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It could just be some mid-level person, US spook say, who has done this, since they would not be worried about the longer term consequences or getting found out. Someone could easily take some of the leaks personally.
There is a bunch of CIA guys going "Damnit." right now.
There are several games with alternate storylines and choices that do not affect the score. Those choices often don't affect the storyline, either, because it's too much work.

When playing such games, I used to save, try various alternatives, and go with the one I liked best in retrospect. When I encountered a game that didn't allow for saving, I was quite bothered and worried about the game "calling home".

These days, I mostly wouldn't worry. A lot of kids slaughtered cities in fallout 2, or accepted quests from all sides so they could get in everywhere and steal the silverware. Few meaningful inferences could be made.

But the meaningless stuff, like red vs. yellow stimpacks? Doing market research with games? That might be worrisome, depending on your feelings about adwords.
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Promoting government and corporate transparency is a service to humanity, raping people is a crime.

You can't equate the fact that the American government protests about having their secret stuff leaked to 'knowing what's best' for women that don't want sex with you.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable groupies that will jump out of the woodwork that they too have been accosted by Assange at some point in the past and only now dare to speak up.

It's bound to happen, even if it is true...
Namespaces are both the genius and stupidity of XML.

The idea of being able to stitch different vocabularies together is genius.

That said, I haven't seen a single XML toolchain that doesn't have some bug or, ahem, irregularity, in how namespaces are handled. XLinq comes pretty close to being correct though.
--all -meaning- is constructed--

i agree with you - and if this is true then the meaning of life is what we define it to be - only religions assert that there is only 1 true meaning and its the meaning they defined

maybe the blog writer chose the wrong word - instead of -meaning- the word -process- would have been better - in that case we may say that --the fundamental process of nature is a transformation of non-replicating into replicating--
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General Motors hired prostitutes to solicit Ralph Nader because of his automobile safety activism (from Reddit):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader#Automobile_safety_a...

Believing that these claims, at this point in the affair, have any serious possibility of being real is to be ignorant of the history of the way power structures way. Discrediting dangerous figures which are too well-known to be dissuaded silently is common to the extreme.

And seriously, we're talking about the same power structure that has put dictators and thieves in places throughout the world when it was convenient. A smear campaign is about the least dishonest thing that they could do.
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I found this to be an interesting perspective on language learning as an adult: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/koreans-english-acqui...
My experience with people is that a strong personality trait tends to influence all details of how they live their lives, not just what kind of work they do. Someone willing to take on the American government because of the strength of his convictions is someone I would say has an extremely strong personality trait.

Funny, though not really unexpected, that you would focus on that one remark when most of my post was basically sympathetic and outlined facts concerning how difficult it is to determine these things, even for the people involved, much less outsiders who weren't there when whatever happened, happened.
From where are you getting your data?

Excess mortality figures derived from several published cluster sampling studies and then extrapolated to cover the period of greatest violence.

AFAIK sectarian violence has killed many, many more Muslims than the US.

Please read my comment carefully. I said the US government started a war that killed a million Iraqis. The sectarian violence of which you speak was not a significant issue before the war.

And terrorist organizations existed before the US invaded Iraq.

Very true. But it seems that various western countries have done other things to kill and maim large numbers of Arabs and Muslims before the war. For example, Mohamed Atta appears to have become radicalized by watching Israeli attacks against Lebanese civilians.

I gather from your comment that you believe terrorism committed against Western civilians is a reasonable response to the way the US has handled the war in Iraq. Correct?

No, that is incorrect. I think attacking random people associated with the government that killed your family is morally wrong. But I also think it is a very understandable response, one that almost anyone here might engage in. Because that's how human beings operate.

I marvel at your inability to distinguish between normative and positive statements.

You never answered my question though: how many of your friends and family would I have to kill before you turned to violent revenge?
Have you seen Reddit when there the topic of health care or global warming was raging? There was an incredible amount of new users with no comment history suddenly jumping in and defending ths position strongly and not commenting on anything else.

It's public knowledge that corporations, PR agencies, governments, militaries and intelligence agencies have disinformation programs, some of the them frighteningly public and hidden in plain view. The credibility of Assange is about a thousand times better than his opponents, even if you don't agree with his position.
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"Disappointing of Sweden"? Really? Are you saying that the Swedish police should NOT investigate when rape is reported? Or are you saying that you are disappointed by Sweden as a whole because you suspect that a couple of Swedish women lied about rape?
What's disappointing is that this was leaked to the media.
That is quite clever. You can't just arrest him. You can't just kill him either because then we all would know who dun it, but rape is well, anyone can be accused of rape, it would be your word against the "victim".

