Sigh, and who manages disputes in this 'distributed system'... which, by the way... it already is distributed. The root servers ARE scattered all over the world, and the US manages disputes for certain bits of it, bits that the US created and started I might add.
If you wanted to wake up and look at reality you'd realize that DNS is distributed from the very start, everyone controls his or her own little view of the world.
My DNS servers also say that 'hey, if you don't know anything about this name here, go ask these other guys, my peers if they know' or they say 'Ive been told that for unknown names, I should go ask *.root-servers.net, which I have been configured to accept as my central clearing how for locating unknown entities.
You guys with magnet links and DHT are cute, you think that these things remove the need for centralized services like TPB or DNS, yet you forget to realize that ALL OF THESE ALL RELY ON A CENTRAL CLEARING HOUSE FOR THE INITIAL DATA LOCATION.
Your BT client doesn't know about every torrent in the world that exists or will exist in the future, it has to ask others where to find new torrents... and guess how it does that... I'll give you a hint, its not distributed.
publish a signed record with the current location of your name server, using your public key as the DHT key
GOD THATS FREAKING BRILLIANT!?@!$!@$
Except, now how do I verify that the digital signature and public key I'm getting from you are actually from you and not just made up by someone else?
Who's going to be the clearing hows that provides me the evidence I need to verify that your key is actually your key? How am I supposed to know if you are really who you say you are, or if you've just generated your own key and named it like the person I'm actually trying to communicate with?
How do I verify the search engine isn't tricking me? What do I do the first time I go to sears.com? Do I hope I don't get the wrong hax0r using a man in the middle attack (since you have no third party to verify your signatures, they are effectively worthless since MitM attacks are trivial) and then forever think that fakesears is the real sears?
Perhaps it's time to move away from total dependence on domain names. Their value comes inherently from qualities that invite dispute.
Actually you have that pretty much 100% backwards. The domain name system gives you a way to resolve disputes about who is who because there are a known set of rules governing the way names are assigned and a management authority seeing that everyone more or less plays by those rules.
Yes, dispute happens, but domain name management allows for SOME SORT of resolution to that dispute. Its not going to result in everyone being happy, and neither is anything you're going to come up with either because there will always be conflicts of interest and different personal preferences.
The problem you and people like you have is that you think because you don't get your way ALL THE TIME, then you should do it your own way, which is better, because everyone will be able to do whatever they personally want... You some how seem to not understand that some people want to do bad things to other people and no system you create is going to change that.
The root servers are dispersed across the world already, they just all willingly accept what ICANN says as there does actually have to be someone to manage it and coordinate a common set of practices and rules so everyone can interoperate.
Anarchy (or decentralization as you guys here like to call it) doesn't work, when you get a bunch of people that have to work with each other you need a leader or arbiter or your not going to work together, you're all just going to do what you want for yourself and become separate networks, defeating the whole point of the INTERnet.
Your like one of those guys that rants and raves about how awesome hippie communes where 'everyone just gets along and respects each other'. You can talk about it all day in until you're blue in the face, but that won't make it any more likely to actually happen.
Name one international body that actually accomplishes things AND is less politically motivated than the US government. (Yes, I realize the government is only politically motivated).
Reality dictates that whoever controls it will use it to empower themselves, regardless of who that is. Its kind of dumb to give that up to someone else for no reason.
What you speak of is a fantasy, just like the idea of a functioning pure democratic/communist/socialist government. All are GREAT in theory for various reasons and utterly fail when implemented by humans.
Originally the US domain was.us, but bush and crew in a burst of egoitistic insanity usurped the international domain.gov and.mil,
Really? There are RFCs that were written probably before you had ever used the Internet that say something differently, but you go a head and tell us how it was all supposed to work.
64 bit x86 processors have a lot of registers? Since when? Compared to what?
x86 has always been register hindered, between the lack of registers and lack of orthagonality (not sure if thats actually a word, but you should get the point) makes working with the x86 processor at an assembly level so painful that I personally would rather start from scratch with pretty much any other processor on the planet than deal with x86 assembly.
Contrary to popular ignorance, x86_64 just added more registers with the same retarded issues as before, but it STILL ISN'T anywhere near even some simple 8bit CPUs I work with.
Second, there are multiple calling conventions, there may be one that GCC uses as a default type, but there are 4 different call types used, and 1 of them would result in neither arguments being stored in registers. Internally for non-exported functions a good compiler (I doubt GCC does it) will use the fastest convention internally that suits it AND the code around it.
As far as how common that sequence is, well, I think you might want to go look at your favorite OSes assembly code and come back with corrected details.
No, not really. It could result in 2.00000001 as the result, thats the way floating point works. Its different depending on each IMPLEMENTATION. AMD cpu's don't even return the same results as intel CPUs. Two different Intel model lines (pentium versus core2 for instance) may not even produce the same results.
