Posts by Scorchio!!

Home Sec to decide Gary McKinnon's fate by 16 October

Re: I think there should be...

"He didn't HACK them, he simply used the default passwords for the server software they were using.

This would be the same as saying a burglar should be tried for breaking and entering, when he just opened an unlocked door."

Irrelevant. Whether he or a burglar enters an open door does not change the matter; a crime has been committed. Should I be allowed to slap the shit out of you because you were asleep? Should I be allowed to steal your wallet because you were asleep and had not locked it away? If you fail to change the PIN on your home security system/burglar alarm to other than the default, does that entitle me to find a way in so that I can disable it, steal your goods, then rape and kill you? If you are relatively defenceless as you walk down the road, it being that I do weights and martial arts training, is it OK for me to slap you about a little and perhaps kill you, after mugging you? After all, you did not institute a proper programme in self defence and fitness.

I think you are having a laugh, the sort of insightless, antisocial thing that spotty faced youths might find funny or acceptable, were they not brought up properly to understand the difference between right and wrong, and the rules governing social behaviour and of course laws.

HTH. HAVSD.

Re: "what evidence is there for your magic number two?"

"Try to figure a superpower out.

You can't live with them; you can't live without them."

Just wait until China eclipses the USA. It won't be long now, and the Chinese have absolutely no tradition of human rights, democracy, whistle blowing, nada. Their judicial responses are most harsh, and will stay so until long after the readership here is asleep 6' under the soil. For the meantime, the US looks quite gentle in comparison, right down to the matter of firing squads.

Re: probably not a very fashionable thing to say, but...

"That you'd wish to deny him that compassion because he's been fighting for it is akin to chucking someone into the lake because they've denied they're a witch."

Nothing of the sort. There is no compassion between justice now for someone who has committed a crime, irrespective of diagnostic category, and the unjust treatment of someone accused of a bogus crime, itself unverifiable, not subject to accepted science and replicable amongst the community of scientists. Aspergers is not witchdom. If he has Aspergers syndrome and has committed an offence, then the correct approach is to have him arraigned in the jurisdiction of the country in whose jurisdiction the equipment resides, and then have him assessed prior to trial; the judge will, at the point of sentencing and if he is found guilty, take into account mitigating circumstances.

If private individuals are given the impression that they can break into defence, security or other sensitive computers without facing the consequences in the country where this equipment resides, this will set a precedent. If you think that the US is going to let people get away with this kind of thing, or our government even, then I can only say that I am puzzled at your naïveté.

Finally, he is not mentally ill; he has a neuropsychiatric disorder. See, e.g., http://www.jaapl.org/content/34/3/374.full and do note their comments on empathy and neuropsychiatric disorders. As to whether judgements about right and wrong are beyond these individuals, I have my doubts, but read the article. Maybe there is some wriggle room there.

Re: If he doesn't get extradited, it's because of the Asperger's

"By law McKinnon must be returned to the U.S. for trial. All the other nonsense is irrelevant. Aspergers should not have any influence on the judicial process."

To be accurate, it's something that the judge weighs up when sentencing. Or perhaps committing the offender to a safe place.

Re: If he doesn't get extradited, it's because of the Asperger's

"If he does get extradited, it's because of the Assangeberger.

The US doesn't like to lose two in a row."

Really? Baddeley and Hitch found the magical number 7 in studies of STM. It's a constant, there is a lot of data on the subject. Tell me, what evidence is there for your magic number two?

Re: Bah!

"The McKinnon thing is just another example of the US World Internet Police thingy gone mad."

Not really. Look at the body count for journalists in Russia, look at what happened to someone to whom the Chechen government took exception... ...in Germany. Look at how the East German state used to mount snatch missions in West Germany, and sometimes assassinations too.

If you fuck about with a defence computer in another country expect shit to happen. There is no excuse, Vicky Pollard stuff does not work here.

Re: The US dont like to be embarressed

"The US dont like to be embarressed"

You should try the Russians; Putin was the subject of a very penetrating and negative analysis/report, and had the author killed. He used polonium. There was no sign of embarrassment, even when the trail was traced back to an Aeroflot plane used by the supposed killers, not a bit! ;-)

Re: @adam payne

"Wow - what insight. When there's essentially only one reason for a course of unpopular and counterproductive action, who would there be anything but manifold references to it?"

Quite right, quite right, and the argumentum ad populum is our most certain and productive form of truth, isn't it?... ...and, if that is so, then capital punishment is just around the corner.

