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MIT (and the alleged disruption to other MIT JSTOR users' access) may also be relevant to the decision to charge.

My understanding is that MIT has a freewheeling attitude to information, but also deep organizational and funding links to national security institutions. So their hacker ethos might tell them to brush it off, while their federal relationships require them to take a tougher stance.
IIRC employer-bvased healthcare in the US is more heavily regulated, and allows for coverage of pre-existing conditions and so on.
How is this not "unauthorized access" "in any meaningful sense"?

They blocked his IP, they blocked his MAC, and he hid a machine in a wiring closet to get on MIT's network. What would he have to do to make it "meaningful"?
And the stock is down (ever so slightly) in after-hours trading (as of 4:58 EST).
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Agreed. continuation > one-time max exertion.

Find out what you enjoy doing :)
I commented but it's further down...However, if you can't find the app, try this:

Open up the app store and choose Categories -> Social Networking -> Release Date

You should find it there!
At first I wanted to be able to flip forward / backward as well, but on second thought, maybe only being able to add todo's for today and tomorrow is a plus ?
relationships = they pay the institutional fee (possibly reduced) to JSTOR
I'm posting from Elementary OS using the live CD. As others have said, its Ubuntu with a simpler GUI. So you get networking, hardware detection, restricted drivers (i.e. it installs the nvidia binary drivers for the graphics card on this old Pundit desktop) same as Ubuntu. But it isn't 'light' on memory!
Same problem with setting the position off screen or 0% opacity. There is a lot of ways to hide an iframe
But you have to admit, his abort is pretty damn easy to read.
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My previous investors always said that the first 1000 signups to any startup should get a personal email from the founder.

I used to send a quick one liner saying I'm rob, thanks for signing up and let me know if there's anything I can help with.

It led to a lot of useful conversations. We already had a running service at the time though, so not 100% sure it transfers to a pure landing page.
Many people still think she is guilty. It was a shared computer and her mother testified that she had done one search on chloroform. The prosecution countered that there were 84 searches, so the rest had to have been done by the daughter. But it turns out that they ran two different programs on the recovered cache data and one program said there was 1 hit total, the other program said there were 84 searches over several weeks. The company with the 1 hit wrote an analysis showing their competitor's results were wrong. The competitor, with the 84 hits, agreed, and contacted the prosecutors to let them know. The prosecutors decided not to mention that the testimony they were giving from expert witnesses was false, even though they were legally required to do so.
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Anyone can find those features in the man page. I guarantee that the number of people who use those features is much larger than the number of people who read the source before today.

The UNIX style promoted in the "cat -v Considered Harmful" paper may have made sense at one time, but it doesn't make sense anymore. For example:

It seems that UNIX has become the victim of cancerous growth at the hands of
organizations such as UCB. 4.2BSD is an order of magnitude larger than Version
5, but, Pike claims, not ten times better.

This logic gives the same consideration to people who are digging in the source code for these utilities as to people who actually use them. When you consider the relative numbers, that's a very elitist attitude (for some value of "elite").

Also consider the explanation given in another comment for why "cat -n" is unnecessary:

If you want to number a file's lines, 'echo ,n | ed file | sed 1d' or 'awk ''{ print NR " " $0 }''' will do just fine.

Munging text like that is a pretty common skill for Unix users, but by no means universal. If the man page for cat is pretty simple and readable, and the feature doesn't bloat the code to the point of causing maintenance problems, and there's somebody who's willing to write the code, then enabling "cat -n" a win for users.
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It's decidedly uninteresting and unhelpful to read a comment about how something is "probably" violating laws. It either is, or it isn't. If you don't know, don't post about it. Let someone with an actual legal background post.

It's not like speculating about this isn't blindingly obvious; everyone knows that online casinos can get into legal grey areas.
You're precisely incorrect as far as the law is concerned.

If I make a painting, I own the copyright. If you take a picture of said painting, you own the copyright on the picture. If someone makes a collage of your picture they own the copyright on the collage. Both of you are liable for copyright infringement against my rights, but this is independent of your own rights as described above.

This is not a legal advice, talk to a lawyer.
Absolutely. This is not the only situation where expert testimony comes from professional witnesses who make a living supporting various hypothesis using confidently proclaimed but deeply flawed tools and analysis methods that the "expert" himself doesn't even understand. The response is that it's the job of the defense to bring up any problems with experts, but they don't always do that. It's a scam. That this is done on capital murder cases is an abomination, amoral, and should be criminal.
Looks like Ubuntu, with Apple's marketing scheme.
Are acquisitions worth it? Most fail, don’t they?