1.0 - 1.0 != 0.0 in floating point in almost any CPU I've ever worked on.
Ever hear about those people who stream a movie while sitting near the border, then get a $40,000 bill because they happened to connect to a tower on the wrong side and just ate 4GB at international rates?
Generally, no, you don't. You don't hear those stories because its turned off by default with AT&T. The only way you get a big roaming charge is that you call AT&T and specifically tell them to enable international roaming on your account, THEN you can roam on those towers. If you bothered to call AT&T to enable International roaming, and then you sit in Laredo using a cell tower on the other side of the river then you really can't blame it on anyone but yourself, you know?
AT&T also does account alerts, but they charge you for the privilege of doing so which is complete BS in my opinion.
The problem is that they are selling 'XXXMB/s service' with 'unlimited usage', which to most sane people translates to being allowed to use the service to its full extent during that period of time. If they can't get XXXMB/s at any given point in time then they were not sold that level of service.
The throttling isn't the issue, its the bait and switch. They make to different claims and pretend they are in relation to each other.
The sell you 'XXXMB/s of service burstable with no promises' and 'Unlimited usage of some lower amount of that they dont' specify anywhere in any concrete form.
They imply one thing and do something completely different and dishonest. They added artificial limits after the fact because they didn't build out so they could actually provide what they originally promised.
Contrary to what you learned from CSI, Miranda rights are not 'required to be read' to you. Its more of a curtesy for the ignorant. At no point are you actually LEGALLY free to say things and not have them used against you.
You may be able to work out a deal with the cops or the DA or something in order to get something you said ignored, but that has nothing to do with the actual law.
Its a law designed to prevent me from recording you without your permission. Its written to prevent citizens from recording other citizens without permission, what happened however is that the cops tried to claim that it was illegal to record them because they are also citizens. While this is true, when operating in the capacity of a public servant, some exceptions must be made to protect the public from abuse.
This is simply a case of the police manipulating a law intended to protect you, that was poorly written (well, they found an obvious loophole at the least) and taken advantage of by corrupt police.
If you actually look at the court case, the judge also really doesn't have a problem with the spirit of the law, its just implemented and used in a way that he feels isn't allowed for.
When Obama said bin laden was dead, was that a leak? When the media reports who won an election, is that a leak of private voter information?
Point to remember: A leak is when information thats supposed to be secret is let out into the world and given to people that aren't supposed to have it.
I mean its not like anyone in the legal community would have thought for a second that there WASN'T a sealed indictment for SOMETHING against him. This is standard operating procedure. Show me an indictment that ISN'T sealed before it gets processed. They all are so that some random person can't get into public court documents and figure out whats going before the coppers spring their trap.
Its kind of silly to think that they were trying to keep the indictment's existence secret since everyone thinks the US was going after him anyway, so they didn't really 'leak' that info, prosecutors could have simply discussed the indictment during operations for normal investigations. I don't see anyone talking about whats actually on the indictment, just typical Wikileaks/Assange bullshitting that they will leak some big shocker soon... so we can all be let down again by the amazing amount of non-information they seem to be so good at leaking.
So now that we're not being a raving nutter, lets look at this... So we have a prosecutor who works with Burton/Stratfor and so Burton is aware of some of the internals of the case, and he made a public statement to the MEDIA about the existence of a rumored document that pretty much everyone already knew existed. At no point did any actual information that wasn't already more or less public knowledge escape the company, further more, they 'leak' was made by an agent of the prosecutor, and probably not required to hold that particular bit of information back from the public (the existance of the document).
Whats on the document being leaked would be a pretty clear violation... ASSUMING that the right people don't want that information out. Remember, people can change their minds and what was previously secret is no longer, still have no evidence of either.
We haven't seen whats on the document though... just some attention whores telling us we're going to get more soon and that it'll be ground breaking or whatever they're calling it this week.
If you show up for the hearing, yes. Assange chose not to show up for the court date (as most people would do if they weren't in the US, aren't US citizens and really don't ever plan to visit the US) then the other side in many cases will pretty much get anything they want. Of course if you call the court house or have a lawyer show up and say 'I'm sorry, that person can't be here, they are in the hospital' or some other legit excuse, they'll reschedule the hearing for a reasonable amount of time (indefinately in some cases, if it looks like your going to die, they may just wait it out and never go anywhere).
In a no show case though, you loose as long as the court believes you actively made the choice to not be there.
The constitutional definition of treason continues to state: "No Person shall be convicted of T
I'm pretty sure the men who wrote that didn't think they would have videos of the people being charged openly admitting the charges and encouraging others to do so.
They guy made fucking recruiting videos to recruit fundamentalists into killing Americans.
