Did the helicopter pilot who shot the journalist in the early Wikileaks video ever get charged with war crimes? The US has never joined the International Criminal Court. Assange may be an asshoie but this move smells.
Posts by DanceMan
622 posts • joined 17 Aug 2009
UK Home Office signs order to extradite Julian Assange to US
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope
Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100
Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD
Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought
Intel reveals GPU roadmap with hybrid integrated discrete graphics
Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week
KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24: It's eccentric, just like many old-timers
You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now
Tuesday 4th January 2022 02:39 GMT
Re: I'm glad I'm not old enough
Decades ago I was stopped at a red light and saw a woman ahead of me in the adjacent lane toss a cigarette butt out the window. I don't know what came over me because I'm usually pretty meek but I got out of my car, picked up the butt and offered it back to her, "I think you dropped something." She just gave me dirty look so I threw it back inside her car.
Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
Toyota needs more than its Cheer Squad to deal with chip shortages, as five more home factories forced into idleness
Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers
Friday 3rd September 2021 21:09 GMT
Re: Holding those small screws
I always had difficulties fitting the screws correctly into the back cover of older Thinkpads because there were always at least one missing originally and one hole stripped. I eventually hit on white foam trays from my breakfast sausages. Turn upside down, use a Sharpie to mark features of the cover and then push the screws into the foam in the same place as on the cover. Screws don't get lost and you know where they go.
Facebook sat on report that reveals most-shared post for months was questionable COVID story
Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right
Thursday 5th August 2021 02:44 GMT
Re: What about waterproofing?
Blackberry Q10 lost on the drive to work in a rainstorm. I must have got out of the car to do something with a wiper. Found it over 12 hours later soaking wet on the road (luckily ir was a side street) and dried it out for several days. Used it for several more years. Clip off back and replaceable battery. Survivability does not require glue.
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
Firefox to adopt Chrome's new approach to extensions – sans the part that threatens ad blockers
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Börk returns to its spiritual home of Sweden as duff disks take down Stockholm signage
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting
United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted
Thursday 7th January 2021 05:53 GMT
Having recently watched a detailed doc on Hitler/s rise to power I was waiting for the Reichstag fire, but Trump couldn't even get that right. You burn or blow up Congress at night and blame it on the opposition, not incite a bunch of losers to invade it. Thankfully Trumpolini can preen like Il Duce, but he's neither as smart or as capable as his predecessors.
Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97
Wednesday 9th December 2020 05:50 GMT
from the PBS documentary “Chasing The Moon”:
”Chasing the Moon’s discussions of astronaut selection and early PR campaigns for Apollo highlight the overlooked story of Ed Dwight, a fighter pilot who nearly became the first African American astronaut. Dwight had an outstanding military record, and the Kennedy administration was keen for NASA to have an African American astronaut. After passing his medical exam, Dwight was sent to Chuck Yeager’s flight school, the testing ground for potential astronauts. According to Dwight and a later investigation from the White House, Yeager pulled all the instructors into a room and ordered them not to speak to Dwight, not to interact or provide advice to him, and not to socialize with him outside of the base. Yeager’s reason was that he didn’t want ‘a colored guy’ to be an astronaut.”
UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China
Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
Tuesday 11th August 2020 19:23 GMT
Re: The House of Lords
@ Simon Hobson
Agree completely. In Canada there was a movement among Conservatives to elect our presently appointed Senate. As with many ideas of the right imported from down south and unable to learn from history, this does not work. The US Senate was originally appointed and only later elected. It is now the area of gov't where lobbyists have their greatest impact. And in a rapidly changing world it's an impediment to gov't being able to move quickly and react to that change.
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good
After banning Chinese comms bogeyman, UK asks: Huawei in this mess? It was a failure of capitalism, MPs told
Thursday 23rd July 2020 22:37 GMT 
Huawei
I don't think the real issue is backdoors, or cost. If you look at the imprisonment of the two Canadians and the Chinese violation of the "two systems" agreement in Hong Kong, the real issue should be handing vital 5T infrastructure to a company with such close ties to a gov't that will not respect agreements or international norms. For that matter the same might be said of Cisco as long as Trump remains in power.
After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good
Saturday 27th June 2020 02:35 GMT
Olympus were special
For me it was not in the way pretty much everyone here has written about. I went from Miranda to budget Nikon in SLR in the years I developed and printed my own B&W but I bought an Olympus 35RC to have a compact camera I could keep with me, and later the wonderful Olympus Stylus. Full frame 35mm in a small package that had no competition now has understandably been wiped out by camera phones. Technology has destroyed their niche.
Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps
Lenovo certifies all desktop and mobile workstations for Linux – and will even upstream driver updates
Wednesday 3rd June 2020 23:40 GMT
It may not be be TYOLOTD, but it''s been my year since I discovered MX linux, and interestingly the main two are on a Thinkpad T410 and a Lenovo M58 SFF. I'd tried linux occasionally for 10 or 15 years on old hardware but Win 8 and 10 pushed me harder. Linux handles wireless and ethernet drivers better than Windows these days. I don't game and thus don't have experience with video gpu's other than the chipset versions. I'm very happy and learning to deal with the occasional command line tasks.
My reading tells me that for linux to make the big jump, it has to have a Domain and Exchange alternative and a way to run actual MS Office. For one example, my union used to use a spreadsheet with complex macros for estimating payrolls that would never have run in Open Office. The vast majority of people will run whatever came on their machine. I note tv ads recently promoting Chromebooks. As long as linux support remains at the current level, I'm quite happy running a somewhat obscure OS.