It would be quite a circus show though. We would get to learn about every little detail. In this kind of case, it should not be a sample of the public, that is the jury of 12 ordinary people of the public who decide, but the entire public. Have the entire trial in public, in front of the cameras, and let the public know everything the jury does.
That's as good an explanation of how that could have happened. What bothers me is how fast this was leaked to the media. Normally the privacy of both the victims and the accused is well protected in Sweden, especially in rape cases.
If the CIA wants to get you, they will when you least expect it. Note the case Viktor Bout who was set up in a sting in Thailand. And even though most certainly Viktor Bout was working on behalf of the Russian government, he crossed the line by supplying arms to Afghanistan. And now he is literally behind bars:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/world/asia/21thai.html
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It bothers me because when wikileaks got a little erratic a while ago I thought of launching something similar, even built it to about 80% (based on torrents rather than a wiki), and rape is the furthest thing from my mind.

So I took it very personal, and I'd hate to think that there would be a strong correlation between people standing up to governments and rapists.
You mean like that encrypted "Insurance" file that's on there?
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I try to have three different priority levels: (1) for things that need to get done soon, (2) for things that are worth doing but aren't so urgent and (3) things I do to improve and recover myself.

I never run out of things to do in category (2). (you can always build links, improve your toolset, work on longer-term features, try to hustle up the next customer...)

And don't forget about (3) -- sometimes the best thing you can do is go to the gym, go for a walk, or chill out playing a video game. Burnout is one of the most dangerous and insidious things, and doing things to renew yourself can really help your productivity.

To take an example, I was coding something up the other day, looking at a really old codebase I didn't understand -- I took a stab at solving the problem and I was totally baffled. I took two hours off, went to the gym, and when I came back I solved the problem in 15 minutes. If my head was in a cloud, I could have wasted days trying to figure it out.

On some level though, your question seems pretty strange to me. For my own startup, my 'management plan' involves seven different sectors -- these involve different aspects of software development, content production, marketing, etc. There are dependencies between tasks in these sectors, but there's always something that can be done. The real challenges are (i) managing my energy [not spinning my wheels, not burning out] and (ii) making sure the tasks that are critical to getting revenue in are done soon enough...
Man alive! I was taking the bus home from school by myself from FIRST grade.
I missed that this was everywhere already.
Irregardless of whether it is false or true, this is clearly a smear due to the timing and media involvement.
Mr Assange is innocent until proven guilty. There's nothing else to say about this. Nothing.
And I don't think this particular accusation should be anymore newsworthy than any other rape accusation.

What matters concerning wikileaks is the authenticity of the leaked documents.

Not the various crimes that the founder may or may not have committed.
He'd be the dumbest criminal in the world to rape someone while everyone is watching his every move.

To do it twice within a few days?

And to do it to women who both know each other?

This just doesn't pass the smell test.
If Assange truly is innocent, that's all well and good. But I for one am not okay with date rape apologists. There's no excuse, as a man, for ignoring when a woman says no.

This looks like a setup. But that's different from saying Assange is still an okay guy even if he did it.
US toilets may flush more water per flush than EU toilets, but a single flush gets the job done.

I will grant, however, that Europeans do seem to save a lot of water on showers.
Leaked? CNN interviewed the prosecutor. Not much of a leak if you're doing public interviews.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/21/sweden.wikileaks....
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So I took it very personal, and I'd hate to think that there would be a strong correlation between people standing up to governments and rapists.

Sorry I hit a nerve. Intended as a humorous observation: Given that politics is dominated by men and most people view rape as something committed only by men, perhaps there is (purely coincidentally) some kind of correlation there.

I'm not someone who places much value on politics. Maybe someday that will change. I believe "The government is best which governs least." I believe attacking the government so it feels all the more compelled to defend itself is counterproductive. I believe in the "light one candle rather than curse the dark" philosophy. I believe that fighting against some "evil" is a waste of time and the time and energy involved in doing so would be better spent building something good in the world. I believe letting opposition to evil define your actions is a win for the thing you view as evil.

