Why Troll. The article is serious and fits perfectly with common observations. It is the editorial comments that is something wrong with, but it is not a troll, it is very literal (-1 flamebait).
True. The only thing that could legally affect this case was if they had some common carrier laws, but AFAIK there are no specific laws like that, so you would have to argue that they are monopoly first because that holds them to a higher standard.
But I will still argue they are morally wrong, even if they are not legally wrong.
Are you familiar with the legislation regarding censorship in Denmark? It may be like "sexual assault" in Sweden.
You are not completely off. We just don't make it into laws in Denmark, but when US TV shows started being shown on Danish TV, worried parents called in and complained because of the beeps over offensive words. They argued that censorship is wrong and harmfull to children.
Then again. The racist party recently suggested in parliament that we should add topless girls to the citizenship test, apparently thinking that would scare off muslims.
No and yes. XFCE has none of those things. It is not a desktop/widget set like KDE and GNOME, and GNOME doesn't have akonadi resources, or ioslaves, because they refuse to use frameworks written in C++ and especially any framework written by anyone that has ever had anything to do with KDE. In stead they have different frameworks like Gnome-VFS, GStreamer or GTK file-dialogs, that sometimes does the same thing as KDE equivalents, and sometimes does something different
You are right that Sweden is a bit different on rape-charges, but what you have explained here is as far as I known only the law in Norway. And even though it is the codified law, the supreme court in Norway has refused to convict anyone based on it, due to lack of evidence. Essential the court has set a sensible minimum amount of proof that makes the application of the "involuntary rape"-law impossible (the involuntary rape thing is intended to mirror involuntary manslaughter)
Yes, it was unknown that the US considered small-pox vaccines and snake anti-venom critical. Especially because the US already has enough doses of small-pox vaccine to immunize the entire country, why do they need more? And what is up with the snakes thing?? Is the US state department really worried about snakes on planes?
Nothing in this list in unknown or surprising. The only surprising thing is how useless the report is. The purpose was to identify essential places, and in the end they just listed all places in the entire worlds that produce anything used in the US and with no sense of priority at all.
The leak is just as all the others: It is an embarrasment to the US. In this case by showing how useless they are at prioritizing.
According to his lawyer his whereabouts are wellknown to both Swedish and British police. The British has requested the Swedish prosecutor to stop dicking around and tell them what Assange is actually wanted for before handing him over (officially he is only wanted for questioning right now, and that is apparently not enough for the British to arrest him).
Except the SCOTUS already ruled that Guantanamo does not provide such a fig leaf.
Correct, but that is the current policy, which is not the same as the former policy. It was the former policy which lead to placing the prisoners in Guantanamo, because it was believed be beyond the reach of the US supreme court and the US constitution.
The leaks contain proofs of Danish and British war crimes.
The last leak contained the needed evidence. It assumed the new will also reveal more, but nothing on this has been reported yet.
Also, please remember the war crime commited by Danish and British soldiers is primarily: Handing over prisoners to foreign states that engage in the use of torture. Where the foreign state in question is the United States of America.
Let me repeat that: It is now considered a war crime to hand over enemies of the US to the US, because of the way the US treats them.
This is apparently a vote to ask the commission to clarify the consequences of the treaty. This is EU diplomatic talk for a vote to reject it. With this vote rejected, the treaty was not blocked or questioned by the EU parliament. It is the among Nay votes you have to look for your traitors. (this had me confused for some time too)
There's a long time between a four-foot sapling and a mighty Douglas Fir
Yeah, and you don't use fir for warships, you use oak, and that takes 300 years to mature. Western Europe was deforested to build navies, only fast-growing crap wood got to remain.
Which just makes them switch to a less poluting docking engine. It is easy to obey regulation when you are only using 1% of the ship's full engine-capacity.
Anyway, the question is also, if these diesel polutants are doing any damage on the deep seas. It is no CO2 we are talking about.
Most of those ships are not registered in the US or Europe or any 1st world country.
A good half of the largest container ships, including the largest are registered in Denmark. The real problem is that if Denmark makes their emmission standards any higher, they will seize to be registered there.
In other words the solution has to be international, and include restrictions for vessels registered in non-signatory countries.
Who do you think are the smartest: The homeless people trying to live their own lives with no rules, or the suburban family man? We may praise individuality as a society nowadays, but that is when it succedes, when it hurts your survival chances it is pretty dum. A pet cat, could be smart for just barely fitting in, but they wont make much of a career.
The systems I have encountered, both the local danish debit-cards, and the VISA card system, requires 3-digits beyond the card-number, and you can not transfer money from bank-account number, only from card-numbers + control numbers. Of course in the EU the banks are required by law to cover any fraud enabled by poor security.
Because it is a savings account? If they don't want to loan someone money they can just choose not to offer him or her a credit. A savings account doesn't have to have a credit, and modern debit cards can block transactions to ensure the savings account never goes into the red.
It really depends. Also on who "you" are. For instance an application could choose to ship with specific version of a library and then set shared-library path to local dir, or have a launcher that adds it to the ld_library_path. I don't think there is anything clueless about it. It is libraires installed by the user run under the user privileges. If anything has been injected there the user is already compromised. If the user is already compromised the virus or hacker could also have modified those start-up conditions just as well as he could have placed an extra library there.
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But that is a retarded rule. I can perfectly believe the jury find it hard to believe something that stupid is the actual law.
Why Troll. The article is serious and fits perfectly with common observations. It is the editorial comments that is something wrong with, but it is not a troll, it is very literal (-1 flamebait).
