Rachid Ramda was responsible for the series of terrorist attacks in France around 1995. Yet it took 10 fscking years to get him extradited over the channel. This guy is responsible for the death of dozens of people! And he wasn't even a subject of Her Majesty. But when the Bush admin snaps its fingers, lapdog Brown's government is ready to comply. So yeah, the UK is the US's bitch.
Killing people is illegal. Going 1km/h over the speed limit is illegal. Any analogies here? How good are they going to be?
Anyway, I have to point out that, in Europe, it's extremely rare to see penalties of over 20 years awarded for something short of premeditated murder involving rape and torture. So 40+ years for something with/NO/ victim, and merely, at worst, some non-physical damages, is completely insane by European standards.
Did McKinnon kill someone? Maim someone? The only "damage" he caused was the cost of fixing the systems that were already broken in the first place. Your argument would have been only acceptable if he had, for example, broken into a air traffic control system and caused a plane to crash. That's not what he did. Furthermore, his lack of truly criminal intent is evident by the fact that he did not try to hide his tracks. If someone wanted to cause real harm, it would be as simple as doing it through tor relays. Anyway, the real shame in this whole case is on Tony Blair's murderous sellout. Not only did this asshole assist Bush in his war crimes, but he basically gave away the rights of britons, esp. considering that US citizens don't risk being deported to the UK.
"And, really, if he couldn't do the time, he should not have done the crime."
I see your retarded old cliché and raise you a human right: punishment should be proportional to the crime. Did he kill anyone? Did he maim anyone? Did he steal anything? No, no and no, so why should he be punished more than someone who did?
Anyway, this nonsensical BS should be rejected by the European Court of Justice. Unlike the US Supreme court, it's not stacked with crypto-fascists like Antonin Scalia.
I use a french AZERTY keyboard, and € is bound to rALT+e . Furthermore, I use Linux, not Windows; but even then I have to wonder what difference that would make WRT/.'s non-handling of UTF-8.
Because translations are frequently paid for by (and as a result owned by) the regional distributor.
I can't think of one instance in recent times where a distributor does this. It used to be the case, probably up until the 80s. But not now, with the internet. And besides, a translation is a derivative work, so the translator, if a third party, has to get a licence to do so from the copyright owner, so it's not like they could find themselves surprised by this.
Unless the software is so poorly designed so as not to cleanly separate localizable data from the code, localization is a mere matter of translation. And if it is indeed poorly designed, you have bigger problems. Doing the vaguest guesstimate, translating your average proprietary software package like Photoshop is probably going to cost on the order of 10k to 100k €. Let's say one licence costs €200; so that's roughly 50 to 500 units sold. How many do they sell? They ought to suck hard if they sell less than 5000 units in one given european country, so we have at MOST 10% of the price going to l10n.
That's a stupid point you're trying to make, the dangerous chemical use is proportionnal to the area, so having a tiny screen 1/10th the area of the main screen is going to add, what, 10% of that bad chemical at worst. Boohooooo.
2. With possibly the exception of qmail, you can put everything anywhere you like. The/service path location is only hardcoded in svscan, for instance, and the other weird paths such as/command are only used in the install scripts, which you probably don't want to use anyway.
3. I wish there was a credible alternative to djbdns. I only know of PowerDNS, haven't had time to try it yet, what about the others? Bind is a non-starter for me, just like sendmail (but Postfix is ok).
Bind is evil, bind has the worst security track record except maybe for sendmail but that's not saying much. I don't know much about the other options, I use djbdns, but PowerDNS looks fine.
Doesn't that bother you that many times, and esp. so recently, the US is vetoing and voting with IsraÃl, while 180 other member countries, including at times even the 52nd state, UK, vote in the other direction? All of them antisemites or something, I guess.
The UN is nothing but the sum of its members. And the US have been largely responsible for castrating it. Look at the use of veto in the UNSC in the past 30 years. Even USSR did not fuck it up that much.
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Rachid Ramda was responsible for the series of terrorist attacks in France around 1995. Yet it took 10 fscking years to get him extradited over the channel. This guy is responsible for the death of dozens of people! And he wasn't even a subject of Her Majesty.
But when the Bush admin snaps its fingers, lapdog Brown's government is ready to comply.
So yeah, the UK is the US's bitch.
Killing people is illegal.
Going 1km/h over the speed limit is illegal.
Any analogies here? How good are they going to be?
Anyway, I have to point out that, in Europe, it's extremely rare to see penalties of over 20 years awarded for something short of premeditated murder involving rape and torture. So 40+ years for something with /NO/ victim, and merely, at worst, some non-physical damages, is completely insane by European standards.
