In both cases the sex act was consensual. In one case he told the woman he would wear a condom and didn't. In the second case, a day earlier than the first, he had sex with a condom and then woke up in the middle of the night and had sex again, this time without a condom. The women, who knew each other, wanted him to get tested for stds. Both charges are misdemeanors in Sweden, punishable by a fine, and not even a crime in the UK.
Assange has offered to receive questioning in a neutral location and Sweden has refused. He has offered to return to Sweden for questioning if they promise, with the force of law, that he will not be extradited to the U.S. Again, Sweden refused. Between Sweden and the UK, they have spent more than $10 million on this case.
What Assange did is not acceptable behavior, but the actions of Sweden and UK make little sense solely given the crimes for which he is accused.
The extradition has been challenged in an English court. If the allegations, as described by the Swedish authorities, were not crimes under English law, Assange would not have lost the challenge.
The statement "Both charges are... not even a crime in the UK" has been ruled factually false by a British judge. And it should be pretty obvious to you. If a woman agrees to have sex with you only with a condom and she wakes up one morning to find you already having sex with her and without a condom, damned right it's rape. How could you possibly think otherwise?
I don't know if the allegations are true or not, that's a question for the Swedish legal system to determine when it gets the chance, but Assange's actions are not those of a man who is confident of acquittal.
By the way, the extradition to the USA thing is bullshit. Assange was fighting to stay in the UK and it's not as if the Americans have any trouble extraditing people from the UK when they want to.
A real programmer uses the tools that are available or mandated. A real programmer knows how to code around the limitations of whatever language they are using. When I program in C, I use unsigned types all over the place. When I program in Java, I barely notice they are missing. Certainly, the lack of unsigned integers in Java is far less of an inconvenience than the lack of a proper string type in C.
No, that wasn't the problem unless the memory mapped region crossed the boundary from 0x7FFFFFFF to 0x80000000. For example, 0x90000000 - 0x80000000 is 0x10000000 whether you use 32 bit signed or 32 bit unsigned arithmetic.
Also (this might not have applied at the time of Win95 and crappy Microsoft C compilers) it is legal to subtract one pointer from another in the same array (or one past the end of it) without converting to an arithmetic type.
I did that for a bit. I got to the point where I could put text on the screen before I got distracted by something else. I'm currently planning to repurpose my Pi as a media centre for my parents' kitchen. If it works out, we'll probably replace it with a more powerful machine.
One of the memes on the Daily WTF is from a piece of submitted code where somebody had defined a "boolean" type with three values, true, false and "file not found". The parent is referring to that.
Just call it a frigging Linux based distribution, but only say Linux when you mean the kernel and only the kernel. If you must err on the side of brevity, GNU/Linux is best, since even the source that isn't from GNU has been compiled by GCC up until now, at least.
GNU/Linux might be best, but it's not correct. There are many components of the average distro that are not GNU e.g. the GUI whether it be Gnome or KDE or XFCE or whatever.
"GNU/Linux" has also lost the battle with respect to common usage. When people say "Linux" they are usually referring to the whole distro and if you go round insisting on GNU/Linux, you'll end up having to explain what you mean almost every time.
It's also rather bizarre to name a package after the compiler with which the development team compiles it.
Its primarily the users fault for trusting the GPS implicitly and ignoring the signs and the fact they were driving onto a bloody runway. This says a lot about Apple users.
No. It says nothing about Apple users at all. It says the two people who drove across a runway are idiots. You don't know that there weren't many, many other Apple users who said "the instructions take me across a runway, so I'll ignore them". You also don't know how many Google/TomTom/Garmin etc users would have done the same thing if presented with erroneous instructions.
Not to mention the fact that the author has erased history (well, the summary implies the author has erased history - I haven't read TFA) because the Cray 1 had a vector processing unit and a specially designed compiler to make use of it, and the compiler was for Fortran. This was in 1978 when C++ didn't even exist.
>the RM has already been broken up and sold off in stages, each made worse: > PO Telephones became British Telecom became British Telecom Plc. in the '80s.
No. BT were a joke. I'm using a competitor. Cheaper and better.
Royal Mail are useless. I emailed Amazon begging them to use other people to deliver, not Royal Mail. This happened:
You're not claiming they did that because of you are you?
They lied about posting stuff which didn't turn up; cards appeared at my door saying `you were out` when I was not out etc.
The Royal Mail aren't unique in that respect. Pretty much every delivery firm - or more correctly, their employees - does that sometimes.
Get rid of them, and introduce competition.
If you want competition, surely it would be better not to get rid of them. However, when it comes to delivering a letter, I doubt you can do better than next day (probably) delivery anywhere in the UK for 60p, which is the price of a first class stamp.
I don't need the mail much, but when I do, I want it to turn up on time, not end up lost (stolen, let's be honest)
Do you have evidence for that? Why would anybody want to steal your mail?
