Except that everyone has to pay taxes. If you've even had 1 dollar in taxable income via ebay sales and didn't report it you're cheating on your taxes too. The government right now only cares if you did enough ebay sales that you have enough income for it to be worth looking into. But if they believe it worth the effort they could demand ebay turn over *all* transaction records and dig through those to figure out how much taxable income is there. That would seem like a nightmare of a problem though (because they wouldn't have records of expenses from ebay). 20k is a somewhat arbitrary crossover point where they figure its worth looking into.
Now australia might have laws (I'm not an aussie I have no idea) about sales of 'garage sale' type situations where any profits you might get are not considered income up to a point. But if you exceed that amount by one dollar you're obliged to report the dollar as income. There's no reason to treat ebay differently.
Um... If you travel to california you are obliged to pay sales taxes in california. Whether you can vote there is completely irrelevant. Governments have no particular obligation to give anyone representation. Nor does paying taxes give you any guarantee of representation, (ask juveniles or anyone living in Washington D.C. if you're confused by this).
When you were doing business with a UK retailer you tried to scam them out of VAT tax. They *have* to pay VAT taxes on the stuff they bought and they add to the VAT at each step. You can file a claim with the *government* after if you are exempt from VAT, but the retailer is obliged by law to collect it, otherwise it comes out of their pocket. I don't know for sure about the UK but Ireland has some sort of VAT reduction thing for tourists where you can get some of the VAT you paid back.
Also, your one line assertion that 9% taxes are nuts is childishly foolish. Different areas tax in different ways. There's nothing particularly nuts about a 25% sales tax or a 1% sales tax. What matters is total government taxation, and who bears the burden.
VAT by the way isn't sales tax. It seem like it. But it isn't. It's a value added tax. At each step of the production process tax is added based on the value added at that step. Talk about an administrative nightmare. I'm not suggesting it's a good or efficient system (although it certainly has its advantages), but it's not a sales tax.
The catch would be that 20k in sales on ebay isn't 20k in taxable income. If you spent 19k to buy stuff you sold for 20k, and spent 500 dollars in shipping your taxable income is only 500 dollars (or at least, would be in some places).
But ya, the point is sound. You shouldn't be able to launder money through ebay, if you have enough ebay sales it starts becoming a commission/sales job, and needs to be reported as income. The problem is that you're self reporting the price you paid for things still (before reselling them), unless you bought them on ebay initially.
It might be that the 20k figure is too high or too low. I wouldn't be surprised if thats the point where they figure you've probably moved enough money that there's *some* taxable income there worth looking at.
And the government may sensibly require ebay to turn over records of anyone selling over 20k or whatever it is on their service. Just as the government can demand your employer turn over your salary information. Ebay isn't your employer, but if you're moving that much money with them there's probably a good case for 'self reporting of income' to require ebay to verify all of it, which means they'd have to dump the data to the government. That might (probably does) mean new laws. But there's nothing particularly wrong with new laws.
That doesn't mean the income is necessarily taxable either. Or at least 20k isn't taxable.
I don't know how it should be illegal for the government to get this information. Really ebay could be obliged to report *all* sales to the government as part of doing business wherever they are.
The security vulnerabilities used to get stuff on the network and computers themselves would be a microsoft issue. Most of the industrial control equipment software wouldn't even try and be secure.
Or they just paid former microsoft employees with technical positions to come work for the government.
Didn't the NSA offer to help 'secure' windows 7 (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141105/NSA_helped_with_Windows_7_development), they could just offer to help with 'collaboration' and then provide some security fixes and use some of the loopholes they find before anyone else does.
Now the israeli's. They have spies at microsoft. The US government probably not directly, at least not in the US, there are enough cheaper no risk ways to get what they want.
They worried a lot about power draw and leekage current. They were just worried about somewhat arbitrary targets of 45, 65 and 130 W TDP. If you give their engineers and equally arbitrary 4.5W power envelope they'll work on that.
The thing for intel has always been that the easiest way to reduce power consumption is a die shrink. Which it is. If they can stay one node ahead of the competition and transistor for transistor match performance more or less they'll have a big advantage. And as you say, they've turned their attention to power consumption.
From my perspective Intel has been designing its CPU's for very different markets than mobile. Gaming, cheap, and servers. Gaming they've basically lost out to nvidia and ATI/AMD on, because there's no way to make a CPU do floating point the way a GPU does. There's probably a lot of stuff they can 'leave out' and just have it work fine in mobile. You could probably do 32 bit for mobile and ditch virtualization.
