So, in other words, asking for advanced warning if the US does even make plans to request extradition equates to "US intends to chase Assange"?
Are they asking for advance warning if the US intends to request extradition for Paul Hogan? No. Why not? Because they don't think the US intends to request extradition for Paul Hogan.
Not even to answer for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.
Anyone who is surprised by this (or who thinks that Sweden is not a part of it) is simply not paying attention.
But, but... the Swedish prosecutor has gone on record saying specifically that Sweden won't extradite Assange for torture or the death penalty.
Seriously, though, I hear Julian is going to be out front on Sunday. It would be quite an art project if two hundred other young clean-shaven thin white men with white wigs, white button-down shirts, gray wool pants, black dress shoes and socks, and Guy Fawkes masks all swarmed him and then got into passing cars.
Google was irresponsible in not publishing these holes immediately so affected users could take steps to mitigate their vulnerability while Adobe put together a patch.
The Full Disclosure folks say that vulnerabilities should be disclose immediately. Their arguments have some merits. The Responsible Disclosure folks say that the vendor should have n number of weeks to get a patch out, then it goes to Full Disclosure. That has some merits as well, but the trouble is the public doesn't know there's a problem during the n weeks. The calculation is a balance of how many people will be protected vs. how many people will be harmed.
It occurs to me that a third way, call it 'Informed Disclosure' for now, would be to:
Make an announcement that x number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in the foo function of bar
Wait the n number of weeks
move to Full Disclosure
as a way to avoid the problem with Responsible Disclosure but still give the vendor reasonable time to react. e.g. 'Informed Disclosure' may say:
ISSUE-001: Acrobat Reader has a vulnerability with JavaScript objects embedded in documents that can cause a smashed stack. Disable JavaScript in Acrobat Reader to avoid this problem.
and then send Adobe the exploit code, which will be published in 45 days. This also removes the illusion of potential blackmail from security researchers, because the public has on-record information that the disclosure will be published, regardless of the action or inaction by the vendor.
Surely others have taken this approach, but I can't find a name attached to it -- anybody?
Some guy in Rome wearing long robes can wave his hand over some water and imbue it with something
The beauty of holy water is that a drop of holy water in a bucket makes the whole bucket holy water. There's no concentration limit, so you can manufacture this stuff all day long.
I seem to recall dropping some holy water into the Atlantic when I was a kid, so by the hydrological cycle, odds are your tap water qualifies by now too. Actually I don't know what happens to the holiness during phase changes - perhaps somebody who paid attention to Chatechism could elucidate.
It was a silly promise to make on Textdrive's part, and a silly promise to believe on the user's part.
Not really - at $499, these early buyers were, in practice, a type of investor in the company. It would have been obvious to any of the buyers how that business model was going to work.
You can't bring on an investor, pay him some dividends, and then say, "yeah, sorry, we're ending your investment class. Thanks for being an early investor, though."
Now, I'm sure a lawyer will point out that they're not really an investor. But that's the legal argument, not the ethical one.
They're voluntarily discontinuing the service, they should be willing to pay the $499 back to those who ask for it.
Plus interest. If they only pay back the original sum they've converted the lifetime offer into an interest free loan, under false pretenses, for their benefit. And that's not even accounting for inflation.
Obviously 802.11 doesn't scale in most non-urban environments (i.e. mountains or trees).
I've seen some references to some HAM's driving packet data up to 220Kbps in the early 90's. Anybody here familiar with how that worked? Most COTS HAM packet data seems to be stuck at 9600bps.
And, yes, I'm assuming the FCC has all been turned into zombies at that point.
Tesla's model is to take money from rich people first, to fund research that eventually helps poorer people too. That sounds a lot more like a progressive stance when put that way, right?
No, the 'progressive' stance is to take the money from the rich people so they don't have it to spend on Tesla cars. The Government should be in the car R&D business, where it will be done unencumbered by the evils of capitalism (aka Tesla).
To be fair, the DoE gave Tesla low-interest loans, so there's a bit of fascism going on here, not just capitalism. But to be extra-fair, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 has completely screwed up the banking system in the US, which made those loans necessary in the first place. Nasty, nasty mess.
Thats why they are bailing on FiOS. There is quicker money to be made elsewhere.
Exactly. Put a "public" company in charge of "public" infrastructure and they can/should be held to be financially irresponsible to their shareholders for installing high-quality infrastructure when they are holding a monopoly grant from the local government and can get away with installing crap.
In relatively built-up suburban areas it can cost between $2000 and $7000 per subscriber. In rural areas it costs between $5000 and $12000 per subscriber.
That's not the cost to run to the subscriber, that's the all-inclusive cost to finally fix their ancient broken-ass network so that they can finally make a drop to the subscriber. It's going to have to be done sooner or later anyway.
Voluntary segregation would get them out of the system.
That's so wise, yet you'll have the militant atheists banging their "they're using taxpayer dollars to teach religion" drums. Working against their own best interests....
Decades of badmouthing government are going to take a toll on us pretty soon.
