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Because technically the methods used (i.e. SQL injection) are illegal if you dont own the equipment your using it on.
Also he is a civilian and does not have any power or jurisdiction to do so.
Is that network yours? No? Then it's illegal.

It's an interesting way to have someone do the dirty work. I would love to see a postmortem writeup.
My favorite part is a wrapper div in the HTML that has the id "avail_rapper".
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Yeah. It is hard to find a language that hasn't been going down since 2004.
What are the chances that if the Affordable Health Care act is found unconstitutional that America gets universal health care in the next decade?
Presumably because it involves exploiting a SQL injection attack on one or more control servers, and then using the control servers to install software on thousands of other people's computers without their knowledge or consent.
It's illegal in a similar manner to robbing a drug cartel--getting arrested is probably the least of your concerns. No one will step forward to law enforcement over it, but organized crime has their own law enforcement.
Messing with other people's computers in any form without their information and consent is usually prohibited by law.

A slightly broken analogy would be breaking into a house to remove a hornets nest. Even if you do it carefully and not do any damage and what you do is beneficial for the community as a whole, it's contrary to the law.
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At the same time, America treats emergency healthcare as a right and then the rest of society pays those bills.

It's probably cheaper for people to get care before it gets to the emergency level. It certainly results in better quality of life.
Right. And I think this is a whole different and also entirely interesting topic. I'm constantly surprised how many families don't simply "cut loose" their 18 year old so that they have virtually no income when filling out their FAFSA paperwork. It almost guarantees favorable student aid.

More importantly, when private universities do post their tuition, they don't post them as "max tuition pending review of financial status", but increasingly they are as no reasonable person will pay something closing in on a quarter million dollars for an undergraduate degree (I'm thinking tuition, books, supplies, food, housing, the whole shebang) that some schools these days are commanding.
And I think it's because the universities spend quite a bit of effort trying to figure out how to shift the tuition to a deferment rather than a waiver or reduction. So we get a "tuition" link right next to the "financial aid" link and a wink and nod from the school because surely everybody knows those rates are negotiable.

I think I return to my main point which is that a decent undergrad education in the U.S. doesn't really have to cost $100k-$250k no matter the school one attends. However, the ridiculous rates private schools post doesn't help things. Their actual average tuition rate is likely much much lower - and the full price is a "penalty rate" for coming from money.

What's troubling is how a relatively simple breakdown like I provided earlier up this thread or yours seems to be a great mystery.
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Thank god for text view plugins like readability, or I definitely would have bounced. The article was quite good.
I wonder if you could go for a surreal argument and go for first amendment rights...
Your friend is doing it wrong.

Instead of shelling out 17k/year, get a 5k deductible policy, and pay for the doctor visits yourself. put the 5-10k you save per year in some sort of investment you can get at when you really have to. Something like an index fund if you're young, or bonds if you're older.
Readability aside, I found this really interesting, so thank you. Marketing copy is so hard to get right.
Those cases do not stand for the proposition you claim they stand for. The Perfect 10 cases stand for the proposition that a website using thumbnails of copyrighted works may be protected by the fair use doctrine if the creation and distribution of the thumbnails are incidental to a non-infringing purpose (in both Perfect 10 cases, some form of search.)

Pinning images in Pinterest is not transformative in any way. Users upload the original copyrighted photos, which are then distributed by Pinterest. In this regard, Pinterest is protected by the DCMA safe harbor, but the users are not. Note that this means that Pinterest would be protected by both the Perfect 10 case law and the statutory DCMA safe harbor, but that users are generally not protected by either.

Pinning a copyright photo probably won't get you sued, because lawsuits are expensive. But if you do get sued, the court can impose statutory damages, of at least $750 but up to $150,000 for wilful infringement. Statutory damages are in lieu of actual damages, so the copyright owner does not have to prove economic harm. See 17 USC 504.
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Usually you can do this by putting timestamps in the URL rather than pages.
Would you open source your app, and let the patent holders deal with this on a case to case basis?
Yep, this is the only solution in combination with timestamps rather than page numbers.
You're not the target demographic. Vintage clothing is a huge market.
You could always go for the European-style universal healthcare, where the Government pays for everything. You'll need to have higher taxes, though, or cut some of that military/war budget.
We sure are. Android is an awesome mobile platform and we're coding it up now!
Strange, a UI wrapper on top of Craigslist isn't very innovative or sustainable once Craislist sends the inevitable cease and desist letter. Maybe I'm missing something.
It was :D

