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> Us trying to fire Ortiz is similar to Ortiz trying to prosecute Aaron Swart

This is a democratic country. We get to campaign to replace our elected officials, and even the appointed ones too. It's our civic duty.

Do you seriously think that's anything like a government official abusing their power in an attempt to imprison a highly-regarded citizen for years and years for downloading bulk articles from the university library?
Sure. Lets ignore that this was for a 2-10 person device as asked in the question, as I think most of the answerers also ignored this.

Suppose your credentials are USERNAME and PASSWORD. What is the security difference between this, and having a single credential, which is USERNAMEPASSWORD? If USERNAME is known, none. (There are of course UX things, like sending password reminders, but interestingly enough, the answers were nearly all about security, not UX).
The first number ever retired in all of sports was Lou Gehrig's, in 1939. By the 100th anniversary of that ceremony, the Yankees will have retired about 25-30 numbers. The active roster requires 40+ free numbers < 100. What happens when they run out?
Makes me wonder how many years in prison the prosecutors would give you if you just walked into JSTOR and stole one of their hard drives. It's not even a federal crime anymore.
No, that is correct. He left his hard drive and laptop in the SIPB office in W20. See the Tech's article from August 2011.

http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html
That's not necessarily better. The purpose of plea bargaining is to work the huge mass of petty criminals through the system. The legal presumption of innocence notwithstanding, these people all did the crime, and it's generally a legit crime. Getting rid of plea bargaining means that prosecutors will focus on the big fish, but also means that lower level crimes (shoplifting, pick pocketing, etc) essentially become unenforceable.
It's an uninformed comment by some woman taking advantage of the case to burnish her own image.

However, if he plead guilty to a felony, he could have been sentenced to as many as 5 years, despite the government's agreement not to argue for me. Each additional conviction would increase the cap by 5 years, though the guidelines calculation would remain the same. No wonder he didn't want to plead to 13 felonies.

Technically, this is correct, since federal sentencing laws limit the judge's discretion to raise or lower prison sentences. They actually have a table indexed by "points" which the judge must use to determine the length of the sentence. Thus, in order for the prosecution to honor a plea for 6-7 months, it would necessarily have entailed that all of the (other) charges either be dropped or reduced to their misdemeanor equivalents. (Note that if you read her CV, she hasn't handled a case in the federal courts since the sentencing guidelines were issued.)
I think there's a case to be made though, that using IB when starting out doesn't make you fully understand how UIViews work. So starting out I'd probably recommend you make your own views programmatically to know what you're hooking into.

That said once you get that base level of understanding, nibs and storyboards are huge time savers, and are the way to go.
Have you tried JetBrains's AppCode? http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/

(I haven't but their RoR-tailored IDE RubyMine is the only IDE I've enjoyed using after it for less than a week.)
Here's some more info about the event:
http://allthingsd.com/20130115/google-glass-to-hold-develope...
Connected in what way? Bernie Madoff isn't going to find any friends to do time for him.

Monetary compensation though? That's a whole nother can of worms. Although I've got to wonder if the incentives are aligned such that it would encourage better prison conditions.
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In 100 years we'll have some other addressing system for whatever mutation of the all-connected-network we have then.
Help me, I can't find "freedom of information" in either RFC 791 or RFC 793.

Come on, don't be that guy. You know when someone says "freedom of information is at the core of the Internet's values" they're really saying that freedom of information is at the core of the values of the people who worked hard to build and promote it (see Vint Cerf's recent statements about the ITU conference: http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/04/vint-cerf-save-the-interne...), not that the RFCs defining the Internet Protocol include those exact words.
First, it's very thorough and I appreciate your effort on this, good compilation of things I've seen before and many new ones.

As for feedback

- contrast is hard to read. see http://contrastrebellion.com
- NaN not being equal to itself is not unique to JavaScript (also in Java)
- I'd group the foot notes with the context, my head spins :)

Again, this is just because you wanted feedback, but still I really like it, and thanks for posting
That is FB's plan :-)

Not a bad idea. Perform a search, highest ranked results are for friend's content, then fall through to Bing results. The Bing search API (from Azure marketplace) which I use from Clojure and Ruby applications yields good results and since Google no longer offers search APIs, Microsoft gets that business.
This would basically mean you could never get a large company or criminal organization for anything. If you're trying to uncover e.g. systematic FCPA violations, you can't help but make the case complex.
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And, of course, none of those bankers are in jail, where they should be rotting.

Even if a company is "too big to fail", its executives are NOT "too important to jail"!
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I have a dead relative that would probably disagree with you.