The English bible says "The meek shall inherit the earth". I have heard the French version is "The nonchalant shall inherit the earth". I prefer the French version. I've got my own self-righteous streak and have stepped on plenty of toes in my time. I find it counterproductive and continue to work on being non-chalant and offering alternatives rather than attacks. It's slow but I think it's really more productive.

Peace.
Just for people questioning whether this is a dirty trick or not:

1) From what I know, there hasn't been any mentionable cases where the Swedish police has been either bribed or done something questionable. At least not in recent time.

2) The two women went to the police for consulting about the two claimed events. The police looked at both cases, and decided that both cases were serious enough to prosecute Assange. The two women did apparently not want to prosecute Assange due to his "position of power". (From expressen.se - Whether that's reliable or not)

The most reasonable to guess if Assange has not raped them, is that the girls are lying. However, I'm questioning whether it's easy to make a horrible foolproof lie so bad that the police wants to prosecute him.

No, I'm not going to guess on anything at the current moment. I'm going to wait until all the facts have been laid on the table. Much easier that way.
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On my netbook, I have a multi-touch trackpad, so a 2-finger tap does the trick as well. Even with the "target=_blank" I'd probably still do a middle-click/2-finger tap to have the new tab open in the background. That way, I can quickly scan HN (or reddit or whatever else) and open up all the items I'm interested in and then read through them rapid fire.

Good exercise, though!
A "US spook" is not a "mid-level person". Nor does a "US spook" have the authority to make the swedish government issue a warrant. Nor is a "US spook" above the law. It is within the means of an American intelligence agency, or military, of course, but the decision would come from and be authorized from the highest levels of command.

That being said, it would be an idiotic way of dealing with this situation. It smacks of amateurism, and while I may have qualms with what american intelligence agencies do, they are very good at what they do, and certainly not amateurs.
> But that's different from saying Assange is still an okay guy even if he did it.

Fully agreed. No is no. There's plenty of fish in the sea.

If someone wants to play 'hard to get' they deserve to be left alone, on the more than likely chance that they mean what they say.
You can't just shoot him. This is not communism, nor nazism, nor fasicm, this is democracy, where the rule of law is supreme. If he is shot, there would be no people arguing about pointing fingers, everyone would know who dun it, there would be little room for doubt.

Here in the UK they are reopening the inquiry into Dr. Kelly's death, and his death, whether a suicide or otherwise, came amides the dawning of the war in Iraq, so perhaps of a different magnitude, but, he was also a relatively little known person.

You can accuse him of rape though. Now that would leave you doubting. It is not so hard, pay some person a million, or ten million, and its a fairly good deal. It is tremendously hard to prove an untruth and they might get the result that they want. Otherwise, he would still be the alleged rapist, and fox news would probably just call him a criminal, and the trial can go on and on and during that time he might be kept in prison.

As for whether he is a criminal or being framed, both may be true indeed, but that neither may be true is not quite possible. If he innocent, he is being framed, either by the victim, or something way bigger than the victim.

"I understand that this fits a narrative" As doctors might say, if the symptom fits the illness no point looking at other things. It might in this case indeed be different as we are not diagnosing an illness, but common, what are the chances that the guy raped someone and molested someone? What are the chances that he did so now, only a week or so after some nutter called for him to be arrested even though then there were no allegations of committing any crime.

I hope however that you are right. Otherwise, our society would have arrived at that point where the little child cries, but the emperor has no clothes, and at least we all will stop pretending that our system is brilliant, that freedom of speech is indeed paramount, that in this country the rule of law rules for kings and peasants alike and instead will realise that we need to fight for such things and not take them for granted.
The word Geek has essentially become meaningless, because it's been applied to too many different things and people that don't have much in common.

Let's just stop using meaningless words and use meaningful ones.
Perhaps then you could clear up the misunderstanding by pointing to posts you think are from "paid shills".
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It’s interesting that Assagne dismisses Expressen as a ”tabloid” when he has signed up to be a columnist for their main competitor Aftonbladet. While I don’t read either of them and would agree with the labeling, both papers also do a great deal of real investigative journalism (Expressen being right-wing and Aftonbladet left-wing, and this being Sweden ”left-wing" and ”right-wing" are both a great deal to the left of the american right-wing).
1. Innocent unless proven guilty.

2. Whether or not the validity of the accusations can be proven or not, this is slanderous and a well-timed smear. It is a huge shame that it has been leaked to the media.