He made his court appearance in a video he put on the internet, just like bin laden. In that court appearance his statement was clear, not only is he guilty of conspiracy against the US (multiple forms) he's stating that he intends to do it again and bring more people into it.
And what would you expect in the court case? What happens when the son of a bitch gets off on a technicality?
As a citizen, if you don't want the US government to blow you up with a maverick missle from a drone... then you should probably not hang out in a country we're fighting a war in... working for the enemy... making training and recruiting videos for them. It really is TRIVIAL to avoid being blown up with a missle from a US warship. He pretty much got what he deserved. He wasn't some random citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time doing nothing wrong. He was a bragging terrorist, by his own admission.
Well, the sad thing is that when US citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed with a missile without the slightest pretense of judicial due process, most polls suggested that about 65% of Americans approved, including substantial majorities of self-identified Democrats and self-identified Republicans.
His parents live in the same town as I do. His parents don't even really feel all that wrong about it if you want to tell the truth, not that they wanted to lose their child, they most certainly wanted him to come home, and they put effort into getting him to do so. I feel sorry for their loss, but not the loss of him. Laws are made to make sure justice is done, sometimes they are broken for bad reasons. Sometimes they are broken for acceptable reasons.
When the majority of the population AGREE on the issue, its not because they don't care, its because they AGREE with the action taken, even if it wasn't 'by the book' because most sane rational people are fully aware that just like politicians can subvert the law for bad... it can also be used by criminals to avoid punishment... and sometimes, we don't really need all that much of a trial when the guy publicly comes out and talks about wanting to kill Americans.
You'll be REALLY hard pressed to find an American who would mind lobbing missles at MANY bad American citizens without a trial. Madoff is one shining example where hardly anyone in America would say a whole lot about him being blown up in a spectacular way, the ones that are complaining are only doing so because it was far too quick and he should have been made to suffer.
NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD DESERVE LIFE, some people have in fact lost that right and yes, we have determined they have lost that right without a trial because they don't want a trial, they want to take other lives and thats not speculation, those were words coming out of his mouth in videos he made to recruit others.
There are times when a trial simply isn't needed, this is one of those times, but don't let the facts of the mans life get in your way.
Their pissed off that a fugitive isn't being brought back. The Swedish police said 'stick around, we have more questions' Assange said 'okay, officer, be right here' the officers left, he grabbed his shit and jumped on a jet out of the country as absolutely quick as he could.
He's a fugitive who ran from the law for crimes he was guilty of I'm sure simply by they attention whoring that he does. You live in some silly little world where this guy can do no wrong, and you're missing the fact that he is continually doing things amoral and flat out wrong, he just has one claim to fame... again where he was conning people and manipulating them and lying about the truth and it wreaks of lies and political agenda.
Assange is worse than the people he claims he's outing. Cut from the exact same cloth.
Even if the data was given to him without him asking, he is not in the clear.
He is still 100% guilty of espionage (technically its subversion, but the point and result is the same, its just a matter of if you're attacking your government or someone elses). He knew EXACTLY what he had and his actions afterwords make him guilty. I'm an accessory to murder simply by knowing it happened and not reporting it. This is no different. Someone facilitating criminal activity, knowingly, regardless of crime is a conspirator, and conspiracy to a crime is pretty much illegal everywhere.
I'd like to point out that while in the case of the pentagon papers, the Times didn't lose and result in a criminal conviction, however the closing statements by the court made it VERY clear that the reason the times weren't being held accountable is not because they did not commit espionage and that in fact they could VERY EASILY by brought up again on those charges and the tone made it pretty clear the court would find them guilty.
Finally...
He is the figure head of an organization KNOWN TO SOLICIT SUCH MATERIAL FROM OTHERS ON THEIR VERY PUBLIC WEBSITE. So... he asked for it, the rest is irrelevant anyway and goes back to your point, they have plenty to charge him with 100% legally.
Again, you do not listen. Not everything is classified. Not EVEN FUCKING CLOSE. There are also ways around the fact that they are classified. And you can also look and VOTE (I realize you probably have no fucking clue what voiting is, look it up) on the people who DECIDE what qualifies as classified.
If you think everything is classified, you're just too ignorant to be part of this discussion.
You do realize ANY TIME you use TPB as a 'oh those evil bastards shut it down' you make it completely clear that you are an idiotic pirate too stupid to realize what TPB is doing is utterly and completely criminal.
The whole point of TPBs existance is to facilitate transfer of illegally obtained material. If you try to argue that point with me, again, you'll just be making it clear to everyone that you're a moron completely out of touch with reality and no one of any consequence will ever take you seriously.
