Google could also shoot themselves in the foot. Beside that, if Google loses the case in Germany then they have to filter for German users. This has no direct implication for the rest of the EU. It is like suing someone in Kansas, that has no direct effect on an US federal level or an (direct) effect on Canada.
Ob a side note: Misses Wulff just tries to promote her new book. So don't worry.
You should buy a book, about child development so you stop thinking about buying a computer for a kid. If your target is computer literacy, help him to develop a critical mind. That helps. Fiddling around with a computer doesn't. Help him to understand set theory in terms of generalization/specialization, sub sets etc. You may find them in any restaurant menu. However, do not force anything on him, as he will hate it afterwards. Therefore buy that book about child development and education.
One advice is: Let him play outside. Let him talk to other kids/people, that will help him more than sitting in front of a computer.
Send the kid out to play. Let it come home, covered in mud. Give him a bicycle, a bat, anything which will cause some exercise. For nerds: Send him to the blue room.
I am a good software developer and engineer, and I started with 14. Still I missed the thing with the girls, because of the little bleepy machine. But at least I know that there is an outside, where you can build things, run around and play out fantasies.
The is no such thing as a computer for a 7 year old.
You also have 10x more people who could count. Therefore, the size argument is a non issue. In Germany (60 mio) we can count the votes by hand (to be precise, we must count them by hand, all other methods have been judged to be intransparent and therefore not applicable to an election). And on European-elections (300 mio voters) we do the same in most countries. So it should be possible to do that in the US as well.
The problem of that, the show cannot be marketed that good by the media, if it takes that long. From a democratically point of view, this is a non issue. However, in a mediacracy country, like the US, the show is important not the results. You need a winner and a loser. And you need it fast. The drama is performed through the pre-election-campaigns with the selection of the candidates, where there is a winner and loser all the time. In the end one wins this phase (Mitt Romney) and is now ready to face to prime enemy (Barack Obama). They battle it out in the media. And at the top of the dramaturgy, there are the elections. They need an immediate winner. A winner one week later will produce a hole of one week. This not good for the story and it is not good for the show.
Therefore: Fast is better than right. (Not that I like that, they wanted to introduce those voting machines in my country too, the Supreme Court stopped that)
In Germany, we had a long discussion about voting machines in recent years. In the end the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Supreme Court) decided, that present voting machines are not able to provide the necessities for a democratic elections, as it has to be anonymous, equal, and verifiable by any person. A computer counting votes, does not allow any verification. A computer with a paper trail, is hard to evaluate, as the log must be visible to the voter and if there went something wrong it must be changeable. Even though, it must be ensured that the machine is not printing extra votes, which would require someone standing beside the machine all time. Therefore, they ruled them inadequate for any election in Germany.
Beside that, they are still able to present exit polls, right after closing of the polling stations, and the preliminary results, are presented on the same evening. This is fast enough for my taste. The verified result is presented some days later. But, all elections can be recounted at a later time, by anyone if he or she is not satisfied by the results.
If you think about what you eat, evaluate what you eat, and finally draw conclusions what to change to live healthier, then you have healthier food. The organic stuff has, depending on how organic the production is, various advantages beside direct healthiness of itself:
* First, there are no antibiotics or pesticides in it (beside those transferred by the wind or other sources of contamination. Actually they do not use these "ingredients" in production). This could be healthier (in a direct manner), but is definitely healthier in the long perspective, by reducing the risk of making bacteria resistant to antibiotics. This factor was not included in the study, because it is hard to measure.
* Second, organic food production does not consume that much oil and gas in production, therefor it is more sustainable.
* Third, when combined with local production/local use, it reduces transport cost and even keeps jobs local (when the processing is not outsourced to somewhere else, which would render the whole idea of organic food production useless)
* Fourth, when I look at the food sold in the supermarket (non organic stuff) with the stuff sold on the market (organic and/or regional stuff) then I will always choose the marketplace. So from my personal experience the product quality in the supermarket varies more than that on the market (in the sense of it can be much worse in the supermarket up to equal quality).