Re: @Ian Johnston probably not a very fashionable thing to say, but...

"Actually Jon, it is a mental illness, in the sense that the physiology of an aspergic brain is different from the average to a significant degree."

More accurately it is a neuropsychiatric disorder. That said, and you will hear these words in secure forensic departments of psychiatry up and down the country, there is a difference between mad and bad, and being unwell does not excuse bad behaviour; outside of courtroom dramas and Web 2 sites. Moreover, if his disorder is such that the general categories of disturbed behaviour are such that he habitually and continually offends, that it is beyond his control, then it is right and proper that he be kept in an appropriate environment, or at least that his circumstances are appropriately controlled and curtailed. I find it telling that the family have refused a psychiatric examination, their comments notwithstanding.

You see, the age old conundrum for an offender wishing to plead illness as a mitigating factor, is that - severity of offence depending - they merit at least a section 37, and possibly section 41 (court order, home office order). The latter is so powerful that few mentally disturbed offenders ever manage to have the restriction order lifted, and quite rightly so; they are dangerous. Danger of course does not necessarily entail direct physical violence; it could be, as recently happened in Poland, that someone breaks into the rail network and shunts the trains up and down, or it could be that someone makes out they are on a hunt for UFOs, or perhaps that they were given lots of classified data by a third party. People can be killed at the stroke of a pen, the push of a key or the stroke of a mouse.

The case of psychopathy is more than analogous; the last government, on assuming office, wanted to put into effect special orders for psychopaths, so that they could be pulled in if they had become dangerous. Psychopaths either have damage to the frontal lobes of pathways that efferent it or pathways it afferents; psychopathy too can be described as a neuropsychiatric disorder in which offending is beyond the control of the individual, and there is some evidence that (e.g.) tricyclic antidepressants and other 5HT psychotropic medication can help control these individuals, though the effect is weak.

Most people, with the correct advice, tend to go quietly into prison. The period of incarceration is far shorter, they come out sooner and get to offend sooner, until they eventually do something really bad.

Assange movie debuts this weekend

Re: Interesting to see on the BBC's most popular

"Yeah, I wonder how that got there - NOT!"

Jules sitting there at his notebook, pressing the refresh key. Yay!

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

Re: Oh for fecks sake

'@Magnus_Pym

Fair enough. Replace 'lefty hipsters' with 'sanctimonious cumstains'.'

Lefty hipster cumstains will do nicely, thank you

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100177730/in-their-worship-of-julian-assange-the-standard-bearers-of-the-left-are-destroying-everything-they-once-held-dear/

Assange granted asylum by Ecuador after US refused to rule out charges

Re: "We will write down your words and use them against you in court."

"If the object of your post was to demonstrate either Assange's or his Swedish lawyer's fumbling, I'm afraid you failed."

It wasn't and you know it. You raised the question of a honey pot, and now you have devoted hundreds of words to denying it. You are typical of Julie's followers, FoS.

HAND.

Re: Aw-shucks, Scorch, thanks for taking time out of your schedule to reply

"DON'T BE DIPPING YOUR WICK IN A HONEY TRAP (it can be very expensive. google Assange, Julian, if you don't believe me)"

Oh dear, more immature schoolboy insults. Why not read this ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9309000/9309320.stm ) if you believe that Julian was caught with his fingers in a honey pot:

__________________________________________________________________________________

Q: This is now public. So I'm asking you the question. Did you have sex with those women?

JA: It's a matter of public record as far as the courts are concerned but I am not going to be exposing other people's private lives or my own more than is absolutely necessary. That is not what a gentleman does, that why I have also never criticised these women. We don't know precisely what pressures they have been under, exactly. There are powerful interests that have incentives to promote these smears. That doesn't mean that they got in there in the very beginning and fabricated them.

Q: So you're not suggesting that this was a honey-trap? That you were somehow set up by the Americans, by the CIA? You don't buy into that idea because your lawyer's suggested that that's the case.

JA: He says that he was misquoted. I have never said that this is a honey-trap.

Q: You don't believe it?

JA: I have never said that this is not a honey-trap. I'm not accusing anyone until I have proof.

Q: Do you believe it is possible?

JA: That's not how I operate as a journalist because almost everything is possible. I talk about what is probable.

Q: All right, what do you think is probable here?

JA: What is probable? It is less probable that there was that type of involvement at the very beginning. That kind of classic Russian-Moscow thing. That is not probable.

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So there we are; St Julie appears to have backed off the honey pot theory, though not his camp followers.

