No more of a chance than when he *voluntarily* came to the UK to escape investigation elsewhere - he didn't suddenly become "under threat of extradition to the US" oddly enough until he lost all his appeals against extradition in the UK. Its no harder to extradite him to the US from the UK than it is from any other country, and yet he chose to come here voluntarily.
British Judges and several Assange supporters would disagree with you, as his bail backers lost their 300,000 GBP bail sureties (in total) when he skipped bail and took up residence in the embassy...
You do realise that the term "unwritten constitution" with regard to the UK refers specifically to the fact that there is no single document, right? Not that we don't have *any* constitution limiting the powers of Parliament and the sitting government.
We do have a constitution, its just one that is formed from many Acts of Parliament, judicial rulings and other sources - and many of its principles date back to the Magna Carta...
It wasn't one incident - the VSC was issued for Magnussen stopping on track, and then the full safety car was issued two laps later for Grosjean stopping in a worse position.
I've looked at Tomcat in the past and could never understand why anyone would want such an unwieldy piece of shit - sure,.Net has nothing like it (thank fuck), and as a result I prefer to use OWIN self hosting or Kestrel httpd (the.Net Core httpd by MS) for my web apps, and stick them behind a standard reverse proxy like Nginx or HAProxy so the heavy lifting is done by an app dedicated to it.
Lack of a "Tomcat" is not a negative., and you seem to be missing the massive nuget library which is mostly open source.Net tools, libraries and frameworks, so once again there doesn't seem to be an actual negative there, just a perceived one.
Back when Slashdot was at its peak, Microsoft took a regular beating here for its approach to no SA password on SQL Server new installs, and the subsequent attacks on public facing SQL Server instances as a result...
Today, pretty much no one here bats an eyelid at the fact that significant amounts of critical open source infrastructure projects are shipped in the same manner - mongo, redis, etcd, consul, MySQL etc etc etc.
Except its not getting further investigation, its getting "these women should see people being punished for the allegations against them" - its right there in the quote from the lawyer, "leading to a substantial number of incidents of alleged sexual harassment, and even several incidents of sexual assault, that often go unpunished."
Its the same issue - 238 complaints were made, therefore 238 complaints *have* to be acted upon regardless of evidence and damn you if you dismiss them.
237 complaints were dismissed - is there any evidence that they were incorrectly dismissed?
238 complaints is, based on Microsofts current employee count of around 124,000, one complaint per 521 employees. Over a 6 year period. While a zero rate would be nice, I don't think that's too bad either.
Plus we seem to be getting to that stage where some people consider allegations to be enough that action simply has to be taken, screw the investigation and screw the evidence. An allegation has been made, so punishment must be enacted.
While a world where women are considered a lesser species is certainly a world that needs to be eliminated, a world where mere allegations are enough is not the world we should be aiming to replace it with.
A good indication that the FH doesn't have much backing left internally at SpaceX is the fact that they have yet to develop a payload attach fitting which allows the Falcon Heavy to launch use its potential - at the moment, its using the same one as F9, which only offers slightly more capability than a F9 can handle.
To launch heavier stuff into orbit on a FH, they need a new PAF.
The laws in the third party country don't matter to the courts in the first party country - people here seem to be under the misconception that its otherwise...
The *only* thing MS can do to break the chain of authority between MS US and MS Ireland is to spin off MS Ireland into its own entirely separate company, with MS US holding no more than a minority share, having no say in how it runs its business etc. Anything less than waving goodbye to MS Ireland isnt good enough.
MS US haven't done that. They still own MS Ireland. They still have owners authority over MS Ireland. They can be ordered by a US court to do *anything* with regard to MS Ireland.
The fact that a US court order directed toward a US entity violates a foreign countries laws does not absolve the US entity from being obligated to fulfil that court order, or suffer consequences.
If MS US had no legal authority over MS Ireland, then this entire court case would have been over and dusted a decade ago - a company with no ownership rights, authority or interest in another company cannot be forced to make that other company do anything.
In this case, MS US owns MS Ireland. Legal authority exists as part of those ownership rights.
