Hardly major crime, skipping bail. Bonds have been forfeited, at worst he would have to spend a very few months in a British jail, no big deal under the circumstances. If Sweden ended up dropping charges, or letting them expire without ever even interviewing Assange, he would have a passable case to try to get that bail money back.
Could you PLEASE put this summary up on the wikipedia entry. You will have opposition, but I for one will support you. You obviously care, and Wikipedia is the source of all truth these days.
You will need to flesh it out with references and details. There was a good article in the Guardian long ago.
Also add the STD issue (which was Assange being an arse hole that got him into this mess!) and the lobster dinner after.
(Reply to this thread if you do so, so that I will find out and support you.)
There are four the types of arguments, of increasing power:-
1. Detailed technical arguments.
2. Simplistic factual arguments.
3. Emotional arguments.
4. Authoratative arguments.
Mugs like me tend to rely on detailed technical arguments. Simplistic factual arguments are much more powerful, but will always be trumped by an argument that appeals to people emotionally. And arguments from respected people in authority (like film stars) trump everything else.
So Nuclear = Nuclear Bombs = Satan. No amount of geeky statistical analysis can change that.
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No, you could not do all that stuff on a 512K Amiga. There is a lot more functionality in a Win 95 box such as a sophisticated word processing, proper font support, quite large spreadsheets, decent video, Netscape.
Up until about Windows 95 more memory meant more real functionality. But since that time it is hard to put your finger on anything new in functionality other than bloat. And I would not say modern computers are much more secure -- their attack surface is so much larger.
As to installing MS-Dos, yes, floppy disks are slow. But Windows 95 booted a lot faster in real time than my current Windows 8 machine (particularly if you include the slow period when services start). Win 95 was quite fast unless you tried to work on huge data sets, like a whole book in Word.
For most users, Windows 95 plus Office 95 plus Netscape plus Eudora could do everything that that they do today. (The big exception is 3D graphics on modern games.)
Most users today only use a fraction of the power of Word 95 and Excel 95. Netscape was more than enough to run Facebook and Google Search and classic web pages which is what most people actually use the web for. Windows 95 could even display passable video. And Emacs gave me a powerful IDE.
It could be a bit unstable, but now that Microsoft had finally discovered 32bit instructions 20 years too late it was very programmable. It also cursed us with the registry.
And all this in just 8 megabytes of memory. Not 80, 800, or 8,000 needed today, but just 8.
So what are the other 7,992 meg on my computer doing? They are filled with stuff (including whole VMs), I seem to need it. Sure 8 might have become 16 and then 80. But how on earth did it become 8,000?
There is nothing substantial that I do today that I could not do on Win95 with, say, 32 meg. (OK, so I could not run bloatware like Eclipse, maybe that is my point!)
What is wrong with just using a piece of paper, like we do in here in oz. With scrutinieers on every booth. Australian elections cost about $5/voter with all votes counted manually. I have scrutineered, it works fine, very few disagreements. Plus we have proportional voting, 1, 2, 3 not just an X, which adds very little to the counting burden, and should definitely be adopted in the US.
While it is easy to mistake incompetence for conspiracy, it would seem that there is a very good reason for the use of machines in the USA. And being hackable is not an issue. I am totally amazed that Americans put up with it.
He obviously believes that the risk of extradition out of Sweden is real, because there is no way he could be sentenced to more than 5 years for these minor offenses. The case against him is weak, which is why he was allowed to leave Sweden in the first place. They are obviously politically motivated, hence the refusal to question him in the UK. (Once the question him the have to charge him with something very specific, which would be embarrassing as there is nothing to charge him with.)
It is most unlikely that Sweden would now extradite him now, it would be a huge loss of face to them. More likely the UK will send him out once he eventually leaves. But that said, if I were him, I would not want to bet my life on it. The US jails are very nasty, nothing like Swedish ones.
The US would argue that Assange encouraged Manning to leak. If that fails they would argue that he did something else, maybe spitting on the sidewalk, to quote Al Capone. Does not matter, under US law he can be sent to jail for a very long time for very minor offenses.