Don't assume so much.
No, the proper analogy is Windows, except 1000x more complex. The complexity of the Windows code doesn't exist because Microsoft profits from keeping it hard to understand.
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I can't read on a bus, not to mention launching a startup.
It is terrifying that it is this easy to get an intelligent and well-versed member of our community to download and execute a relatively-unknown binary, just to "see what it does".

I should probably start doing more of that other kind of hacking.
The culture of "right to criticize without reading" in the US astounds me.

There are a lot of large-scale cultural problems here, but I don't think that in particular is one of them.

I can't count how many times I've looked up Chomsky's views over the years, and every single time I've looked them up, it's become immediately clear that he is completely dishonest.

Normally, I do some background research before I read primary sources, and for the reason I stated above, I've never gotten past the background research.

If you think there's some particular primary resource from Chomsky I could read that would completely alter my worldview (and change my above analysis), please let me know, but you would have to convince me that this is likely enough that it's worth my time to look into it.

Until then, I have to take his statements on face value, albeit I am (admittedly) "taking" them without the full context of the surrounding literature.

Further it is amusing to hear a self-proclaimed objectivist asserting that external forces played a role in causing a free agent's suicide.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that people fall for bad ideas and then act on them. I guess you must have a pretty strawman-ish grasp on Objectivism.
It'd be interesting to experiment with pairing this to a proof-of-work system (e.g. Hashcash) to smooth the transition between toobusy and !toobusy. With an additional signalling mechanic, it could help the surge against peers in a cluster when one server begins to struggle.

Though you'd need a custom client, so maybe for appcache'd webapps or mobile apps, but not typical webapps. Or browser vendor participation (not serious (ok, half serious)).
Innocent people do not kill themselves when confronted with the possibility of a trial. They kill themselves after they have lost at trial.

Citation needed.

It makes perfect sense to me that a depressed person who has realized what trial is going to cost, and who does not believe that anyone is going to believe them, would commit suicide. An innocent person who BELIEVES that they WILL be believed probably reacts very differently. But there are a lot of people in this world who, while innocent, won't necessarily have that belief.

I would not be surprised if there was a high concentration of such among people who choose to use computers heavily.
Values aren't always codified in formal documents. If they were, Aaron Swartz would still be alive, since a key fact that lawyers have been hammering home to us for the past few days is that federal prosecutors are only capable of following the rules as they are written.

In other fields of human endeavor there's plenty of other sources of knowledge. For example, folklore.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore

"History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to ‘protect’ their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression. We must make sure, collectively, that the internet avoids a similar fate."
-- Vint Cerf
My point is that the Internet does not come packed with an ideology, the personal politics of some of its creators aside.
I really love your blog posts. I've yet to read one yet that isn't thoughtful and concise.
When I clicked on the link, I expected to see an unlocked closet primarily used to store mops, floor wax and boxes of copier paper.

Instead, I saw a small carpeted room containing a half-full rack of telecom gear, featuring several Ethernet switches providing 100 or so switchports for end users, punchdown blocks for terminating phone service to a similar number of incoming lines, and a small number of switchports on what looks like an administratively privileged network via a second smaller switch.

The list price of the larger Cisco with all three power supplies and several 24-port GigE cards was at least $15,000 the last time I had to buy one.

The fiber uplinks to other rooms (provisioned like this one, or better, typically one per wing on each floor of a large building) are likely to carry some very interesting traffic -- not just between end users and their preferred servers, but between the large switches themselves, possibly even routing outbound traffic for the "administrative" switch, as well.

I sometimes use separate "control plane" switched media to access "remote power strips". These allow an admin to remain seated at a desk while rebooting machines all over the campus.

Allowing unrestricted access to a storage closet containing that much gear (uninstalled) is irresponsible. Theft is likely.

Allowing unrestricted access to a wiring closet containing that much gear (provisioned, configured, and running in production mode) is a hilarious wtf. The imagination soars ...

Allowing unrestricted physical access to any administrative switch that carries traffic for power-cycling campus equipment on and off remotely is a fairly serious oversight, and not in the least bit hilarious.

edit: It looks like the photos show two different rooms. The wiring closet itself has a bare concrete floor.
Judges can too. In fact, even in my very limited experience, I can think of only two judges I've met that I'd consider "fair". Judges get elected and promoted as politically as prosecutors do, and, like prosecutors, benefit more from a "tough on crime" platform than they do on a "fair to guilty people" platform.