* Fifth, supermarkets throw away more food, the standardized food in supermarkets result in throwing away food before it hit the supermarket, which also increases the waste/food ratio. While on the market an apple, hit by a hailstone can be sold, an small apple can be sold, in a supermarket this is not possible.
So you can see there are plenty of reasons to go for organic food (if it is real organic food). Beside that, it is important that you inform yourself about how your food is produced and react on it in a way to improve the food you eat.
You still have to document what the purpose of the code is. Good identifiers, for example, are only helpful when they can be understood by another developer. Therefore you have to explain the domain these vocabulary comes from. In your example, it should be known to da developer, as command line arguments should be a known construct, as it is a technical term.
Beside that, comments should state what are the boundaries of your function. For example, what happens when it is called with null,null. And if it forces a state change. A good IDE will provide that information when asking for it. Instead of opening the code (which could be unavailable, as it is part of a library or developed somewhere else).
So clean code is a good thing (I would call it required), but it is not sufficient.
Many programmers do documenting as a last step, which leads to comments explaining what the code does. However, I do not need a comment explaining waht the code does. That's the code for. I need comments explaining why the code exists. The purpose must be documented. On a higher level I need documentation explaining why the problem X has been solved with solution Y and which other solutions have been considered, but not used.
When I have a class JvmTypeParameter and there is no documentation about the used vocabulary, I do not know what the purpose of a parameter is for a type. Jvm tells me, it is for Java of the Java virtual machine. I do know what a type is, however I do not know what the developer thought when he used that name. Therefore I do not know what a type is in this context and what he or she thought could be a parameter of a type.
The answer is, a JvmTypeParameter is a reference to another type or set of types used in Java generics. For example List the String is such a type parameter in the above example. To understand what it is, you need a lot of context knowledge and that is normally missing from code comments and in most cases also from the documentation.
We are all dependant to those oil countries. So that will make no difference here. However, the real problem is. Why should there be countries trustworthy enough to have uranium enrichment facilities while other are not. The Iran-problem ist only a problem from the western country view point. Obviously the Chinese do not see a problem in that, and they are normally planning ahead by decades not years, like western countries. So they do not consider an atomic equipped Iran as a problem to world safety, as they highly depend on that for their international endeavors. A distroyed Isreal would be real issue for the stability they need. Therefor, it is in their interest, that no war situation comes up in the so called Middle Eastm which disrupts business and therefor destabilizes China's interior economy and in consequence structure.
In the end this is a the West does not want to have some contries to have nuclear capabilities. And so they do not want to be western puppets. Therefor, they will not agree to it.
Well I started with one of those shiny home computers in the 1980's then I moved to a DOS machine. After a while, I wanted to use a multitasking OS. I tried Windows 3 for that. It sucked. It was like a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) task switcher, which I was able to write in Pascal on my own. In 1992 I bought a new computer at my visit to Canada. That machine had OS/2 on board and for the first time I had a really nice GUI and was able to run multiple DOS programs at once. Starting to go to university in 1993 I saw those fabulous DEC Ultrix and DEC OS/F machines. They had real operation systems on them. They got rid of those drive A: B: C: shit. And then there was this Linux thing suddenly on the computer science FTP server. So at night we formatted discs with DEC OS/F and put those Linux packages on them. Then we checked the discs and went home to install it. Doing all via modem would have been too expensive. Online time had to be payed (no flat rates in the Germany of 1994ff). So yes we started to use Linux almost from scratch. The first thing after installation was to compile the kernel (something I didn't do now for years) so that it fit my machine. On a 486 that took over night. And then again all the day until everything worked. And sometimes the discs didn't work so I had to go back and forth with other discs.
1998 we founded or participated in the founding of an Internet company, which provided dial-in services, web-sites etc. (you now like the company in User Friendly). And the servers run on Linux. So we learned a lot about firewalls (old and new), routing, web-servers, saw the rise of PHP, XML and then Java. And then we went bankrupt and I got back to university. CS labs at the university had switched from DECs machines to PCs and FreeBSD (because all the students have Linux at home, but no FreeBSD and therefor are not that good in finding holes in the system). In our project labs we used Linux again. The thing is, when you know one Unix you are quite comfortable on the other. It is not the same with Windows.