As to the upper case, the insults and what have you; I've been online for about 20 years and I've seen quite a lot of exchanges like this; I've seen modetorial interventions, people being booted, and I've seen escalations into law. You'll be carrying on without me when it comes to childish insults. You may not realise how silly it makes you look, and how much it damages the points you wish to put forward, not that Assange's case has any substance, or he'd address the matter of alleged rape rather than claim he's in the embassy to avoid US extradition and (gasp) capital punishment.

HTH.

Re: "Swedish Meatballs a la Scorchio. Makes two balls. Flush down toilet before serving."

You are an excitable child today, aren't you?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9487686/Julian-Assange-threatens-to-make-the-EU-look-good.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDCe0Y0Tq4

Your verbosity is most amusing, as is your weak attempt to mount an ad hominem assault, although I didn't read beyond the first sentence; seeing you had dedicated a subject line to my nick, followed by a leap into garrulous reality challenged frothing about the prophet, Assange, I knew that I'd be wasting my time reading your attempts to turn a convict into a saint, almost channelling the Jesus water into wine party trick.

That'll be all for now. Meanwhile do continue with your foaming session, craft more attention grabbing headlines, and foam, foam, foam. I'll order up some diazemuls and clopixol acuphase if you wish little boi.

Re: "When I'm certain the content is meaningless drivel"

"There's not a subject that you don't know more about than anyone else"

Thank you for the compliment. It is the case that a lot of hard living, hard studying and hard working have contributed to the state to which you refer. I have a lot of letters after my name, and I earned them every one. Thus, when I hear the sound of jealousy emanating from a poster whose witterings make me consider the possibility that it is an acid casualty, or perhaps a doper, I am completely unperturbed and am, if anything, amused.

The celluloid reference has I regret to say gone over my head, and I am not going to search it out. I'm fairly choosy you see.

Do HAVND, and go easy on the chemicals. Tara for now, and enjoy the fail icon.

Re: Si vis pacem, para bellum

" Re: Si vis pacem, para bellum To be serious for a minute (not my natural state)"

I know. Hence paying little attention to your drivel, though you did make more sense this time.

As far as the eternal struggle is concerned, "that's life... ...and death".

HTH.

Re: It's just a matter of (the whips and scorns of) time

"Scorchio Isn't this more like Verdi's "Don Carlos" than Coppola's "Godfather"? You remember Frederich's Schiller's play, "Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien""

I usually don't pay much attention to your meandering BS. When I'm certain the content is meaningless drivel I disregard it, as I have in this case.

Perhaps you'd have more luck if you sought one of the more eccentric Usenet news conspiracy groups you'd have more fun, and you don't even have to know how to set up a News client because Google will fix you up with an account, and the signing up process is easy.

HTH. HAVND.

Re: the "tiger" is patient

"But to take the analogy a step further, what if you pinch the rat's tail with a gauntlet-clad fist?"

Do you see a big enough fist? I don't

Re: the "tiger" is patient

"Assange rattled the tiger's cage ... big time. And sooner or later, the tiger is going to get him."

As a fellow psychobiologist once put it to me, pinch a rat's tail and expect it to bite, hard.

Re: About time

"Just look at the comments on the BBC story that seem to have completely forgotten that he's accused of a crime and bail-jumping."

This comprehensively deals with the angles from k00ks on Reg forums who've been dribbling rubbish into the story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19287569

The game is approaching its natural end. Time for Julie to come out and kiss the fat lady as she warbles.

Oh Carradine! I thought at first it was murder, poor man. Did you mean Hutchence? The world is bloody strange sometimes. I've taken too many risks to earn a crust to do sex stuff like that. :-(

"However, I have the impression that few will be sorry if something like that happens to Assange. Personally I have given up caring. I think after today I'll see if I can come up with a filter that zaps any mention of Assange or Wikileaks out of my traffic - it's like a bad soap."

Thank you for that. The whole thing is needlessly messy and fraught with lies which, although I feel they ought to be corrected (valuing the truth above most things), seen to be the property of zitty bois who have no insight into the feeling women experience when unwanted semen is put inside of them by selfish men. That is being polite.

Oh, Coronation St. Ugh Almost as bad as East Enders. Umm, so I occasionally hear. ;->

"The embassy isn't foreign soil or anything like that, regardless of popular opinion."