Now lets go over your points:
1) Every country on the planet is exactly the same. If you think some countries 'dont watch internet traffic for intelligence' your just stupid. I'm not trying to be a dick, but really, if you think this is unique to Sweden due to the US, you are truely an idiotic individual with no grasp on how the world works at all. There to date has been no evidence anywhere that there is anything wrong with Swedens justice system. Your entire argument for that is based on this silly notion that Sweden wants to send Assange to the US... when we could just get him from britain tomorrow by simply saying 'we'd like him on this flight please'. Britian is more or less our wife right now. This is just him being an attention whore and morons like yourself being taken advantage of and believing him.
2) See original statement and I highly suggest you stop using this as a reference, you just obliterate your credibility. Its like the KGB coming out to defend the CIA assassinating people for entertainment purposes only. The Pirate Bay is not some fucking utopian ideal where information wants to be free, its a bunch of fucking thieves and criminals doing everything they can to spit in the face of people producing various works. When you take something without permission, its theft. You can justify it to yourself all day long, but your not stealing medicine and food and other REQUIREMENTS FOR LIFE, your stealing optional entertainment, and ironically, you'll steal it and say theres nothing wrong with that because you never would have paid for the content anyway, its too expensive... but then you'll go spend 3k of mommy and daddies money on an Alienware machine to play the games you stole on. Does that about sum you up there kid?
3) I don't have any Karma left to burn, but this needs to be said again anyway. PULL YOUR FUCKING HEAD OUT OF HIS ASS AND TAKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.
It wouldn't be, Assange just as a rather large cult following of people who worship him like a god and ignore common sense and reality.
Reality says if the US wanted to solve the Assange problem, he would have been found dead in an alley before you knew his name. The only intelligence force in the world that works better is Isreal and thats just because they aren't silly enough to pretend that sometimes its okay to kill people but other times its not depending on how some arbitrary person feels that day.
If at any point the US was actually concerned with Assange he would have been dead. Even if they missed him BEFORE he got popular, which would be rather hard considering he's always been a loud mouth blow hard so I'm sure they were aware of him (hell, I was), he simply would disappear from Britian... FAR FASTER than Sweden. I mean seriously, Britian will stand by us and hand us smokes to torture people with and yet people seriously think they wouldn't turn him over to us in a heart beat if it was asked, but sweden... on the other hand, which has told the US to go fuck themselves on numerous occasions... they are going to turn him over to us. That makes complete and total sense.
Until you take of your blinders and realize Assange is nothing more than a loud mouth attention whore who shot himself in the foot with the Colatteral Murder video that proved to the entire world that he cared nothing about truth and everything about propping up his own personal agenda. Actually, I guess some morons still don't get it and actually think that he's not a douche bag, but outside of slashdot thats pretty much unheard of by educated, intelligent people.
The only people who think the Swedish case has anything to do with America are people who are too blinded by their worship of him that they can't realize how much they've been conned. Its very sad.
The.torrent file of this data is useless, it just tells you someplace to go ask who else has data about this file.
You want the actual data, not the torrent file.
Second, if the US actually cared about Assange, he would have been dead before you knew his name. We're rather good at dealing with people like him in advance of public issues and its not like Assange came out of know where and surprised them. Wikileaks wasn't exactly new.
They don't have anything to leak, thats why the don't leak it. Its not because you downloaded some encrypted file (which btw, has been decrypted for a rather long time and contains nothing unknown at this point so your torrent has been worthless for months) from some random website that is keeping him alive.
The fact that he hasn't actually done anything of consequence and doesn't have any information of consequence is why he's still alive. He's made an ass of himself at every turn and the only people that still follow him are delusional. The US has no reason to disappear Assange, he's enough of a douche that they can do it in public and he'll hang himself on public opinion without any effort from them.
You've been duped, you just haven't recognized it yet.
That was the commercial I remember for several years.
Its not always about making cutting edge front page news break throughs, sometimes its just about refining something until its just right after someone else made the break through and then forgot about it because they moved on to the next shiny thing.
Both kinds of people/businesses are useful and needed, well atleast until this utopian dream you have becomes reality and everyone works for the common good anyway.
And that is different than the way its always been how?
People weren't search for your extension before because they didn't know about it, guess what.. if you hosted it yourself today, its the same problem.
The app store doesn't hurt you, it helps, it gives you a place to be found.
Do you think you'd have better luck selling your farm grown veggies on your own farm... or at the farmers market?
The only people that are going to COME FIND YOUR APP on YOUR WEBSITE are people who already know and want your product. By not being in an AppStore you just cut yourself out of free advertising and product placement.
The only people that make comments like yours are people who have never actually sold or had a successful software product in their lives.
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Sigh, and who manages disputes in this 'distributed system' ... which, by the way ... it already is distributed. The root servers ARE scattered all over the world, and the US manages disputes for certain bits of it, bits that the US created and started I might add.
