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I'll restate some of the items from your second paragraph in a way that emphasizes why I think Aaron's Guerilla[sic] Open Access[0] concept is a noble one.

He started downloading for free all the documents that were otherwise behind a pay-for-access service that placed limits on what a person could get at.

He saw that scientific research, much of which was paid for by taxes (i.e. the people), was held hostage behind a paywall and wanted to provide that information to a deserving audience.

He used various methods to circumvent attempts to prevent him from doing it.

He encountered a bug in a computer system and created a workaround.

He took measures to conceal his activity.

He behaved like many of the students on any college campus would when preparing a harmless prank or exploring a steam tunnel, and perhaps didn't want his laptop stolen.

But we can agree here. It is also my opinion that Aaron should not have been facing prison time. We have prisons overflowing with bad people that have caused far greater chaos and pain than Aaron. Aaron probably should have had a lengthy house arrest and a hefty fine. Maybe restricted use of computers, etc. And that very well might have been what he would have ended up with if he'd stuck it out.

Much of my vehemence in these discussions of the last week stems from the sheer magnitude of the onslaught that is standard practice for prosecutors. If the law and its enforcers were more reasonable in this case, I'd find it much easier to be reasonable in response. Instead, prosecutors seem to see fit to alienate a huge chunk of the population, spreading disrespect for the law (and, I guess, giving them more defendants to prosecute in the future).

I'd be perfectly happy myself, if I were Aaron, to publicly apologize, do some community service, and go on my way never to interact with JSTOR or MIT again, as this prevents the alleged harm that would have come to JSTOR with the minimum necessary imposition from the law. But I would not be happy about being bullied by prosecutors. I don't even see why house arrest should be "lengthy," or a fine "hefty," because in reality his actions had a minimal effect on MIT or JSTOR (bandwidth is cheap).

[0]http://pastebin.com/cefxMVAy
When you say validate the merit of the idea, what do you mean exactly? As in what will you offer startups that they cannot do themselves?
I don't know how I can make myself more clear that the intent of the footnote was to avoid having the post derailed by conversations of this sort. I considered asking "who here is not male?" and leaving it up to the people replying how they wanted to interpret that, but I felt that would be even more weird.

So, to restate: Who here is female? (no offense intended to anyone who feels they are even more in the minority than women).
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Big Bang Theory is definitely not a show for geeks.

Now Fringe, there's a show for geeks (warning the science may be slightly liberal at times)
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Let's just hope Go! doesn't suddenly become popular...
Whether he has legal recourse, he can still call people out on it. These Svbtle clones are way beyond "taking inspiration" the way one phone takes inspiration from another and incrementally improves or differentiates on it.

They're blatantly, outright, misleading. I had no idea it was a clone until now.

Also IANAL but I think it's more likely to be protected by copyright than a patent, which means there's no short-term limit like that.
And this is what I don't really understand. Python or Ruby are excellent in the domain you talk about, but I would always, always reach for C++ over C if given the choice. The C++ standard library for me alone makes this such a simple choice. A lot of C code to me just looks horribly ugly these days - stuff like:

int compare(const void *a, const void *b)
{
return *((int*)a) < *((int*)b);
}

Yuck.
In the same way that code isn't data.

Yes, it's bytes in memory like any other data, but it's the means rather than the end. You care about the data, and the query (or code) is what you use to get it.
Off topic (but curious):

@knwang - Have you tested your headline?
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I did read the case, and I do understand that the circumstances are different. The piece I wanted to draw attention to is that there are criterion for what constitutes a threat.

The examples you have provided in both of your posts include ominous characters and "dark alleys." More importantly, both of those situations involve an agent telling the other person they should take some action or there will be some consequence, implying that if the action is not taken, then there is a risk of the consequence. In the press release by the prosecutor, there was simply a statement of consequence, not a prescribed set of choices or a consequence if Swartz didn't take a certain action. There may have been threatening outside of the press release, but those facts are still murky and it is outside of the scope of what I am talking about.

If you are picking a bone with plea bargaining and how it is used to threaten people and coerce them into guilty pleas, then that is fine, I'm not arguing with you there - just with the perception that the prosecutor's statement was threatening.
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I use NoScript in Firefox. You can white-list the sites that want you to use JavaScript, and deny the ones that don't. I'll white-list HN, Reddit, Gmail, etc. but if I go to a site that isn't Facebook which suddenly requires me to enable Facebook's Javascript code, for who knows what reason, I'm not allowing that code to run in that session.