So the Russian secret service does the same shit companies do. they want to bend public opinion in their direction. However, normally (as in Western countries) governments do not need to do that, because the media is on their side (or to be more precise the government is on the side of the media). So the move in Russia indicates, that the mass population moves away from classic media as their source of information towards other platforms and therefore they have to control those too. So in short. They control the media (as like in a dictatorship) and now this Internet thing causes disruption. So they try to control it too.
What shall I say? I am not surprised. I am only surprised that it came out. But, I guess that does not hurt the endeavor.
As a free lancer I could choose private or public insurance. However, the public variant provides one plan. And you have to dependent to your income. The public plan includes automatically all your family members, as long as they do not have their own income. For any normal employee the cost is half because the other half has to be paid by the employer. The service, however, is the same. So normally you do not have to discuss the health care plan if you do not really, really have fun doing it.
If you life in the USA, the picture is quite different. Then you are doomed. Obamacare is only a weak little brother of European health care systems.
Honestly, I've seen many retail stores lately having fun with getting not a new phone. They all look like that. Beside, t-mobile is pink (magenta as they call it) and ohters are green or orange. Now when Samsung is blue then that fits that logic. Apple stores also look like any other store. They have this "We are sooo fancy" design. If they start fighting over shop design then they have become totally crazy. Oh wait...
You might be true. The thing is most people live a tedious life and they hate it. That has by the way nothing to do with the job or the spouse (or the absence of one), it is a state of mind. Most tech affine people have the chance to get out of the swamp if they really want to do it. However, instead of doing, most whine and dream about heroic fights (where they win in the end). The government is for many of them a mysterious organization (because they didn't follow school on those soft topics: politics, media, etc.) which is evil down to the bone. While the truth is, that people with better contacts can better propagate their wishes while the rest believes bullshit and therefore does not oppose it (or elect someone else).
Another important truth to the subject is: We are all far too insignificant that anyone would bother to follow us (beside on twitter) if we watch some nasty stuff which is not known by the rest. In most cases the nasty stuff is done in plain site.
If I witness a crime thingy committed by the government, which they did in some privacy, I would first collect some information/or skip that task) and tell it out loud to a journalist (public TV) and wait for the evening news. This will (in a paranoid scenario) move the hunt from me to the journalist and at the very time the information is in the office of the TV station the government is no longer able to get it removed. They could hack into it and disrupt the services, but that will come out (obviously public TV will go offline) and the aftermath would be disastrous. At least that would be the case in Germany, where I tend to live. On the other hand in Germany, the secret services are mostly harmless, and normally get caught by police or the press. So that would leave the police to do something nasty, which they do occasionally, which comes out every time (maybe with some delay) and has no real consequences. But if the government messes up, then that is in the news by the evening and afterwards the same people are elected. So why hunt anyone?
In the US. I would go to my embassy and let them do the talking.
Read more. When your intention is to read more books, you should do it. eBook-readers do not help with that. They make it only easier to carry more than one book around. But normally that is not necessary. If you by an ebook reader you may consider the following points:
* Can I move the eBooks to a different reader?
* Does it cooperate with my system?
* How many book sellers work with the device?
We are talking about the UK. Every time someone calls a country the most civilized something bad happens. So don't. And honestly I do not know how that metric looks like to determine the grade of civilization of a country.
Mrs. Clinton is the US minister for foreign affairs. The primary thing going on here is the UK doing something which violates international law. So it is really not about the US. On a side note. The US has not forced the UK the extradite Assange to the US, because they do not want to charge him (or are not able to).
It doesn't matter if the have a law fixed up in their own country to revoke the embassy status just like that. There are international treaties how we work with embassies and how to treat embassies and the diplomatic personnel. De jure Assange is in Ecuador and not in Great Britain.