You're making a composition error. There are anti-reason people who are for government and anti-reason people who are against government. You seem to be selecting the ones who are against government and concluding that it's because they are against reason.
You'll find most of the philosophical anarchists these days to be very strong proponents of science. More specifically, applying the scientific method to society shows that governments, as currently constituted, fail to do the things they're hypothesized to do.
It's like if somebody's illness doesn't get better from prayer - then MORE PRAYER is the answer.
I wonder how many other scientific breakthroughs are just sitting around waiting for anyone to conduct basic followup on a research paper.
And that in the subsequent decade the Japanese researchers didn't do what these guys did. Strange, they'd probably have a compelling business in operation by now.
Buy a DNS-based service like Internet Guide from DynDNS and move on to the next project. The admins can tell you which twiddly bits to flip on their configurator, othewise what you see is what you get.
Possibly set up an internal recursive DNS with zones to allow some machines to go out unfiltered.
If your wife is sleeping and you are really horny, go use your hands in the bathroom for fucks sake!
I take it you've never been woken up this way. It's a shame - that might do a bit of good for your anger.
Oh, also I'd like to see some evidence of a husband ever having reporting this as a crime to the police. Feel free to reference the necessary hieroglyphics to go back far enough in time to possibly find an instance.
They could've ended this whole thing at any time by announcing that there would be no subsequent extradition to the US government. And yet they haven't done it.
It's all but confirmed at this point that they will. The Ecuadoran foreign minister asked for an interview at the embassy (Swedes had interviewed a man wanted for questioning on murder charges in another embassy, Serbia, perhaps) and they refused flatly. He asked for extradition to Sweden with a guarantee of no extradition to the US and they also refused.
Today, the prosecutor says they won't extradite Assange to face torture or the death penalty in the US. So, they're saying he will be extradited to the US to face trial and imprisonment or perhaps indefinite detention at Gitmo.
The Ecuadorians have this scam figured out and did the right thing.
Ah, I think we're talking past each other here. You might think I mean the current executive branch administration and the gang color it wears, but what I meant was that you were claiming them to be "our government" which implies some level of participation, ownership, or approval.
I tried to rephrase it in 3rd-party terms (though that was certainly an assumption on my part).
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The long term survival of the country is in Science and engineering. If your society doesn't do that, then you are done as a civilized society.
Thank goodness Congress was there to develop electricity, automobiles, radio, and telephones!
Oh, wait, those all happened before general income taxes when people still had money to spend on preposterous ideas.
If they have anything even remotely concrete to charge him with
There's no need - the President can send him to Gitmo for years without bringing charges, as a lesson to other journalists not to mess with the USG.
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So, in other words, asking for advanced warning if the US does even make plans to request extradition equates to "US intends to chase Assange"?
Are they asking for advance warning if the US intends to request extradition for Paul Hogan? No. Why not? Because they don't think the US intends to request extradition for Paul Hogan.
Not even to answer for Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.
Anyone who is surprised by this (or who thinks that Sweden is not a part of it) is simply not paying attention.
But, but ... the Swedish prosecutor has gone on record saying specifically that Sweden won't extradite Assange for torture or the death penalty.
Seriously, though, I hear Julian is going to be out front on Sunday. It would be quite an art project if two hundred other young clean-shaven thin white men with white wigs, white button-down shirts, gray wool pants, black dress shoes and socks, and Guy Fawkes masks all swarmed him and then got into passing cars.
Google was irresponsible in not publishing these holes immediately so affected users could take steps to mitigate their vulnerability while Adobe put together a patch.
The Full Disclosure folks say that vulnerabilities should be disclose immediately. Their arguments have some merits. The Responsible Disclosure folks say that the vendor should have n number of weeks to get a patch out, then it goes to Full Disclosure. That has some merits as well, but the trouble is the public doesn't know there's a problem during the n weeks. The calculation is a balance of how many people will be protected vs. how many people will be harmed.
It occurs to me that a third way, call it 'Informed Disclosure' for now, would be to:
as a way to avoid the problem with Responsible Disclosure but still give the vendor reasonable time to react. e.g. 'Informed Disclosure' may say:
and then send Adobe the exploit code, which will be published in 45 days. This also removes the illusion of potential blackmail from security researchers, because the public has on-record information that the disclosure will be published, regardless of the action or inaction by the vendor.
Surely others have taken this approach, but I can't find a name attached to it -- anybody?
maybe they were busy exploiting these holes by sending their competitors PDFs?
Nah, they just used them to bypass Safari tracking protections.
Some guy in Rome wearing long robes can wave his hand over some water and imbue it with something
The beauty of holy water is that a drop of holy water in a bucket makes the whole bucket holy water. There's no concentration limit, so you can manufacture this stuff all day long.
I seem to recall dropping some holy water into the Atlantic when I was a kid, so by the hydrological cycle, odds are your tap water qualifies by now too. Actually I don't know what happens to the holiness during phase changes - perhaps somebody who paid attention to Chatechism could elucidate.
It does look like you got 6 years of bundled service for $500, which might be perceived as a reasonable value
Only if one completely ignores the time-value of money. That's why loans come with interest rates.
