After reading this I went to the Swedish government website on extraditions And I went off and read the relevant treaties with the US (article VI is the relevant one) Now there is something called a temporary extradition but it is only for the case where someone is being prosecuted or has been sentenced in Sweden so that the person can be returned to Sweden at the completion of there sentence. I see no evidence that this is for questioning or anything like that and all normal safeguards are in place. The only people who seem to be claiming otherwise are Assange supporters.
The downside of VNC is that you need to create a hole in your firewall for it and you also must know the host name, that puts it a step down from things like logmein.com which I've used to repair windows laptops in cases where I don't control the firewall (in one case Iraq).
I also would be interested in something like that that I could control using my own server and happens to be cross platform.
This is what I don't understand about the current conspiracy theory: Why would the US involve Sweden? I mean do the math. How many people has Sweden extradited to the US and how many people has the UK?
If the US wanted him they could just ask the UK to hand him over since I doubt anyone remembers the last time the UK refused a US extradition request.
I don't have a problem with educating people and, in an ideal world it would be possible to pay for everyone's education but governments need to be more sensible then they have been. Right now the government of Quebec is dealing with the fact that the cost of borrowing has gone up so at some point in the not to distant future they will hit a wall where they simply cannot afford to borrow money anymore so the money must be prioritized or everyone including the students will end up with no services at all.
On top of that, the ideas the protesting students have put forward for saving money have been vague (cut waste in the administration) and are great in theory but they don't solve the problem now and the one concrete suggestion they have come up to save money is to simply ban all university research. Banning research would seem logical to them because the protests are made up of predominately arts students but would screw over the health and sciences students and that brings me to my next point: most of the protestors call education an investment in the future but then go on to say you can't measure the value of an education based on future income. The main reason they are protesting? Their educations will give them *no* job advantage once (if) they graduate so any increase on their cost of education will have to be payed by their low salaried jobs stocking shelves or working at restaurants and of course their resulting incomes would be below the income that would be covered by their other bright idea "simply raise taxes to pay for it"
The girl I cut from my news feed was the worst possible example of that. She is simply re-pasting her husband's political rants and he has spent over a decade as an arts student and the government has covered that cost + their two children and at this rate their children will be teenagers before he manages to graduate.
Klout has a very broken algorithm for defining followers on facebook. The one and only time I ever looked at Klout it had my top two "influencers" and one of them was a girl I used to know but had annoyed me so much with her red square student protest (all education should be free) posts that I had disabled her updates from showing up on my news feed. The other was a friend whose posts I don't even pay attention to.
Meanwhile it ignored the people who I do pay attention to and whose posts I tend to comment on or forward.
Buying the portfolio would have been settling and it's also exactly what SCO(TSG) wanted them to do but IBM has a scorched earth policy when it comes to lawsuits. When sued, IBM will call in the lawyers and fight for every penny even if the resulting litigation is more expensive than the settlement would have been. It makes each lawsuit more expensive but it discourages others from trying and you can see the result: IBM doesn’t' get sued anywhere near as much as other tech firms.
To the point where it was putting the lives of the soldiers in direct jeopardy.
Why didn't Canada simply have less soldiers and go on fewer international adventures?
It would have been less humanitarian in some circles but don't forget that it wasn't just Canada's military that suffered. It was the SAR (search and air rescue) that got it the worst with helicopters so old they spent more time in the repair shop than they did flying and winches known to fail when you least expect them to. I know a SAR tech who is two inches shorter than he used to be because of a winch accident.
All of that is true enough but it means nothing when the cost of borrowing is going up. Thanks to entire countries that went bankrupt during the last downturn, government debt is no longer considered safe and consequently the days of borrowing money forever are over.
The options are: make slightly painful cuts now or make devastating cuts later when the government runs out of money,
Shouldn't be that bad? They are taking cells and injecting them where they don't naturally occur. That can have side effects such as cancer. I'm not saying it's not promising but there have been far too many wild claims about it and far too many clinics treating it as some magic cure without any regard for patient safety.
To be fair I find it's a matter of disk activity. If the disk is busy with something (even unrelated to FF) then the whole thing will choppy with frozen interfaces and windows that take forever to refresh. I haven't really had a problem since switching to SSD but that's hardly a reason for me not to wish they would fix it.
Here is the negative option billing scandal from 1995 They did the swap in the year 2000 as you can read here. Telecom companies were only permitted to compete with cable a few years back but before that they were only able to using satelite dishes.