The best solution might be to rent all of the accommodation on each side of the embassy and play some discreet but disturbing, irregular sounds at night. Not loud enough to upset the neighbourhood, focused on Julie himself - and T-Ray scanning will locate him nicely if they don't already know his activities - and enough to have the Noriega effect.

Re: This is pure theatre on the part of Assange and Ecuador

"No need to apologise: happy that you can add extra clarity."

Thanks and yes, WRT extradition/noise. A giant bucket of cold water to the noisy ones. Meheh.

Re: It's just a matter of (the whips and scorns of) time

"People like Assange have no idea what they are doing, just like most of his supporters."

Indeed. To them this is merely a matter of bits and bytes, but when you apply dressings to wounds it is altogether different.

As to Assange's reliance on those whom he attacks, well yes. I won't miss him if he has an accident.

Re: the uk is invading ecaudor to take a pervert to sweden on behalf of the us

"got that?"

Get this:

Like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Alexander Barankov has worked to expose government misconduct via the Internet. Both men have received refuge on Ecuadorian territory. But while the South American country made world headlines granting Assange diplomatic asylum on Thursday morning, Barankov faces imminent extradition from Ecuador to its new ally Belarus, described by most observers as “Europe’s last dictatorship.”

http://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/?iid=ent-category-mostpop2

This looks like two repressive regimes shuffling the deck to suit themselves.

Re: Well Done Equador

" "I'm actually shocked you got a down vote there."

I was pretty appalled, too."

This and another theme have upset me also. There seems to be a callous attitude to sex and the use of protection against STDs. I frequently refer to the obverse case of Nadia Benaissa ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11097934 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/nadja_benaissa ) in the hope that some flicker of empathy might possibly emerge, but it seems not. These women were worried at the possibility of HIV infection, and it would seem that Julie was similarly scathing in that context:

"Q: That leaves us with the fact, because you accept this, that one of those women at least did make a complaint against you.

JA: Not even a complaint. It appears, from the records that we do have, the suggestion is that they went to the police for advice and they did not want to make a complaint. What they say is that they found out that they were mutual lovers of mine and they had undertaken sex and they got into a tizzy about whether there was a possibility of sexually transmitted diseases. They went to the police to…

Q: They wanted you to have a test as well.

JA: …to have a test.

Q: Did you have a test?

JA: Ridiculous thing to go to the police about. "

( http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9309000/9309320.stm )

In the UK national consciousness of the dangers of unprotected sex seem to have been forgotten, and with this an odious form of arrogance occasionally emerges, and the current imbroglio epitomises this, complete with background chanting by Julie's boiz.

There seems to be no connection here with the Scandinavian/Nordic/Germanic conceptions of sexual health. None at all.

'Sex and the female brain are connected' - shock discovery

"I recently heard Oral sex is curing morning sicness.........I almost wanted to remarry."

Yes, this too was the conclusion of one researcher after analysing his data. See my comments on celery. You know it makes sense.

"I always knew that basting myself in man fat before going clubbing worked."

Some idiot wrote a novel called 'wetlands', which effectively was about her juices. Apparently the author used to smear them behind her ears to make herself more attractive to men. It was reviewed in the Grauniad, of course. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/07/charlotte-roche-wetlands-lucy-ellmann )

Re: so....

"so....

those that spit rather than swallow loose out on my contribution to their happiness!

just getting a hankie to wipe the spit off!"

Indeed and, as the saying went, 'mean women suck, nice women swallow'. I'm just saying.

Re: I've soooooo many comments

"Does it matter which bit of a lady the semen is deposited in?

Do they get different emotions for each 'place'?"

Although I cannot give a citation for this, being a long way from access to my library or my study, IIRC it is the case that oral semen has been found to apparently have a good effect where depression is concerned. It is also the case that women who have eaten celery before 'full' oral sex report that semen tastes sweet. Just in case you needed to know this. They'll thank you for it. I know.

WikiLeaks' secrets weren't, says former MI5 chief

Re: Makes....

"What Rimmington means by not secret, is that the diplomatic cables were still classified information, just of a lower classification. If they were secret, then they wouldn't have been available to so many people, i.e. extremely junior army intelligence officers."

Whilst this is true in respect of the diplomatic cables, it is also the case that the American military failed to maintain proper security measures. In many cases users had their passwords on post it notes, stuck to their monitors. Given also that they seem to have poor quarantine procedures - not fully dividing classified areas off on to reflect the need to know basis and vetting status - there appears to have been a sound basis for leakage.

