it's questionable whether or not Lugovoi is protected by these set of circumstances due to the fact it's such an unusual case.
There are also some contradictions in that Russia is signed up to the EU extradition treaty which agrees that signatories should extradite however at the same time there are clauses stating that they don't have to which muddies the waters somewhat.
On a final note it's worth pointing out that some countries constitutions are more guidelines and not taken as gospel as in the US meaning that the constitution doesn't always necessarily trump the decision of the courts/president/whoever. In fact recently Germany has been close to extraditing citizens to the US however the reason it didn't happen was not as a result of the constitution but because of the whole Guantanamo Bay no fair trial farce. Had the US legal system been shown to be fair and just this last few years Germany would've undoubtedly extradited at least some of these suspects against their constitution.
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consti
That person was very wrong. The 14th amendment states that they have to apply equal protection to any person, it does not specify they have to be a citizen.
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