It's the CRTC that did that and not any agreement between the two of them. You are simply not allowed to offer a competing cable TV service in some areas and the incumbent operators have in several instances even complained about building wide shared satellite service to the CRTC. Of course there was a time they swapped regions but that was because Rogers screwed up so badly in Vancouver during the 90s that they scrambled to trade Vancouver for anywhere else. In case that was before your time, they added a bunch of new channels as a trial to everyone's system but if they didn't call to shut off the channels before the trial period was up they simply started billing for them. The result was people standing in line all the way down the block from their local Rogers office cable converters in hand waiting to shut off their cable entirely and the BC government scrambling to ban the practice known as "Negative Option Billing".
Companies don't like giving away the goods for fear of losing competitive advantages. Companies that invest a lot in their goods as NVIDIA does are especially fearful of creating new competition. This isn't a competition is bad argument, it's a giving away your tech and enriching your competitors is bad argument. Also, NVIDIA doesn't have to open it up to Linux. Seriously, what will the Linux community do? Threaten to get behind another chipmaker? Maybe a full scale boycott of NVIDIA? NVIDIA doesn't get much benefit from the Linux community.
First off, NVIDIA is the last of the hold outs, almost everyone else is playing ball on the open source front.
Secondly: All of the world is not the PC market. NVIDIA wants their GPUs to be used on the HPC market. That's mostly Linux. NVIDIA is releasing cellphone chipsets and a lot of that is Linux(android). So yes, maybe PC users on Linux are something they can ignore but they need us for pretty much every growth market they want to be on so we do matter.
That was different. The judge in the MicroSoft case lost his cool and behaved badly enough that the court of appeals called him out for unethical behavior and even then they didn't overturn his findings of fact.
I'm not sure I buy it. Those emails tend to be in the same Nigerian English I often hear Nigerians I know speak with. The reason for the ridiculous scenarios is that they want it to be blatantly obvious that you are agreeing to something illegal if you go to the police. When the Nigerian authorities see an email where you are knowingly agreeing to money laundering or theft from their government it gives them the excuse to simply file the whole thing as on thief ripping off another and then the whole thing becomes too low of a priority to be worth the trouble of investigating further. The reason they need this is that paying the police off only works if the police a justifiable reason to not investigate in case someone higher up asks about it.
You can also get a DVD bay SATA caddy and replae the seldom used spinning drive with another hard drive. That's the approach I took, I replaced the primary drive with a 128GB SSD and slotted a 750 GB as a secondary drive for/home.
Insured medical devices are not a free market since the insurance company will pay the normal cost for a given item, the patient will buy whatever the doctor says is good and that is quite often determed by whoever has the nicest pamphlet/ sales rep etc.
It's the same reason $50 worth of electronics is suddenly worth $3000 if you call it a "dorbell for the hearing impared". Or why a $100 FM transmitter + $5 receiver becomes $1000 for the transmitter + $400 for the reciever when you call it an "assisted listening system"
At first glance it looked like a mini PCI slot but when I took a closer look at the picture with he motherboard connectors it's much wider than the mini PCIe so my post was incorrect.
It already exists. The SSD drive is just a mini PCIe card with enough of an interface to make it look like SATA to the OS and you can slot that card into almost any notebook built in the last 5 years if you don't mind losing your WiFi card. I saw something similar on Aliexpress months ago when I was looking to dual drive my notebook and there versions for the older mini PCI slot as well.
One of my first memories of Montreal was wandering town around with my friend and running straight into a riot squad. The police directed us to the far side of the road and we were curious about what was happening so we had a chat with the protestors. The protestors claimed to be there for a peaceful protest regarding the lack of affordable housing in Quebec but the reality was quite different. Some woman (probably the leader) was going on about how this was a peaceful protest but a good number of the crowd was were arming themselves. They weren't there because they cared about the cause, they were there because they wanted a fight.
Quite frankly, it seems to me that if the protestors of Montreal really wanted less problems with the police the protestors would stop CLAC and Black Block from using them as cover when they attack the police, or the office of whoever they can vaguely justify as being an acceptable target.
Years ago a company I worked for ad a top site listing system that ended up being used by CP site owners to allow their customers to find their sites even as they changed hosting/domains and I got an eyeful that I'm never going to get out of my head.
The images weren't anywhere near puberty, in fact, they were 3,4 and 5 year old children being raped by adults. I was going to mod this whole thread down but then I realized that normally we only hear about the cases where the law does something questionable rather than what it is supposed to do. I know Canada has a CP task force and I know they spend most of their time investigating crimes against children under the age of 10 and the police use the images to find the children that are still being harmed.
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After reading this I went to the Swedish government website on extraditions And I went off and read the relevant treaties with the US (article VI is the relevant one) Now there is something called a temporary extradition but it is only for the case where someone is being prosecuted or has been sentenced in Sweden so that the person can be returned to Sweden at the completion of there sentence. I see no evidence that this is for questioning or anything like that and all normal safeguards are in place. The only people who seem to be claiming otherwise are Assange supporters.