It was a silly promise to make on Textdrive's part, and a silly promise to believe on the user's part.
Not really - at $499, these early buyers were, in practice, a type of investor in the company. It would have been obvious to any of the buyers how that business model was going to work.
You can't bring on an investor, pay him some dividends, and then say, "yeah, sorry, we're ending your investment class. Thanks for being an early investor, though."
Now, I'm sure a lawyer will point out that they're not really an investor. But that's the legal argument, not the ethical one.
They're voluntarily discontinuing the service, they should be willing to pay the $499 back to those who ask for it.
Plus interest. If they only pay back the original sum they've converted the lifetime offer into an interest free loan, under false pretenses, for their benefit. And that's not even accounting for inflation.
Obviously 802.11 doesn't scale in most non-urban environments (i.e. mountains or trees).
I've seen some references to some HAM's driving packet data up to 220Kbps in the early 90's. Anybody here familiar with how that worked? Most COTS HAM packet data seems to be stuck at 9600bps.
And, yes, I'm assuming the FCC has all been turned into zombies at that point.
Tesla's model is to take money from rich people first, to fund research that eventually helps poorer people too. That sounds a lot more like a progressive stance when put that way, right?
No, the 'progressive' stance is to take the money from the rich people so they don't have it to spend on Tesla cars. The Government should be in the car R&D business, where it will be done unencumbered by the evils of capitalism (aka Tesla).
To be fair, the DoE gave Tesla low-interest loans, so there's a bit of fascism going on here, not just capitalism. But to be extra-fair, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 has completely screwed up the banking system in the US, which made those loans necessary in the first place. Nasty, nasty mess.
Thats why they are bailing on FiOS. There is quicker money to be made elsewhere.
Exactly. Put a "public" company in charge of "public" infrastructure and they can/should be held to be financially irresponsible to their shareholders for installing high-quality infrastructure when they are holding a monopoly grant from the local government and can get away with installing crap.
In relatively built-up suburban areas it can cost between $2000 and $7000 per subscriber. In rural areas it costs between $5000 and $12000 per subscriber.
That's not the cost to run to the subscriber, that's the all-inclusive cost to finally fix their ancient broken-ass network so that they can finally make a drop to the subscriber. It's going to have to be done sooner or later anyway.
Hey, Kentucky - I'll build you an evolution-free biology test unit for half of whatever ACT is asking.
Voluntary segregation would get them out of the system.
That's so wise, yet you'll have the militant atheists banging their "they're using taxpayer dollars to teach religion" drums. Working against their own best interests....
Decades of badmouthing government are going to take a toll on us pretty soon.
You're making a composition error. There are anti-reason people who are for government and anti-reason people who are against government. You seem to be selecting the ones who are against government and concluding that it's because they are against reason.
You'll find most of the philosophical anarchists these days to be very strong proponents of science. More specifically, applying the scientific method to society shows that governments, as currently constituted, fail to do the things they're hypothesized to do.
It's like if somebody's illness doesn't get better from prayer - then MORE PRAYER is the answer.
What we really mean here is "Christian creationism."
Isn't it technically Hebrew creationism?
I wonder how many other scientific breakthroughs are just sitting around waiting for anyone to conduct basic followup on a research paper.
And that in the subsequent decade the Japanese researchers didn't do what these guys did. Strange, they'd probably have a compelling business in operation by now.
Jeszum crow, at least get past TFH before commenting!
Internal codenames aren't in commerce. And really, worse case, they rename it "Butthead Moto-Tool Corp."
Buy a DNS-based service like Internet Guide from DynDNS and move on to the next project. The admins can tell you which twiddly bits to flip on their configurator, othewise what you see is what you get.
Possibly set up an internal recursive DNS with zones to allow some machines to go out unfiltered.
If your wife is sleeping and you are really horny, go use your hands in the bathroom for fucks sake!
I take it you've never been woken up this way. It's a shame - that might do a bit of good for your anger.
Oh, also I'd like to see some evidence of a husband ever having reporting this as a crime to the police. Feel free to reference the necessary hieroglyphics to go back far enough in time to possibly find an instance.
They could've ended this whole thing at any time by announcing that there would be no subsequent extradition to the US government. And yet they haven't done it.
It's all but confirmed at this point that they will. The Ecuadoran foreign minister asked for an interview at the embassy (Swedes had interviewed a man wanted for questioning on murder charges in another embassy, Serbia, perhaps) and they refused flatly. He asked for extradition to Sweden with a guarantee of no extradition to the US and they also refused.
Today, the prosecutor says they won't extradite Assange to face torture or the death penalty in the US. So, they're saying he will be extradited to the US to face trial and imprisonment or perhaps indefinite detention at Gitmo.
The Ecuadorians have this scam figured out and did the right thing.
Ah, I think we're talking past each other here. You might think I mean the current executive branch administration and the gang color it wears, but what I meant was that you were claiming them to be "our government" which implies some level of participation, ownership, or approval.
I tried to rephrase it in 3rd-party terms (though that was certainly an assumption on my part).