To more directly answer your question, yes, many sites will not be very good with JS turned off, but I can decide whether that site is using or not.
Discussing money, at least in the United States, is frowned upon. It's not that way in the rest of the world though.
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There's nothing hilarious about 1 million tweets @3:00 am complaining about your server being down . . . of course if it's somebody elses server, well, that's comedy gold.
Definitely, I would be surprised if this post would get to the top otherwise. A vague title with the heroku domain has probably attracted a lot of clicks.
Look like a great tool, will sign up for the Github commit as well.
fair point. but, op was contrasting HBOs version with Bravos version, both of which presumably do a great job of mocking and fawning. which suggests the proposed source of irony is elsewhere.
There's no need to emphasize fiction there; both shows are fake.
They're still not removing the body scanners entirely though, just the ones that can't display a generic outline. The privacy violations and radiation exposure will continue.
I agree with you, but this should not be the #1 comment on HN.

HN comments are sorted by age as well as number of votes (and supposedly the reputation of the poster, in some cases), so being in the top spot may not mean that it's the highest voted comment, and may be temporary.

But the next time you call lobbying bad, just remember that lobbying is an important part of having informed legislatures.

Surely there's a better way, like maybe the Congressional Research Service? Or legislators actually -- and I know, this is a radical suggestion -- learning on their own about the topics on which they legislate?
"Without...copyright..."

He holds the copyright to the html code, css, etc, the moment he writes it. He holds the sole right to license his work. You (figurative "you") don't see a license? That means it hasn't been licensed to you and your re-use of it constitutes copyright infringement.
It was, but still, evenings are almost never warm (i.e. above 70) except for a few days in July/August. That makes it easier to sleep, but I do miss warm summer evenings outside.
Are you unaware of Ghostery, or do you not trust it (why not)?

https://www.ghostery.com/

I use that, AdBlock, and YesScript for the occasional particularly annoying site (it's a blacklist, not a whitelist like NoScript). I also clear all cookies on browser quit. Haven't lost sleep over browsing privacy in a long time.
I don't see what phpvirtualbox could be used for. Can you give me an example? How did it simplify your life?
People who are poor communicators should generally not be in leadership positions. It actually wasn't just the accent, as his written English was absolutely awful, too.
Well ya know if criminal mischief is so easy to accomplish that it occurs somewhat unconsciously, maybe that sort of soft threat just needs to be viewed as the hostile background noise of a public network ;).

Yeah, scaling the sentence based on damages doesn't exactly make sense. Scaling based on damages that were intentionally caused might be a bit closer, but still has problems with the outrageous numbers for copyrighted information.

I can also see your above bullet points going very wrong. I mean, trying not to harp on it, but if we take Aaron's case (and just assume he ran afoul of this hypothetical law by changing his IP to continue to access JSTOR), how many of those would he have run afoul of? Seems like definitely Malicious and Obstruction, and could be argued PublicHarm. And it seems like most cases would involve Obstruction for things like ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history. So we're once again triggering these scary sounding tests of harm for something that isn't ultimately that harmful.

I know it's a common moralization, but some test based on technical simplicity could fix a lot of the things that not-totally-malicious people would run up against.
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What is the difference between this and GNU reimplementing the standard Unix utilities?

Software and hardware cloning has always been at the heart of the tech industry.
Actually, I'll just broaden it: honesty in business is pretty unusual, especially big business. Are you happy?
Thanks for being so responsive in your questions. I'll keep this in mind as I have a project that might suit this model well.
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I would not do the usual bulleted FAQ, by the way. You are dealing with artists, and for them the presentation is as important as the content. Also, you should research what makes artists anxious. Address that in your copy. For example:

(Picture a website with an image of a backstage with some pretty sketchy looking folks in there).

We know you don't want to be taken for a ride. That is why we work with select insdustry people. You will be introduced to them. If you feel uncomfortable, will have the choice to decide against working with them. Our aim is to create a good team that will propel you towards the top of the charts and not nickel and dime you over every aspect of your career.