Heroin was developed to be less addictive than Morphine, which it is. And little Betty did not inject the cough medicine, nor did we end up with a huge population of addicts.
While I would not recommend the use today, it is indeed not nearly as bad as the anti-drug industry has made it out to be. And Bayer produced pure heroin, not adulterated with whatever powders happened to be lying around.
That is because the Thai education system uses scrabble to help teach kids English, which is a very different language to Thai. So most Thais have played the game, and so unsurprisingly a few get very good at it.
Here in Oz, taxi drivers raced to the bottom long ago. It is the taxi plate OWNERS, not the drivers that hold the monopoly licenses, and cream 55% of the fares from the drivers.
Unless the Canadian situation is very different, then Uber is only a force for a bit of good.
Some doctors are definitely better than others, just like software engineers. Nurses have been known to hide patients from some doctors. But without some sort of metric how do you detect the outliers?
The trouble with those metrics is that they were simplistic, designed by uninspired bureaucrats, as all metrics normally are. So you only have a choice between no metrics and bad metrics. The latter is probably better, IMHO.
Focusing on standardized teaching tests is similar. If you are going to do it, the tests need to be good. The Australian NAPLAN tests are actually not too bad, although they are limited.
If we do receive a message that looks like a computer program, we will, of course, execute it. What could possibly go wrong?
We might not be able to find aliens, but they could find us. We have been broadcasting for 100 years, so the number of stars in that light sphere is growing.
How could they cover the vast distances of space? In star wars type space ships? Of course not. We live in an information age, so they they would transmit themselves as computer programs.
("They", of course, would not be little green men but instead be software running on tiny supercomputers.)
Add lots and lots more features. Lots of redundant crap. Make it so complex that the hackers will never be able to figure it out. (That appears to be the current strategy.)
Hassling her a few hours is just an inconvenience. But the No Fly list is a real weapon. How is she going to make her unpatriotic films if she cannot go anywhere! There ain't no getting off the No Fly list, even if you were put on by mistake. That would teach her and her ilk.
Think about what it is like to be a DHS agent. You have attended countless meetings detailing just how much threat we are under. You *know* it is true. You work hard to keep Americans safe. And then someone like Poitras comes along. Scum of the earth.
+1. The crazy military response is the issue. Even if the issue is real, the SWAT is normally excessive. And it has crossed the pond to some extent here in Australia.
Probably nothing to do with statutes of limitations, as there are other charges, that is just and excuse.
The UK has been spending a small fortune providing 24 hr guard on the embassy to ensure that Assange does not sneak out. This is causing issues in the UK. So the UK will have put pressure on Sweden to resolve the impasse.
Assange would have been in and out of relatively comfortable Swedish jails by now if he was found guilty. So one must assume that he at least believes the rendition issue is real.
Also, I understand that Swedish sex trials are held in secret, with no jury, and 2 "lay" judges that are appointed by political parties. So it is likely that he would be found guilty of whatever he was charged with. That said, it would be embarrassing for Sweden if the case was too outrageous.
The fact that Assange was allowed to leave Sweden in the first place is clear evidence that the case against him is weak at best. Certainly not a case of two women screaming "Rape!" as Assange beats them up and rapes them.
There is no reliable way to factory reset modern hardware.
Everything is programmable. Everything is flashable. Everything is ridiculously complex, ugly, and impossible to really understand. And the Rusians are good at hacking -- those long hard winters.
What I hope is that they when buy new hardware they specify that it must be truely factory resetable. That means new designs, the current stuff is useless. It would create a much overdue market.
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Hardly major crime, skipping bail. Bonds have been forfeited, at worst he would have to spend a very few months in a British jail, no big deal under the circumstances. If Sweden ended up dropping charges, or letting them expire without ever even interviewing Assange, he would have a passable case to try to get that bail money back.
Could you PLEASE put this summary up on the wikipedia entry. You will have opposition, but I for one will support you. You obviously care, and Wikipedia is the source of all truth these days.