The downside of VNC is that you need to create a hole in your firewall for it and you also must know the host name, that puts it a step down from things like logmein.com which I've used to repair windows laptops in cases where I don't control the firewall (in one case Iraq).
I also would be interested in something like that that I could control using my own server and happens to be cross platform.
This is what I don't understand about the current conspiracy theory: Why would the US involve Sweden? I mean do the math. How many people has Sweden extradited to the US and how many people has the UK?
If the US wanted him they could just ask the UK to hand him over since I doubt anyone remembers the last time the UK refused a US extradition request.
I don't have a problem with educating people and, in an ideal world it would be possible to pay for everyone's education but governments need to be more sensible then they have been. Right now the government of Quebec is dealing with the fact that the cost of borrowing has gone up so at some point in the not to distant future they will hit a wall where they simply cannot afford to borrow money anymore so the money must be prioritized or everyone including the students will end up with no services at all.
On top of that, the ideas the protesting students have put forward for saving money have been vague (cut waste in the administration) and are great in theory but they don't solve the problem now and the one concrete suggestion they have come up to save money is to simply ban all university research. Banning research would seem logical to them because the protests are made up of predominately arts students but would screw over the health and sciences students and that brings me to my next point: most of the protestors call education an investment in the future but then go on to say you can't measure the value of an education based on future income. The main reason they are protesting? Their educations will give them *no* job advantage once (if) they graduate so any increase on their cost of education will have to be payed by their low salaried jobs stocking shelves or working at restaurants and of course their resulting incomes would be below the income that would be covered by their other bright idea "simply raise taxes to pay for it"
The girl I cut from my news feed was the worst possible example of that. She is simply re-pasting her husband's political rants and he has spent over a decade as an arts student and the government has covered that cost + their two children and at this rate their children will be teenagers before he manages to graduate.
Klout has a very broken algorithm for defining followers on facebook. The one and only time I ever looked at Klout it had my top two "influencers" and one of them was a girl I used to know but had annoyed me so much with her red square student protest (all education should be free) posts that I had disabled her updates from showing up on my news feed. The other was a friend whose posts I don't even pay attention to.
Meanwhile it ignored the people who I do pay attention to and whose posts I tend to comment on or forward.
Buying the portfolio would have been settling and it's also exactly what SCO(TSG) wanted them to do but IBM has a scorched earth policy when it comes to lawsuits. When sued, IBM will call in the lawyers and fight for every penny even if the resulting litigation is more expensive than the settlement would have been. It makes each lawsuit more expensive but it discourages others from trying and you can see the result: IBM doesn’t' get sued anywhere near as much as other tech firms.
Hopefully this will be a lesson to other companies who compete using lawsuits rather than customer service.
To the point where it was putting the lives of the soldiers in direct jeopardy.
Why didn't Canada simply have less soldiers and go on fewer international adventures?
It would have been less humanitarian in some circles but don't forget that it wasn't just Canada's military that suffered. It was the SAR (search and air rescue) that got it the worst with helicopters so old they spent more time in the repair shop than they did flying and winches known to fail when you least expect them to. I know a SAR tech who is two inches shorter than he used to be because of a winch accident.
All of that is true enough but it means nothing when the cost of borrowing is going up. Thanks to entire countries that went bankrupt during the last downturn, government debt is no longer considered safe and consequently the days of borrowing money forever are over.
The options are: make slightly painful cuts now or make devastating cuts later when the government runs out of money,
Shouldn't be that bad? They are taking cells and injecting them where they don't naturally occur. That can have side effects such as cancer. I'm not saying it's not promising but there have been far too many wild claims about it and far too many clinics treating it as some magic cure without any regard for patient safety.
If you are writing software that needs to be linked against, GPL is the wrong tool for the job. We have LGPL for that.
To be fair I find it's a matter of disk activity. If the disk is busy with something (even unrelated to FF) then the whole thing will choppy with frozen interfaces and windows that take forever to refresh. I haven't really had a problem since switching to SSD but that's hardly a reason for me not to wish they would fix it.
Here is the negative option billing scandal from 1995
They did the swap in the year 2000 as you can read here. Telecom companies were only permitted to compete with cable a few years back but before that they were only able to using satelite dishes.