If you wanted to wake up and look at reality you'd realize that DNS is distributed from the very start, everyone controls his or her own little view of the world.
My DNS servers also say that 'hey, if you don't know anything about this name here, go ask these other guys, my peers if they know' or they say 'Ive been told that for unknown names, I should go ask *.root-servers.net, which I have been configured to accept as my central clearing how for locating unknown entities.
You guys with magnet links and DHT are cute, you think that these things remove the need for centralized services like TPB or DNS, yet you forget to realize that ALL OF THESE ALL RELY ON A CENTRAL CLEARING HOUSE FOR THE INITIAL DATA LOCATION.
Your BT client doesn't know about every torrent in the world that exists or will exist in the future, it has to ask others where to find new torrents ... and guess how it does that ... I'll give you a hint, its not distributed.
publish a signed record with the current location of your name server, using your public key as the DHT key
GOD THATS FREAKING BRILLIANT!?@!$!@$
Except, now how do I verify that the digital signature and public key I'm getting from you are actually from you and not just made up by someone else?
Who's going to be the clearing hows that provides me the evidence I need to verify that your key is actually your key? How am I supposed to know if you are really who you say you are, or if you've just generated your own key and named it like the person I'm actually trying to communicate with?
How do I verify the search engine isn't tricking me? What do I do the first time I go to sears.com? Do I hope I don't get the wrong hax0r using a man in the middle attack (since you have no third party to verify your signatures, they are effectively worthless since MitM attacks are trivial) and then forever think that fakesears is the real sears?
Perhaps it's time to move away from total dependence on domain names. Their value comes inherently from qualities that invite dispute.
Actually you have that pretty much 100% backwards. The domain name system gives you a way to resolve disputes about who is who because there are a known set of rules governing the way names are assigned and a management authority seeing that everyone more or less plays by those rules.
Yes, dispute happens, but domain name management allows for SOME SORT of resolution to that dispute. Its not going to result in everyone being happy, and neither is anything you're going to come up with either because there will always be conflicts of interest and different personal preferences.
The problem you and people like you have is that you think because you don't get your way ALL THE TIME, then you should do it your own way, which is better, because everyone will be able to do whatever they personally want ... You some how seem to not understand that some people want to do bad things to other people and no system you create is going to change that.
So you mean, kind of like it is now?
The root servers are dispersed across the world already, they just all willingly accept what ICANN says as there does actually have to be someone to manage it and coordinate a common set of practices and rules so everyone can interoperate.
Anarchy (or decentralization as you guys here like to call it) doesn't work, when you get a bunch of people that have to work with each other you need a leader or arbiter or your not going to work together, you're all just going to do what you want for yourself and become separate networks, defeating the whole point of the INTERnet.
Your like one of those guys that rants and raves about how awesome hippie communes where 'everyone just gets along and respects each other'. You can talk about it all day in until you're blue in the face, but that won't make it any more likely to actually happen.
You're so hopeful that its cute.
Name one international body that actually accomplishes things AND is less politically motivated than the US government. (Yes, I realize the government is only politically motivated).
Reality dictates that whoever controls it will use it to empower themselves, regardless of who that is. Its kind of dumb to give that up to someone else for no reason.
What you speak of is a fantasy, just like the idea of a functioning pure democratic/communist/socialist government. All are GREAT in theory for various reasons and utterly fail when implemented by humans.
Originally the US domain was .us, but bush and crew in a burst of egoitistic insanity usurped the international domain .gov and .mil,
Really? There are RFCs that were written probably before you had ever used the Internet that say something differently, but you go a head and tell us how it was all supposed to work.
especially with 256-byte and 4096-byte competitions, but that is exclusively an academic exercise.
Naw, at those sizes, its not about the academic exercise anymore, its just pure art at this point.
I mean the code itself, not the output, but doing anything particularly impressive in those limits makes it art to me.
64 bit x86 processors have a lot of registers? Since when? Compared to what?
x86 has always been register hindered, between the lack of registers and lack of orthagonality (not sure if thats actually a word, but you should get the point) makes working with the x86 processor at an assembly level so painful that I personally would rather start from scratch with pretty much any other processor on the planet than deal with x86 assembly.
Contrary to popular ignorance, x86_64 just added more registers with the same retarded issues as before, but it STILL ISN'T anywhere near even some simple 8bit CPUs I work with.
Second, there are multiple calling conventions, there may be one that GCC uses as a default type, but there are 4 different call types used, and 1 of them would result in neither arguments being stored in registers. Internally for non-exported functions a good compiler (I doubt GCC does it) will use the fastest convention internally that suits it AND the code around it.
As far as how common that sequence is, well, I think you might want to go look at your favorite OSes assembly code and come back with corrected details.