*
And so on.
It'll be interesting to see the numbers after this boom, SF certainly is getting a lot more expensive. Latest figures though did put the order: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Honolulu, and then SF:

http://gothamist.com/2012/09/01/manhattan_and_brooklyn_are_t...
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Or rather, after reading the article, some naked-image scanners to be removed, and then promptly replaced with others from a different company. No big news here, as far as I can tell.
Does someone know a working Chrome extension / userscript that will disable the Google search results redirects?
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Thanks for the comments, maybe icons would work better to make it obvious what they do. I'll play with that.
Would be nice if it could support iOS 5.1.1.
I really like Fringe because most of the season finales could be the final season and I'll be OK with it. I actually thought the previous season was the final season.
I can be wrong, but I think remembering that Javascript is superset of ECMAScript (ActionScript being also based on ECMAScript, for example).
I'll pick up the mantle and use wp-svbtle on my blog.
georgeorwell, they didn't copy the manual and logo (or even the implementations). They just built a compatible interface.
To a human, a blog with a different theme would still be a compatible interface.

It's one thing to clone hardware or software, but another to misrepresent it as being from the same source as the original.
Well, when you make a syscall, there's C on the other side. You can make a syscall without C, but it's not portable to different architectures. I think that is essentially the reason that every language runtime I know of uses C -- it's the only choice to portably access operating system services. If there is a counterexample that would be interesting to know, but I don't think it exists.

Probably Forth could be thought of an alternative non-C stack, and of course it's used on machines without an OS. But that's how far afield you have to go to get away from C.

My point is that when you're using Go your stack is still Go and C, to an extent. Usually you won't need to peek under the hood, but at some point when developing nontrivial services, you always need to. Basically my philosophy is that you should always understand at least 1 abstraction level below what you program in. With either Go or Python, that's C.
I'm a remote worker and I use VirtualBox as a hypervisor on a server that runs on-site on the other side of the country. I could do most management through VBoxCommand (CLI) but I've become comfortable using the GUI, and because my interaction with VirtualBox is infrequent (I usually set it and forget it) I'm more efficient that way.

X-Forwarding over SSH for this use-case has been pretty annoying (mostly due to latency), and PHPVirtualBox has been a major improvement.
…radiation exposure will continue…

The L-3 Communications scanners are millimeter wave. They do not share the possible dangers of the backscatter machines.
I wish I could punch the writers of bbt in the face after a year of boxing/fitness training coupled with consuming the best steroids on the planet. And then doing the same to whoever that idiot is that portrays Sheldon.
You imply that there is a distinction between those two terms. That's like saying, "it's a choreographed fight scene, not pro wrestling"
I live in Chicago and see them every single day. They are usually on buses and trains or at the stops and stations. I also see them digging through the trash in the alley behind my building.
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And what about those in the west that will really never get caught? I mean presumably one of the reason sentences are so high is because enforcement is so hit or miss, even though higher sentences don't deter people who think they're invincible.
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I understand your viewpoint. I just don't understand why I should care about this project, out of the sea of millions of projects that are abandoned due to the personal/real life issues of the author (i.e. the LuaOS author). Since it is open source, it can be easily forked and maintained by an author that cares (based on the many varied responses to this thread, there seem to be several developers that fit the criteria).
I'm surprised Apple hasn't bought them already.

Tim Cook needs to start spending money to address Apple's weaknesses – they don't have the talent internally, and no one with the talent wants to work there...
A few things I would expect to see:

Profiles for people to showcase their shots (sort of like Instagram has).

The ability to share shots with others.

The ability to have private scrapbooks that you can share with certain people.

Charge per month($50) plus per user($2)
The replacement scanners are not backscatter radiation units and they display an icon of a person with a little dot that lights up to highlight where the little icon man has an anomaly.
There are HUGE numbers of homeless in Houston. The city center is crawling with them. Homelessness is just another one of those difficult problems.
I prefer a solution like https://disconnect.me/ - disables Facebook/Google/etc JS scripts but lets the site use JS otherwise.
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Cool! If you want to chat about it shoot me an email at jeremy@makegameswith.us. Also happy to hop on the phone or Skype if you want to bounce ideas off someone or if you have any further questions you want to ask about what we do.
I wrote that knowing he'd have fallen afoul of malice and obstruction (I doubt very much public harm, though). Those tests are all things I've seen in other statutes, for what it's worth. But, on the off chance that this helps clarify my mentality t you, I'm thinking we have an O(n) problem with CFAA sentencing today, and my alternative model is O(1).

