Sorry, wtf? You're suggesting someone pleads guilty to a sexual assault charge when they claim to be innocent? Just to avoid a mythical extradition attempt that - would cause him to be arrested in Sweden or the UK anyway, irrespective of potential sex crime charges - would likely fail due to the political nature of espionage laws
He's running no greater risk by failing to fly to Sweden and admit to a crime that he hasn't even been charged with than he is by denying it completely and co-operating with the legal authorities in the jurisdiction within which he currently resides.
In the meantime he's only an accused rapist, not a proven one. Don't know about you, but shit a position as being accused of rape is, it's a lot better than being proven guilty of it (via admission or otherwise).
The problem is that although you are entirely correct, sadly the legal situation is that 'no' makes it rape, no matter how much her body is begging 'yes' at the time, including using her hands to hold you inside while thrusting her tongue deep into your mouth.
Just don't ask how she managed to say 'no' at that point..
You do not have the agreement of the copyright holder to distribute their work in the US, and you have no protection under the doctrine of First Sale as you didn't purchase them.
The ruling basically says that First Sale rights only apply to sales within the US. This makes perfect sense, and if that first sale is without the permission of the right holder then it is not legitimate and thus conveys no protections.
My understanding is that it's a collection of public and private individuals funding Assange's bail, not Wikileaks.
I wouldn't expect Wikileaks to seek to defend criminal charges on staff members that are entirely unrelated to their operations, although I could probably argue why they should:)
Not defending anything? You're the fuckwit that said it's a cultural norm there and nothing to worry about.
Now you're implying that just because most Muslims are misogynistic cunts we should give them a free pass when they abuse women?
I'm not even commenting on that specific cable, I'm commenting on the fact that your moral radar is completely fucking unhinged and that you're a twat.
1300 people dead because they refused to put up with the shit any more, as opposed to several thousand dead from malaria and the country's resources being misused.
Was the leak a good or bad thing? Did it lead to 1300 deaths or save a few thousand more in the long term?
This isn't playschool, there isn't a clear good and bad, just shades of grey and complicated trade-offs.
Child sex is one of the few things treated as an extra-territorial crime in the UK. If a British man had attended that party he'd be liable to arrest in the UK for statutory rape and possibly more.
Just because Afghan warlords think buggering young boys is just tickety-boo doesn't make it moral, ethical or acceptable. Shit, a lot of Afghan warlords think subjugation of women is a divine requirement, or are you going to defend that too?
5k/day revenue is great for a sole trader but only normal levels for a medium sized business.
Even at 10% gross margins that's a big chunk of cash missing from the cash-flow statement. Suppliers, staff, overheads are all accruing costs and if you're not getting revenue in, you could easily face cash shortages very quickly.
In an ideal world businesses would carry enough float to cover short term outages. In practice most small and medium businesses don't have that luxury.
Of course, trying to shut down 4chan is obviously one of the stupidest suggestions known to mankind..
Interesting. I'd be more interested in how many ninjas and pirates there were.
It doesn't matter how many of your men are dead, just how many are alive and how long they'll last. But that's just a subset of the real issue: How strong is this opposing force, and how much resource must I commit to vanquish it.
Your surviving men are a potential resource. Your dead men are a bureaucratic overhead writing letters to their wives.
Focus on outcomes. And yeah, outcomes do include a populace that thinks you care, which is why you send the letters.
For instance see the reactions to the Miners Strike in the UK; they were probably right to strike, but the loss of power gave them no public support and they failed.
I thought it was their general bad behaviour that lost public support for them?
The attacks on people crossing picket lines, the clashes with the police (and no, I don't know who started them - but there's no real reason for the miners to be massed where the police might even get involved) all contributed to a general perception that the miners were an aggressive bunch of idiots more interested in sticking it to Maggie than actually finding a way to keep their industry viable.
I wouldn't mind so much, but frankly even Dennis had given up trying to stick it to Maggie by then; she just wasn't remotely attractive.
All financial institutions have to comply with the law, including laws on money laundering and funding terrorist organisations.
This means that certain transactions will be blocked, based on issued lists of proscribed organisations and individuals.
It hasn't been stated whether Wikileaks is such an organisation, or whether Paypal, VISA and Mastercard are merely rolling over and playing patsy for the US government.
I don't know whether to be appalled or impressed by 'worldwide outages' caused by a DDOS.
I would seriously hope that MC and Visa both keep their systems sufficiently isolated and robust that an Internet based DDOS would cause marginal complications for a subset of activities, but the reality appears to be much nastier.