No, not really. It could result in 2.00000001 as the result, thats the way floating point works. Its different depending on each IMPLEMENTATION. AMD cpu's don't even return the same results as intel CPUs. Two different Intel model lines (pentium versus core2 for instance) may not even produce the same results.
1.0 - 1.0 != 0.0 in floating point in almost any CPU I've ever worked on.
Ever hear about those people who stream a movie while sitting near the border, then get a $40,000 bill because they happened to connect to a tower on the wrong side and just ate 4GB at international rates?
Generally, no, you don't. You don't hear those stories because its turned off by default with AT&T. The only way you get a big roaming charge is that you call AT&T and specifically tell them to enable international roaming on your account, THEN you can roam on those towers. If you bothered to call AT&T to enable International roaming, and then you sit in Laredo using a cell tower on the other side of the river then you really can't blame it on anyone but yourself, you know?
AT&T also does account alerts, but they charge you for the privilege of doing so which is complete BS in my opinion.
The problem is that they are selling 'XXXMB/s service' with 'unlimited usage', which to most sane people translates to being allowed to use the service to its full extent during that period of time. If they can't get XXXMB/s at any given point in time then they were not sold that level of service.
The throttling isn't the issue, its the bait and switch. They make to different claims and pretend they are in relation to each other.
The sell you 'XXXMB/s of service burstable with no promises' and 'Unlimited usage of some lower amount of that they dont' specify anywhere in any concrete form.
They imply one thing and do something completely different and dishonest. They added artificial limits after the fact because they didn't build out so they could actually provide what they originally promised.
Contrary to what you learned from CSI, Miranda rights are not 'required to be read' to you. Its more of a curtesy for the ignorant. At no point are you actually LEGALLY free to say things and not have them used against you.
You may be able to work out a deal with the cops or the DA or something in order to get something you said ignored, but that has nothing to do with the actual law.
Its a law designed to prevent me from recording you without your permission. Its written to prevent citizens from recording other citizens without permission, what happened however is that the cops tried to claim that it was illegal to record them because they are also citizens. While this is true, when operating in the capacity of a public servant, some exceptions must be made to protect the public from abuse.
This is simply a case of the police manipulating a law intended to protect you, that was poorly written (well, they found an obvious loophole at the least) and taken advantage of by corrupt police.
If you actually look at the court case, the judge also really doesn't have a problem with the spirit of the law, its just implemented and used in a way that he feels isn't allowed for.
Might want to get a browser that functions properly, I just right click and open in tab/window.
What do you qualify as a leak?
When Obama said bin laden was dead, was that a leak? When the media reports who won an election, is that a leak of private voter information?
Point to remember: A leak is when information thats supposed to be secret is let out into the world and given to people that aren't supposed to have it.
I mean its not like anyone in the legal community would have thought for a second that there WASN'T a sealed indictment for SOMETHING against him. This is standard operating procedure. Show me an indictment that ISN'T sealed before it gets processed. They all are so that some random person can't get into public court documents and figure out whats going before the coppers spring their trap.
Its kind of silly to think that they were trying to keep the indictment's existence secret since everyone thinks the US was going after him anyway, so they didn't really 'leak' that info, prosecutors could have simply discussed the indictment during operations for normal investigations. I don't see anyone talking about whats actually on the indictment, just typical Wikileaks/Assange bullshitting that they will leak some big shocker soon ... so we can all be let down again by the amazing amount of non-information they seem to be so good at leaking.
So now that we're not being a raving nutter, lets look at this ... So we have a prosecutor who works with Burton/Stratfor and so Burton is aware of some of the internals of the case, and he made a public statement to the MEDIA about the existence of a rumored document that pretty much everyone already knew existed. At no point did any actual information that wasn't already more or less public knowledge escape the company, further more, they 'leak' was made by an agent of the prosecutor, and probably not required to hold that particular bit of information back from the public (the existance of the document).
Whats on the document being leaked would be a pretty clear violation ... ASSUMING that the right people don't want that information out. Remember, people can change their minds and what was previously secret is no longer, still have no evidence of either.
We haven't seen whats on the document though ... just some attention whores telling us we're going to get more soon and that it'll be ground breaking or whatever they're calling it this week.
If you show up for the hearing, yes. Assange chose not to show up for the court date (as most people would do if they weren't in the US, aren't US citizens and really don't ever plan to visit the US) then the other side in many cases will pretty much get anything they want. Of course if you call the court house or have a lawyer show up and say 'I'm sorry, that person can't be here, they are in the hospital' or some other legit excuse, they'll reschedule the hearing for a reasonable amount of time (indefinately in some cases, if it looks like your going to die, they may just wait it out and never go anywhere).
In a no show case though, you loose as long as the court believes you actively made the choice to not be there.
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I'm pretty sure the men who wrote that didn't think they would have videos of the people being charged openly admitting the charges and encouraging others to do so.
