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Comment Insanity (Score 4, Insightful) 650

This is completely insane, made by people who are also completely insane. This is calling burning bridges and not looking back, one day in the not so distant future U.S it self might find it self on the other end of a sanction (after U.N headquarters are moved, or U.N itself is disbanded).

In any case, this is both stupid and insane by the U.S congress doing this. I wonder what threats NSA did bring to the table to get this through.

Comment Re:If it makes you sleep well at night.... (Score 1) 375

It was part of the Roman empire at the time and was created out from it. It has since then gone through some territorial changes as happens in Europe. This is all on the internet here,

History of Liechtenstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein

In history it is close to impossible to find continuous line of succession. Since it always get broken for one reason or other.

Comment Re:If it makes you sleep well at night.... (Score 1) 375

What is interesting is the fact they overlap in both territory and time. The overlaps is only about 500 to 800 years depending on area.

Western Roman Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire
Byzantine Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

One can assumed that territories where lost to the Holy Roman Empire in wars (as border have always moved this way in Europe). The Holy Roman Empire comes from East Francia that only lasted around 200 years.

East Francia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Francia

This is not a simple history, so getting things wrong is easy.

Comment Re:If it makes you sleep well at night.... (Score 3, Interesting) 375

What is left of The Roman Empire is now called Liechtenstein. This is not a simple history, in fact it is complex and based on many old treaties that have full legal status even today, some are more then 500 years old. For instant, the country of Prussia existed from the year 1525 to the year 1947. I live in the part of Denmark that was once a part of Prussia, it did go under control of Denmark in the year 1920.

Prussia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
Liechtenstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein

This map is simple at best and only minor part of this history when it comes to countries existence over time.

Comment Re: If it makes you sleep well at night.... (Score 1) 375

For the same reasons there are 16 different countries in Germany. They do have common government and external policy. But each one has its different parliament, education system and so on. It is not far from how U.S is set-up, as U.S is made up of several countries it self under one government, parliament and external relations. There are differences between U.S and Germany, but they can be considered a minor ones.

I live in Denmark, that was created as a state in the 8th century. I also live in a place that was once part of the country Schleswig-Holstein, but is now part of Denmark due to border changes in the year 1920. It has existed since around the year 800 or 900 (not sure). So it is old country with a lot of history.

Denmark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein
Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

Submission + - New Zealand's NSA, the GCSB, suffers site outage with backup failure (itnews.com.au)

Bismillah writes: The Government Communications Security Bureau is amongst other things charged with looking after the security and robustness of NZ's communications infrastructure, and spying on the likes of Kim Dotcom — when it becomes legal after a law change.

Somewhat surprising to see GCSB being hosted by commercial operators, one of which appears to have put the spy agency site on the same IP address as a webserver with adult content, copyrighted movies and music, and licensed software.

Netcraft report on gcsb.co.nz shows the site is running Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 which seems rather old. Site doesn't use SSL, the DNS zone isn't signed and no IPv6 support either.

Submission + - Android master key found (bbc.co.uk)

jonfr writes: BBC News tells that security researcher has found Android master key.

"A "master key" that could give cyber-thieves unfettered access to almost any Android phone has been discovered by security research firm BlueBox.
The bug could be exploited to let an attacker do what they want to a phone including stealing data, eavesdropping or using it to send junk messages.
The loophole has been present in every version of the Android operating system released since 2009.
Google said it currently had no comment to make on BlueBox's discovery."

Comment Re:Cheap (Score 1) 458

It is about exchange rate and Icelanders scrambled sense of money.

Current exchange rate (1 USD = 123.29 ISK) (it is about the same now as it was back then when this took place) makes $5000 at 621900 ISK. In Iceland that is a decent amount of money, since most people only have 180.000 - 350000 ISK a month. For this guy this was maybe worth 1 to 3 month worth of his regular income in Iceland, if he was on unemployment benefits at the time, we are speaking about up to 4 months worth of his regular income.

I highly doubt he did ask for more money, since he was just looking at the payment in ISK rather than just USD. That is at least my best guess.

ISK exchange rate, http://www.sedlabanki.is/gengi/gengisskraning/

This is high income in Iceland even if it for a short period, but low in the U.S at the same time. Just shows how fucked up things really are in Iceland when it comes to economics and money.

This guy is also an retard for doing this. Since the current shift in monitoring policies world wide are undermining democracy worldwide and that is not a good thing.

Comment Re:Innocent until blogged about (Score 1) 666

There are evidence of attempt of rape according to this women (if she did document it properly, it should hold up in court). This man is a criminal by law for assault and attempted rape, if he has left Poland this is a cross border crime. I do not know if Argentina is going to extradite him for this crime, they might refuse.

While rape did not happen, assault and attempt to rape did happen. That is also a crime in Poland and most countries in Europe.

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