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The original plea deal offering of 2 years is what I find appalling; it smacks of a prosecutor who just wants to get the case off his desk as soon as possible. Read the whole sentencing memo; the 239 month recommendation seems entirely reasonable to me.

He was offered 2 years, after being caught red handed orchestrating a many-months-long criminal campaign against his neighbors in retaliation for a molestation charge he confessed to. He took it to trial instead. In the process, he violated the terms of his release from confinement. He coached family witnesses in writing to lie about the circumstances of his offense. He told the court directly that the actual victims in the case were attempting to frame him. He was given by the court an opportunity to write an "Acceptance of Responsibility" statement as a means of mitigating his sentence; in it, he told the sentencing judge that he was the victim.

As a result, the prosecution wrote:

At every turn, the defendant has chosen not to accept responsibility for his actions and to obstruct justice. This Court has had a firsthand opportunity to see defendant’s dangerousness, lack of remorse, and disregard for the law. A lengthy sentence is needed to prevent the defendant from engaging in any further harm.

Defendant is dangerous. Defendant is remorseless.

Ardolf's own actions in front of the court suggest that he's a psychopath. What judge is going to go easy on someone like that?

What gets me here is, if "wifi hacking" wasn't involved, this bind to the "Your Rights Online" neuroreceptors in HN reader brains and we wouldn't be arguing it. This is a crazy person who has thankfully been removed from public circulation. Forget about the wifi stuff. Total red herring.
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Kerberos is an attempt to push security guarantees below the application layer - applications are supposed to be able to rely on it for their security.

It has been somewhat less than wildly successful.
Sorry, no, that's just wrong. IANAL but it's rather clear that responding to DMCA takedowns is what grants you safe harbor protection, and such takedowns are made under penalty of perjury. Unless you are outside the US or you're happy to lose your protected status and get sued for copyright infringement whenever a user uploads copyrighted content, you can't just choose to disobey it because you feel like it.
Normally I'm pretty skeptical of these types of stories but I must say I'm pretty impressed. I think you have to hit rock bottom sometimes to get the best out of yourself. The trick is making sure you can push yourself when you're not at rock bottom.
I don't have any data to back this up, but I wouldn't be surprised if many/most of those writers are tech writers, bloggers and similar. Google were smart about who was let in on the ground floor. 1) People who have strong social graphs (on the internet); 2) People who will actively engage and explore new technology. Sounds like a blogger to me.
I love the service that Dropbox provides, but I was appalled to see them exploting their user's IP and content in this manner. I've already removed all of my stuff; this is madness!
"a serious crime" by your definition requires imprisonment of "much more than 18 years"?

As for genocide in Africa, I don't know why you ignored the rest of my points in an attempt to paint my position as one of irrelevance.
Many jurisdictions have a great many crimes which are very similar, differing only in small details. These are written into law because nobody likes someone getting 'off on a technicality'.

For example, suppose I kill somebody. What will I be charged with?

Depending on the case, I might be up for murder, manslaughter or in some places "dangerous act leading to death". Each of these crimes has a different complexion and different punishments; the effect is that if I maliciously or carelessly hurt someone I could easily be hooked on one of them. Quite often the prosecution might charge me with all of them at once, then drop charges as the case unfolds.

However, for those crimes which make it to the "finish line", judges may be in a position to consider them separately or jointly. It varies wildly depending on jurisdiction. Supposing this was a jurisdiction where crimes must be sentenced in isolation, a high total is not impossible.

My gut feeling is that the judge has selected the higher end of potential jail terms because of the pattern of malice this individual has repeatedly displayed. One function of imprisonment is to remove the ability to cause more harm to society.

(IANAL, TINLA)
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What about "only the copyright holder has legal standing to file a suit for infringement" and "you can't transfer the right to sue, exclusive of other rights"?
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To me, this seems like harassment, worthy of a slap on the wrist.

Had his plan succeeded, the victim would be in prison for the rest of his life on the combination of kiddie porn and threatening the vice president. That's way beyond "harassment".
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Ask yourself this question again but forget that monkeys took the photos. Who would own the copyright in that case?
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That doesn't invalidate what's been said here. What you quote is not in the main article. And while most probably this series that you quote involved younger minors, it doesn't actually mention their age range - and 17 is still a 'minor'.

inoop was presenting an opinion based on the information in the main article and you stomped on him and effectively claimed that everything he's ever said is now suspect.

How many times has it happened that an article has used weasel words to paint an unflattering picture of someone, only for a more balanced view to come out later? inoop is asking people to look at the information that was presented rather than fire off a buzzword knee-jerk response.