But yeah... what happened with this?
The last point you mentioned is the next logical step in the discussion I believe. As things stand, it would appear the company holding the patents is in the right, from a legal perspective, and that sucks for the little girl. However, were now at the juncture to call in to question the limits and extents of the Patent Clause created to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." On which side of the fence does this scenario fall on. Not such an easy question to answer. In what way do patents "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" anyways?
At odds with many of the comments in this thread, I interpreted the article as satire and was definitely amused.

The fact is that a lot of this is uncomfortably true and there is only a small chance that I would interpret this being said of me IRL as a friendly gesture, as opposed to a sarcastic stab at my character for what I regret may seem to be my failures to communicate normally, or my remote behavior, tendency to obsess, smell and preferred style of dress. One of the small chances that I'd be prepared to accept and face the accusations would be in the realm of satire.

But, oh well - for the longest time, hackers have failed to properly deliver jokes.

For example, from the article:

4.2: My hacker makes obscure, meaningless jokes.

If you feel brave, ask for an explanation. Most of them can be explained. It may take a while, but it may prove interesting.
If this statement is a fact it will have evidence, and if it is an opinion it will have a justification. A productive discussion will necessarily have one or the other.
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Quite a surprise to see someone who on the one hand is educated enough to know about Bertrand Russell's contributions to set theory and at the same time be ignorant enough to imply that Javascript's weak typing can in some cases be a good thing.
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I would love to hear a lawyers opinion on whether the OP has any legal case whatsoever if his "not suggestions" are ever used, his identity is identified, and someone decides they want to throw the book at him.

Basically, if some DA decides this is modern day vigalanteism, a step removed - could the OP ever defend himself in court?
Demand only exceeds supply because too many people think they're going to make a quick buck with their new social recipe sharing startup. I strongly suspect the supply of those kinds of services currently far outstrips real demand.
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IANAL and I have not read the complete unabridged text of the bill but so far as I can tell the only piece that is likely unconstitutional is the individual mandate, correct? The commerce clause can be very powerful provided commerce is already taking place but I am not aware of precedent allowing it to coerce one into commerce in the first place.

Is there such a precedent? Would the existence of such a precedent be a good thing in the long term? I'm inclined to support this bill 100% but I just don't know what kind of effect this could have on businesses in the future.
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"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Saying the "to promote the common good" is not the phraseology, and that matters from a legal standpoint.

I think more elaboration is needed as to exactly how this patent aims to fulfill its purpose. Then we may have more insight to decipher whether the Patent Clause appropriately defends the holder of the patent in this case.
Well, the terms are certainly ridiculous, but the Google News comparison doesn't quite work for me. Google News provides the headline, the byline, a brief snippet, and maybe a thumbnail. And a link, of course. If you want more than the headline, you need to click the link. The fact that publishers often allow you to bypass their paywall if the referrer is Google News shows that this traffic is valuable. But with Pinterest users are much less likely to visit the original site.

That doesn't mean there's no value for the owners of the content, e.g. if it's a pic of some sort of product there's probably quite a lot of upside.

But Youtube is still a much more valid comparison - it's user-uploaded content, not necessarily user-generated, whereas Google News is scraped.

Also, this is less substantive, but "lording over their content ... " ... you make it sound like it's not theirs or something.
A rarely talked about fact is that the US government already spends more per-capita on health care than European governments do. (No, really!)

So actually, it's perfectly possible for the US to enact universal healthcare and cut overall healthcare spending at the same time.

(Also, minor quibble, but when you say "Government pays for everything" you're really talking about "free at the point of use" healthcare. That's one system of universal healthcare used in Europe - and elsewhere - but not the most common one.)
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That's an open question. The legal term is "severability". Sometimes an entire law (or contract) will be struck down if one part is found to be illegal or invalid. Other times just the invalid part will be cut out, and the rest will still be enforced. It can go either way, depending on very specific details of the law (or contract), drafting history, previous precedents, etc.