To violate international treaties an cause that the trust in the UK gets minimized. Therefore it is not advisable to really do it. The move alone is enough damage to that trust.
On the side. I do not car about that Assange guy, who is just a popular figure and is highly overrated. Sweden is not some banana republic, so go there have a trial and if he violated Swedish law pay for it. It is not that Swedish prisons are like those shown in US movies, if he ever has to go there. Afterwards he can go back to Australia without any trouble.
When you design database schema, you need set theory, relations, cross product, etc. When you model and meta-model you need relations, sets, classes, rings and a lot of other math stuff you probably never had in a US high school. If you work on monitoring systems for performance or other properties, you need statistics, algebra, Markov chains, and more in that direction. You definitely need graph theory (to some degree). And for the software of the near future graph theory will become more important. When you analyse social networks, you need graph theory, set theory, and a lot to understand different types of filters. If you use logic, set theory is a logical choice. Also other concepts are required such as proof by induction and deduction.
You could say: computer science is a special section of applied mathematics.
If you model simulations, integral and differential equations are useful. When you develop domain-specific or other programming languages, APIs etc. you need formal languages, which require a lot of math as well. And actually when you are programming you use math as well, ypu just don't know it.
Recently, the German ministry for commerce, the ISPs and the content industry tried to negotiate a two strikes approach. The ISPs commissioned a report to evaluate if such agreement would be legal. The report states that such agreement would be unconstituional. And it would not make any difference if the commerical partners made an agreement or the state would make a law. The ministry of commerce thinks differently. However, the ministry of justice has similar doubts. As the report sees a direct violation of basic human rights in such an agreement, I wonder why such thing should be legal in the US. Even if European often think the US is some kind of banana republic, it is not true (at least not more true than for Europe as well). And basic consitutional things cannot be violated.
But maybe I am totally wrong with my assumption about the US. How would your legal system react to such an agreement or law?
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Google could also shoot themselves in the foot. Beside that, if Google loses the case in Germany then they have to filter for German users. This has no direct implication for the rest of the EU. It is like suing someone in Kansas, that has no direct effect on an US federal level or an (direct) effect on Canada.
Ob a side note: Misses Wulff just tries to promote her new book. So don't worry.
You should buy a book, about child development so you stop thinking about buying a computer for a kid. If your target is computer literacy, help him to develop a critical mind. That helps. Fiddling around with a computer doesn't. Help him to understand set theory in terms of generalization/specialization, sub sets etc. You may find them in any restaurant menu. However, do not force anything on him, as he will hate it afterwards. Therefore buy that book about child development and education.
One advice is: Let him play outside. Let him talk to other kids/people, that will help him more than sitting in front of a computer.
Send the kid out to play. Let it come home, covered in mud. Give him a bicycle, a bat, anything which will cause some exercise. For nerds: Send him to the blue room.
I am a good software developer and engineer, and I started with 14. Still I missed the thing with the girls, because of the little bleepy machine. But at least I know that there is an outside, where you can build things, run around and play out fantasies.
The is no such thing as a computer for a 7 year old.
You also have 10x more people who could count. Therefore, the size argument is a non issue. In Germany (60 mio) we can count the votes by hand (to be precise, we must count them by hand, all other methods have been judged to be intransparent and therefore not applicable to an election). And on European-elections (300 mio voters) we do the same in most countries. So it should be possible to do that in the US as well.
The problem of that, the show cannot be marketed that good by the media, if it takes that long. From a democratically point of view, this is a non issue. However, in a mediacracy country, like the US, the show is important not the results. You need a winner and a loser. And you need it fast. The drama is performed through the pre-election-campaigns with the selection of the candidates, where there is a winner and loser all the time. In the end one wins this phase (Mitt Romney) and is now ready to face to prime enemy (Barack Obama). They battle it out in the media. And at the top of the dramaturgy, there are the elections. They need an immediate winner. A winner one week later will produce a hole of one week. This not good for the story and it is not good for the show.