The Daily Mail is the worst newspaper in the UK. The article is a blatantly dishonest spin on the situation. The headline says 280,000 a week lost. The small print says "lost or significantly delayed". The small print says that's 0.07% lost or significantly delayed or one letter in every 1,500. That doesn't seem quite so bad considering that 8 million letters a day are posted without a post code or with the wrong post code.
You can't change a source code licence simply by compiling the code it applies to with a different compiler.
This, incidentally, is how we know that the fact that FreeBSD is stuck on gcc 4.2.1 has nothing to do with licensing. They could compile their entire code base with gcc 4.million and not infect it with GPL v3 (if they are using a modern version of glibc, there might be an issue, however). The people at FreeBSD are simply objecting to the anti-Tivoisation clause in GPL v3 as is their right. In fact, they object to the whole "viral" nature of GPL version x and presumably would have replaced the compiler a long time ago if there had been a credible alternative.
Last time I looked at an episode of Star Trek, the tricorder could tell the operator anything about the thing being scanned that the plot required. I seriously doubt that the real life version can do any such thing.
The patent system was created to allow inventors a monopoly period to exploit their inventions financially in return for placing their inventions in the public domain. To me, this seems like a reasonable exchange if it is not abused. Patent trolls have managed to subvert the system so that it has the opposite effect to that intended.
How about changing the law so that the patent holder is only allow to sue people for patent infringement if they themselves are actively marketing the protected technology or have licensed somebody else who is actively marketing the technology.
The whole point of using Imperial units is that we don't want to throw out trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure to make the Europeans happy. Seriously, spend a year in the US with our measures and spend a year somewhere that uses metric measures; metric isn't any easier for any thing you're likely to be doing on a day to day basis. Unless of course you're a scientist or engineer.
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It is clear as day they have a deal to extradite him to US as soon as he lands there.
No it isn't. Why didn't the USA initiate proceedings in the UK when we had him in custody? The answer is that they have nothing to charge him with.
In both cases the sex act was consensual. In one case he told the woman he would wear a condom and didn't. In the second case, a day earlier than the first, he had sex with a condom and then woke up in the middle of the night and had sex again, this time without a condom. The women, who knew each other, wanted him to get tested for stds. Both charges are misdemeanors in Sweden, punishable by a fine, and not even a crime in the UK.
Assange has offered to receive questioning in a neutral location and Sweden has refused. He has offered to return to Sweden for questioning if they promise, with the force of law, that he will not be extradited to the U.S. Again, Sweden refused. Between Sweden and the UK, they have spent more than $10 million on this case.
What Assange did is not acceptable behavior, but the actions of Sweden and UK make little sense solely given the crimes for which he is accused.
The extradition has been challenged in an English court. If the allegations, as described by the Swedish authorities, were not crimes under English law, Assange would not have lost the challenge.
The statement "Both charges are ... not even a crime in the UK" has been ruled factually false by a British judge. And it should be pretty obvious to you. If a woman agrees to have sex with you only with a condom and she wakes up one morning to find you already having sex with her and without a condom, damned right it's rape. How could you possibly think otherwise?
I don't know if the allegations are true or not, that's a question for the Swedish legal system to determine when it gets the chance, but Assange's actions are not those of a man who is confident of acquittal.
By the way, the extradition to the USA thing is bullshit. Assange was fighting to stay in the UK and it's not as if the Americans have any trouble extraditing people from the UK when they want to.
What credibility? Julian Assange broke his bail conditions. He's a fugitive from justice. He ran away from a rape charge. He has no credibility.
Scala is basically C++ on the JVM.
No. Scala is a functional programming language, it's nothing like C++.
A real programmer uses the tools that are available or mandated. A real programmer knows how to code around the limitations of whatever language they are using. When I program in C, I use unsigned types all over the place. When I program in Java, I barely notice they are missing. Certainly, the lack of unsigned integers in Java is far less of an inconvenience than the lack of a proper string type in C.
No, that wasn't the problem unless the memory mapped region crossed the boundary from 0x7FFFFFFF to 0x80000000. For example, 0x90000000 - 0x80000000 is 0x10000000 whether you use 32 bit signed or 32 bit unsigned arithmetic.
Also (this might not have applied at the time of Win95 and crappy Microsoft C compilers) it is legal to subtract one pointer from another in the same array (or one past the end of it) without converting to an arithmetic type.
Wake me up when you learn to code without unsigned integers. Until then, you are not a programmer.
I did that for a bit. I got to the point where I could put text on the screen before I got distracted by something else. I'm currently planning to repurpose my Pi as a media centre for my parents' kitchen. If it works out, we'll probably replace it with a more powerful machine.
When Doctor Who was first broadcast, nobody knew that one day it would be part of our cultural legacy.
It's certainly vastly better than the film itself.
One of the memes on the Daily WTF is from a piece of submitted code where somebody had defined a "boolean" type with three values, true, false and "file not found". The parent is referring to that.