Often, a law (or contract) will contain a severability clause specifically saying what will happen. (Contracts almost always say that the contract should stand if any clause is found invalid.) The problem here is that the ACA's drafters (perhaps foolishly) did not consider the possibility of a constitutional challenge, and did not include a severability clause into the law.

If the mandate is found unconstitutional, the court will also need to rule on the severability question; it's very uncertain at this point which way they'll rule (if they have to rule at all).

(Bonus question: Do we want the ACA struck down if the mandate is struck down or not? The law does a lot of things, some of which are quite good, and would still work just fine without the mandate clause. On the other hand, guaranteed issue and community ratings without a mandate might completely destroy the health insurance market, without replacing it with anything else, which would be a disaster. The Court is highly unlikely to rule that it's partially severable, so we'll probably see the whole ACA struck down, or only the mandate. In theory, Congress could fix it either way the next day...but in practice it's likely to be terrible deadlocked. Messy.)
Perhaps they could change it to the time of their launch?

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It's not in Android market. Just installed directly on to my phone. I should probably package it and put it up there.

In the meantime, feel free to fork it and use it yourself.
As far as I'm aware, patent cases usually end in injunctions and fines. I'm not aware of any case where the infringing party had to go out into the world and round up all the products they sold. While the internet may make that easier for Apple, I still think it would be an extraordinary thing for a court to order. The court does not have the authority to give such commands.
How'd you do it? I'm trying to do:

localStorage.data = localStorage.data.replace('sword1', goldensword')

But it just reverts after I type that into the console. Could someone explain how it works?
Seriously? You can't compare a luxury item like a sports car, or a magical "government startup insurance" with medicine. Neither of those other two items realistically reduce actual pain and suffering, while providing health care universally can definitely be shown to.

I'm a Canadian and quite happy with our socialized health care. It's one of the reasons that I've been able to make the leap into entrepreneurship - I'm on my third product now. I have no pre-existing conditions, but I know that I'll receive no life-ruining bills from the government if something does change in my health situation.
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While yes this is technically illegal, honest question does the letter of the law stand in a situation where those "wronged" by the infraction are themselves in the wrong? From a legal standpoint, charges would have to be brought against you by someone, and I doubt that anyone who sustained damage from this situation (the bot network's owner) would have the ability to demonstrate such a thing without substantially incriminating themselves.

From a purely philosophical standpoint, you could take a utilitarian approach ala J.S. Mill and say that it would do the greatest quality of good to the greatest number of people to take such action. Granted at the point we're discussing philosophy, we're outside the judicial process which is all that's up for debate here.
Google reader is doing this ok on mobile version for my Androids: they have two action links on bottom of list: "load more items" and "mark all as read", so I do load more a few times, and then mark them all as read when I feel I am loading too much the boat.
NuGet vs Maven seems like a small issue when compared to VS vs Eclipse or even C# vs Java. In the latter two, MS wins hands down. I can cope with NuGet.
You get the same dippy dynamics as you do with any other randomly assembled group of people. 2 of them will utterly fail to perform for a reason that has nothing to with the startup, 5 of them won't perform because they're too busy being machiavellian to each other, the remaining three will get something done until one of the 4 budding Sun Tzu's stabs them in the back. If you're lucky the three guys who were doing the heavy lifting finish building the product before they become entirely disillusioned.

Not to be cynical, but few companies have succeeded with that strategy because monkey issues get in the way. People with amazing technical skills can get completely sidetracked by stupid political games.
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You don't need ReSharper, you can step into the core .Net libs from Visual Studio and it will download what's required.

If you want to step into the source code of other projects however, I don't think that scenario is handled yet. Perhaps a feature to be added to NuGet.
I like this. Has potential. Good luck. :)
A lot of the hysteria is driven by their TOS, or the attention it has gotten.

In the event that one of their users got taken to the cleaners by a litigating content owner, would Pinterest really consider trying to get their legal costs paid too? Indemnification is one thing, not that it would stand up if they didn't obey a take-down request, but that clause should be dropped. They'll never use it and it's making them look bad.

The real problem, as VengefulCynic said, is the huge discrepancy between what their TOS says and the way they seem to want people to use the site. The fact their 'etiquette' is against posting your own content (I didn't know this before) just drives the point home.

