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Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 847

by qapla on Sunday August 26, 2012 @04:56AM (#41127991) Attached to: Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances"

The guy is not a saint, and he is a bit of an ass, but without paper guarantee that he will NOT be extradited out of sweden at any time in the future and will be allowed to leave sweden by whatever means and in whatever direction he chooses once he has faced his charges in swedish court and served any jail time or done whatever service is due because of his crime. Without that he is perfectly legitimate in being fucking terrified of going back there.

There's a number of legitimate reasons preventing the Swedish government from issuing a guarantee like that. For example, Swedish government officials are constitutionally prohibited from commenting on or interfering with individual cases. It's called Ministerstyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerstyre

The Swedish Prosecution office has some relevant info here: http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/Media/The-Assange-Matter

Comment Re:No one's making you buy one. (Score 1) 519

by qapla on Tuesday July 23, 2002 @01:35AM (#3935411) Attached to: AMD's 64-Bit Chip

Even with their "fresh" architectures, these other architectures don't seem to run that much faster than any x86 chip... x86 still scales surprisingly effortlessly, at least from a MHz point of view.

Their superior instruction sets apparently doesn't give then any significant advantage over x86... and if there is no significant advantage, why switch?

The 'train wreck' x86 ISA is apparently working well.. besides, why worry about any real or imagined x86 messiness? You don't worry about any potential kludges inside your pocket calculator I hope...

It probably has a lot of messy code too, but as long as it calculates the numbers correctly, it doesn't matter.

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