If you have more information, then present it before judging, don't judge people on their opinions that may change with your secretly held information.
No one cares if 'web developers' want to force Javascript on you.

Just block their antics!
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> With all those extremely serious crimes, how many people got hurt?

Several families at least had their livelihoods directly undermined.

I can't speak to plea bargaining, it seems to be a largely American feature.

(IANAL, TINLA)
The problem may well be that specific ARP request - the one at 0.0180 in the original article. It appears to have a non-zero sender IP address, which means it doesn't conform to a classic ARP probe. The Dell Precision laptop, upon seeing an ARP request appearing to come from itself, might well decide that an address conflict is occuring.
base 10

Is that binary?

Seriously - if that is a pet peeve, then you need bigger problems. I'll make it easy for you: if someone says "order of magnitude" they always mean base 10, unless otherwise noted.
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Is there a source for that Hemingway quote?
I think there's a lot of potential here, especially in terms of tying specific thoughts/ideas/moods to websites you were checking out at the time. If you could add links to your "thoughts" and recall the context under which you were having those thoughts, it would trigger more lucid memories and an instant recollection of the resource which you could then re-read. Sort of like an "enhanced bookmark" tool which allows you to annotate resources with your thoughts and recall them later either at random or intentionally. Then, create a visual "tree" around your specific hashtags by date which would basically take you through a historical account of your discovery process over a period of time. So, if your hashtag was #startup, you would be able to recall every resource you read and every idea you had and know exactly when those ideas came into mind and what they were tied to. Neat.
Is this useful up to a certain level of process-execution and then inversely useful?
Surely it is only a TOS violation if he doesn't live with his parents.
Go Paul! Having experienced the 'its not a great idea until someone with an Employee # < threshold has endorsed and/or invented it' first hand, I totally understand how weird that all feels. Glad you did the right thing and got to a better place.
I'm quoting the publicly available sentencing memo for this case.
This is interesting. Is it possible it's a truth and actually you're lying to yourself?
Ya he is a polarizing figure in the world of finance. What did you think of the video itself?
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Isn't it odd that Larry and Sergey don't seem to be following anyone? If you want to do social right, maybe you should start by really using your product.
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Interesting work gets you in-depth knowledge of whatever you need for that specific job. Reading widely (e.g., HN, in small doses, and taken seriously) gets you breadth. I think we need both.
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interesting timing of this "blog post"...Facebook's PR machine has been known to go to great extents in the past. Hopefully the author was not influenced by that.
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Blue beat me too it but here is an Ars link: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/?u...

I read the decision linked by Groklaw as I recall but can't find it right now.

Judge Pro ruled you could not sue for copyright infringement if you weren't the holder of the copyright.

Judge Hunt ruled that you could not transfer enough copyright to sue but not all copyrights.

I've not completely Sheperded that case but I'm coming up blank on any appeals for those particular points.
I am pretty sure that request is supposed to be broadcast across the entire subnet.
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Are there tools out there that you use or have used that have allowed you to keep track of your hours in a fairly pain-free way and that you could keep up with as time went on? At one point at work we used to keep track of individual hours through pen and paper, but that gets real old real fast and you then have to still input your hours into a spreadsheet somewhere, an overall tedious process.

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I spend a lot of time commuting to and from work, anything between 2-3 hours. This year i made a decision to make use of that time for reading. As of yet i've finished 24 books. Hoping to keep up for the rest of the year.

I suppose i can be more effective with reading different books with tailored strategies but haven't been able to find out anything substantial about that yet. Have ordered "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler to see if it can help.

Also, at the beginning of the year, i just jumped in, without much of a definite idea on what to read. The priority for me then, was just to get started. It served the purpose. But right now, i would probably need to revisit that.

I've been doing most of my reading on a Pocketbook 360 and long hours with that, despite the e-Ink screen, feels more fatiguing as opposed to a paper book. I'm looking to alternate more between paper and ebooks.
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The reason 'goto' sucks is that you can't pass arguments with it.

It's not really the presence of 'goto' that sucks; it's the absence of local functions with tail calls. 'goto' handles only the degenerate case of parameterless local functions.
First off, this guy committed plenty of crimes. He threatened the life of the Vice President, he committed wire fraud, he distributed child pornography, he stole mail (a federal offense).

Second, for those claiming that this guy got nailed to the wall because his victim was an attorney: maybe, but think about what his actions could have caused if the victims were less well situated? If the husband's employer hadn't believed him, and hadn't paid for a detective service, he would have been up a creek without a paddle when the Secret Service showed up at his house.