$900k was IMO the cost of securing systems that were not secure in the first place.
You won't find a society anywhere on earth which doesn't have such laws.
Well my country doesn't extradite its own citizens.
Did McKinnon kill someone? Maim someone?
The only "damage" he caused was the cost of fixing the systems that were already broken in the first place.
Your argument would have been only acceptable if he had, for example, broken into a air traffic control system and caused a plane to crash. That's not what he did.
Furthermore, his lack of truly criminal intent is evident by the fact that he did not try to hide his tracks. If someone wanted to cause real harm, it would be as simple as doing it through tor relays.
Anyway, the real shame in this whole case is on Tony Blair's murderous sellout. Not only did this asshole assist Bush in his war crimes, but he basically gave away the rights of britons, esp. considering that US citizens don't risk being deported to the UK.
So he was violating US laws, but he wasn't there.
Guess what, I'm routinely violating Saudi laws -- I tend to enjoy a glass of red wine with my pork chops. Should I be deported?
The problem here is that the Tony Blair government sold out their countrymen, AKA "subjects", to the Bush gang.
"And, really, if he couldn't do the time, he should not have done the crime."
I see your retarded old cliché and raise you a human right: punishment should be proportional to the crime. Did he kill anyone? Did he maim anyone? Did he steal anything? No, no and no, so why should he be punished more than someone who did?
Anyway, this nonsensical BS should be rejected by the European Court of Justice. Unlike the US Supreme court, it's not stacked with crypto-fascists like Antonin Scalia.
Why don't they just turn the servers off, that solves 100% of all security vulnerabilities. Except denials of service, of course.
I use a french AZERTY keyboard, and € is bound to rALT+e . Furthermore, I use Linux, not Windows; but even then I have to wonder what difference that would make WRT /.'s non-handling of UTF-8.
... why can't I use it?
And Perl -- slashcode's language -- has been fully UTF-8 for years now. What's the excuse for not using it?
Because translations are frequently paid for by (and as a result owned by) the regional distributor.
I can't think of one instance in recent times where a distributor does this. It used to be the case, probably up until the 80s. But not now, with the internet. And besides, a translation is a derivative work, so the translator, if a third party, has to get a licence to do so from the copyright owner, so it's not like they could find themselves surprised by this.
Unless the software is so poorly designed so as not to cleanly separate localizable data from the code, localization is a mere matter of translation. And if it is indeed poorly designed, you have bigger problems.
Doing the vaguest guesstimate, translating your average proprietary software package like Photoshop is probably going to cost on the order of 10k to 100k €. Let's say one licence costs €200; so that's roughly 50 to 500 units sold.
How many do they sell? They ought to suck hard if they sell less than 5000 units in one given european country, so we have at MOST 10% of the price going to l10n.
Go back to redstate or freep.
That's a stupid point you're trying to make, the dangerous chemical use is proportionnal to the area, so having a tiny screen 1/10th the area of the main screen is going to add, what, 10% of that bad chemical at worst. Boohooooo.
The makers of the Blackberry would then educate you about that $600 million check they had to write.
$ blockdev --getbsz /dev/sda
4096
... than browsing with elinks? ... or with noscript?
1. Licence
2. With possibly the exception of qmail, you can put everything anywhere you like. The /service path location is only hardcoded in svscan, for instance, and the other weird paths such as /command are only used in the install scripts, which you probably don't want to use anyway.
3. I wish there was a credible alternative to djbdns. I only know of PowerDNS, haven't had time to try it yet, what about the others? Bind is a non-starter for me, just like sendmail (but Postfix is ok).
Bind is evil, bind has the worst security track record except maybe for sendmail but that's not saying much.
I don't know much about the other options, I use djbdns, but PowerDNS looks fine.
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Dumb troll!
1. Live CD don't have scores of services running
2. Live CDs run off of CD-ROMs. Hence the name: Live CD. You know what's great about CD-ROMs? They're READ ONLY.
But then you might just want to install Linux instead.
I know, it's retarded, complain
there, I guess.
Doesn't that bother you that many times, and esp. so recently, the US is vetoing and voting with IsraÃl, while 180 other member countries, including at times even the 52nd state, UK, vote in the other direction?
All of them antisemites or something, I guess.
That's been the major WTF for quite a while, considering that Perl has been doing UTF-8, natively, for ever now. WTF WTF WTF WTF?
The UN is nothing but the sum of its members.
And the US have been largely responsible for castrating it. Look at the use of veto in the UNSC in the past 30 years. Even USSR did not fuck it up that much.