Sure, Apple has more than enough to acquire many small companies but they don’t even have to use their cash for that. It’s pretty much impossible (especially with the revenue and profit Apple is seeing) to chip away those billions with small acquisitions, no matter the number.

Apple would have to spend that money on a huge acquisition. Huge. And most of those seem to fail. Also, all the interesting targets I can think of (e.g. carriers) don’t seem like a particularly good match for Apple for various reason (regulatory, politically, competitively).
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Apple is firing on all cylinders. What is hard to appreciate is just how fast they are growing even though they are already such a big company. Can you imagine Microsoft/IBM/Oracle growing profit 125% in a year company wide when they are already as big as they are now?

Most companies that get this big can't keep growing at this kind of rate. Yet, they still have a lot of room to grow in different markets - TV, PC, Mobile, Advertising, (other?)

Incredibly impressive.
Jobs like working in mcdonalds obviously require a certain skillset, but that skillset can be taught in a very limited timeframe, as opposed to skilled jobs where that educations takes a much longer amount of time. I'm saying that the availability of such jobs seems to be on the wane.

I appreciate that such jobs are undesirable, but they're much in demands by those unable to take up a skilled trade, or those whose skillset has been rendered obsolete. They might not be great jobs, but they beat the alternative of nothing.
And then let me know where you were when you found it. I'm all about finding random marshmallows while I'm just ambling around.
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Aren't there already cheap composting toilets that safely and relatively odorlessly compost human waste, without he assistance of a bunch of grant-hungry, plasma torch-wielding scientists.

If I recall, you can't pee in them due to ammonia, but there are separate ways to handle fluid wastes.

Perhaps the articles is just trying to disguise the use of incinerators.
At Google's revenue aren't losses kinda a good thing? (tax right off) I mean as good as losses can be. Does this give them an advantage against other VC's? and if so any idea on how much?
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Very simple and great idea! I would use this if it would do landscape view on my Android tablet. Any plans on doing that?
Nobody ever claims that evolution explains everything. The claim is something closer to "Of all theories of equivalent or lesser complexity as evolution, no other one yet discovered has better predictive power".

I'm not sure of my scientific history here, but I believe one extraordinary falsifiable prediction drawn from evolution in its earlier days is that there should be some common structure of generational information between almost all living things, a prediction which the discovery of DNA clearly validated.
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As far as I know, the kernel programs the MMU so that dereferencing 0 will always fault. I could be wrong, as my understanding of the kernel is limited. I am not sure of the purpose of the loop, but to me it make it unavoidably obvious that the function never returns.
Experiment, and find out what works for you. Everyone's lifestyle, environment, genetics, and goals are different, so your workouts and diet must be tailored to fit you. While there are general principles that are true most of the time, there is no one-size-fits-all workout or diet.

The exercise of experimenting with one's lifestyle and seeing the effects may be fun in it of itself.
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Apple is an animal.

Profits +125% yoy

Revenue +82% yoy

Stock +25$ after hours. 403$, all time high.
In terms of broader implications, I would actually have many fewer problems with MIT pressing straightforward trespassing charges. If he broke into a server room and messed with equipment there without the owner's permission, they could prosecute that under very ordinary state criminal law long predating the computer age.

It's the weird "stealing documents from JSTOR" federal case under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that's more worrying, because it's extremely vague what those kinds of charges can cover (in some interpretations, essentially any violation of a ToS).
I actively test down to iOS 2.2 and know that my newly released updates continue to work in the field on 2.1 (due to reports from successful installations by users). (I attempt to maintain compatibility with 2.0, but believe I made a mistake with Cydia 1.1.1: Cydia 1.1.2 should fix this.)

That said, I do intend to start requiring iOS 3.1 going forward, due to the drastically decreased user community on 2.x and a killer feature that Apple added in iOS 3.1 (one of the few features added that would ever make me consider this): objc_setAssociatedObject().
Heading off a message board nerd response: the prosecutor does make influential bail recommendations. But don't you get the impression that this particular commenter would be disappointed if Swartz wasn't imprisoned immediately? That sure would cut down the drama and cost the commenter some opportunities to howl at the moon about political prisoners.
So, I guess I need to finish writing the blog for BoB in BoB now.
They seem to have got to these numbers without doing any big acquisitions. I think they might throw some more money at AppleTV to be honest.
You can use http://gotoplus.me , it's make vanity URL for your Google+ Profile like http://gotoplus.me/yourusername
I would like to do something like this, but I am too paranoid to put this device on my network. Assuming that Google is sanitizing the data is just that, an assumption.