They guy made fucking recruiting videos to recruit fundamentalists into killing Americans.
He made his court appearance in a video he put on the internet, just like bin laden. In that court appearance his statement was clear, not only is he guilty of conspiracy against the US (multiple forms) he's stating that he intends to do it again and bring more people into it.
And what would you expect in the court case? What happens when the son of a bitch gets off on a technicality?
As a citizen, if you don't want the US government to blow you up with a maverick missle from a drone ... then you should probably not hang out in a country we're fighting a war in ... working for the enemy ... making training and recruiting videos for them. It really is TRIVIAL to avoid being blown up with a missle from a US warship. He pretty much got what he deserved. He wasn't some random citizen in the wrong place at the wrong time doing nothing wrong. He was a bragging terrorist, by his own admission.
Well, the sad thing is that when US citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed with a missile without the slightest pretense of judicial due process, most polls suggested that about 65% of Americans approved, including substantial majorities of self-identified Democrats and self-identified Republicans.
His parents live in the same town as I do. His parents don't even really feel all that wrong about it if you want to tell the truth, not that they wanted to lose their child, they most certainly wanted him to come home, and they put effort into getting him to do so. I feel sorry for their loss, but not the loss of him. Laws are made to make sure justice is done, sometimes they are broken for bad reasons. Sometimes they are broken for acceptable reasons.
When the majority of the population AGREE on the issue, its not because they don't care, its because they AGREE with the action taken, even if it wasn't 'by the book' because most sane rational people are fully aware that just like politicians can subvert the law for bad ... it can also be used by criminals to avoid punishment ... and sometimes, we don't really need all that much of a trial when the guy publicly comes out and talks about wanting to kill Americans.
You'll be REALLY hard pressed to find an American who would mind lobbing missles at MANY bad American citizens without a trial. Madoff is one shining example where hardly anyone in America would say a whole lot about him being blown up in a spectacular way, the ones that are complaining are only doing so because it was far too quick and he should have been made to suffer.
NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD DESERVE LIFE, some people have in fact lost that right and yes, we have determined they have lost that right without a trial because they don't want a trial, they want to take other lives and thats not speculation, those were words coming out of his mouth in videos he made to recruit others.
There are times when a trial simply isn't needed, this is one of those times, but don't let the facts of the mans life get in your way.
They aren't pressing hard to ask a few questions.
Their pissed off that a fugitive isn't being brought back. The Swedish police said 'stick around, we have more questions' Assange said 'okay, officer, be right here' the officers left, he grabbed his shit and jumped on a jet out of the country as absolutely quick as he could.
He's a fugitive who ran from the law for crimes he was guilty of I'm sure simply by they attention whoring that he does. You live in some silly little world where this guy can do no wrong, and you're missing the fact that he is continually doing things amoral and flat out wrong, he just has one claim to fame ... again where he was conning people and manipulating them and lying about the truth and it wreaks of lies and political agenda.
Assange is worse than the people he claims he's outing. Cut from the exact same cloth.
Even if the data was given to him without him asking, he is not in the clear.
He is still 100% guilty of espionage (technically its subversion, but the point and result is the same, its just a matter of if you're attacking your government or someone elses). He knew EXACTLY what he had and his actions afterwords make him guilty. I'm an accessory to murder simply by knowing it happened and not reporting it. This is no different. Someone facilitating criminal activity, knowingly, regardless of crime is a conspirator, and conspiracy to a crime is pretty much illegal everywhere.
I'd like to point out that while in the case of the pentagon papers, the Times didn't lose and result in a criminal conviction, however the closing statements by the court made it VERY clear that the reason the times weren't being held accountable is not because they did not commit espionage and that in fact they could VERY EASILY by brought up again on those charges and the tone made it pretty clear the court would find them guilty.
Finally ...
He is the figure head of an organization KNOWN TO SOLICIT SUCH MATERIAL FROM OTHERS ON THEIR VERY PUBLIC WEBSITE. So ... he asked for it, the rest is irrelevant anyway and goes back to your point, they have plenty to charge him with 100% legally.
Again, you do not listen. Not everything is classified. Not EVEN FUCKING CLOSE. There are also ways around the fact that they are classified. And you can also look and VOTE (I realize you probably have no fucking clue what voiting is, look it up) on the people who DECIDE what qualifies as classified.
If you think everything is classified, you're just too ignorant to be part of this discussion.
You do realize ANY TIME you use TPB as a 'oh those evil bastards shut it down' you make it completely clear that you are an idiotic pirate too stupid to realize what TPB is doing is utterly and completely criminal.
The whole point of TPBs existance is to facilitate transfer of illegally obtained material. If you try to argue that point with me, again, you'll just be making it clear to everyone that you're a moron completely out of touch with reality and no one of any consequence will ever take you seriously.