They owned about 2% of facebook or something. I don't know if they sold or not. That might be why they're looking at this. So much percent of the investment portfolio is in social media, and they don't really want to own some small fraction percent of voting power of a competitor.
It's true if you let it be. Game development as an industry is like that. IT is like that only if you choose to take that kind of risk. You could just work for cisco or a bank or something and make a decent career of it and turn your e-mail off at 5.
Now sure, you take a pay write down on that. But there's something to be said for the quality of life of making shitty web pages 9-5 and not getting called in at 3 am to fix a down server, or still being at work at 3am trying to get a publisher deadline that is completely unreasonable.
Every programmer contributes to design, but ya, absolutely, these days there are world designers, encounter designers, systems designers etc. I'm half systems designer half programmer. And programming is more 'tools programming' for some of us, so we build the stuff the regular designers do.
The thing is, the barrier to those lower skill jobs, the level design and itemization and so on jobs is being able to use the tools. You can learn that skill in school, which is pretty easy, a 12 month course will manage easily. But you have to then be willing to spend that time not doing something that you know will keep you employed.
For small projects (mobile these days) there are still a lot of programmer/designer all in one gigs. That's your 10 person or less teams, million a year budget (which might cover 2 games) kind of thing. The big guys who have hundreds of employees can layer senior systems designers (scientists of some sort) over top of lower level people. And the low level people get laid off and the end of the project, where the science and engineering types stay employed.
Well and just because you can doesn't mean it isn't a hassle. Whether its more or less hassle than a new android is hard to say, but as time goes on these things are going to be barriers to entry to Windows phone adoption, as you get integrated google turn by turn directions to you google contacts based on their location on google plus, or you have to use whatever the Windows phone mapping software is, to connect to a google contact who's location you look up through foursquare on facebook.
I was more thinking something that they could do that would be unique or interesting or the like. It doesn't really make sense in Windows 7, but if you had a windows sync, like opera link, but for your OS. It could keep major programs synced and organized the same way between your desktop and phone, stream in any applications you need but don't normally run. You could remotely queue up stuff on the dekstop (think steam beta, where you can start a game download on your machine at home over the web, but well.. for everything).
If you look at smartglass, where they're making the phone into the remote they've got some not horrible ideas. But if your PC is your entertainment system (I know mine is, tv tuners are handy), being able to remotely tell it to record a TV show, download a file, grab whatever data I need etc. would be really useful. There are a lot of layers of security that would need to go with that obviously.
I agree, right now it's not a common scenario, because no one has taken that concept and pushed it to a consumer level. Microsoft has all the technology they need, they just don't seem to be able to produce something that solves a problem I didn't know I had, until I saw the solution.
I'm also a computer scientist, i'm only so willing to throw good design ideas around on a forum post. I have friends who work at microsoft, if they want my good ideas they can give me a desk somewhere. Obviously they think most of my ideas are terrible enough I don't warrant a MS approved paycheque.
Hard to steal a blizzard game that matters. WoW and Diablo 3 both have your data (character) on their servers, and SC still requires battle.net. No battle.net and you can't really play those games.
I only have the steam version of max payne 3 so I'm not sure if it uses steamworks out of the box or not, but you could get your whole steam account banned for pirating a steamworks game.
Except that in D3 you can't be purely single player. They overtly made the choice that the game is a multiplayer game. Any solo experience is really just not directly playing with other people, but you're still connected to the same economy. If you give yourself 100 million gold to buy stuff from vendors in your own space that's one thing. But when that 100 million gold goes out into the broader game economy where everyone is tied together you have a problem.
With max payne all you really get are achievements and that sort of thing. Pushing cheaters into their own space isn't really hurting anyone else, since there's no apparent economy.
Blizzard explicitly makes mention of how item dupes in D2 wrecked a lot of that game, as it trivialized content and so on. If you just hand everyone best in slot gear there's not really much to keep playing for. Which then hurts the community for everyone else. Even if you didn't dupe in D2 there was so much gold and so many super awesome items floating around that it affected you.
When I say they're late to this party, I mean they're late with anything that is competitive. Whether they can pull and Xbox and claw their way to profitability and marketshare in a generation or two is harder to say.