He also could have gone to court with some confidence that even if a jury was so petrified by "computer hacking" and so snowed by the complexity and broadness of the law, he'd stand a very good chance of establishing that he had no true malicious intent, and that his attempts to obstruct investigation were minimal (for instance, he used Mailinator, with its prima facie artificial addresses, instead of more realistic throwaway Gmail addresses).
Indeed that is excellent advice. I'm not sure what one's options are with respect to mobile phone service (this seems like the sort of thing "Ting" might do), but I'd avoid ATT.
There is also no reason that private keys have to be loaded in the same process (or even the sandbox) when an ssh agent is used.
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Please don't bring up this ridiculousness yet again...
That's why I wrote, "unless your actual code is being ripped off." I understand that if it isn't a reimplementation, it is copyright infringement. I strongly doubt that this is what is happening, but if it is, dcurtis should get a lawyer. He should probably get a lawyer anyway if he's serious about protecting his work.
Sure, the details are fictional, but there's a true-to-life quality that some comedies have.
Why does HN even allow redirect URLs to be submitted?
2011? Try to keep up.
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@dcurtis Why not take it as a flattering compliment and move on?
Yes we do. Admittedly it's one of the few short chapters in the book. We do plan to add more content in either the BETA or FINAL releases.
Agree: it is a problem that it's so difficult to investigate computer crime that the unfortunate few who get caught also deal with all of society's pent up frustrations. We can address that by fixing sentencing.
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Did they really say EAST Palo Alto? Maybe if they're squatting at IKEA.
They may do a better job of protecting travelers' privacy than the backscatter units, but they still strike me as being on the wrong side of the same line.
They're getting rid of the machines that expose people (especially TSA workers) to ionizing radiation. That's news, although the headline is misleading.
Yeah, it probably has to do with what we consider urban, or feel to be urban.

The MSA for New York includes places no one would ever consider parts of NYC -- if I'm out on long island or in connecticut I'm not in the city. Just like if you're out in the Boston suburbs you're not really in Boston/Cambridge.

If it really is technically 4 million that's cool, but when I'm in Boston it doesn't feel like a city of 4 million. Just like NYC doesn't feel like a city of 19 million, even if that's what its MSA is.

Boston feels like a small place, just like SF. Nothing wrong with that, it just is what it is.
You know, if the show actually did have stuff like servers going dow, I am going to watch the shit out of it.

Dammit, now I'm setting the bar too high in my head.
Tumblr blog running on Meteor
Using the Tumblr API, we ported our Tumblr blog to Meteor. Source code:

https://github.com/Q42/q42.nl/blob/master/server/blog.js

Actual Tumblr blog:

http://blog.q42.nl

When you first load the blog, if there are no posts, it fetches them with the API and puts them in our MongoDB, which is synced to the client's minimongo store by Meteor. Since everything is reactive, if we post a new post, it will automatically show up without visitors having to refresh the page.

So far we're very impressed with Meteor, our main site at q42.nl runs on it too. Try it out yourself: http://meteor.com or join a meetup: http://meetups.meteor.com
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Any Waterloo grads here to talk about their experiences with this?
Using the Tumblr API, we ported our Tumblr blog to Meteor. Source code:

https://github.com/Q42/q42.nl/blob/master/server/blog.js

Actual Tumblr blog:

http://blog.q42.nl

When you first load the blog, if there are no posts, it fetches them with the API and puts them in our MongoDB, which is synced to the client's minimongo store by Meteor. Since everything is reactive, if we post a new post, it will automatically show up without visitors having to refresh the page.

So far we're very impressed with Meteor, our main site at q42.nl runs on it too. Try it out yourself: http://meteor.com or join a meetup: http://meetups.meteor.com
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Characterizing side-effects as a series of supposedly functional transformations doesn't sound quite alright to me.

That said I'm curious about such an approach.
On the other hand, the mechanism by which that code works is simple to understand and keep in your head at all times, and isn't inelegant. I find that very valuable.