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I always wondered why if the extradition is just to question him, it would be cheaper to just fly out a Swedish prosecutor/team and conduct the interview in the UK. Then they could determine if it should file charges and from what I understand the extradition for a trial is clearer and simpler to obtain.

Swedish prosecutors might be immune from official or open political pressure, but I'm sure back channels exist. That said I don't think any are being used in this case.

One thing I've seen a handful of times in Sweden, is a problem the US has too, prosecutors trying to make a name for themselves. I'd say that is what is overcoming the shaky facts of the case, a prosecutor who thinks it could pay off career wise.

I agree and think it's a good first step. However I don't think it will necessarily get rid of the cartels. Prohibition gave rise to organized crime in the US, but once it was repealed they already were established and just focused on other illegal activities.

I think they are two sides to the same coin. You can't tackle red inequality without looking at blue inequality. As someone else put it, purple inequality. What happens when a CEO screws up? Blue inequality they get some sort of parachute and bonus regardless of the company tanking, and red inequality people are laid off, fired, don't get raises, or sometimes receive pay cuts.

No, they didn't. The biggest sign you can see out in the open is that the Fire is running a fork of 2.3 Gingerbread instead of 3.0 Honeycomb or the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich.

Does Allan have a pricing mistake for Marco to fix? I haven't heard anywhere that it is a real impediment to TM2. Even in the list message from Allan, he mentions that maybe it was a mistake, but money wasn't his primary motivation.

If Allan is smart he'll look at the Sophiestication blow up regarding CoverSutra 2.5 being a paid upgrade. I think that would be about the worst thing that could happen to his motivation to work on TextMate. Marco should buy another license if he wants, and I, and many other developers will most likely follow suite of our own free will.

I just can't trust Marco's analysis when it feels like he doesn't seem to give any consideration to the fallout. In the last Build and Analyze he also didn't know Allan's employment situation, and many other things that don't seem to vibe with what I know of the situation as someone who has used TextMate since it was first released. Granted I know he was being a bit flippant at this point, but he brought up how there are holidays before Christmas that could further delay things, but since Thanksgiving is firmly a US holiday and Allan is a Dane living in Denmark, it's fairly safe to say that Nov. 24 and that entire week are just going to be another week for Allan.

Bingo, this is, as an acquaintance of _why, the main reason. Though I think it is more complicated than just one thing. Before when he got outed he was able to talk to the person and get them to respect his anonymity, but this time around the person wouldn't budge. He wanted his artwork to stand on its own, and has his reasons and I respected them so that's as far as it went.

The announcement with details can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/kod-app/browse_thread/thread/...

There may be other complexities to it, but I never thought the GPL v2 explicitly forbad DRM signed apps. Also it was my understanding that providing the source could be a URL, which is the easiest for everyone involved, but you could also provide it upon request by mailing a CDR and still be compliant. The GPL does not require that the source be included with the distribution of the program, just that the source is available to anyone who gets the compiled program.

As an American with a chronic condition living in Sweden I can agree with you. However the Swedish system does a lot to eliminate and streamline the system. Calling to get an appointment gets you on the phone with a nurse to triage you, so urgent things are seen urgently and non-urgent things get scheduled in. I know doctors and go to doctors in Sweden and they see drug company reps significantly less than American doctors do. They aren't allowed to meet with drug reps like happens in America. I went to a hematology/oncology clinic in the US and there was always drug reps coming and going, if they had cut that down they'd be able to see more patients, and keep their appointment times with their patients. However these doctors it turned out whored themselves out not so much for the free meals and such, but to collect as many free samples as they could so their poor patients could be given at least a partial supply of drugs they would otherwise not get.

For my particular condition a subcutaneous treatment was developed in Scandinavia and the UK. It costs half as much to treat a patient and requires no care from a nurse to administer the alternative IV. I can give myself my drugs on my own time instead of taking time off work to go into a clinic. The drug is finally making its way over the pond now, but uptake is slow. Not every person with my condition can go on the subcutaneous, but back of the envelope math says at the very least $100 million a year would be saved if all patients who could go on went on it. In addition 150,000 nurse hours would be freed up as well each year.