You'd think their best strategy would be to just pay samsung and nokia (and some component guys) a 6 month exclusive on quad core phones with LTE and 2 gigs of RAM, and then pay some game developers to make Halo and Gears of War for the mobile phone. But too late for that now.
I don't really have a problem with them using a little bit of CPU or GPU time if I get something out of it. But the operating system UI exists to connect me to either my data, or the applications I want to run to do something with my data. It is not, in and of itself, supposed to do much. What it looks like is a matter of basically arbitrary style. There are some considerations for designing for accessibility (physical and learning), but otherwise the OS should stay out of the way of what I'm actually doing.
Ditching the outline of buttons makes it hard for people who don't know what they're looking at to identify button boundaries. So that's dumb. And the lack of a start button is stupid. The latter part we knew already. And who knows how final this is or whether or not there are options for these things, or how hard they are to get used to.
In the end it's not going to change that I spend 99% of my time looking at something running on windows, not windows itself. Their design teams seems to spend too much time on designing windows, and forgetting that it's such a small portion of usage time that I'd rather it be ugly and functional than pretty and inconvenient. But this isn't pretty, doesn't need to be, and it's impossible to judge convenience until you've had at it for a little while. I had someone bitch at me about how she refuses to use a new version of office because the ribbon must be horrible.... well until you try it and give it a fair chance to do your thing with it how would you know?
Everyone has game design ideas, it's only a relative few that can do the required statistics and linear algebra and programming to make it all work. And the people who can do all of those necessary things have as many ideas as people who can't.
We offer a very successful game development specialization as part of computer science or software engineering. That works very well. It is our most popular stream and even kids who don't get the full specialization usually take at least one of the game development courses. It's still a comp sci degree, so they can go off and do anything any other computer scientist can do, they are specialized in game dev.
Easily half of our students are interested in games (and take some game dev courses), and are into technology because of games. But that's mostly the domestic ones. The ones from the middle east, india and china are much more academically oriented (which is why our grad programme is 85% foreign). But game development on average is a shitty career choice, long uncertain hours, low job security and dependence on government handouts for game companies isn't a great way to make a career. So even the ones who have fun making games in course work will go off and build boring databases and web sites or be business analysts etc. When someone offers you a job paying 50k with no benefits to make video games, and someone else offers you 70k with benefits and career advancement options it's tough to take the game dev gig.
Gamers don't really have a lot of use for the Wii. Their adoption rate (games per console) is pretty pitiful as is their overall played time. The nursing home thing is much more what we would call serious games. Game technology used for serious purposes, although in a nursing home it might be half and half, get the people exercising while getting them some mental stimulation and entertainment on a rainy day.
Right, and all of those proficiency tests people take, our guys can pass. If you went to a shitty school, or there are shitty school near where you live, that's your problem. I'll grant you that the US makes it especially hard to know which schools are legit and which aren't, and we're over simplifying saying a 'degree' rather than specific courses. I haven't taken any of our courses on bioinformatics, so I'd be pretty much doomed if asked about it.
But we train scientists not programmers. Which is rehashing a long past debate. If you want to be a programmer, go to college. You can teach a scientist programming (see physics and maths for examples), but you can't teach every programmer science or maths. If you're expecting computer scientists to be good programmers and only programmers you don't even understand what the degree is.
In now 8 years, the only course I've been involved in that *had* to be taught in a specific language was a high performance GPU computing course in CUDA. And today that could be done in one of two languages. Everything else is in whatever language the professor wants given the set available for that problem. We're not training BSc's in comp sci to be PHP or Java monkeys, they can certainly specialize in that if they want, but if that's what you were expecting you went to the wrong place.
I think that's pretty much a non point though. He's within the EU, the UK and Sweden are both EU members and have extradition arrangements. It's up to Sweden how much effort it wants to put into any individual case, but as long as it meets their agreed upon thresholds there's no reason he can't be the person extradited that meets the bare minimum requirements to do so.
Within the EU? Probably not. Even if it is... so what? Sweden and the UK have treaties, if this falls within the realm of the treaties it's up to the swedes if it's worth pursuing.
Correct. But that doesn't matter. They can still issue a warrant to question him. Their legal system, and it's up to the UK if what they want to agree to extradite for it. Since that's in the treaties they have there's not a lot of room for manouvre here.