What percentage of users on Pinterest ask permission before posting others' content? It may be the case that many of the content owners are happy for their stuff to be pinned, but they aren't being asked. Throwing up this TOS which, if followed, would turn the site into a ghost town is just dumb.
One idea: positively reinforce the behavior of taking a solid swing at your problem regardless of whether you successfully solve it.

In other words, cheer yourself on for ruling out apparently promising solutions as well as successfully solving problems.
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Your requirements are antithetical to each other. If you need to make marketplace payments, look at Amazon's Simple Payments (used by KickStarter amongst others) which prevents either of the end parties from knowledge of each other, but does not prevent Amazon from knowing about them.

PCI compliance should be trivial for any functional payments provider.
Assuming this is not a blatant troll, but someone severely ignorant on why we have healthcare. If you're a troll, please excuse me for wasting my time.

So?

You think it's good for the society to operate as a lottery? Those who get sick die or endure lifelong misery, and those who don't get to enjoy a productive life. You think the sick will just disappear and stop bothering you with their constant wheezing?

Maybe you should learn from the history of humankind and what access to healthcare has done to benefit us all (and not just those who get sick).
I realize that universal health care is not on the table today, but I do hope we can change that over time.
What if one of the site owners 'fixed' their server? That'd be nice and legal, wouldn't it?
Your product-name dropping skills are unparalleled.
I vote for VB.net because if you work at a company and it gets out that you "know it" then prepare for an onslaught of people demanding and going over your head to get you do development projects for them in your "spare time".
The average age of a tech startup founder is 39, and a % of those have families. They should not have to risk financial ruin as a tradeoff for starting a company that could provide jobs.
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I think the OP might be in difficulties in that event (totally not a layer, just guessing).

But perhaps the OP felt it was less risky this way not just for legal reasons, but because it's easier to send one email anonymously than to carry out the whole operation without being traced.

Or maybe he or she had other stuff to do.
You don't like Scala, Clojure, (after only looking at it today) or F#, and you think you 'know the technology'? That's not at all surprising coming from an MS supporter.
Its automatic. If it can't get the source, it will use its built in decompiler, and produce surprisingly readable source anyway (I force it to this mode by default, due to a flaky internet connection).
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This specific instance might not be, but search suggestions could become as problematic as search results. Try "Rick Santorum is ____".
Those 5k deductible policies still cost $500 a month for family in a small group and leave you really exposed to 15k per person (max out of pocket) and max 45k out of pocket for the family. That's not inline with what healthcare should cost. An individual may pay $75 for that same policy but still have exposure of around 15k per year max out of pocket.

The HSA plans are just as expensive as middle of the road plans as well and are geared towards people who save a lot to begin with.
So why can't those nice guys from the FBI go and do it already? It's so easy to replace sites when piracy is involved...
Not a lawyer. But this would never come to pass - no DA would have the brains let alone the skill or political will to prosecute. Also, seems like a freedom of speech issue. Otherwise it would be difficult for educators to discuss computer security. In fact, I'm pretty sure he could even do away with all of the "non-suggestion" text and still be fine.

If I say, "I think you should hack website X, humanity will be better off for it" that's just my opinion. I can even say, "I think you should empty all of Goldman Sach's bank accounts and use the proceeds to buy up endangered rain forest land in Brazil." As long as I'm not materially facilitating the commission of the crime, I'm just another guy on the internet with an opinion.

Edit: After reviewing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#ci... I'm coming to the conclusion that the above is pretty far from accurate in any country. Apparently freedom of speech has been under serious assault for decades. Which is sort of sickening, but also a fact of life.
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Exactly. I'm in this position now: a single breadwinner with a child. As a Canadian, I don't risk financial ruin for any health-related issues (unless I travel to the US without health insurance, of course).

This was a big factor in me making the jump to founding a company from up here in Canada. Hiring folks with families in the USA was a huge pain for us, specifically because of the health care issues. We were paying a lot for them to extend their current health care from their previous employers, and one had the added stress of having a pregnant wife at the time we brought him over, with all the complications that brings to the health insurance story.

Hiring a fellow Canadian was basically a cakewalk.
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You're not actually a law abiding citizen if you just publicly recruited for people to join your felony conspiracy.
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and then reloaded the page, and I had the golden sword.