My favorite memory of this is the time that a judge and the public defender were openly mocking a defendant in the court room.
By abusing computer fraud laws to needlessly persecute Aaron Swartz, these Boston prosecutors have done grave damage to the entirely legitimate enterprise of having the state help protect individuals and businesses from criminals who can and do hire out superior security talent. Look at HN over the last two days: anyone who's ever been convicted of a computer crime, even if that crime involved the mass theft and subsequent resale of credit cards, is a newly minted hero of the cause of openness. That's Boston's doing.

The law cannot hope to capture every possible nuance of all conceivable offenses. As every lawyer who's ever argued with a Hacker on HN has pointed out, the law is not a programming language and courts aren't computer architectures. We want our rules, laws, and metalaws to provide every protection to the accused that they reasonably can, but at some point it's always going to come down to the discretion of humans appointed to positions of authority. Those authorities need to be equal to the task, or we delegitimize the whole effort.

I'm sad about what happened to Aaron. I look at the photos of him in his teens hanging out with Dave Winer and Lawrence Lessig; he was a small kid, and I have a big 13 year old. I exchanged an email or two with him, but my wife didn't know him at all and she's upset, as I would assume any parent reading about this would be. And obviously in light of what happened, I'm a little harsh on how I interacted with Aaron online --- not on the prosecution threads, but you know, on threads about "hollywood launches" and stuff like that.

But beyond that, what happened offends me in principle. If they're not the exact same principles that you've had offended, that doesn't matter much, does it? The justice system seems to have achieved a pretty high level of coverage in offended principles.
You're missing my point. They can offer plea deals as low as they want, but then not ask for more than twice that in a subsequent trial.
Exactly. A sensible position is: "Second amendment recognized an individual right, but I don't think New York's gun laws infringe on it any more than their copyright right laws infringe on first amendment rights." Of course, now you'll need a rational argument to back that position up. I personally think this will be a rather difficult case to argue, whereas most parts of a less restrictive assault weapon ban (like the one they had on books before) could probably withstand immediate scrutiny.

Similarly, gun enthusiasts can't claim that all gun control is unconstitutional. The easy days of magical thinking (whether one side arguing "Second amendment does not protect an individual right!" or the other side arguing "Thomas Jefferson wrote ``Thou needeth an HK-416 with a magazine of thirty cartridges lest black helicopters invade thy farm''!") are done.
At least you tried. That is a good start. It's normal that startups/side-projects fail fast, the successful ones are only few of them, so keep trying and think more about what you will be building.
> you can either be an agnostic atheist, gnostic atheist, agnostic theist, or gnostic theist

I have a TV. I don't know how it works. Some people say it's because of electrical waves in the air (whatever that is), others say its because there are small people in the box acting things out for me.

I don't care, and have no opinion on the subject.

Being this form of agnostic (being intellectually honest with yourself to say you don't have an informed opinion either way) is valid.
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It's because we are, at the bottom, monkeys in shirts and pants.
America is not a democracy. It is a republic. The states are also republics, though feature some democratic traits, i.e., the initiative process.
And yet somehow, havoc isn't wreaked. Most bills aren't counterfeit. Most contracts don't get litigated.

I think about security, so I know what you're talking about... but there is a real line between security and fearmongering.

It's just network access, or denial of service. Nothing more.
Thanks for letting everyone know that you agree with everything the review says about Chomsky despite the fact that you haven't actually read Chomsky.

You're welcome. I think that's the intellectually responsible and honest thing to do. And it gives people a chance to point out what I am misunderstanding and educate me, if they really think I've gotten it wrong.

It seems likely that you are an imbecile.

I gave an explanation for why I haven't read his actual literature in another comment. I mean, I don't read the Quaran in order to learn about science, either. Does that mean I can't criticize those who do? Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm not an imbecile.
Do you really think that any legal change would reduce the need for security auditing of apps? I'm afraid that seems awfully unlikely to me. Even if US-based attackers would be deterred, there are plenty of places in the world the Internet reaches but US jurisdiction doesn't.
You could always use META II which defines the grammar and the semantics :D
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I'll admit I haven't read the CSS spec, but I have been reading the canvas element spec in detail, as there's little good, deep reference material for it. It's readable, or at least understandable, but it's challenging compared to more traditional reference books (like MDN's presentation, for example).
Of course, but I was working under the assumption that this guy's theory was to replace ALL democratic votes, whether on laws or legislature, would take place asynchronously and through the internet.

Either way, the point stands.
> Innocent people do not kill themselves when confronted with the possibility of a trial.