Once a war room had an outer door, an inner door and strictly controlled access, with the formation headquarters operating other layered internal and external security barriers appropriate to lower categories of secret information not contained in the war room. These days slippage appears to have occurred in US formations. Hence Manning was able to use those passwords that he discovered, and non the basis of the final layer of laxity - no restrictions on writeable media - he dumped the lot onto a sufficiently small storage medium that enabled him to discreetly make away with the data.

This sort of problem is reflected in other ways, for example in the loss here in the UK of optical discs or USB sticks containing classified information that had not been encrypted, military, government and local government.

There is a need for a shake up. They have become lax, both here and in the US. I expect the same is true even of our enemies who, after all, are human. Even Assange had a leak; Daniel Domscheit-Berg gave much away to the Grauniad and other papers.

Assange calls for help from … Quakers?

Re: @Patient one ... see you proved my point .. @AC I always thought the values

" "So please take them back or at least send them to Canada?"

Not until you take back rap music. "

That's no more music than is Schoenberg, Berg or Webern, surely?

Re: @Ian Michael Gumby

"The USA remained resolutely neutral for the first 27 months of the war"

Whilst this is true, it is also true that FDR could not find a way to go to war without mobilising substantial internal opposition. At the same time the US still regarded the UK as an imperial power (which it was, although limping from WWI), and as such anathema. There is a certain irony in the fact that the US is now a form of imperial power, good or bad. Don't we should not expect better of any state, historical or modern. We are slowly changing things and overturning the madness of history (for example, after WWII we appeared to learn the lesson that Lloyd-George saw the French had not after WWI) and did not inflict penurious reparations on the Germans. Indeed, the Berlin airlift changed their opinions of us.

History is a complex subject for study. I reckon.

Re: Words fail me

"Sweden. This is for something they call rape, but which most other countries don't even acknowledge as a crime. However, it is a crime in Sweden, so let's treat it as such."

No, no. Let's see what the UK courts have said on the matter ( http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/assange-summary.pdf ), rather than attaching any value to your views:

"The Court considered the issue of dual criminality in relation to Offences 1 - 3 and ruled that dual criminality was satisfied in each. (paras 70 - 103)

The Court rejected Mr Assange’s contention that under the law of England and Wales consent to sexual intercourse on condition a condom was used was remained consent to sexual intercourse even if a condom was not used or removed. (paras 86-91)

The Court considered the issue of Offence 4 and ruled that the conduct described in the EAW was fairly and accurately reported. The President of the Queen's Bench Division concluded:

"It is quite clear that the gravamen of the offence described is that Mr Assange had sexual intercourse with her without a condom and that she had only been prepared to consent to sexual intercourse with a condom. The description of the conduct makes clear that he consummated sexual intercourse when she was asleep and that she had insisted upon him wearing a condom. ...... it is difficult to see how a person could reasonably have believed in consent if the complaint alleges a state of sleep or half sleep, and secondly it avers that consent would not have been given without a condom. There is nothing in the statement from which it could be inferred that he reasonably expected that she would have consented to sex without a condom." (para 124)

The court went on to say:

"It is clear that the allegation is that he had sexual intercourse with her when she was not in a position to consent and so he could not have had any reasonable belief that she did." (para 126)

The Court ruled that Mr Assange's objections raised in relation to Offence 4 fail. (paras 104 - 127)"

Re: @ribosome History fail

"Britain heal thy self. ;-)"

Oh but we did! We sent many of our convicts to the US! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation

"Having said that... didn't they dump all of their criminals in Australia too?"

You see? "That's what I'm talkin' about!" ;-)

Hey, about the rent you owe us....... :-)

Re: Couldn't someone

"have just given him a "nudge" off the balcony?"

The day is not far off when a bee will sting someone like him. The 'bee' will inject a slow acting conoction.

Re: I don't understand

"That would mean we stood up to the USians in the last 72 years, which, clearly, has not yet been the case - Blighty simply is an inflatable sex toy to the US.".

...and people claim that history is still taught in the UK: Harold Wilson refused to participate in Vietnam to both US and Australian ire. One of the few good things he did, along with announcing the end of (most) rationing, in 1953.

Re: "He cannot be extradited ..."

" "He cannot be extradited from any signatory country to the ECHR to any country where capital punishment is a possibility."

So McKinnon can't be extradited to the US then...nice to know."

McKinnon will not be subject to those rules, which are mostly state rules, and only a few states use judicial murder as a 'punishment'.

Re: Rapist get their lives ruined all over the world..

