Me when I take down only one hundred twelve out of nine hundred eleven services, leaving seven hundred ninety-nine services still running

They originally tried to keep it secret but it got leaked. Initial reports were only that CVSS was 9.2 and it was a permissionless remote code execution exploit. After it got leaked what the exploit was, they gave up.

Could not pull shit from it this morning. I panicked because my distro’s repos did not have the version numbers of the patched packages, but apparently the Ubuntu maintainers back ported the patches. Sigh of relief.

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I would be shocked if the UN did anything substantial here. If they do anything, they’d probably re-declare Mandatory Palestine and give it to Donald Trump.

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So far, in the cases which have actually run to completion in the ICC, they have been about crimes committed in countries with weak or non-functional judiciaries. This, I would assume, is the court’s primary purpose.

Your assertion that the ICC Prosecutor is obligated to respect the decision of a state party’s procuratorial authority to not prosecute seems unsupported by the text of the Rome Statute. Article 20, Section 3 of the Statute only precludes the ICC from trying offences which have been fairly and impartially tried in another court. The key here, is that the accused must have actually been tried. A decision not to prosecute by local prosecutors does not prevent the ICC Prosecutor’s Office from pressing charges.

I do, however, agree for the most part that the United States can avoid the issue with respect to its own citizens by simply prosecuting all the possible crimes domestically in American courts, which would remove the jurisdiction of the ICC, averting all the nasty due process violation concerns. The US can accede with a reservation that all crimes involving US citizens will instead first be referred to the US Department of Justice for local prosecution, and then domestic legislation can force the Department of Justice to at least put some effort into a prosecution to satisfy the requirements of Article 20, Section 3 and foreclose ICC jurisdiction.

There are also some arguments about how the US being obligated to arrest visiting foreign heads of state or government with active warrants against them would be detrimental to the general peace-building process, but I don’t agree with this interpretation. Article 98 of the Rome Statute states that state parties are not required to extradite in violation of other obligations of international law, presumably including diplomatic immunity.

So yes, I agree that it is a weak argument for not adopting the Rome Statute. To be clear, I think the real reason the US did not ratify the Rome Statute is because the US military has its fingers in so many pies that it’s inevitable that some criminal conduct has occurred somewhere, but having even a single US service member appear before an international war crimes tribunal would be geopolitically embarrassing, especially since neither of the two other contemporary world powers subject themselves to ICC jurisdiction.

I will be honest, the genuine reservations voiced about the ICC and the due process problems are legitimate. I don’t agree that they outweigh the benefits of joining the ICC, but I do understand that a reasonable person could conclude otherwise.

For one, ICC proceedings take years and there is no right to a fast trial. Article 67 of the Rome Statute gives the defendant a right against “undue delay” but this clause is essentially toilet paper in reality. A defendant can spend years in detention awaiting a resolution to their case, even if they are later acquitted and released (which has happened).

For comparison only, there is a right to a speedy trial in American law. If exercised, this usually results in a trial scheduled in mere weeks, at most a month or two for complex cases.

If the ICC is known for anything, it’s the completely broken pre-trial process.

After the next presidential election, the US should accede to Rome Statue and dump this loser on the steps of the ICC. Might as well nab Bibi as well, Maduro-style.

It’s more a question about why Omani officials haven’t thrown a fit on the international stage about this blatant violation of their sovereignty. I’m not stupid enough to think that Iranian missiles stop at the international border.

Side question: Why, in this whole debacle, can’t ships just sail within the territorial waters of Oman, on the southern side of the strait? Why does Iran get to dictate what happens in Oman’s territorial waters? 've heard surprisingly little said by or towards Omani officials about this.

As someone living in America, I really hope that the next administration puts these clowns on trial and we make the systemic changes necessary to rejoin the democratic world order. Living under this wannabe fascist sucks.

I can’t believe the Board of Peace got the mandate for Gaza. They are absolutely openly corrupt. I expected France or the United Kingdom to issue a veto against it.

This is probably fine as long as they can suffer the shenanigans from the Board of Peace until 2029. The problem is that the UN gave an implementation mandate to the Board of Peace. This is extremely problematic as the Board of Peace lacks credibility and its leadership structure is completely centralised around its chairman for life, Donald Trump.

After the next US president takes office, I think it’s highly likely that the United States will use the threat of withdrawing from the Board of Peace and freezing its bank accounts (the Board has an account at the World Bank which is empty; all funds are currently held in a private account under the control of Trump at JP Morgan, an American bank) to force Donald Trump out of the position of chairman, or try to get the Security Council to withdraw the mandate. If the US withdraws all support from the Board of Peace, it would probably crumble without access to American resources. This would provide a good reason to transfer the mandate away from the Board to the UN’s own Trusteeship Council. At least the Trusteeship Council has a reputation for mediocrity when it comes to overseeing its territories.

Urban Dictionary for people who actually want to know what words mean

In my opinion Wiktionary is probably the best English dictionary on the planet and probably the best English to other language dictionary as well.

It seems like others have already given the definition, but I do want to introduce you to the wonderful thing that is Wiktionary.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul_ass

It’s part of the same project as Wikipedia, and it has a very comprehensive compendium of definitions for slang terms.