Signed up for the device, but doubt I will use it on my entire network. I will most likely test it with wireshark to see what its really sending.
Absurd. It's also awesome that they continue to mock the Street by giving their ridiculously low estimates for the succeeding quarter.
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Recently found this series with lots of good reading. The GitHub post is great.
This worked for me as well.
HTML5 could pose bigger security threat than the helpful features it brings
You should ask him to look into disk2vhd tool. Allows you to make VHD off a current set up which he can run on new machine as VM until he is comfortable with setting new machine per his requirements.
You will take http://thn.gs from my cold, dead hands.
What sorts of acquisitions do you think Apple would benefit from? My first thoughts are acquisitions at the lowest level and the highest level: chip engineering/manufacturing, and app or web service developers or designers. They're probably full up on the latter.
I know a place that gave new employees (even coders) machines with 256mb ram... I shuddered in horror.
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I am comparing my life now to my life eight years ago, and also to some extent the life of my friends who are still living in the same town and working at the same company.

As far as how my other life may have "turned out"... I guess I'm not really sure what that means. I think the one comparison I can really make is if I had not made a lot of changes. Of course it is possible that I could have changed my life in some totally different direction, maybe without leaving town, and life would have been even better than my life now. That, of course, I can't guess.

But I feel conviction in my bones that I did right.
Wow, so let me get this straight. Anything an artist touches or otherwise considers qualifies as art. Since any representations of such are immediately and automatically copyrighted, I am threatened with the prospect that my own art is inevitably infringing on countless copyrights. Sort of gives new meaning to the phrase "maximal copyright" doesn't it?

Thankfully, reading the second part of your comment reassures me. It's rare that I encounter an appeal to authority where the supposed authority is the party appealing. 5 years of study not withstanding, your comment below about "anyone who understands art" gives me enough information to properly categorize your arguments.
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"...350 basis points higher than guidance..."
My mother was born and raised in the USSR, and got a master's degree in engineering (if memory serves correctly). I'll link her to this comment, and see what she has to say (I'll probably end up replying to myself on this comment, I don't know if she'd have any interest in signing up for an account.)

edit: can we get a reddit-style "context" option? I want to link her to this comment, and display the two parent comments; if I just link to the 'grandparent', who knows where Scriptor's reply will end up.
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I bought my first Mac on Friday at the Mall of America. There's a Microsoft store right across from the Apple store. It was amazing to me how much more crowded the Apple store was. There were a lot of people at the Microsoft store but it was ridiculous how many were at the Apple store.
I bought a Spotify premium membership for a month just to test the waters and have already gone back to rdio. I am very excited about this ipad app.
> The indictment alleges that Swartz, at the time a fellow at Harvard University, intended to distribute the documents on peer-to-peer networks. That did not happen, however, and all the documents have been returned to JSTOR.

All the documents have been returned?!
Can this be real? All-you-can-fly subscription, skip TSA, very inexpensive?
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Thanks. I pasted it from Chrome while looking at the wiki page. :/
You're probably already aware of the Betcoin (1st Bitcoin online poker site) hacking incident, but just in case, see http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=840.msg93927#msg93927.
Mock the street? Lol...

The street loves AAPL and AAPL loves the street. Did you see the stock up 25$ after hours? Who do you think is trading that. Hint: not Joe six pack.
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Boom - Square : disrupting the payments market by sidestepping entrenched lock-ins (verisign terminals, merchant agreements, etc)

Bubble - Pets.com : doing the same thing somebody else does execept with a Web UI.

A couple of examples that stood out for me.

But to answer your question more directly, a 'boom' is a durable growth in value due to measurable productivity and revenue gains. Typically rising revenue/employee and net-income/per-customer are good indications of 'boom'. A Bubble is often characterized by an increase in value without significant change in the fundamentals of a company (either revenue/employee or income/customer). The latter is speculation that in the future the company will be worth more than it is now, the latter reflects that the company is actually worth more now than it was before.

Loved the graphic too, it was a good characterization. I think there is a tremendous amount of trepidation about the possibility of being 'caught' in another bubble. So much so my Dad asked me if he should move his remaining 401k balance from equities into gold because he was worried the tech bubble was going to 'crash the stock market again.' I suggested that the thing that is going to crash the stock market is the AAA debt crisis.
I've searched TechCrunch and news.ycombinator.com and Slashdot and no one has mentioned this. I'm curious if this is for real? Seems like if someone was making such an offer, there would be some news about it?
Unless JSTOR is itself at risk of prosecution for something, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that they'd care how Federal prosecutors felt about their public statements.
"We will apply microwave technology to transform human waste into electricity."