This is CERN, they have more grad students and grad-students applicants than they have hadrons. They are just trying to save money.
True. The only thing that could legally affect this case was if they had some common carrier laws, but AFAIK there are no specific laws like that, so you would have to argue that they are monopoly first because that holds them to a higher standard.
But I will still argue they are morally wrong, even if they are not legally wrong.
There is no US law forbidding that. If there was the editors and journalists of every mainsteam media in the US would be facing charges.
So repeat that: WikiLeaks is not doing anything criminal. They are just doing something the US doesn't like, but doesn't have the guts to forbid.
You are not completely off. We just don't make it into laws in Denmark, but when US TV shows started being shown on Danish TV, worried parents called in and complained because of the beeps over offensive words. They argued that censorship is wrong and harmfull to children.
Then again. The racist party recently suggested in parliament that we should add topless girls to the citizenship test, apparently thinking that would scare off muslims.
No and yes. XFCE has none of those things. It is not a desktop/widget set like KDE and GNOME, and GNOME doesn't have akonadi resources, or ioslaves, because they refuse to use frameworks written in C++ and especially any framework written by anyone that has ever had anything to do with KDE. In stead they have different frameworks like Gnome-VFS, GStreamer or GTK file-dialogs, that sometimes does the same thing as KDE equivalents, and sometimes does something different
You are right that Sweden is a bit different on rape-charges, but what you have explained here is as far as I known only the law in Norway. And even though it is the codified law, the supreme court in Norway has refused to convict anyone based on it, due to lack of evidence. Essential the court has set a sensible minimum amount of proof that makes the application of the "involuntary rape"-law impossible (the involuntary rape thing is intended to mirror involuntary manslaughter)
Yes, it was unknown that the US considered small-pox vaccines and snake anti-venom critical. Especially because the US already has enough doses of small-pox vaccine to immunize the entire country, why do they need more? And what is up with the snakes thing?? Is the US state department really worried about snakes on planes?
Nothing in this list in unknown or surprising. The only surprising thing is how useless the report is. The purpose was to identify essential places, and in the end they just listed all places in the entire worlds that produce anything used in the US and with no sense of priority at all.
The leak is just as all the others: It is an embarrasment to the US. In this case by showing how useless they are at prioritizing.
According to his lawyer his whereabouts are wellknown to both Swedish and British police. The British has requested the Swedish prosecutor to stop dicking around and tell them what Assange is actually wanted for before handing him over (officially he is only wanted for questioning right now, and that is apparently not enough for the British to arrest him).
It's both. The latest revelation was regarding iraqi forces, while it is well known that prisoners had been handed over to US troops.
Correct, but that is the current policy, which is not the same as the former policy. It was the former policy which lead to placing the prisoners in Guantanamo, because it was believed be beyond the reach of the US supreme court and the US constitution.
The last leak contained the needed evidence. It assumed the new will also reveal more, but nothing on this has been reported yet.
Also, please remember the war crime commited by Danish and British soldiers is primarily: Handing over prisoners to foreign states that engage in the use of torture. Where the foreign state in question is the United States of America.
Let me repeat that: It is now considered a war crime to hand over enemies of the US to the US, because of the way the US treats them.
This is apparently a vote to ask the commission to clarify the consequences of the treaty. This is EU diplomatic talk for a vote to reject it. With this vote rejected, the treaty was not blocked or questioned by the EU parliament. It is the among Nay votes you have to look for your traitors. (this had me confused for some time too)
Yeah, and you don't use fir for warships, you use oak, and that takes 300 years to mature. Western Europe was deforested to build navies, only fast-growing crap wood got to remain.
Which just makes them switch to a less poluting docking engine. It is easy to obey regulation when you are only using 1% of the ship's full engine-capacity.
Anyway, the question is also, if these diesel polutants are doing any damage on the deep seas. It is no CO2 we are talking about.
A good half of the largest container ships, including the largest are registered in Denmark. The real problem is that if Denmark makes their emmission standards any higher, they will seize to be registered there.
In other words the solution has to be international, and include restrictions for vessels registered in non-signatory countries.
Who do you think are the smartest: The homeless people trying to live their own lives with no rules, or the suburban family man? We may praise individuality as a society nowadays, but that is when it succedes, when it hurts your survival chances it is pretty dum. A pet cat, could be smart for just barely fitting in, but they wont make much of a career.
No, they don't.
The systems I have encountered, both the local danish debit-cards, and the VISA card system, requires 3-digits beyond the card-number, and you can not transfer money from bank-account number, only from card-numbers + control numbers. Of course in the EU the banks are required by law to cover any fraud enabled by poor security.
Because it is a savings account? If they don't want to loan someone money they can just choose not to offer him or her a credit. A savings account doesn't have to have a credit, and modern debit cards can block transactions to ensure the savings account never goes into the red.
Uhmm. It says so in the insurance policy. That is as authoritative as it gets.
Of course YOUR insurance policy could be different than everybody else, I just find it hard to believe.
It really depends. Also on who "you" are. For instance an application could choose to ship with specific version of a library and then set shared-library path to local dir, or have a launcher that adds it to the ld_library_path. I don't think there is anything clueless about it. It is libraires installed by the user run under the user privileges. If anything has been injected there the user is already compromised. If the user is already compromised the virus or hacker could also have modified those start-up conditions just as well as he could have placed an extra library there.
I think my computer just reached a load of 100.3
Browsing slashdot just fine. Back to watching fullscreen youtube videos... for science, of course!