It's the CRTC that did that and not any agreement between the two of them. You are simply not allowed to offer a competing cable TV service in some areas and the incumbent operators have in several instances even complained about building wide shared satellite service to the CRTC. Of course there was a time they swapped regions but that was because Rogers screwed up so badly in Vancouver during the 90s that they scrambled to trade Vancouver for anywhere else. In case that was before your time, they added a bunch of new channels as a trial to everyone's system but if they didn't call to shut off the channels before the trial period was up they simply started billing for them. The result was people standing in line all the way down the block from their local Rogers office cable converters in hand waiting to shut off their cable entirely and the BC government scrambling to ban the practice known as "Negative Option Billing".
Companies don't like giving away the goods for fear of losing competitive advantages. Companies that invest a lot in their goods as NVIDIA does are especially fearful of creating new competition. This isn't a competition is bad argument, it's a giving away your tech and enriching your competitors is bad argument. Also, NVIDIA doesn't have to open it up to Linux. Seriously, what will the Linux community do? Threaten to get behind another chipmaker? Maybe a full scale boycott of NVIDIA? NVIDIA doesn't get much benefit from the Linux community.
First off, NVIDIA is the last of the hold outs, almost everyone else is playing ball on the open source front.
Secondly: All of the world is not the PC market. NVIDIA wants their GPUs to be used on the HPC market. That's mostly Linux. NVIDIA is releasing cellphone chipsets and a lot of that is Linux(android). So yes, maybe PC users on Linux are something they can ignore but they need us for pretty much every growth market they want to be on so we do matter.
Strangely enough that same story ran in Canada about teens in the midwest united states.
The movie you are referring to is "Canadian Bacon", a film written by John Candy and Michael Moore.
just like in Microsoft's anti-trust case.
That was different. The judge in the MicroSoft case lost his cool and behaved badly enough that the court of appeals called him out for unethical behavior and even then they didn't overturn his findings of fact.
I'm not sure I buy it. Those emails tend to be in the same Nigerian English I often hear Nigerians I know speak with. The reason for the ridiculous scenarios is that they want it to be blatantly obvious that you are agreeing to something illegal if you go to the police. When the Nigerian authorities see an email where you are knowingly agreeing to money laundering or theft from their government it gives them the excuse to simply file the whole thing as on thief ripping off another and then the whole thing becomes too low of a priority to be worth the trouble of investigating further. The reason they need this is that
paying the police off only works if the police a justifiable reason to not investigate in case someone higher up asks about it.
Indeed, I'm in europe right now and I can tell you that reasoning and critical thinking skills are not exactly top notch here either.
You can also get a DVD bay SATA caddy and replae the seldom used spinning drive with another hard drive. That's the approach I took, I replaced the primary drive with a 128GB SSD and slotted a 750 GB as a secondary drive for /home.
Insured medical devices are not a free market since the insurance company will pay the normal cost for a given item, the patient will buy whatever the doctor says is good and that is quite often determed by whoever has the nicest pamphlet/ sales rep etc.
It's the same reason $50 worth of electronics is suddenly worth $3000 if you call it a "dorbell for the hearing impared". Or why a $100 FM transmitter + $5 receiver becomes $1000 for the transmitter + $400 for the reciever when you call it an "assisted listening system"
At first glance it looked like a mini PCI slot but when I took a closer look at the picture with he motherboard connectors it's much wider than the mini PCIe so my post was incorrect.
It already exists. The SSD drive is just a mini PCIe card with enough of an interface to make it look like SATA to the OS and you can slot that card into almost any notebook built in the last 5 years if you don't mind losing your WiFi card. I saw something similar on Aliexpress months ago when I was looking to dual drive my notebook and there versions for the older mini PCI slot as well.
One of my first memories of Montreal was wandering town around with my friend and running straight into a riot squad. The police directed us to the far side of the road and we were curious about what was happening so we had a chat with the protestors. The protestors claimed to be there for a peaceful protest regarding the lack of affordable housing in Quebec but the reality was quite different. Some woman (probably the leader) was going on about how this was a peaceful protest but a good number of the crowd was were arming themselves. They weren't there because they cared about the cause, they were there because they wanted a fight.
Quite frankly, it seems to me that if the protestors of Montreal really wanted less problems with the police the protestors would stop CLAC and Black Block from using them as cover when they attack the police, or the office of whoever they can vaguely justify as being an acceptable target.
Years ago a company I worked for ad a top site listing system that ended up being used by CP site owners to allow their customers to find their sites even as they changed hosting/domains and I got an eyeful that I'm never going to get out of my head.
The images weren't anywhere near puberty, in fact, they were 3,4 and 5 year old children being raped by adults. I was going to mod this whole thread down but then I realized that normally we only hear about the cases where the law does something questionable rather than what it is supposed to do. I know Canada has a CP task force and I know they spend most of their time investigating crimes against children under the age of 10 and the police use the images to find the children that are still being harmed.