The US already requires foreign banks with bank accounts owned by US citizens to pass data to the IRS on that bank accounts usage. This has been the case for many years.
So its not absurd, and plenty of precedent already exists.
Why is it unlawful? Doesn't that claim mean a sovereign country is restricted from passing its own laws, on the basis that those laws are incompatible with another sovereign countries, even when no treaty between the two exists? I don't think *any* country is going to agree with you on that one...
People seem to be under the misconception that a company, entity or person can only ever be subject to a single judicial jurisdiction at any single point in time. Thats wrong - they can be subject to multiple judicial jurisdictions, and those jurisdictions dont have to be compatible.
US law applies to US citizens and companies, regardless of where the data or assets lie.
The recent windfall tax by Trump on companies overseas cash piles is a good precedent in this area.
People seem to be confused about the fact that one countries law does not have to be compatible with another countries law - in your case, a US judge can certainly order a US entity to do something which would violate another countries laws, and its up to the entity themselves to resolve that conflict.
Large transactions have to be reported by financial institutions anyway.
Large transactions can be split up into small transactions.
Let me introduce you to the concept of "structuring", which financial institutions in most western countries are required to raise a "Suspicious Activity Report" for (or the local equivalent), and can land you with criminal charges in the US under Title 31 Section 5324.
No. Please can we get away from the idea that a degree will solve everything - they don't.
I've worked with degree holders who couldnt string a sentence together - the fact that they had a degree didn't mean they could actually survive in the real world, it just showed that they could survive the academic world.
What we need is a populace with a good grounding in logical and critical thinking, literacy and numeracy and only then can we move forward with actual domain specific skills that can be learned during an apprenticeship.
I rarely use Facebook - I opened an account in 2007 and never used it, never posted etc. Since moving to a new country, I started using Facebook groups to access the local "buy and sell" markets. Jesus H Christ, I wasn't prepared for the dross I encountered.
Here on Slashdot, if you browse at above 1 or 2 then you generally get fairly decent literacy - decent spelling, good use of paragraphs and layout, sentences that are well developed.
I hate to sound elitist, but we are not the norm. The norm reads like it was written by 5 year olds. It was seriously shocking to see just how poor these posts on these groups were - and it never ends.
So no, we don't need degrees - IMHO most people wouldn't be able to achieve one because they don't have the basic literacy and numeracy skills they need in the first place, so thats what we need to pivot to.
As an aside, give out a chunk of money and a large proportion of the British public simply won't use it to improve themselves, or pay off debts or anything similar.
Several years ago the benefits system changed, and the change was designed to "empower" the benefits recipients - housing benefit no longer went directly to the landlord, it was paid to the benefit recipient so they could feel "in control".
Today, most private landlords won't take tenants who are reliant on housing benefits, because a huge proportion of those recipients simply stopped paying the rent - they got starry eyed with the numbers in their bank accounts and went and bought TVs, cigarettes and alcohol instead. They got into huge arrears, were evicted and the landlords never got their back rent paid, so nowadays anyone on housing benefit is pretty much excluded from the private market.
Or rather, someone did something deliberate which was stupid - such as using a non-human-grade product because it was cheaper than the human-grade one and burned someones scalp off.
That's the main reason things tend to end up licensed - illegal behavior on the part of the unlicensed actor.
Why have I been modded as a troll? Examples of both of these issues have been shown in the wild - Comcast has injected ads and other things into third party web pages before, and crypto miners have been included on pages via ads or third party scripts, so it's only a matter of time before they are injected directly.
So why the troll mod? Every site has something to lose - reputation and users. HTTPS prevents your ISP or VPN provider from doing this.
They might not care about https specifically, but when your site traffic drops off and users start to complain about the undue weight of ads or how your page slows their browser to a crawl, you might start investigating and seeing how third parties are injecting ads and crypto mining scripts into your page...
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No more of a chance than when he *voluntarily* came to the UK to escape investigation elsewhere - he didn't suddenly become "under threat of extradition to the US" oddly enough until he lost all his appeals against extradition in the UK. Its no harder to extradite him to the US from the UK than it is from any other country, and yet he chose to come here voluntarily.
