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The UK for starters, I have a large choice, from A&A to Zen.

The last mile fibre is provided by a company called OpenReach. I don't deal with them, they sell the service to the ISPs at a regulated wholesale price, it's those ISPs that add their services (like IP connectivity, transit, etc) onto the top

> he was still gonna face U.S. extradition

Which would have been no different to the UK

Lets take the conspiracy theory at face value

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are dropped, but instead the US extradites him from Sweden to the US

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are actually real, he goes to trial, gets off, then the US extradites him from Sweden to the US

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange goes to Sweden 4) The charges are actually real, he goes to trial, goes to jail, then the US extradites him from Sweden to the US after his sentence

1) Assange in UK 2) Sweden tried to extradite him (via an EAW) relating to charges in Sweden 3) Assange doesn't goes to Sweden 4) The US extradites him from UK to the US

Why is Scenario 4 any different to scenarios 1, 2, 3?

So why the whole charade of extraditing him from the UK to Sweden, to then begin the "to US" process, when the "to US" process could have simply started in the UK?

They denied this. Why would liberal Sweden tarnish their reputation? What makes Sweden more likely to extradite him than the UK?

Well yes, it was a shorthand.

There aren't many countries with the death penalty that the UK has an extradition treaty with - 12 out of 121.

Why the charade of Sweden? Why not extradite him direct from the UK, which is far further down the list of good justice systems

So he'll be extradited from Sweden, but not from the UK? Why?

Sweden doesn't have a death penalty. If it did, UK law would not allow extradition to Sweden.

So he was free to leave, but would then face Swedish justice, which is the 4th best in the world [0], just behind Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

[0] http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/#

It's a global clock. UTC is the same time in Miami as it is in Singapore.

The accuracy of the delivery of that timesource is 10ns in theory, and upto 1000ns in practice.

GPS provides the correct time anywhere on the planet, it's a universal (as far as earth goes) clock, accurate to 10 nanoseconds (3m). The different reference planes that opposite sides of the planet (at the equator) gives you a precision of femtoseconds (micrometers at light speed) so makes no difference there.

The quality of GPS receiver of course is important, it may reduce your precision to to 100ns or even 1000ns, but it will give you the right time. Someone equidistant to two GPS synced clocks will see them both at the same time (within a microsecond)

UTC is a global clock. If I show the time in Sydney and the time here in UK, Sydney will be 150ms behind to me, and 150ms ahead to a viewer in Sydney, but I know the distance therefore I know if the clocks are in sync.

The time dilation between the two places is on the order of femtoseconds/second, a millionth of a clock cycle of a cpu.

You could whitelist the test machine

First hoax in the list, "Fictitious biography about a Belgian painter".

It was in place for 13 years, 4 months

But the kicker?

> Speedy deleted as "G3: Blatant hoax"

If that's speedy, what's slow!?

Do you have to show your license in NSW?

In the UK we have to give our name and address, then turn up to a police station within 7 days with our license.

It wasn't that the sensors were confused or something - the AI had no idea how to cope with pedestrians in the road for whatever reason, so threw them in the "Other" category.

At least 98% of objects are categorised, the rest don't matter. /s

By invading another country? I guess that's what the U.S. tends to do.

I believe people have a right to self determination. Borders are just lines on a map. I know America doesn't believe that, and that's a valid viewpoint too, just one I disagree with.

Typewriters can become insecure if you leave them alone -- someone could modify it to send all keypresses via wireless transmission, and probably even power from those presses.

A typewriter is no more or less secure than a keyboard.

A computer is far more than a typewriter, you need to compare the security of the documents and the entire system. A non-networked computer in a locked vault with encrypted files and a password is more secure from incorrect access than a pile of documents in a locked vault, although once incorrect access is gained, the scale of the damage can be far higher with a computer (it's easy to read one or two documents, but to try to smuggle 5000 documents out physically is hard. To sumggle them out from a computer is far easier.

As the common poster in the 90s went - To Err is Human, to Really Foul Things Up requires a Computer.

Score one for rulebreaking

Für einige sei die Arbeit von Jahrzehnten dahin – nämlich für jene, die in dem vorgeschriebenen, nun aber gesperrten Verzeichnis gespeichert haben. Wer sich nicht an die Vorschrift hielt und seine Voten, Urteile und Textbausteine auch lokal auf dem Dienstrechner speicherte, hat die Daten nun noch.

Which Google puts as

"For some, the work of decades is gone - namely for those who have stored in the prescribed, but now locked directory. Those who did not abide by the rule and also stored their votes, judgments and text modules locally on the service computer still have the data."

> Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth

Does that mean he's dead and in a mortuary?

> This can be used for future notes i.e. dno 2030-10-01 "I died".

:O

Sun sync is approx 98.7 degrees at 800km - so slightly retrograde (prograde being 0-90)

Majority of LEO sats are sun sync

Or you just do what every airport outside of America does and have a high speed rail service to the centre of town. 20 minutes woo get you 30-50km away.

I think sun synchronous orbits are retrograde

P2P sub orbital hops are either direction, 30-40 minutes, maybe 25 for shorter trips like London to New York.

Shouldn’t it be QANTAS

3600 seconds a day, or 108,000 seconds a month, but the point stands.

That would be 1 cent per 108 seconds, so listen to an 8m35 version of American Pie and Don McLean gets 4.75c. Listen to Heartbreak Hotel, 2m08, and Elvis gets 1.18c. Listen to a 1 hour podcast of "The Infinite Monkey Cage", and the BBC get 33.3 cents

If you listen 24/7, or 2,592,000 seconds a month, then your $10 means that Elvis gets a mere 0.05c

I guess the confusion comes when 10 fans only listen to Band X, but band X gets less that $100 a month.

I listen to say 1,000 songs a month on Spotify, at $10 a month royalties that’s 1c per song. If I listen to song K 10 times I would think they’d get 10c from me, but they don’t neccersarilly - it might be 1c, it might be $1.

There’s a sad effect - if I listen to 2 hours of Band A and 3 hours of Band B, but Band A has an average track length of 2m and Band B has a length of 4m, Band A would get more than Band B!

> Always pay down technical debt when you can. It will be paid eventually, it's just a question of how painful it will be when you do.

Not really

I have a program which is a right pain, and takes an hour to do a yearly task. To clean it up would take about 200 hours.

The program is unlikely to be around in 20 years time, let alone 200.

Yes, its quite possible the next layer up know there's a problem and want to fix it, but don't know they have someone willing to step up if they moved the original tech lead somewhere better suited to their talents

Alternatively they may know about similar position elsewhere they could move you to

Finally they may think you're a total muppet and think far too highly of yourself, which is useful to know (you either are a muppet, or you need to leave the company)

Wouldn't that simply say "root did this at this time", and maybe "on this pts", and then I'd have to marry that up with who was logged on at the given pts at that time?

Either way we don't sue sudo to enforce security -- anyone could go and reboot the machine physically in any case, we use sudo so we remember what we did, or can quickly find the person who did it. Same with physical security, we don't stop people from pulling the plug, but if the plug is pulled we can see who was probably in the room at the time. You can work around it (by going in with a colleague) if you wanted to hide your tracks, but people don't hide their tracks.

Of course the other benefit of sudo is to reduce the number of terminals logged in as root, where accidents can easilly happen.