You will need to flesh it out with references and details. There was a good article in the Guardian long ago.
Also add the STD issue (which was Assange being an arse hole that got him into this mess!) and the lobster dinner after.
(Reply to this thread if you do so, so that I will find out and support you.)
There are four the types of arguments, of increasing power:-
1. Detailed technical arguments.
2. Simplistic factual arguments.
3. Emotional arguments.
4. Authoratative arguments.
Mugs like me tend to rely on detailed technical arguments. Simplistic factual arguments are much more powerful, but will always be trumped by an argument that appeals to people emotionally. And arguments from respected people in authority (like film stars) trump everything else.
So Nuclear = Nuclear Bombs = Satan. No amount of geeky statistical analysis can change that.
No, you could not do all that stuff on a 512K Amiga. There is a lot more functionality in a Win 95 box such as a sophisticated word processing, proper font support, quite large spreadsheets, decent video, Netscape.
Up until about Windows 95 more memory meant more real functionality. But since that time it is hard to put your finger on anything new in functionality other than bloat. And I would not say modern computers are much more secure -- their attack surface is so much larger.
As to installing MS-Dos, yes, floppy disks are slow. But Windows 95 booted a lot faster in real time than my current Windows 8 machine (particularly if you include the slow period when services start). Win 95 was quite fast unless you tried to work on huge data sets, like a whole book in Word.
For most users, Windows 95 plus Office 95 plus Netscape plus Eudora could do everything that that they do today. (The big exception is 3D graphics on modern games.)
Most users today only use a fraction of the power of Word 95 and Excel 95. Netscape was more than enough to run Facebook and Google Search and classic web pages which is what most people actually use the web for. Windows 95 could even display passable video. And Emacs gave me a powerful IDE.
It could be a bit unstable, but now that Microsoft had finally discovered 32bit instructions 20 years too late it was very programmable. It also cursed us with the registry.
And all this in just 8 megabytes of memory. Not 80, 800, or 8,000 needed today, but just 8.
So what are the other 7,992 meg on my computer doing? They are filled with stuff (including whole VMs), I seem to need it. Sure 8 might have become 16 and then 80. But how on earth did it become 8,000?
There is nothing substantial that I do today that I could not do on Win95 with, say, 32 meg. (OK, so I could not run bloatware like Eclipse, maybe that is my point!)
So what happens when one chef happens to arrange the vegies the same way as another? Or if, when prosecuted for photography, we can find prior art?
Or, heaven forbid, someone else cooks something that *tastes* the same.
These new laws will definitely inspire culinary innovation. You can expect to see a large investment in producing culinary IP as a result!
+1. Every dollar wasted on the ISS is a dollar not spent on science.
What is wrong with just using a piece of paper, like we do in here in oz. With scrutinieers on every booth. Australian elections cost about $5/voter with all votes counted manually. I have scrutineered, it works fine, very few disagreements. Plus we have proportional voting, 1, 2, 3 not just an X, which adds very little to the counting burden, and should definitely be adopted in the US.
While it is easy to mistake incompetence for conspiracy, it would seem that there is a very good reason for the use of machines in the USA. And being hackable is not an issue. I am totally amazed that Americans put up with it.
He obviously believes that the risk of extradition out of Sweden is real, because there is no way he could be sentenced to more than 5 years for these minor offenses. The case against him is weak, which is why he was allowed to leave Sweden in the first place. They are obviously politically motivated, hence the refusal to question him in the UK. (Once the question him the have to charge him with something very specific, which would be embarrassing as there is nothing to charge him with.)
It is most unlikely that Sweden would now extradite him now, it would be a huge loss of face to them. More likely the UK will send him out once he eventually leaves. But that said, if I were him, I would not want to bet my life on it. The US jails are very nasty, nothing like Swedish ones.
The US would argue that Assange encouraged Manning to leak. If that fails they would argue that he did something else, maybe spitting on the sidewalk, to quote Al Capone. Does not matter, under US law he can be sent to jail for a very long time for very minor offenses.