3. Regarding Julian Assange, at the very least I admire his resolve against incredible mounting pressure.

4. If he is found guilty does that mean the afghanistan war logs are fake and the government are right? ;)

5. For now this is just a baseless accusation. I would prefer to only traffic in facts.
Unlike a great novel, automatic updates have changed the ending sequence to better lead into the sequel- a trend that we will likely see more frequently in the future. Does that interfere with a work being "perfect"?
People do, from time to time, stupid things. There is no reason to come up with crazy conspiracy theories. The jury’s out. (Although they probably don’t have juries in Sweden.)

I don’t really know, though, how this is supposed to change my opinion of Wikileaks in any way. What they do is valuable, no matter what Assange did or did not do.
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I'm not an apologist and I'm not saying "he's an okay guy, even if he did it". I don't see how putting out statistics makes me an apologist. I think it makes me someone proposing an alternative to the dichotomies offered here of "Either he's a bad guy who goes around raping women" or "The government framed him". There is lots of room in life for other options.
True. If, however, this is indeed a smear campaign - think about what options are open that wouldn't make him a free-speech (or 'whatever') martyr - extradition / assassination would have that effect - this wouldn't. Judgement needs to be reserved (as in all such cases of rape accusation) until the facts are in. The facts, however, may not be in for a very long time (months, maybe a year). In the meantime, the media is now free to start every news update on Wikileaks / Assange with 'Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, and accused of rape in Sweden...'.
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I think you're missing the word 'allegedly' in there. The author claims that "Fred" claims that he torched a factory.
Studies have shown (see McConnell's *Code Complete for citations) that bugs are far new likely to recur in previously buggy code than in code not yet found to be buggy. Since so much time in development is spent in testing and debugging, it's not at all unreasonable (based on studies or on my personal experience) to claim that it's easier or better or faster to rewrite code rather than try to fix it.

This dovetails quite reasonably with Brooks' claim that we should plan to throw one away, because we will anyway.
That is true. From interviews however, Julian Assange has always seemed so cautious. It is very difficult to believe in a real Jekyll and Hyde.
Peace in return :)

The things that are happening around us are pretty scary indeed, and it's not the meek that will stop them.

For instance, in my country we now have a nation wide register of finger prints of non offenders. We have DNA data banks, license plate registration systems, identification requirements and so on.

Wikileaks is a force pushing in the opposite direction, something that watches over the watchers. You can't directly attack wikileaks, but you can attack the people behind such initiatives. That person could easily be me or a hundred others who are not going to stand by idly while our freedoms are being eroded.

My passport is about to expire, I will not renew it because I don't feel like giving up my fingerprints to authorities that have already been seen to abuse every little bit of data they have on us.

Former East block citizens are shocked at the ease with which we have given up our privacy in return for a non-existent threat.

We need wikileaks, or something like it. I'm against the way wikileaks is taking sides in issues, I think it should just dump whatever it receives as long as it has been verified to be true and not editorialize. But I can see how attacking a man is much easier than attacking a concept, and after the attacks on the concept have failed we should not be too surprised to see attacks on the man.
> Bad programmers write code which lacks conceptual integrity, non-redundancy, hierarchy, and patterns, and so is very difficult to refactor. It’s easier to throw away bad code and start over than to change it.

Note that there's an interesting way in between. That is, refactoring code with the explicit goal of eventually replacing everything. There are several strategies to achieve that.

Those techniques proved to be less expensive and especially less risky than rewriting everything from scratch. They work because although the old code has an ugly design, it still has a property that is worth keeping: It is working and (mostly) debugged code. Undervaluing that property is the root cause of the many failed attempts to rewrite big software systems.
sounds like a more mature version of Google Goggles
But somewhere this story was made to go, and if it wasn't the women talking to the press and it wasn't Assange then it must have been some person working for the Swedish authorities that broke the story first in such a way that the Swedish press knew to go fishing.

CNN is just following up.

There is a bit of information in how this story first made its way in to the world.
Well, he has gotten away with some seriously illegal and ridiculous shit with Wikileaks in the US, so maybe he thinks that he is REALLY above the law now that he's in Sweden.

This guy seems like a real creep to me anyway, and honestly I don't think Wikileaks has done much good in releasing all of these confidential documents.

I mean, all he has done is try to turn the American people against their government, on top of endangering them at the same time by releasing CONFIDENTIAL documents to the wrong people.

In my opinion, this guy deserves to be locked up, even if it has nothing to do with this alleged "smear campaign".