"However, the citation is below and clearly says that anyone seeking transgender surgery etc. must be sterialised beforehand. There are various other locations as well, just look up sweden, forced and steralisation.

http://feministing.com/2012/01/17/sweden-keeps-forced-sterilization-law-for-trans-people/"

First of all this is not a citation as is expected in the legal/academic sense. It is a website run by people with issues to exploit.

Second, the crucial paragraph:

"Members of the Swedish government have announced they will not change the current law requesting transgender people to undergo sterilisation."

Request does not equal force so, even using a hooky site, you have failed miserably.

Re: Rapist get their lives ruined all over the world..

"Sweden currently (as of early 2012) forces anyone transgender to be steralised!!"

Citation? The onus is on you to produce supporting data; as you search for them remember that state treatment of people, including forcible sterilisation, is on the EU no-no list, and causes hissing and spitting matches in the EU.

WikiLeaks haters launch DDoS assault on Russia Today

Coming soon

The balcony scene, except in this one Julie appears asking different questions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310648

He's even got Garcon to advise him on how to avoid going to court over rape allegations. Uhuh.

Re: glad they are locked up

"article failed to mention the trespass and abuse of a religious site and the anti religious sentiment sent forth.

Seeing those idiots on TV defending such hooliganism is a bad joke, proves that the media is only 'balanced' when it suits them."

Quite so, quite so, but what you and others miss is the fundamental and important part of a western democratic state, ever since the aspirations expressed in the age of reason and its reaction to autos da fe, the inquisition and so on; the separation of church and state. Contrast the response to St. Pauls, bear in mind the closeness of the grandson of Josef Stalin's cook, former KGB Lt. Col Putin, who has filled the state Duma with former KGB and FSB placemen, confident enough to reach out and extinguish another former KGB Lt. Col whose remit included investigating him in the days before the drunk, Yeltsin, brought him under his wing. The story is a very interesting and disturbing one. Consider the poisoning of Yushchenko, the fact that Russia has the worst morbidity rate in journalists of any country aspiring to be a 'Western' liberal democracy, that demonstrations are extinguished on the streets.

Ask yourself why it is that the former communist is now siding with another ideology, and ask yourself what you would do in the circumstances in which these people find themselves. Research the summary trials and gaoling of people who oppose Putin.

Something is rotten in the former Soviet Union, and it is not rioting pussies.

Re: 3 russian girls called 'Pussy Riot'...

"3 russian girls called 'Pussy Riot'... Am I still asleep...."

You should have used Connery's line, "I must be in heaven".

Shame on you! Now go and write it 500 times. :-)

Re: Little background on one of the members

"Tolokonnikova is not new to getting undressed for public. In 2008 she and her husband Pyotr Verzilov were involved in an event including group sex filmed in Moscow's Museum of Biology. Tolokonnikova was 18 and nine months pregnant. The footage was later posted on the Internet."

Yes, and?

Re: simple fix for assange

"The Equador government can make Assange a diplomat, and this will give him diplomatic immunity."

No it will not, unless the UK endorse it and I don't think that I have to tell you what their response will be, never mind the fact that the Ecuadorian machine is hiding man wanted on criminal charges. This sets a precedent that should make you uncomfortable.

[Conspiracy theory snipped, blah, blah, blah.]

Re: Those who support Pussy Riot

"Those who support Pussy Riot but condemn Wikileaks and Mr Assange"

Assange is a bail jumper, wanted on in connection with alleged rape, end of story.

Re: How odd

"UK citizen here (recently). If someone desecrated a memorial I *would* want them locked up ... but *should* they be locked up? Freedom of speech is not just for people you like - it's also for arseholes and douches."

I prefer the perspective of another Russian protester who, as much as he deprecated the incident in an orthodox church, opposed what has been done to the demonstrators.

As to pissing on the dead/war memorials, I like the old fashioned village policeman solution; box the fucker's ears.

Re: '"I wish journalists would learn the meaning of the word "Hack"'

"That batlle was lost 20 years ago. Time to move on."

Hmm. Maybe, but in a tech zine? It grates. Really it grates.

Assange's fate to be revealed at high noon

Re: TV Tax letter

"How do you know that it's not legitimate diplomatic baggage without opening it? What if you opened it and it was?"

T-ray scanner; T-rays can be used to penetrate buildings, housed in vans parked outside. These are ideal, because they can not only help ascertain Assange's position in the building, but also what's in the 'bag'. Hell they'll be able to monitor Assange's shit as it falls into the pan.

(Feeling paranoid, Julie?)