Let's not forget the personal savings of time being on the phone with the insurance company. In the year before I moved to Sweden I lost roughly a week of work to being on the phone with the insurance company cause things weren't billed right or they just decided that I didn't need my IV anymore or getting them to pay for things they pre-authorized, but decided to deny when the bill showed up. I have spent absolutely no time discussing those sort of things in the last 3.5 years I've lived in Sweden. That's time I spend earning money and paying taxes, which seems to be win-win.

I had something similar. We had two programs that you could leave school early for work stuff. They were work release which required being in certain related classes to the job, and internship. I was in to computers, taking the AP CS class, doing the school's website in another unofficial class, but not Novell networking which was the only computer work release class, so I couldn't get work release. However the internship teacher had been a PE teacher at my middle school, and I'd gone to him to ask about it, so when the counselor told us that I didn't qualify, he quickly offered to put me in the internship program.

Technically internships were supposed to be unpaid, but I didn't know that. I almost let the cat out of the bag that I was just going to work early at the end of the year presentation on my internship to other students, the teacher and a vice principle, but quickly recovered following my teacher's scramble to cover our asses.

This article is largely ignorant of the larger issues in play. Media companies only sell the rights to distribute in certain geographic markets. If Apple could let everyone buy from the US store tomorrow they would. Granted there are not iTunes Stores for every country, but a larger number. Many of these only have Apps and iTunes U, but that's because Apple doesn't have the legal rights to distribute music or movies in those markets. While perhaps some markets have been ignored, I bet that largely it's not because of a lack of trying. The groundwork for the iTunes Store has already been done in many cases. Every thing I've heard has presented the iTunes Store as targeted to be revenue neutral, designed to help drive sales of Apple hardware.

To not play fast and loose with the facts, the warrant was signed at 7pm and Jason Chen reported getting home around 9:45pm, but the search was well underway at that point.

Hey if the US and Austria (I believe I saw you comment somewhere else that it is where you live) then that's really what matters. Here employment taxes are taken out like in the US, you never see the money so it would be impossible to pay the US first and then the local tax authority. My company registration is Swedish and my only ties to the US are citizenship, a credit card and bank account.

Partly it's because if something happens, military coup, war or something it complicates and possibly prohibits the US from rescuing one of their citizens cause the other country you have citizenship with is merely dealing with one of their citizens. I believe it's really only ever going to be a problem for non-developed countries.

You pay the country you live in first, or else the US Embassy in Stockholm, various international tax accountant/lawyers and every double taxation treaty I've seen is wrong.

You should go back and file past years if you can, so long as you have filed for the past 5 or 7 years (whatever the IRS's window to audit or call into question a return is) you will be fine. You pay your local taxes first and then file the federal paying any amount above and beyond what you've paid (assuming a double taxation treaty exists). Rule of thumb if you aren't making a ton of money and the local tax burden is more than the federal burden you won't owe anything, but you still have to do the paperwork.

I think I'd happily suspend my tax burden and right to vote while living abroad. If you want to vote you got to file your taxes seems to be fair to me.

Many Americans living abroad are ignorant of the duty to still file federal taxes while residing abroad. It gets fairly complicated fast and mistakes can have huge ramifications for those that ever intend to move back. If you haven't filed you can go back and file them late. So long as you live in a country with a double taxation treaty with the US (most countries do, google it) and your local taxes are more than the fed wants you won't owe anything.

It gets worse if you work for yourself, i.e. I'm a freelancer, and so I get to pay social security and medicare no matter what. Also recent law changes have meant that you have to report any bank account with more than $10,000 in it. As to services of the embassy they charge for everything I've used them for, and it's not cheap, more annoying cause at least the Stockholm embassy won't take a US check or bill pay from Swedish internet banking, instead you have to get the equivalent of a cashiers check which is all but obsolete in Sweden.

I'm going to go dual citizenship this summer. I want to be able to vote in national elections and it will allow me to live and work anywhere in the EU, plus sometimes it's easier to travel on an EU passport. Sometimes I want to toss aside the US citizenship cause of the headache and expense of filing my taxes properly, but I wouldn't want to close the door on being able to return to the US easily either.

The whole tax citizens abroad is mostly based in a bygone era when rich people went abroad to avoid taxes. These days the world is a lot smaller and it's biting regular folk in the ass.

I think the point is that it's possible to get pass poor programming and filtering. A smart developer would've been aware of intval() and used it instead of mysql_real_escape_string().