British Judges and several Assange supporters would disagree with you, as his bail backers lost their 300,000 GBP bail sureties (in total) when he skipped bail and took up residence in the embassy...
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You do realise that the term "unwritten constitution" with regard to the UK refers specifically to the fact that there is no single document, right? Not that we don't have *any* constitution limiting the powers of Parliament and the sitting government.
We do have a constitution, its just one that is formed from many Acts of Parliament, judicial rulings and other sources - and many of its principles date back to the Magna Carta...
It wasn't one incident - the VSC was issued for Magnussen stopping on track, and then the full safety car was issued two laps later for Grosjean stopping in a worse position.
I keep seeing people bring this "shadow profile" thing up as if it's in some way bad...
I've looked at Tomcat in the past and could never understand why anyone would want such an unwieldy piece of shit - sure, .Net has nothing like it (thank fuck), and as a result I prefer to use OWIN self hosting or Kestrel httpd (the .Net Core httpd by MS) for my web apps, and stick them behind a standard reverse proxy like Nginx or HAProxy so the heavy lifting is done by an app dedicated to it.
Lack of a "Tomcat" is not a negative., and you seem to be missing the massive nuget library which is mostly open source .Net tools, libraries and frameworks, so once again there doesn't seem to be an actual negative there, just a perceived one.
Back when Slashdot was at its peak, Microsoft took a regular beating here for its approach to no SA password on SQL Server new installs, and the subsequent attacks on public facing SQL Server instances as a result...
Today, pretty much no one here bats an eyelid at the fact that significant amounts of critical open source infrastructure projects are shipped in the same manner - mongo, redis, etcd, consul, MySQL etc etc etc.
Google developed the Open Location Code in 2014, and it's been part of Google Maps since 2015...
Except its not getting further investigation, its getting "these women should see people being punished for the allegations against them" - its right there in the quote from the lawyer, "leading to a substantial number of incidents of alleged sexual harassment, and even several incidents of sexual assault, that often go unpunished."
Its the same issue - 238 complaints were made, therefore 238 complaints *have* to be acted upon regardless of evidence and damn you if you dismiss them.
237 complaints were dismissed - is there any evidence that they were incorrectly dismissed?
238 complaints is, based on Microsofts current employee count of around 124,000, one complaint per 521 employees. Over a 6 year period. While a zero rate would be nice, I don't think that's too bad either.
Plus we seem to be getting to that stage where some people consider allegations to be enough that action simply has to be taken, screw the investigation and screw the evidence. An allegation has been made, so punishment must be enacted.
While a world where women are considered a lesser species is certainly a world that needs to be eliminated, a world where mere allegations are enough is not the world we should be aiming to replace it with.
A good indication that the FH doesn't have much backing left internally at SpaceX is the fact that they have yet to develop a payload attach fitting which allows the Falcon Heavy to launch use its potential - at the moment, its using the same one as F9, which only offers slightly more capability than a F9 can handle.
To launch heavier stuff into orbit on a FH, they need a new PAF.
The laws in the third party country don't matter to the courts in the first party country - people here seem to be under the misconception that its otherwise...
The *only* thing MS can do to break the chain of authority between MS US and MS Ireland is to spin off MS Ireland into its own entirely separate company, with MS US holding no more than a minority share, having no say in how it runs its business etc. Anything less than waving goodbye to MS Ireland isnt good enough.
MS US haven't done that. They still own MS Ireland. They still have owners authority over MS Ireland. They can be ordered by a US court to do *anything* with regard to MS Ireland.
The fact that a US court order directed toward a US entity violates a foreign countries laws does not absolve the US entity from being obligated to fulfil that court order, or suffer consequences.
If MS US had no legal authority over MS Ireland, then this entire court case would have been over and dusted a decade ago - a company with no ownership rights, authority or interest in another company cannot be forced to make that other company do anything.
In this case, MS US owns MS Ireland. Legal authority exists as part of those ownership rights.
The US already requires foreign banks with bank accounts owned by US citizens to pass data to the IRS on that bank accounts usage. This has been the case for many years.