Therefore: Fast is better than right. (Not that I like that, they wanted to introduce those voting machines in my country too, the Supreme Court stopped that)
In Germany, we had a long discussion about voting machines in recent years. In the end the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Supreme Court) decided, that present voting machines are not able to provide the necessities for a democratic elections, as it has to be anonymous, equal, and verifiable by any person. A computer counting votes, does not allow any verification. A computer with a paper trail, is hard to evaluate, as the log must be visible to the voter and if there went something wrong it must be changeable. Even though, it must be ensured that the machine is not printing extra votes, which would require someone standing beside the machine all time. Therefore, they ruled them inadequate for any election in Germany.
Beside that, they are still able to present exit polls, right after closing of the polling stations, and the preliminary results, are presented on the same evening. This is fast enough for my taste. The verified result is presented some days later. But, all elections can be recounted at a later time, by anyone if he or she is not satisfied by the results.
If you think about what you eat, evaluate what you eat, and finally draw conclusions what to change to live healthier, then you have healthier food. The organic stuff has, depending on how organic the production is, various advantages beside direct healthiness of itself:
* First, there are no antibiotics or pesticides in it (beside those transferred by the wind or other sources of contamination. Actually they do not use these "ingredients" in production). This could be healthier (in a direct manner), but is definitely healthier in the long perspective, by reducing the risk of making bacteria resistant to antibiotics. This factor was not included in the study, because it is hard to measure.
* Second, organic food production does not consume that much oil and gas in production, therefor it is more sustainable.
* Third, when combined with local production/local use, it reduces transport cost and even keeps jobs local (when the processing is not outsourced to somewhere else, which would render the whole idea of organic food production useless)
* Fourth, when I look at the food sold in the supermarket (non organic stuff) with the stuff sold on the market (organic and/or regional stuff) then I will always choose the marketplace. So from my personal experience the product quality in the supermarket varies more than that on the market (in the sense of it can be much worse in the supermarket up to equal quality).
* Fifth, supermarkets throw away more food, the standardized food in supermarkets result in throwing away food before it hit the supermarket, which also increases the waste/food ratio. While on the market an apple, hit by a hailstone can be sold, an small apple can be sold, in a supermarket this is not possible.
So you can see there are plenty of reasons to go for organic food (if it is real organic food). Beside that, it is important that you inform yourself about how your food is produced and react on it in a way to improve the food you eat.
You still have to document what the purpose of the code is. Good identifiers, for example, are only helpful when they can be understood by another developer. Therefore you have to explain the domain these vocabulary comes from. In your example, it should be known to da developer, as command line arguments should be a known construct, as it is a technical term.
Beside that, comments should state what are the boundaries of your function. For example, what happens when it is called with null,null. And if it forces a state change. A good IDE will provide that information when asking for it. Instead of opening the code (which could be unavailable, as it is part of a library or developed somewhere else).
So clean code is a good thing (I would call it required), but it is not sufficient.
Many programmers do documenting as a last step, which leads to comments explaining what the code does. However, I do not need a comment explaining waht the code does. That's the code for. I need comments explaining why the code exists. The purpose must be documented. On a higher level I need documentation explaining why the problem X has been solved with solution Y and which other solutions have been considered, but not used.
When I have a class JvmTypeParameter and there is no documentation about the used vocabulary, I do not know what the purpose of a parameter is for a type. Jvm tells me, it is for Java of the Java virtual machine. I do know what a type is, however I do not know what the developer thought when he used that name. Therefore I do not know what a type is in this context and what he or she thought could be a parameter of a type.
The answer is, a JvmTypeParameter is a reference to another type or set of types used in Java generics. For example List the String is such a type parameter in the above example. To understand what it is, you need a lot of context knowledge and that is normally missing from code comments and in most cases also from the documentation.
It is one of those new measurement units, like football fields or bathtubs.
If you want this in Germany, you need to be part of an insurance company.