Yap. Because they will clearly receive a speedy and fair trial. Without bullying and predatory plea bargaining involved. In the end when they are sure to be acquitted, if the accuser is the government, they will get all court and lawyer costs paid, and then some extra for time, inconvenience and the pain involved.
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The Piers Morgan petition was only a softball to those capable of rational thought. To the many people who signed it, it was a legitimate petition. The purpose of raising the signature limit was to prevent petitions like that from reaching the point at which the WH has obligated itself to respond.
Here is what I did:
1) build something useful, at least, to myself. Even no one uses it, it's ok.
2) try not to spend too much (time, money...) on the project unless it's needed. ex-prj.com is powered by tumblr. I couldn't believe that I can achieve that without coding.
>uninformed comment by some woman.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick

Are you serious? I am so over the know-it-all snark on HN.
"otherwise superbly functioning"--highly functioning people don't kill themselves, not even in aaronsw's situation.
justcheck says "Sorry about that vulnerability that was all over the news, here is an update for you... but first maybe you would like to install the Ask Toolbar??? Yeah?"
Can you elaborate on why you call this the news:yc strategy ?
No mob is trying to "end the career" of some mid-level public servant for whimsical reasons.

The United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts is not someone just "doing their job", it is a very high-level position appointed to serve the public interest. What people want is to prevent this person from abusing the power entrusted in them any further.

Oh look, just last week Oritz declined to run for Governor.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/...
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What about being confronted with the possibility of spending $1.5 million or more on a legal defense?
"Some woman"? Jennifer Granick was a friend of Aaron Swartz's, the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and more or less the go-to lawyer for #hack for something like a decade. That in addition to the fact that she has actually defended computer crime cases against this exact US Attorney's office.

Seriously: find any DMS-100-hacking member of the Masters of Deception from back in the 1990s and ask them to name a lawyer. Jennifer Granick's is the only name you'll hear from more than one person. She represented Kevin Poulson, for fuck's sake.

It seems very unlikely to me that her analysis is less informed than yours. I think you've made a mistake in your analysis here.
C'mon. Since when are technical people so whimsical? Believe in folklore, have your politics, but don't make the ridiculous assertion that a technology for moving bits around comes with a particular set of politics baked in. What, praytell, are the politics of the transistor? The internal combustion engine?
Aaron's impact has been rippling through the internets lately and that's awe inspiring but we're slowly marching into morbid reality porn. Nancy Grace does this exact "thing" for a living. Tread lightly.
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If my lawyer told me that the threat was garbage and that I'd be able to get a plea bargain somewhere between a few months and nothing at all for something I did purely out of civil disobedience, I wouldn't exactly kill myself.
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> Take a look at the Great State of Texas. It is quite free when it comes to gun laws. For example, I believe it is the only state in which you are allowed to use lethal force to defend your property.

Actually a "duty to retreat" is rather rare. In California, there's a right to use lethal force if you are in a situation where a reasonable person would believe they are in risk of life or limb.

I also don't think you can shoot someone for just being on your property in Texas when there's no reason to suspect they are a danger to you, or if they're just trying to steal your car while you're inside the house, etc...
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You can always convert from individual account to company account. Just register as individual first and convert later, if you have to wait for DUNS number. I know getting a DUNS number sucks but there is way around it.
The prosecutors sure didn't hesitate to pull out the maximum sentence in their press release. They made it clear they wanted it all.
> I'm a little harsh on how I interacted with Aaron online --- not on the prosecution threads, but you know, on threads about "hollywood launches" and stuff like that.

Those prosecution threads should give you pause just the same, and Aaron is absolutely not the only person that you've acted like that with. I respect you tremendously for your technical knowledge, but for someone who reminds people to 'stay classy' and who claims the moral high ground with some regularity a bit of introspection wouldn't hurt. I'd respect you a lot more still. I'm very happy to see you come around in your way of thinking about this particular case though.
A whole lot of people who were prevented by law enforcement and mental health staff from killing themselves would disagree with you.

If someone is truly determined to end their life no human can stop them, only delay them for a little while.
Are you a clinical psychologist?

Do you have citations for your perfect sense?

Can you quantify your lack of surprise?
Italy + France + Spain + Germany + UK + The Netherlands + Austria + Sweden + Portugal + Norway ==> 360 million people, way more than the USA.

Maybe the USA are just currently not very good at it.

But it's alright to be subpar, given the amount of money sunk into health care in the States they can get to the top given the proper reforms and some time.
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I wonder how long before the domain gets seized by ICE, or the owner is arrested and extradited to the US (assuming a non-US owner). I mean, the thought of exposing the truth! The horror!
maybe i am missing the point. But by applying the logic of this bill to other laws. Then trespassing on private property, being asked to leave several times, but not doing so, should not be a crime either.