So its not absurd, and plenty of precedent already exists.
Why is it unlawful? Doesn't that claim mean a sovereign country is restricted from passing its own laws, on the basis that those laws are incompatible with another sovereign countries, even when no treaty between the two exists? I don't think *any* country is going to agree with you on that one...
A US court can still require a US entity to do something - regardless of the fact that it requires a subsidiary in another country to act.
Microsoft Europe is owned by Microsoft US.
People seem to be under the misconception that a company, entity or person can only ever be subject to a single judicial jurisdiction at any single point in time. Thats wrong - they can be subject to multiple judicial jurisdictions, and those jurisdictions dont have to be compatible.
US law applies to US citizens and companies, regardless of where the data or assets lie.
The recent windfall tax by Trump on companies overseas cash piles is a good precedent in this area.
People seem to be confused about the fact that one countries law does not have to be compatible with another countries law - in your case, a US judge can certainly order a US entity to do something which would violate another countries laws, and its up to the entity themselves to resolve that conflict.
Large transactions have to be reported by financial institutions anyway.
Large transactions can be split up into small transactions.
Let me introduce you to the concept of "structuring", which financial institutions in most western countries are required to raise a "Suspicious Activity Report" for (or the local equivalent), and can land you with criminal charges in the US under Title 31 Section 5324.
You haven't discovered the loophole.
No. Please can we get away from the idea that a degree will solve everything - they don't.
I've worked with degree holders who couldnt string a sentence together - the fact that they had a degree didn't mean they could actually survive in the real world, it just showed that they could survive the academic world.
What we need is a populace with a good grounding in logical and critical thinking, literacy and numeracy and only then can we move forward with actual domain specific skills that can be learned during an apprenticeship.
I rarely use Facebook - I opened an account in 2007 and never used it, never posted etc. Since moving to a new country, I started using Facebook groups to access the local "buy and sell" markets. Jesus H Christ, I wasn't prepared for the dross I encountered.
Here on Slashdot, if you browse at above 1 or 2 then you generally get fairly decent literacy - decent spelling, good use of paragraphs and layout, sentences that are well developed.
I hate to sound elitist, but we are not the norm. The norm reads like it was written by 5 year olds. It was seriously shocking to see just how poor these posts on these groups were - and it never ends.
So no, we don't need degrees - IMHO most people wouldn't be able to achieve one because they don't have the basic literacy and numeracy skills they need in the first place, so thats what we need to pivot to.
As an aside, give out a chunk of money and a large proportion of the British public simply won't use it to improve themselves, or pay off debts or anything similar.
Several years ago the benefits system changed, and the change was designed to "empower" the benefits recipients - housing benefit no longer went directly to the landlord, it was paid to the benefit recipient so they could feel "in control".
Today, most private landlords won't take tenants who are reliant on housing benefits, because a huge proportion of those recipients simply stopped paying the rent - they got starry eyed with the numbers in their bank accounts and went and bought TVs, cigarettes and alcohol instead. They got into huge arrears, were evicted and the landlords never got their back rent paid, so nowadays anyone on housing benefit is pretty much excluded from the private market.
Or rather, someone did something deliberate which was stupid - such as using a non-human-grade product because it was cheaper than the human-grade one and burned someones scalp off.
That's the main reason things tend to end up licensed - illegal behavior on the part of the unlicensed actor.
Yup, because distracted driving is something we should protect people for.
I hope the drivers in those situations got shat on and had their licenses taken away. They deserve harsh punishment, not protection.
Why have I been modded as a troll? Examples of both of these issues have been shown in the wild - Comcast has injected ads and other things into third party web pages before, and crypto miners have been included on pages via ads or third party scripts, so it's only a matter of time before they are injected directly.
So why the troll mod? Every site has something to lose - reputation and users. HTTPS prevents your ISP or VPN provider from doing this.
They might not care about https specifically, but when your site traffic drops off and users start to complain about the undue weight of ads or how your page slows their browser to a crawl, you might start investigating and seeing how third parties are injecting ads and crypto mining scripts into your page...
Every site has something to lose.