In a way it's great that this vulnerability has been exposed like this. It means issues can be addressed and mitigation measures implemented before a full scale attack on the financial system occurs worldwide.
At the same time, I'm astounded at the relative success of this action. It should never have been this effective.
Not a good way to get the public on your side, mind.
If I want to make a credit card purchase, I expect the purchase to complete. If it fails, I blame the people providing that service.
If credit cards stop working, the banks that issue them will receive the increase call centre volumes, the increased customer complaints, the loss of business that results. The sources of the DDOS wont even be in the loop. Mastercard rapidly get irate phone calls from the thousands of banks that rely on them.
Don't assume too much knowledge in the general populace.
NATO is piss easy to type with the shift key. SO IS THIS.
Maybe I'm fucking weird or something, but it's easier for me to type entire sentences USING THE SHIFT KEY than to shift my entire hand across the keyboard to hit the otherwise out-of-reach CAPS LOCK key.
No CAPS LOCK was used while writing this message, at around 70wpm while drunk.
Incidentally, if it helps, my right baby finger is used to hit SHIFT. It's also the finger I use to hit RETURN (unless I'm trying to do SHIFT-RETURN, in which case it's my left baby finger and my right baby finger working in harmony together. And that's got to be celebrated.)
For some time I have been teetering on the edge of my seat over Sarah Palin
Let me make this easy for you: She's a fuckwit.
Forget the fact her policies are shite, her methods are corrupt or that her motives are immoral, simple fact of the matter is she's a fuckwit. Please don't vote for her.
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Sorry, wtf? You're suggesting someone pleads guilty to a sexual assault charge when they claim to be innocent? Just to avoid a mythical extradition attempt that
- would cause him to be arrested in Sweden or the UK anyway, irrespective of potential sex crime charges
- would likely fail due to the political nature of espionage laws
He's running no greater risk by failing to fly to Sweden and admit to a crime that he hasn't even been charged with than he is by denying it completely and co-operating with the legal authorities in the jurisdiction within which he currently resides.
In the meantime he's only an accused rapist, not a proven one. Don't know about you, but shit a position as being accused of rape is, it's a lot better than being proven guilty of it (via admission or otherwise).
The problem is that although you are entirely correct, sadly the legal situation is that 'no' makes it rape, no matter how much her body is begging 'yes' at the time, including using her hands to hold you inside while thrusting her tongue deep into your mouth.
Just don't ask how she managed to say 'no' at that point..
Jurisdiction aside, yes.
You do not have the agreement of the copyright holder to distribute their work in the US, and you have no protection under the doctrine of First Sale as you didn't purchase them.
The ruling basically says that First Sale rights only apply to sales within the US. This makes perfect sense, and if that first sale is without the permission of the right holder then it is not legitimate and thus conveys no protections.
Surely if Jude is lying then the original passage on Sodom is equally full of shit and the whole lot should be ignored?
Which would be a shame, some of the fairy tales are quite good fun.
Yes underage sex is bad, but if there's no victim then there's no crime.
In at least one of the books there was also no underage sex.
Who the hell would be stupid enough to buy a Kindle these days? All your book are belong to them :(
Banning national and international print media websites is hardly detecting a leak of a classified document.
The guy almost certainly is as dumb as AGMW thinks.
What if I share it by publishing it on the web. Until it was published it wasn't shared so technically it can't have been shared prior to publication.
My understanding is that it's a collection of public and private individuals funding Assange's bail, not Wikileaks.
I wouldn't expect Wikileaks to seek to defend criminal charges on staff members that are entirely unrelated to their operations, although I could probably argue why they should :)
Not defending anything? You're the fuckwit that said it's a cultural norm there and nothing to worry about.
Now you're implying that just because most Muslims are misogynistic cunts we should give them a free pass when they abuse women?
I'm not even commenting on that specific cable, I'm commenting on the fact that your moral radar is completely fucking unhinged and that you're a twat.
Yes, this is flamebait. No, I don't care.
1300 people dead because they refused to put up with the shit any more, as opposed to several thousand dead from malaria and the country's resources being misused.
Was the leak a good or bad thing? Did it lead to 1300 deaths or save a few thousand more in the long term?
This isn't playschool, there isn't a clear good and bad, just shades of grey and complicated trade-offs.
I can believe he would say that. I just don't interpret it as necessarily being due to ego; I'd guess he was just being sardonic.
Child sex is one of the few things treated as an extra-territorial crime in the UK. If a British man had attended that party he'd be liable to arrest in the UK for statutory rape and possibly more.
