There was also no doubt that Assange could have turned it all over to the White House and had it done on the US Taxpayer's nickel. He claims the Pentagon wasn't cooperating, but he was dealing with the wrong people and in the wrong way.
Watch the extradition news about Assange. It actually brings up the point that the country sending him out has to agree that a crime was committed. In many cases it has to be something that is against the law in that country as well as in the country requesting extradition. His lawyers are making bones about the differences between Swedish sexual-assault law and British law, trying to keep the extradition from happening. They're not fishing; they're working the system the way it's supposed to be worked.
So yes, the US can declare anything illegal, and request extradition from anywhere on that basis. The country holding Assange can then decide whether or not to cough him up, and can base it either on differences in the laws or on its belief in the facts of the case (see Roman Polanski) or just out of bloody-mindedness however it decides.
If extradition isn't involved (yet), it's a matter of Assange being careful enough never to be in the U.S. nor in a place that would agree to extradite him to the U.S. There aren't that many of them. He thought that Sweden was one, but then he got there and decided that even Sweden's laws didn't apply to him, and now he's a couple of layers deep in the mess.
I don't actually think the law in TFA is necessary. The original espionage act is enough. This guy's just posturing.
Each instance is easy. A hundred new viruses a week makes it hard. Easier to pass the virus definitions on to the client and let them make sure they're clean. Only becomes a problem when a new form of malware pops up that doesn't fit the paradigm your checker can check, and the client code has to be modified to accept the new definition.
But people are used to downloading updates on the fly. On iOS and Android, it's a short delay for small updates. No more than the usual delays for network fragmentation.
Of course, this assumes the checker is somewhat efficient on the client side in the first place. If you make it do a full scan of all files every time someone visits your bank, that's a burden. Scan new files as they're installed and old files only with new virus definitions, and you'll make it a lot easier.
Caveat: we'll ignore the fact that your monthly rate does NOT go down once you have completed your contract.
You can't ignore that. That means that the full value of the phone was given to you, but you only paid a portion of it, and the phone contract was a separate deal, even though you had to buy the contract to get the phone cheap.
That means you should be taxed on the value of the phone that was gifted to you, since in the contract you are only taxed for the contract fees.
Well, no, because you got a $569.99 phone for $149.99. That's $420 the phone company paid you, which counts as income to you.
That's if you could walk up with a phone you bought and get the same contract at the same rate. If bringing your own hardware results in a lower price, then on the discoutned-phone plan you're really paying for the phone on the installment plan, and the taxes in your contract rate should be lowered by the taxes you already paid on the phone.
Any source of data input can be hacked to cause problems to software.
Pushing a virus-check for a new exploit is easier than patching the server, when you're talking about thousands of high-availability servers, and thousands of new exploits per year.
All they need is to DL and run a checker that reports Pass/Fail and nothing more. Uploading my data en masse or spelunking my files with their eyes would not be reasonable. Nor would it be at all profitable for them to do it.
I sold you a frozen hotdog. Hotdogs if improperly stored and cooked will cause health problems. If you choose to leave it in a pan on the counter overnight then warm it to 100F before serving it, that's your issue, not mine, regardless of the natural vulnerabilities of the very clean hotdog I sold you.
Every couple of days another mole pops up saying AMD is being bought by IBM/Apple/HP/Asus/yadda/yadda/yadda and has to be knocked back down by the big mallet for 3 points.
AMD can go out of business and the FTC would just let life go on, as long as Intel didn't do anything to drive them out of business other than offer products at a profit that nonetheless were preferred by customers. And since the FTC just made sure that Intel isn't doing anything like that, then that's the case.
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There was no doubt before.
There was also no doubt that Assange could have turned it all over to the White House and had it done on the US Taxpayer's nickel. He claims the Pentagon wasn't cooperating, but he was dealing with the wrong people and in the wrong way.
That isn't how the law works.
Watch the extradition news about Assange. It actually brings up the point that the country sending him out has to agree that a crime was committed. In many cases it has to be something that is against the law in that country as well as in the country requesting extradition. His lawyers are making bones about the differences between Swedish sexual-assault law and British law, trying to keep the extradition from happening. They're not fishing; they're working the system the way it's supposed to be worked.
So yes, the US can declare anything illegal, and request extradition from anywhere on that basis. The country holding Assange can then decide whether or not to cough him up, and can base it either on differences in the laws or on its belief in the facts of the case (see Roman Polanski) or just out of bloody-mindedness however it decides.
If extradition isn't involved (yet), it's a matter of Assange being careful enough never to be in the U.S. nor in a place that would agree to extradite him to the U.S. There aren't that many of them. He thought that Sweden was one, but then he got there and decided that even Sweden's laws didn't apply to him, and now he's a couple of layers deep in the mess.