We are all dependant to those oil countries. So that will make no difference here. However, the real problem is. Why should there be countries trustworthy enough to have uranium enrichment facilities while other are not. The Iran-problem ist only a problem from the western country view point. Obviously the Chinese do not see a problem in that, and they are normally planning ahead by decades not years, like western countries. So they do not consider an atomic equipped Iran as a problem to world safety, as they highly depend on that for their international endeavors. A distroyed Isreal would be real issue for the stability they need. Therefor, it is in their interest, that no war situation comes up in the so called Middle Eastm which disrupts business and therefor destabilizes China's interior economy and in consequence structure.
In the end this is a the West does not want to have some contries to have nuclear capabilities. And so they do not want to be western puppets. Therefor, they will not agree to it.
Well I started with one of those shiny home computers in the 1980's then I moved to a DOS machine. After a while, I wanted to use a multitasking OS. I tried Windows 3 for that. It sucked. It was like a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) task switcher, which I was able to write in Pascal on my own. In 1992 I bought a new computer at my visit to Canada. That machine had OS/2 on board and for the first time I had a really nice GUI and was able to run multiple DOS programs at once. Starting to go to university in 1993 I saw those fabulous DEC Ultrix and DEC OS/F machines. They had real operation systems on them. They got rid of those drive A: B: C: shit. And then there was this Linux thing suddenly on the computer science FTP server. So at night we formatted discs with DEC OS/F and put those Linux packages on them. Then we checked the discs and went home to install it. Doing all via modem would have been too expensive. Online time had to be payed (no flat rates in the Germany of 1994ff). So yes we started to use Linux almost from scratch. The first thing after installation was to compile the kernel (something I didn't do now for years) so that it fit my machine. On a 486 that took over night. And then again all the day until everything worked. And sometimes the discs didn't work so I had to go back and forth with other discs.
1998 we founded or participated in the founding of an Internet company, which provided dial-in services, web-sites etc. (you now like the company in User Friendly). And the servers run on Linux. So we learned a lot about firewalls (old and new), routing, web-servers, saw the rise of PHP, XML and then Java. And then we went bankrupt and I got back to university. CS labs at the university had switched from DECs machines to PCs and FreeBSD (because all the students have Linux at home, but no FreeBSD and therefor are not that good in finding holes in the system). In our project labs we used Linux again. The thing is, when you know one Unix you are quite comfortable on the other. It is not the same with Windows.
So the Russian secret service does the same shit companies do. they want to bend public opinion in their direction. However, normally (as in Western countries) governments do not need to do that, because the media is on their side (or to be more precise the government is on the side of the media). So the move in Russia indicates, that the mass population moves away from classic media as their source of information towards other platforms and therefore they have to control those too. So in short. They control the media (as like in a dictatorship) and now this Internet thing causes disruption. So they try to control it too.
What shall I say? I am not surprised. I am only surprised that it came out. But, I guess that does not hurt the endeavor.
As a free lancer I could choose private or public insurance. However, the public variant provides one plan. And you have to dependent to your income. The public plan includes automatically all your family members, as long as they do not have their own income. For any normal employee the cost is half because the other half has to be paid by the employer. The service, however, is the same. So normally you do not have to discuss the health care plan if you do not really, really have fun doing it.
If you life in the USA, the picture is quite different. Then you are doomed. Obamacare is only a weak little brother of European health care systems.
Honestly, I've seen many retail stores lately having fun with getting not a new phone. They all look like that. Beside, t-mobile is pink (magenta as they call it) and ohters are green or orange. Now when Samsung is blue then that fits that logic. Apple stores also look like any other store. They have this "We are sooo fancy" design. If they start fighting over shop design then they have become totally crazy. Oh wait ...
Also called the rabbit tactic. ;)
You might be true. The thing is most people live a tedious life and they hate it. That has by the way nothing to do with the job or the spouse (or the absence of one), it is a state of mind. Most tech affine people have the chance to get out of the swamp if they really want to do it. However, instead of doing, most whine and dream about heroic fights (where they win in the end). The government is for many of them a mysterious organization (because they didn't follow school on those soft topics: politics, media, etc.) which is evil down to the bone. While the truth is, that people with better contacts can better propagate their wishes while the rest believes bullshit and therefore does not oppose it (or elect someone else).