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Except that everyone has to pay taxes. If you've even had 1 dollar in taxable income via ebay sales and didn't report it you're cheating on your taxes too. The government right now only cares if you did enough ebay sales that you have enough income for it to be worth looking into. But if they believe it worth the effort they could demand ebay turn over *all* transaction records and dig through those to figure out how much taxable income is there. That would seem like a nightmare of a problem though (because they wouldn't have records of expenses from ebay). 20k is a somewhat arbitrary crossover point where they figure its worth looking into.
Now australia might have laws (I'm not an aussie I have no idea) about sales of 'garage sale' type situations where any profits you might get are not considered income up to a point. But if you exceed that amount by one dollar you're obliged to report the dollar as income. There's no reason to treat ebay differently.
Um... If you travel to california you are obliged to pay sales taxes in california. Whether you can vote there is completely irrelevant. Governments have no particular obligation to give anyone representation. Nor does paying taxes give you any guarantee of representation, (ask juveniles or anyone living in Washington D.C. if you're confused by this).
When you were doing business with a UK retailer you tried to scam them out of VAT tax. They *have* to pay VAT taxes on the stuff they bought and they add to the VAT at each step. You can file a claim with the *government* after if you are exempt from VAT, but the retailer is obliged by law to collect it, otherwise it comes out of their pocket. I don't know for sure about the UK but Ireland has some sort of VAT reduction thing for tourists where you can get some of the VAT you paid back.
Also, your one line assertion that 9% taxes are nuts is childishly foolish. Different areas tax in different ways. There's nothing particularly nuts about a 25% sales tax or a 1% sales tax. What matters is total government taxation, and who bears the burden.
VAT by the way isn't sales tax. It seem like it. But it isn't. It's a value added tax. At each step of the production process tax is added based on the value added at that step. Talk about an administrative nightmare. I'm not suggesting it's a good or efficient system (although it certainly has its advantages), but it's not a sales tax.
The catch would be that 20k in sales on ebay isn't 20k in taxable income. If you spent 19k to buy stuff you sold for 20k, and spent 500 dollars in shipping your taxable income is only 500 dollars (or at least, would be in some places).
But ya, the point is sound. You shouldn't be able to launder money through ebay, if you have enough ebay sales it starts becoming a commission/sales job, and needs to be reported as income. The problem is that you're self reporting the price you paid for things still (before reselling them), unless you bought them on ebay initially.
It might be that the 20k figure is too high or too low. I wouldn't be surprised if thats the point where they figure you've probably moved enough money that there's *some* taxable income there worth looking at.
And the government may sensibly require ebay to turn over records of anyone selling over 20k or whatever it is on their service. Just as the government can demand your employer turn over your salary information. Ebay isn't your employer, but if you're moving that much money with them there's probably a good case for 'self reporting of income' to require ebay to verify all of it, which means they'd have to dump the data to the government. That might (probably does) mean new laws. But there's nothing particularly wrong with new laws.
That doesn't mean the income is necessarily taxable either. Or at least 20k isn't taxable.
I don't know how it should be illegal for the government to get this information. Really ebay could be obliged to report *all* sales to the government as part of doing business wherever they are.
The security vulnerabilities used to get stuff on the network and computers themselves would be a microsoft issue. Most of the industrial control equipment software wouldn't even try and be secure.
Or they just paid former microsoft employees with technical positions to come work for the government.
Didn't the NSA offer to help 'secure' windows 7 (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141105/NSA_helped_with_Windows_7_development), they could just offer to help with 'collaboration' and then provide some security fixes and use some of the loopholes they find before anyone else does.
Now the israeli's. They have spies at microsoft. The US government probably not directly, at least not in the US, there are enough cheaper no risk ways to get what they want.
They worried a lot about power draw and leekage current. They were just worried about somewhat arbitrary targets of 45, 65 and 130 W TDP. If you give their engineers and equally arbitrary 4.5W power envelope they'll work on that.
The thing for intel has always been that the easiest way to reduce power consumption is a die shrink. Which it is. If they can stay one node ahead of the competition and transistor for transistor match performance more or less they'll have a big advantage. And as you say, they've turned their attention to power consumption.
From my perspective Intel has been designing its CPU's for very different markets than mobile. Gaming, cheap, and servers. Gaming they've basically lost out to nvidia and ATI/AMD on, because there's no way to make a CPU do floating point the way a GPU does. There's probably a lot of stuff they can 'leave out' and just have it work fine in mobile. You could probably do 32 bit for mobile and ditch virtualization.