I don't actually think the law in TFA is necessary. The original espionage act is enough. This guy's just posturing.
Each instance is easy. A hundred new viruses a week makes it hard. Easier to pass the virus definitions on to the client and let them make sure they're clean. Only becomes a problem when a new form of malware pops up that doesn't fit the paradigm your checker can check, and the client code has to be modified to accept the new definition.
But people are used to downloading updates on the fly. On iOS and Android, it's a short delay for small updates. No more than the usual delays for network fragmentation.
Of course, this assumes the checker is somewhat efficient on the client side in the first place. If you make it do a full scan of all files every time someone visits your bank, that's a burden. Scan new files as they're installed and old files only with new virus definitions, and you'll make it a lot easier.
Your suggestion that banks should just let people feed them viruses is ridiculous.
Software gets ported to new systems. All that needs to be common is the format of the virus definitions.
Any programmer who can't imagine how that would work should get out of the business and give his job to someone who knows what they're doing.
Caveat: we'll ignore the fact that your monthly rate does NOT go down once you have completed your contract.
You can't ignore that. That means that the full value of the phone was given to you, but you only paid a portion of it, and the phone contract was a separate deal, even though you had to buy the contract to get the phone cheap.
That means you should be taxed on the value of the phone that was gifted to you, since in the contract you are only taxed for the contract fees.
Do what I do.
Sit back and laugh at the entire e-reader industry until it figures out how to behave like a real business environment.
Well, no, because you got a $569.99 phone for $149.99. That's $420 the phone company paid you, which counts as income to you.
That's if you could walk up with a phone you bought and get the same contract at the same rate. If bringing your own hardware results in a lower price, then on the discoutned-phone plan you're really paying for the phone on the installment plan, and the taxes in your contract rate should be lowered by the taxes you already paid on the phone.
If they aren't, then you have a beef.
SQL is plain text. So is perl.
Any source of data input can be hacked to cause problems to software.
Pushing a virus-check for a new exploit is easier than patching the server, when you're talking about thousands of high-availability servers, and thousands of new exploits per year.
All they need is to DL and run a checker that reports Pass/Fail and nothing more. Uploading my data en masse or spelunking my files with their eyes would not be reasonable. Nor would it be at all profitable for them to do it.
It is perfectly reasonable for anyone to whom you can not prove you are sanitary to tell you to go fuck yourself.
Then I bet most of the things on Earth are moving about that fast relative to that comet. Or faster. By a factor of 3, for some comets.
However, in those cases you're not trying to take pictures of one with the other so it doesn't make much difference.
Not ever again, no. At least I hope not.
I sold you a frozen hotdog. Hotdogs if improperly stored and cooked will cause health problems. If you choose to leave it in a pan on the counter overnight then warm it to 100F before serving it, that's your issue, not mine, regardless of the natural vulnerabilities of the very clean hotdog I sold you.
Wait.
Do you consider it a "violation of your privacy" to tell your prospective sexual partners whether you have an STD or not?
Because this is the computational equivalent.
It is perfectly reasonable for anyone coming in virtual contact with your data to request that you prove that your data is sanitary.
I'm going to need a 4D monitor to set it as my screensaver.
I bet there are things moving at larger speeds relative to each other in Earth orbit right now.
Wait. You think the Spanish monarchs were protestants?
That'd be news to the protestants they purged.
They were Catholics, and what they did was sanctioned by the Pope.
It's a rumor.
Every couple of days another mole pops up saying AMD is being bought by IBM/Apple/HP/Asus/yadda/yadda/yadda and has to be knocked back down by the big mallet for 3 points.
What AMD offers is good bus and memory architectures
Check more recent benchmarks. Intel's Core-i3/5/7 designs kill.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188/5
Neither of these companies needs the clowns at the top of the other company to be the head of a merged company.
If they buy each other, it would be like a Mini buying a Fit, head-on, on a bridge.
There is no such situation.
AMD can go out of business and the FTC would just let life go on, as long as Intel didn't do anything to drive them out of business other than offer products at a profit that nonetheless were preferred by customers. And since the FTC just made sure that Intel isn't doing anything like that, then that's the case.
And AMD just lost all of Dell's competitors as customers.
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Always go with that. The $1k Intel CPU I bought 3 years ago to build my home desktop system is only now becoming "average" on the benchmarks.
You do realize that most of Dell's revenue stream is propped up by money given to them from Intel?
No it isn't. Hasn't been for years. And Intel settled with the FTC, saying it would never be.
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