Just because Afghan warlords think buggering young boys is just tickety-boo doesn't make it moral, ethical or acceptable. Shit, a lot of Afghan warlords think subjugation of women is a divine requirement, or are you going to defend that too?
(Somewhat offtopic: LOIC can be run in as many instances as the machine it is running on can handle)
Great. So I can break the Computer Misuse Act multiple times concurrently in an easily traced and high profile manner?
Maybe not.
Ah, ok - I was living in Germany during the strikes so didn't get any power outages.
You've already responded to my other post on why I think the public wont renounce wikileaks due to this :)
5k/day revenue is great for a sole trader but only normal levels for a medium sized business.
Even at 10% gross margins that's a big chunk of cash missing from the cash-flow statement. Suppliers, staff, overheads are all accruing costs and if you're not getting revenue in, you could easily face cash shortages very quickly.
In an ideal world businesses would carry enough float to cover short term outages. In practice most small and medium businesses don't have that luxury.
Of course, trying to shut down 4chan is obviously one of the stupidest suggestions known to mankind..
Interesting. I'd be more interested in how many ninjas and pirates there were.
It doesn't matter how many of your men are dead, just how many are alive and how long they'll last. But that's just a subset of the real issue: How strong is this opposing force, and how much resource must I commit to vanquish it.
Your surviving men are a potential resource. Your dead men are a bureaucratic overhead writing letters to their wives.
Focus on outcomes. And yeah, outcomes do include a populace that thinks you care, which is why you send the letters.
Leaking documents just because you can, even when they contain no government evildoing, just to stroke your own ego = bad
However. Set up a website with the promise, "Leak your shit to us, and we'll publish". Get shit leaked to you.
Do you publish or not?
Someone leaked a few hundred thousand US diplomatic cables. Why wouldn't Wikileaks publish them?
Evildoing was never part of the equasion.
For instance see the reactions to the Miners Strike in the UK; they were probably right to strike, but the loss of power gave them no public support and they failed.
I thought it was their general bad behaviour that lost public support for them?
The attacks on people crossing picket lines, the clashes with the police (and no, I don't know who started them - but there's no real reason for the miners to be massed where the police might even get involved) all contributed to a general perception that the miners were an aggressive bunch of idiots more interested in sticking it to Maggie than actually finding a way to keep their industry viable.
I wouldn't mind so much, but frankly even Dennis had given up trying to stick it to Maggie by then; she just wasn't remotely attractive.
All financial institutions have to comply with the law, including laws on money laundering and funding terrorist organisations.
This means that certain transactions will be blocked, based on issued lists of proscribed organisations and individuals.
It hasn't been stated whether Wikileaks is such an organisation, or whether Paypal, VISA and Mastercard are merely rolling over and playing patsy for the US government.
I don't know whether to be appalled or impressed by 'worldwide outages' caused by a DDOS.
I would seriously hope that MC and Visa both keep their systems sufficiently isolated and robust that an Internet based DDOS would cause marginal complications for a subset of activities, but the reality appears to be much nastier.
In a way it's great that this vulnerability has been exposed like this. It means issues can be addressed and mitigation measures implemented before a full scale attack on the financial system occurs worldwide.
At the same time, I'm astounded at the relative success of this action. It should never have been this effective.
Not a good way to get the public on your side, mind.
If I want to make a credit card purchase, I expect the purchase to complete. If it fails, I blame the people providing that service.
If credit cards stop working, the banks that issue them will receive the increase call centre volumes, the increased customer complaints, the loss of business that results. The sources of the DDOS wont even be in the loop. Mastercard rapidly get irate phone calls from the thousands of banks that rely on them.
Don't assume too much knowledge in the general populace.
VISA are involved in debit card transactions too.
Only if you hold it down while not actually typing letters.
If you only hold down shift while typing you're fine.
wtf?
NATO is piss easy to type with the shift key. SO IS THIS.
Maybe I'm fucking weird or something, but it's easier for me to type entire sentences USING THE SHIFT KEY than to shift my entire hand across the keyboard to hit the otherwise out-of-reach CAPS LOCK key.
No CAPS LOCK was used while writing this message, at around 70wpm while drunk.
Incidentally, if it helps, my right baby finger is used to hit SHIFT. It's also the finger I use to hit RETURN (unless I'm trying to do SHIFT-RETURN, in which case it's my left baby finger and my right baby finger working in harmony together. And that's got to be celebrated.)
For some time I have been teetering on the edge of my seat over Sarah Palin
Let me make this easy for you: She's a fuckwit.
Forget the fact her policies are shite, her methods are corrupt or that her motives are immoral, simple fact of the matter is she's a fuckwit. Please don't vote for her.