They owned about 2% of facebook or something. I don't know if they sold or not. That might be why they're looking at this. So much percent of the investment portfolio is in social media, and they don't really want to own some small fraction percent of voting power of a competitor.
It's true if you let it be. Game development as an industry is like that. IT is like that only if you choose to take that kind of risk. You could just work for cisco or a bank or something and make a decent career of it and turn your e-mail off at 5.
Now sure, you take a pay write down on that. But there's something to be said for the quality of life of making shitty web pages 9-5 and not getting called in at 3 am to fix a down server, or still being at work at 3am trying to get a publisher deadline that is completely unreasonable.
Every programmer contributes to design, but ya, absolutely, these days there are world designers, encounter designers, systems designers etc. I'm half systems designer half programmer. And programming is more 'tools programming' for some of us, so we build the stuff the regular designers do.
The thing is, the barrier to those lower skill jobs, the level design and itemization and so on jobs is being able to use the tools. You can learn that skill in school, which is pretty easy, a 12 month course will manage easily. But you have to then be willing to spend that time not doing something that you know will keep you employed.
For small projects (mobile these days) there are still a lot of programmer/designer all in one gigs. That's your 10 person or less teams, million a year budget (which might cover 2 games) kind of thing. The big guys who have hundreds of employees can layer senior systems designers (scientists of some sort) over top of lower level people. And the low level people get laid off and the end of the project, where the science and engineering types stay employed.
Well and just because you can doesn't mean it isn't a hassle. Whether its more or less hassle than a new android is hard to say, but as time goes on these things are going to be barriers to entry to Windows phone adoption, as you get integrated google turn by turn directions to you google contacts based on their location on google plus, or you have to use whatever the Windows phone mapping software is, to connect to a google contact who's location you look up through foursquare on facebook.
I was more thinking something that they could do that would be unique or interesting or the like. It doesn't really make sense in Windows 7, but if you had a windows sync, like opera link, but for your OS. It could keep major programs synced and organized the same way between your desktop and phone, stream in any applications you need but don't normally run. You could remotely queue up stuff on the dekstop (think steam beta, where you can start a game download on your machine at home over the web, but well.. for everything).
If you look at smartglass, where they're making the phone into the remote they've got some not horrible ideas. But if your PC is your entertainment system (I know mine is, tv tuners are handy), being able to remotely tell it to record a TV show, download a file, grab whatever data I need etc. would be really useful. There are a lot of layers of security that would need to go with that obviously.
I agree, right now it's not a common scenario, because no one has taken that concept and pushed it to a consumer level. Microsoft has all the technology they need, they just don't seem to be able to produce something that solves a problem I didn't know I had, until I saw the solution.
I'm also a computer scientist, i'm only so willing to throw good design ideas around on a forum post. I have friends who work at microsoft, if they want my good ideas they can give me a desk somewhere. Obviously they think most of my ideas are terrible enough I don't warrant a MS approved paycheque.
Hard to steal a blizzard game that matters. WoW and Diablo 3 both have your data (character) on their servers, and SC still requires battle.net. No battle.net and you can't really play those games.
I only have the steam version of max payne 3 so I'm not sure if it uses steamworks out of the box or not, but you could get your whole steam account banned for pirating a steamworks game.
Except that in D3 you can't be purely single player. They overtly made the choice that the game is a multiplayer game. Any solo experience is really just not directly playing with other people, but you're still connected to the same economy. If you give yourself 100 million gold to buy stuff from vendors in your own space that's one thing. But when that 100 million gold goes out into the broader game economy where everyone is tied together you have a problem.
With max payne all you really get are achievements and that sort of thing. Pushing cheaters into their own space isn't really hurting anyone else, since there's no apparent economy.
Blizzard explicitly makes mention of how item dupes in D2 wrecked a lot of that game, as it trivialized content and so on. If you just hand everyone best in slot gear there's not really much to keep playing for. Which then hurts the community for everyone else. Even if you didn't dupe in D2 there was so much gold and so many super awesome items floating around that it affected you.
As I say in my last line.
When I say they're late to this party, I mean they're late with anything that is competitive. Whether they can pull and Xbox and claw their way to profitability and marketshare in a generation or two is harder to say.
You'd think their best strategy would be to just pay samsung and nokia (and some component guys) a 6 month exclusive on quad core phones with LTE and 2 gigs of RAM, and then pay some game developers to make Halo and Gears of War for the mobile phone. But too late for that now.
