No U.S. law specifies who is authorized to waive the death penalty associated with this treaty. Including the treaty itself. Even if there were a law separate from the treaty, it would not be binding on the states over state crimes.

However, the Constitution grants the Senate the authority to ratify treaties, so if they specified who could waive the death penalty *in the treaty* then it would be binding on both the federal and state governments.

As the treaty is written now, the only consequence of the death penalty clause is that the U.K. can refuse extradition without breaking the treaty.

If you make the case that you're not an participant in the activity then you can't be a participant. Cox was shielding the identities of the offending customers. That made them an active participant.

In other words, if you get a DMCA notice you can respond, "No, that should have gone to so-and-so with this contact information."

When you say, "Sorry, we're not the right people to contact. And no, we won't tell you who is paying us for that IP address," that doesn't work out in court. It obstructs the process. Bye bye liability shield.

1. Federal law enforcement has no jurisdiction over state matters. If a state A.G. finds something to accuse Assange of that's a state crime, the DoJ can't do anything about it.

2. Any decision by the DoJ is reversible by the President. Except for Trump, Presidents try to give the DoJ autonomy, but that's tradition not law.

3. Any decision made by the President alone is reversible by the President or the next President.

4. International treaties ratified by the Senate are enforceable on everybody, including the states and the next President.

5. The current extradition treaty with the U.K. does not authorize anybody to waive potential criminal penalties as a condition of extradition.

Sum these five factors and you get the result I posted above.

If they catch you in a friendly country, yeah. That's how espionage works. Bear in mind that the United States does not have an extradition treaty with China, so they'd have to catch you in a country which does.

Coerced, cajoled, encouraged. However you want to put it, Assange was an enthusiastic participant in espionage against the United States which was not mitigated by any journalistic targeting of some particular wrong. It was literally, "Information wants to be free and I want to be the hero who frees it!"

We can't actually make that promise. We can promise that the current administration won't seek the death penalty, but that promise would bind neither the next administration nor would it prevent any state from filing charges that carry the death penalty.

To make that promise, we would literally have to rewrite our extradition treaty with the UK and the Congress would have to ratify the new treaty.

There was an acceleration of the degradation of lack of respect for our fellow citizens. Now that we're all back in public, most of us have forgotten what respect for others entails.

Just today, I was stuck behind some [insert vulgar word here] who thought the middle of the one-lane road was their personal parking spot to run into Starbucks who brushed it off when I expressed myself upon their return.

The deal with the DMCA is that the service provider is not liable for infringement IF it takes prompt corrective action when notified by the copyright holder. IIRC, Cox was basically glad-handing the folks who filed DMCA take downs and doing nothing at all about the infringing customers. Consequently, they lost the DMCA's liability shield. Naturally this upsets them. But I don't think they have a viable appeal.

The Universal Service Fund was originally used to subsidize the up-front cost of installing a phone line when the cost exceeded the average. For example, in rural areas where long lines of wire are needed for every customer. If that were still the case, I would be 100% in favor of applying it to broadband.

The USF changed under Clinton. It's now used to subsidize general IT in rural schools and programs that pay ISPs to provide freeish service to poor people. It doesn't even do the modern version of its original job. You've heard reports of Comcast proposing to build cable Internet to someone for tens of thousands of dollars. If that were a "pots" phone line, the USF would have subsidized it, but it just doesn't do that any more.

So, as long as the USF is misused and required by law to be misused, the FCC is correct to refuse to add it to broadband lines.

On my S23, it's under settings > safety and emergency > unknown tracker alerts.

I read Dune back in the day, and, given its presence on my bookshelf, I also read Dune: Messiah, but I'm not convinced that I read it to completion. Perusing the summary of the series of books on Wikipedia, it seems that while the first one was well-written, despite relying on a little more fantasy than I'd prefer, as you go from one book to the next, the level of absurdity ratchets up well into the realm of self-parody.

Can we have a filter that blocks Amazon-related stories posted by msmash? They're all straight-up propaganda.

You're missing the point: if you're good enough at something, and enjoy doing it, you should be able to find a way to earn money doing just that thing.

I've never understood the value of C++. Basically everything C++ gets used for would be better done in Java or now Rust.

The same does not hold true for C. C is basically a friendly wrapper around assembly language and their remain lots of tasks for which staying close to the hardware is the best choice.

C++ started many moons ago as an enhancement of C, but it has long since evolved to a very different programming language. One that has the baggage of C without the advantages of a language whose authors could apply decades of newer learning to its basic design.

I'm fortunate enough to work at a job that I love. Sure, there are phases when it isn't so great, and phases when I would give up my first-born to continue working on my projects, but on balance it's solidly in the plus column. Of the many things I could do in life to earn my keep, what I do now is very, very close to the top of what I'd like to be doing. That I get frelling paid to do it is amazing. And thus, there isn't a real limit to the number of hours I'm happily spending on my work.

What I don't get is that I'm not special. I don't have particularly unusual skills. While I have put in an unusual amount of time and school to develop them, there are lots like me. Most of them have also put in similar amounts of time and school, and they also love their jobs. The common thread among them is that they have taken to heart that old adage about investing in yourself.

So, to all of the people who are responding here with various versions of, "screw the man, my off hours are mine," I ask: why haven't you found something that motivates you? Is there nothing productive that you enjoy doing so much that you would do it for free? Have you not put in the time to figure out how to develop the skills necessary for that position, and work toward it? No? Then the best time to start is right now.