Not sure how this works, but it sounds like it would only worsen the situation.
> The country in which your Google Checkout account is registered is not supported at this time.

Come on! If you can handle Android Market payments for me, why not other payments?
I guess here's one advantage of trying to get a job coming out of academia: We do that kind of whiteboard discussions all the time. I'm actually surprised that you wouldn't have done this ever at a normal job either. I mean, how do you hash things out with your coworkers?
Wouldn't any code of ethics endorsed by Harvard view hacking MIT as a virtuous act?
Not surprising that Google would be on the hunt for the next hit among startups. We've seen them do it within their own products, ala GMail, Google Maps, Google Voice, etc. Tech companies don't tend to stick around unless they move with the times, and of all companies I'd bet Google knows it.
ah okay, got it.
It's also occasionally useful in the construction of #define macros, where readability is often sacrificed for proper semantics regarding side effects and part-of-speech.
How long did this take you to do?
"Javascript is the x86 of the web"

This won't be fully true until everyone is on the same page with ECMAScript5.
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Not sure if you are trolling, but here is the after-hours price right from NASDAQ, up quite a bit after hours from close:

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/ExtendedTradingTrades.aspx...
Did he ever manage to republish the articles? Doesn't look like it.
On the Build and Analyze podcast, I remember Marco Arment saying something like 3G users will all have to buy new phones in the not distant future because their batteries will have crapped out due to age. Struck me as a wasteful mindset. When my battery goes, I'll buy and fit a new one from eBay. The phone itself is still fine.
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C++ allows overloading the comma operator. This can be (ab)used to make the following syntax work for, e.g., initializing a vectorish type:

MyType obj = 1, 2, 3;

Due to the precedence of operators, this is actually equivalent to

((MyType obj = 1), 2), 3;

so as long as the overloaded assignment operator returns an object that the comma operator mutates and returns, this can be made the have effect of initializing the declared object to a "list".

This trick is used by Boost Spirit to allow things like (example from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54142/c-comma-operator)

keywords = "and", "or", "not", "xor";
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billions and billions...
I think most great examples of MVP are pretty invisible because you are typically starting off testing it with small groups of users -- just enough to get feedback to move it to the next stage. Otherwise it isn't the M in MVP -- It's not the minimum.

We are big fans of using Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics model... building activation first, then retention, and then going for acquisition, etc.

The first version of CoderBuddy was very minimally-viable compared to where we're at today. It was enough to get something done and to use in workshops. Since then we've analyzed where the biggest bottlenecks are improving activation etc., along the lines of the Pirate Metrics model.

Hope this helps.
Oppenheimer mentioned that Apple is transitioning products and that it will impact their projected revenues. Is this Lion/MBA/MB/iPhone? If so, how would that lead to a softening of revenue?
That does shed a new light to their statement. Seems like both parties made some lousy calls which led to a very ugly situation.

I don't understand the legal mechanisms that could lead to JSTOR not showing any public support for Aaron, and if those exist, but I hope they will show some support during the process (as well as the MIT). Gov shouldn't put digital theft in the same basket as physical theft.
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I may be wrong, but I thought that in a multithreaded environment, doing i++ is not atomic and could result in garbled data. Instead you should use __sync_add_and_fetch. However, I have no idea if it should be used inside abort().
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Subject: Help me hack college education cost!

Greetings all,

I'd like to start this post of my little introduction of myself.

I'm 19 a student (High-school pass-out),developer and entrepreneur from India.

I have an ambition to study CS in abroad but i do not have the financial capacity pay fees nor do i want my family to me for it or take up a loan/ debt.

I'm just an avg student with around 70% percentile in high school so meritorious scholarships are hard to me.

I'd like all of you to give the best possible suggestion how i can pay for my college education.

Also interested in opportunities where i can work as developer and your start-up pays for college :P
Startup Bubbles Are Like Snowflakes: No Two Are Ever The Same.
This is one of the best infographics I can remember. Really puts a lot of things in perspective that I had forgotten about from the 1999 bubble. CueCat?? AllAdvantage??? Doesn't even compare.
What they built lasted until now, that's how we know about it. How much modern stuff would last even a hundred years, let alone a thousand?