I don't really have a problem with them using a little bit of CPU or GPU time if I get something out of it. But the operating system UI exists to connect me to either my data, or the applications I want to run to do something with my data. It is not, in and of itself, supposed to do much. What it looks like is a matter of basically arbitrary style. There are some considerations for designing for accessibility (physical and learning), but otherwise the OS should stay out of the way of what I'm actually doing.
Ditching the outline of buttons makes it hard for people who don't know what they're looking at to identify button boundaries. So that's dumb. And the lack of a start button is stupid. The latter part we knew already. And who knows how final this is or whether or not there are options for these things, or how hard they are to get used to.
In the end it's not going to change that I spend 99% of my time looking at something running on windows, not windows itself. Their design teams seems to spend too much time on designing windows, and forgetting that it's such a small portion of usage time that I'd rather it be ugly and functional than pretty and inconvenient. But this isn't pretty, doesn't need to be, and it's impossible to judge convenience until you've had at it for a little while. I had someone bitch at me about how she refuses to use a new version of office because the ribbon must be horrible.... well until you try it and give it a fair chance to do your thing with it how would you know?
Everyone has game design ideas, it's only a relative few that can do the required statistics and linear algebra and programming to make it all work. And the people who can do all of those necessary things have as many ideas as people who can't.
We offer a very successful game development specialization as part of computer science or software engineering. That works very well. It is our most popular stream and even kids who don't get the full specialization usually take at least one of the game development courses. It's still a comp sci degree, so they can go off and do anything any other computer scientist can do, they are specialized in game dev.
Easily half of our students are interested in games (and take some game dev courses), and are into technology because of games. But that's mostly the domestic ones. The ones from the middle east, india and china are much more academically oriented (which is why our grad programme is 85% foreign). But game development on average is a shitty career choice, long uncertain hours, low job security and dependence on government handouts for game companies isn't a great way to make a career. So even the ones who have fun making games in course work will go off and build boring databases and web sites or be business analysts etc. When someone offers you a job paying 50k with no benefits to make video games, and someone else offers you 70k with benefits and career advancement options it's tough to take the game dev gig.
Gamers don't really have a lot of use for the Wii. Their adoption rate (games per console) is pretty pitiful as is their overall played time. The nursing home thing is much more what we would call serious games. Game technology used for serious purposes, although in a nursing home it might be half and half, get the people exercising while getting them some mental stimulation and entertainment on a rainy day.
Right, and all of those proficiency tests people take, our guys can pass. If you went to a shitty school, or there are shitty school near where you live, that's your problem. I'll grant you that the US makes it especially hard to know which schools are legit and which aren't, and we're over simplifying saying a 'degree' rather than specific courses. I haven't taken any of our courses on bioinformatics, so I'd be pretty much doomed if asked about it.
But we train scientists not programmers. Which is rehashing a long past debate. If you want to be a programmer, go to college. You can teach a scientist programming (see physics and maths for examples), but you can't teach every programmer science or maths. If you're expecting computer scientists to be good programmers and only programmers you don't even understand what the degree is.
In now 8 years, the only course I've been involved in that *had* to be taught in a specific language was a high performance GPU computing course in CUDA. And today that could be done in one of two languages. Everything else is in whatever language the professor wants given the set available for that problem. We're not training BSc's in comp sci to be PHP or Java monkeys, they can certainly specialize in that if they want, but if that's what you were expecting you went to the wrong place.
maybe an app that helps me proof read my /. posts would count as a 'killer app' for me...
I think that's pretty much a non point though. He's within the EU, the UK and Sweden are both EU members and have extradition arrangements. It's up to Sweden how much effort it wants to put into any individual case, but as long as it meets their agreed upon thresholds there's no reason he can't be the person extradited that meets the bare minimum requirements to do so.
Within the EU? Probably not. Even if it is... so what? Sweden and the UK have treaties, if this falls within the realm of the treaties it's up to the swedes if it's worth pursuing.
Correct. But that doesn't matter. They can still issue a warrant to question him. Their legal system, and it's up to the UK if what they want to agree to extradite for it. Since that's in the treaties they have there's not a lot of room for manouvre here.
Richard_At_Work posted above the legal ruling in the UK that covered that it would. (it's buried within a reply to the thread but it's there).