I certainly worked with my share of developers with just enough brains to know they need to validate the input and might have done their own regex method to filter instead of relying on far simpler built-in methods. Prepared statements being the next step up.

I subscribe that at least part of the 'problem' is Adobe's (previously Macromedia's) attention to the Mac. Flash has always been subpar, and I'm not alone in that the majority of apps that crash Flash is the root problem. If Adobe would step up their game it would probably go a long way, but they may have already blown their chance. Jobs does not like that Safari crashes unexpectedly, especially cause the layman user doesn't realize it was really the Flash plugin.

There is no denying that Gruber is a Mac pundit. Just like a political pundit that means rationalizing and cheering whatever decision the mothership makes, with little insider information. The thing is that whether you agree with him or not Gruber firmly has his fingers on the pulse of Apple.

I know I'm not alone in knowing the real _why, knowing that he was okay, passing that message on and I trying to stop the stalking/detective work. While I'm not sure he wanted people who know him to do so, I think it was the lesser of two evils to tracking down everyone who might know him and exposing them and bothering them.

By that logic then all VNC clients and webviews are in violation. I can use a VNC client to connect to my Mac, see the screen including Dock with Safari and other Apple icons. Any webview is capable of pulling over the network apple.com which contains a plethora of Apple icons, logos, screenshots and pictures of products.

Do you think maybe his mom or someone might know his real name? There are people in the community that know his real name, but out of respect for his desired privacy, to let the art itself be famous instead of the artist simply refer to him as _why.

Definitely there are people that know _why. He has family and friends and such. He just is unique in his style and doesn't want to be famous for his art, he wants the art itself to be famous.

I think that maybe this could have some traction and get AT&T more in line. Though I don't know since the suit seems to be based on some fallacies. AT&T does support MMS for phones that are not the iPhone. Credible speculation seems to be that AT&T flexed their muscles with Apple (and anyone who saw the WWDC 2009 keynote can attest annoyingly so to Apple) to delay MMS on the iPhone until they upgraded their towers more to handle the load. My friends and I would send each other MMS messages from our Sony Ericsson & Nokia phones years ago. I was on T-Mobile and they were on AT&T.

Here is an anecdote from an expat American here living in Sweden. I require immunoglobulin as my body doesn't produce it naturally like it should. In Sweden I'm on a subcutaneous treatment that greatly improves my quality of life. I can take and do the drugs myself without having to at least get an IV line started like in the US. The subcutaneous treatments are starting in America, but slowly and not as widely as they are relied in Sweden. The benefits are increased independence for patients, safer since it is absorbed through the fat instead of straight into the blood stream, and perhaps most importantly it costs less than half of the IV treatment. This subcutaneous treatment was pioneered, tested and deployed in Europe.

That pharmaceuticals in the US are going to stop R&D is BS. I bet there are many 'hacker' scientists that would happily keep doing their job as long as someone employees them. So maybe it won't be Wall St. but there is still money in it, job satisfaction and they aren't going to trade in their lab coats for McDonald's uniforms. Look at stem cell research, private companies could still fund it all they wanted, but once the federal government's teat was shut off research died. Public healthcare wouldn't diminish the government's interest in funding research. Sweden still has many notable things in the field of medical research, and all from a country with a GDP roughly that of North Carolina.

I know the FCC doesn't care much about the rest of the world, but I am hopeful the questions and answers might force some reevaluation of restrictions to make AT&T happy being worldwide enforced. (Speaking specifically of Skype not being allowed to do voice calls on 3G, no carrier in Sweden would object to it)

Also these applications exist and are allowed on other phones on AT&T. Of course the popularity of the iPhone, bundled with the App Store single point of distribution makes it possible for AT&T to insert themselves and have any control. Perhaps if they'd be willing to build out their network more instead of fighting the future.

The Apple apologists say it cuts into Apple's recurring revenue stream. This is based on speculation that Apple is receiving a fixed amount per iPhone subscriber every month. Though even this speculation says it is a fixed amount for each subscriber and is not based on how much the monthly phone bill is.

I like my iPhone, I like developing for the iPhone, but moves like this are making me reconsider.

Maybe _why doesn't care to be famous for what he does. Maybe he'd rather you focused on the art and code than him.