Now lets go over your points:
1) Every country on the planet is exactly the same. If you think some countries 'dont watch internet traffic for intelligence' your just stupid. I'm not trying to be a dick, but really, if you think this is unique to Sweden due to the US, you are truely an idiotic individual with no grasp on how the world works at all. There to date has been no evidence anywhere that there is anything wrong with Swedens justice system. Your entire argument for that is based on this silly notion that Sweden wants to send Assange to the US ... when we could just get him from britain tomorrow by simply saying 'we'd like him on this flight please'. Britian is more or less our wife right now. This is just him being an attention whore and morons like yourself being taken advantage of and believing him.
2) See original statement and I highly suggest you stop using this as a reference, you just obliterate your credibility. Its like the KGB coming out to defend the CIA assassinating people for entertainment purposes only. The Pirate Bay is not some fucking utopian ideal where information wants to be free, its a bunch of fucking thieves and criminals doing everything they can to spit in the face of people producing various works. When you take something without permission, its theft. You can justify it to yourself all day long, but your not stealing medicine and food and other REQUIREMENTS FOR LIFE, your stealing optional entertainment, and ironically, you'll steal it and say theres nothing wrong with that because you never would have paid for the content anyway, its too expensive ... but then you'll go spend 3k of mommy and daddies money on an Alienware machine to play the games you stole on. Does that about sum you up there kid?
3) I don't have any Karma left to burn, but this needs to be said again anyway. PULL YOUR FUCKING HEAD OUT OF HIS ASS AND TAKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.
It wouldn't be, Assange just as a rather large cult following of people who worship him like a god and ignore common sense and reality.
Reality says if the US wanted to solve the Assange problem, he would have been found dead in an alley before you knew his name. The only intelligence force in the world that works better is Isreal and thats just because they aren't silly enough to pretend that sometimes its okay to kill people but other times its not depending on how some arbitrary person feels that day.
If at any point the US was actually concerned with Assange he would have been dead. Even if they missed him BEFORE he got popular, which would be rather hard considering he's always been a loud mouth blow hard so I'm sure they were aware of him (hell, I was), he simply would disappear from Britian ... FAR FASTER than Sweden. I mean seriously, Britian will stand by us and hand us smokes to torture people with and yet people seriously think they wouldn't turn him over to us in a heart beat if it was asked, but sweden ... on the other hand, which has told the US to go fuck themselves on numerous occasions ... they are going to turn him over to us. That makes complete and total sense.
Until you take of your blinders and realize Assange is nothing more than a loud mouth attention whore who shot himself in the foot with the Colatteral Murder video that proved to the entire world that he cared nothing about truth and everything about propping up his own personal agenda. Actually, I guess some morons still don't get it and actually think that he's not a douche bag, but outside of slashdot thats pretty much unheard of by educated, intelligent people.
The only people who think the Swedish case has anything to do with America are people who are too blinded by their worship of him that they can't realize how much they've been conned. Its very sad.
Too bad you don't understand technology.
The .torrent file of this data is useless, it just tells you someplace to go ask who else has data about this file.
You want the actual data, not the torrent file.
Second, if the US actually cared about Assange, he would have been dead before you knew his name. We're rather good at dealing with people like him in advance of public issues and its not like Assange came out of know where and surprised them. Wikileaks wasn't exactly new.
They don't have anything to leak, thats why the don't leak it. Its not because you downloaded some encrypted file (which btw, has been decrypted for a rather long time and contains nothing unknown at this point so your torrent has been worthless for months) from some random website that is keeping him alive.
The fact that he hasn't actually done anything of consequence and doesn't have any information of consequence is why he's still alive. He's made an ass of himself at every turn and the only people that still follow him are delusional. The US has no reason to disappear Assange, he's enough of a douche that they can do it in public and he'll hang himself on public opinion without any effort from them.
You've been duped, you just haven't recognized it yet.
That was the commercial I remember for several years.
Its not always about making cutting edge front page news break throughs, sometimes its just about refining something until its just right after someone else made the break through and then forgot about it because they moved on to the next shiny thing.
Both kinds of people/businesses are useful and needed, well atleast until this utopian dream you have becomes reality and everyone works for the common good anyway.
And that is different than the way its always been how?
People weren't search for your extension before because they didn't know about it, guess what .. if you hosted it yourself today, its the same problem.
The app store doesn't hurt you, it helps, it gives you a place to be found.
Do you think you'd have better luck selling your farm grown veggies on your own farm ... or at the farmers market?
The only people that are going to COME FIND YOUR APP on YOUR WEBSITE are people who already know and want your product. By not being in an AppStore you just cut yourself out of free advertising and product placement.
The only people that make comments like yours are people who have never actually sold or had a successful software product in their lives.