Another important truth to the subject is: We are all far too insignificant that anyone would bother to follow us (beside on twitter) if we watch some nasty stuff which is not known by the rest. In most cases the nasty stuff is done in plain site.
If I witness a crime thingy committed by the government, which they did in some privacy, I would first collect some information /or skip that task) and tell it out loud to a journalist (public TV) and wait for the evening news. This will (in a paranoid scenario) move the hunt from me to the journalist and at the very time the information is in the office of the TV station the government is no longer able to get it removed. They could hack into it and disrupt the services, but that will come out (obviously public TV will go offline) and the aftermath would be disastrous. At least that would be the case in Germany, where I tend to live. On the other hand in Germany, the secret services are mostly harmless, and normally get caught by police or the press. So that would leave the police to do something nasty, which they do occasionally, which comes out every time (maybe with some delay) and has no real consequences. But if the government messes up, then that is in the news by the evening and afterwards the same people are elected. So why hunt anyone?
In the US. I would go to my embassy and let them do the talking.
Read more. When your intention is to read more books, you should do it. eBook-readers do not help with that. They make it only easier to carry more than one book around. But normally that is not necessary. If you by an ebook reader you may consider the following points:
* Can I move the eBooks to a different reader?
* Does it cooperate with my system?
* How many book sellers work with the device?
We are talking about the UK. Every time someone calls a country the most civilized something bad happens. So don't. And honestly I do not know how that metric looks like to determine the grade of civilization of a country.
Mrs. Clinton is the US minister for foreign affairs. The primary thing going on here is the UK doing something which violates international law. So it is really not about the US. On a side note. The US has not forced the UK the extradite Assange to the US, because they do not want to charge him (or are not able to).
It doesn't matter if the have a law fixed up in their own country to revoke the embassy status just like that. There are international treaties how we work with embassies and how to treat embassies and the diplomatic personnel. De jure Assange is in Ecuador and not in Great Britain.
To violate international treaties an cause that the trust in the UK gets minimized. Therefore it is not advisable to really do it. The move alone is enough damage to that trust.
On the side. I do not car about that Assange guy, who is just a popular figure and is highly overrated. Sweden is not some banana republic, so go there have a trial and if he violated Swedish law pay for it. It is not that Swedish prisons are like those shown in US movies, if he ever has to go there. Afterwards he can go back to Australia without any trouble.
When you design database schema, you need set theory, relations, cross product, etc. When you model and meta-model you need relations, sets, classes, rings and a lot of other math stuff you probably never had in a US high school. If you work on monitoring systems for performance or other properties, you need statistics, algebra, Markov chains, and more in that direction. You definitely need graph theory (to some degree). And for the software of the near future graph theory will become more important. When you analyse social networks, you need graph theory, set theory, and a lot to understand different types of filters. If you use logic, set theory is a logical choice. Also other concepts are required such as proof by induction and deduction.
You could say: computer science is a special section of applied mathematics.
If you model simulations, integral and differential equations are useful. When you develop domain-specific or other programming languages, APIs etc. you need formal languages, which require a lot of math as well. And actually when you are programming you use math as well, ypu just don't know it.
Recently, the German ministry for commerce, the ISPs and the content industry tried to negotiate a two strikes approach. The ISPs commissioned a report to evaluate if such agreement would be legal. The report states that such agreement would be unconstituional. And it would not make any difference if the commerical partners made an agreement or the state would make a law. The ministry of commerce thinks differently. However, the ministry of justice has similar doubts. As the report sees a direct violation of basic human rights in such an agreement, I wonder why such thing should be legal in the US. Even if European often think the US is some kind of banana republic, it is not true (at least not more true than for Europe as well). And basic consitutional things cannot be violated.
But maybe I am totally wrong with my assumption about the US. How would your legal system react to such an agreement or law?