This is terrorism, plain and simple -- making people feel unsafe where they live and work.
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He's quoting from http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/07/ardolf...

Page 8 describes the photo in detail. It's not a 17 year old, "barely a minor". It's a prepubescent girl and two prepubescent boys.
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The pro novelists I know have taken to social media in a strong way. Same with indie filmmakers.

Two reasons, I think. One, obviously, is the opportunity for promotion. But two, these are very lonely professions, and they seem to welcome any excuse for community.
Is this spaced repetition studying for random one-liners?
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So this is an online resume? Not really a job board. +1 for being on github. very cool for being open.
They do, and people who think I'm just a dick, rather than see the truth (which is that I'm a dick to people who treat me and other people like dicks), aren't the kinds of people I want to work with.
Okay, so here's a simple example. You can buy a sack of rice anywhere for $2. If you sell the same kind of rice for $200, do you think you'll sell any sacks? You'd go out of business, and deservedly so, right?

The interesting thing in Netflix's case is that the product is (content + convenience), but since the content can be obtained (illegally) for free, the customer sees only the value of the convenience. If you raise the price above what the customer is willing to pay, why would you expect the customer to pay it?

Now sure, piracy is an illegal act, but so is fraud. Yet insurance and credit card companies manage to sustain a working business model.
Party, mate!

We had our app pirated a few weeks ago, it didn't have any impact on the sales. People who pirate your app wouldn't buy it anyway I imagine. Unless it was really well-known and great - but then there's no chance of it not being pirated.

You can verify if the device is jailbroken, but as @wccrawford said couple of comments below - they might have paid for it. And I know many people using jailbroken devices and not pirating one thing.

Party! Your app was deemed worth pirating.
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> if the defendant is stupid enough to represent himself, pleads guilty to the charges, or doesn't put up much of a fight during sentencing ... well ... you end up with this.

In this case, the defendant was even stupider. He plead guilty, withdrew his plea, lied during testimony, coached witnesses, and violated the conditions of his release. See pages 22-27 of http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/07/ardolf...
>the handset vendors want to keep things secret from each other

>and they could gain a lot of information if they saw the commits as they happened on Android

These two statements contradict each other. All handset makers are using the same Android code with some changes. The Android 2.3 in Sony Ericsson is same as the one in Samsung or HTC. Or is Google developing separate Android OSes with each hardware vendor? My question is what's stopping Google from releasing the base Android OS? And what's stopping them from following a open development model like chromium?

Sure MS/Apple/HP/RIM can gain some insight if they saw the commits but that's another matter.
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Works for me: http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/Country-Australia

It was not listed though as it is probably under the threshold to be listed on the side
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that's good to know. were you able to get clarification around who "owns" the work produced while being employed by a company? based on my understanding in CA the company owns pretty much everything unless you can prove without doubt that it was done outside of work/work resources.
"10x" is shorter, less ambiguous, and less pretentious than "order of magnitude". Same with "100x" or "1000x" compared to "orders of magnitude".

Those places where "order of magnitude" is most commonly used – especially sciences and computing – are those places where other bases are possible, and where precision matters.

Your 'make it easy for me' doesn't match my experience. Often "orders of magnitude" is used as hand-waving, to make a difference sound more impressive than the speaker is willing to go on record about. When tangible numbers arrive, it may only turn out that what was meant was 'a large multiple', less than the actual power-of-ten that was implied by the high-falutin' phrase.

If you've got a multiple in mind, and want to impress careful quantitative listeners, name the multiple. Say "around 10x" or "up to 10x" or "more than 10x". In comparison, "order of magnitude" sounds like wordy posturing.
Not at all: you can readily restrict the visibility of that information, and it looks like Find People on Plus has opted to render a lack of data as a zero.

From the looks of their actual streams, Larry[0] and Sergey[1] are both active users of Google+:

[0]: https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts

[1]: https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts
Thanks, that's very exciting.
Also suspicious (for me) is:

(page 18 of PDF) "The prototype device is configured as a static (externally pressurized) thrust bearing. In realworld thermal management applications such an externally pressurized air bearing would be replaced by a hydrodynamic (self-pressurizing) air bearing, which uses a minute fraction of the mechanical power supplied by the brushless motor to generate the required lifting force."

So the external pump at the moment keeps the big rotor above the surface? They haven't demonstrated how the setup would otherwise work, but maybe for "self-pressurizing" variant the RPM would have to be really high, which would again mean not quiet at all?
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