If only there were some way to record the show in advance on so sort of storage device and then play it back at transmission time.
It isn't a live show, you know.
And yet it's programming is still far better than that of any of the commercial channels.
Just call it a frigging Linux based distribution, but only say Linux when you mean the kernel and only the kernel. If you must err on the side of brevity, GNU/Linux is best, since even the source that isn't from GNU has been compiled by GCC up until now, at least.
GNU/Linux might be best, but it's not correct. There are many components of the average distro that are not GNU e.g. the GUI whether it be Gnome or KDE or XFCE or whatever.
"GNU/Linux" has also lost the battle with respect to common usage. When people say "Linux" they are usually referring to the whole distro and if you go round insisting on GNU/Linux, you'll end up having to explain what you mean almost every time.
It's also rather bizarre to name a package after the compiler with which the development team compiles it.
Its primarily the users fault for trusting the GPS implicitly and ignoring the signs and the fact they were driving onto a bloody runway. This says a lot about Apple users.
No. It says nothing about Apple users at all. It says the two people who drove across a runway are idiots. You don't know that there weren't many, many other Apple users who said "the instructions take me across a runway, so I'll ignore them". You also don't know how many Google/TomTom/Garmin etc users would have done the same thing if presented with erroneous instructions.
These are fully competent, licensed drivers who turned off their own brains and replaced them with iPhones.
That is a self contradictory sentence. They are not fully competent if they turn off their brains while driving.
Not to mention the fact that the author has erased history (well, the summary implies the author has erased history - I haven't read TFA) because the Cray 1 had a vector processing unit and a specially designed compiler to make use of it, and the compiler was for Fortran. This was in 1978 when C++ didn't even exist.
>the RM has already been broken up and sold off in stages, each made worse:
> PO Telephones became British Telecom became British Telecom Plc. in the '80s.
No. BT were a joke. I'm using a competitor. Cheaper and better.
Royal Mail are useless. I emailed Amazon begging them to use other people to deliver, not Royal Mail. This happened:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6768983.stm
You're not claiming they did that because of you are you?
They lied about posting stuff which didn't turn up; cards appeared at my door saying `you were out` when I was not out etc.
The Royal Mail aren't unique in that respect. Pretty much every delivery firm - or more correctly, their employees - does that sometimes.
Get rid of them, and introduce competition.
If you want competition, surely it would be better not to get rid of them. However, when it comes to delivering a letter, I doubt you can do better than next day (probably) delivery anywhere in the UK for 60p, which is the price of a first class stamp.
I don't need the mail much, but when I do, I want it to turn up on time, not end up lost (stolen, let's be honest)
Do you have evidence for that? Why would anybody want to steal your mail?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-188892/Quarter-million-letters-lost-week.html
The Daily Mail is the worst newspaper in the UK. The article is a blatantly dishonest spin on the situation. The headline says 280,000 a week lost. The small print says "lost or significantly delayed". The small print says that's 0.07% lost or significantly delayed or one letter in every 1,500. That doesn't seem quite so bad considering that 8 million letters a day are posted without a post code or with the wrong post code.
You can get the open source WebKit browser which is what Safari and Chrome (until they forked it recently) was based on. What's the problem?
You can't change a source code licence simply by compiling the code it applies to with a different compiler.
This, incidentally, is how we know that the fact that FreeBSD is stuck on gcc 4.2.1 has nothing to do with licensing. They could compile their entire code base with gcc 4.million and not infect it with GPL v3 (if they are using a modern version of glibc, there might be an issue, however). The people at FreeBSD are simply objecting to the anti-Tivoisation clause in GPL v3 as is their right. In fact, they object to the whole "viral" nature of GPL version x and presumably would have replaced the compiler a long time ago if there had been a credible alternative.
Who's their?
Last time I looked at an episode of Star Trek, the tricorder could tell the operator anything about the thing being scanned that the plot required. I seriously doubt that the real life version can do any such thing.
I was thinking about this the other day.
The patent system was created to allow inventors a monopoly period to exploit their inventions financially in return for placing their inventions in the public domain. To me, this seems like a reasonable exchange if it is not abused. Patent trolls have managed to subvert the system so that it has the opposite effect to that intended.
How about changing the law so that the patent holder is only allow to sue people for patent infringement if they themselves are actively marketing the protected technology or have licensed somebody else who is actively marketing the technology.
Here's my summary of TFA:
1. Developer previews of Mavericks are available for developers to look at
2. Each DP is more stable than the previous one.
3. It feels faster than 10.8
4. < List of Mavericks features that is less comprehensive and detailed than this list >
The whole point of using Imperial units is that we don't want to throw out trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure to make the Europeans happy. Seriously, spend a year in the US with our measures and spend a year somewhere that uses metric measures; metric isn't any easier for any thing you're likely to be doing on a day to day basis. Unless of course you're a scientist or engineer.
(my bold)
This is a story about science and engineering.