Heroin was developed to be less addictive than Morphine, which it is. And little Betty did not inject the cough medicine, nor did we end up with a huge population of addicts.
While I would not recommend the use today, it is indeed not nearly as bad as the anti-drug industry has made it out to be. And Bayer produced pure heroin, not adulterated with whatever powders happened to be lying around.
You missed the point.
The idea is that the AI would decide when to shoot on its own. No operator involved. Anywhere.
That is because the Thai education system uses scrabble to help teach kids English, which is a very different language to Thai. So most Thais have played the game, and so unsurprisingly a few get very good at it.
Here in Oz, taxi drivers raced to the bottom long ago. It is the taxi plate OWNERS, not the drivers that hold the monopoly licenses, and cream 55% of the fares from the drivers.
Unless the Canadian situation is very different, then Uber is only a force for a bit of good.
Correct.
Some doctors are definitely better than others, just like software engineers. Nurses have been known to hide patients from some doctors. But without some sort of metric how do you detect the outliers?
The trouble with those metrics is that they were simplistic, designed by uninspired bureaucrats, as all metrics normally are. So you only have a choice between no metrics and bad metrics. The latter is probably better, IMHO.
Focusing on standardized teaching tests is similar. If you are going to do it, the tests need to be good. The Australian NAPLAN tests are actually not too bad, although they are limited.
If we do receive a message that looks like a computer program, we will, of course, execute it. What could possibly go wrong?
We might not be able to find aliens, but they could find us. We have been broadcasting for 100 years, so the number of stars in that light sphere is growing.
How could they cover the vast distances of space? In star wars type space ships? Of course not. We live in an information age, so they they would transmit themselves as computer programs.
("They", of course, would not be little green men but instead be software running on tiny supercomputers.)
One technology that kills Phishing attacks is SRP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It does not rely on the PKI mess. But we will never see it because there is no money in it.
Add lots and lots more features. Lots of redundant crap. Make it so complex that the hackers will never be able to figure it out. (That appears to be the current strategy.)
+1. Drugs are far safer than Perl.
Hassling her a few hours is just an inconvenience. But the No Fly list is a real weapon. How is she going to make her unpatriotic films if she cannot go anywhere! There ain't no getting off the No Fly list, even if you were put on by mistake. That would teach her and her ilk.
Think about what it is like to be a DHS agent. You have attended countless meetings detailing just how much threat we are under. You *know* it is true. You work hard to keep Americans safe. And then someone like Poitras comes along. Scum of the earth.
+1. The crazy military response is the issue. Even if the issue is real, the SWAT is normally excessive. And it has crossed the pond to some extent here in Australia.
Probably nothing to do with statutes of limitations, as there are other charges, that is just and excuse.
The UK has been spending a small fortune providing 24 hr guard on the embassy to ensure that Assange does not sneak out. This is causing issues in the UK. So the UK will have put pressure on Sweden to resolve the impasse.
Assange would have been in and out of relatively comfortable Swedish jails by now if he was found guilty. So one must assume that he at least believes the rendition issue is real.
Also, I understand that Swedish sex trials are held in secret, with no jury, and 2 "lay" judges that are appointed by political parties. So it is likely that he would be found guilty of whatever he was charged with. That said, it would be embarrassing for Sweden if the case was too outrageous.
The fact that Assange was allowed to leave Sweden in the first place is clear evidence that the case against him is weak at best. Certainly not a case of two women screaming "Rape!" as Assange beats them up and rapes them.
So that the printers have to be able to corrupt the print servers before attacking the clients?
There is no reliable way to factory reset modern hardware.
Everything is programmable. Everything is flashable. Everything is ridiculously complex, ugly, and impossible to really understand. And the Rusians are good at hacking -- those long hard winters.
What I hope is that they when buy new hardware they specify that it must be truely factory resetable. That means new designs, the current stuff is useless. It would create a much overdue market.
If you want real security use paper.
+1. Turnbull once mentioned the issue so is aware of it. But men in corporate suites will always persuade the current government.
I rekon that if it is not available on fair and equitable terms then it does not deserve copyright protection.