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Interesting news, but very poorly written article.
I'm calling bullshit on a strawman argument.

I'm not aware of anyone who really thinks that "mobile" is the be and and end all of their channel strategy. It's just the current/next (depending on where your company is at this point) channel to go after.

On the flipside, all channels are not created equally. Your mobile phone is not simply a version of your PC in your pocket. Nor is the car dashboard. All have an awful lot in common, but they also have their own specific features. Your laptop or your car is unlikely to become a replacement for your wallet at any point, for example (you could argue that your mobile phone doesn't seem to be doing that either yet, but you know what I mean). And there's plenty of things that make sense to implement on big PC or tablet screen, but make far less sense on a phone screen etc.

So while no-one should have a "mobile-only" strategy (which pretty much no-one does anyway), having a "mobile-specifc" angle to your overall channel strategy is entirely sensible.
JSTOR wanted nothing to do with this case [Edit: they are a not-for-profit. Note that it's "http://www.jstor.org/ not jstor.com.]

JSTOR indicated that they had settled everything the needed to settle privately with Aaron. This was all on MIT and the Prosecution.
So Ortiz' message is that - this is my job I fight for the law, and I agree that its over the top, but it is what it is. Change the framework and I'll do what it says.

The law (edit: and system ) is set up so that a "good prosecutor" would work to prove Aaron was guilty of breaking those laws.
The final sentence, which is the responsibility of the Judge would have to take account of everything especially his motivation, to give him an appropriate sentence.

"I'm just doing my job, and the final sentencing isn't in my hands"

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Fine - that's her version, and frankly - its exactly as expected. There really are few if any other ways that Ortiz could explain her actions.

Strangely its also pretty much the exact defense that the Financial industry has used so far. AKA these are the rules, hate the game not the player.

Sometimes people from the outside are required to point out that somethings are obviously morally wrong. Especially when Insiders end up missing it.
That sounds like an excellent approach that should work well - similar to how Tim Ferriss named "Four Hour Work Week". (Not a games guy here, but I am an ad/marketing guy in one of my hats)

Do run your ads to statistical significance, though!
> "As federal prosecutors, our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible."

Protecting? Just like they protect "free knowledge"?
> there's no one to deter.

We'll see about that.
Okay, was. Indeed, thanks to the prosecutor's actions that has been greatly changed.
It's worth noting that many RTB advertising platforms will allow you to target Android users specifically, too. I believe SiteScout does this.
Anyone criticizing this should seriously take a look in the mirror. Do you use stuff like Google Analytics in production? Well grats, then Google already own your production webpages. You include a script from their servers that can be used like any XSS.

If not, well if you do not use third party jsonp, hotlinking or stuff that can be used to take control of your production machine, well then you are granted by me to rant on SSH in your browser.

Otherwise, please realize that they probably can do equal damage or worse through your hotlinked scripts.
When cops come across otherwise nice young white guys who believe themselves invulnerable or above the law and are doing stupid, impulsive things, their usual practice is to "scare them straight." So they get tough on them, tell them all of the awful consequences they're in for, put them in a horrible, cramped cell, maybe throw them in with some real nasty characters, and, above all, get their parents involved.

It's a form of kindness. If you make them crush their self-confidence and make them feel like shit, they learn their lesson. They lose that blithe self-confidence and begin to realise they have to play by the same rules as everyone else. And then, they will hopefully turn into constructive, positive-minded members of society.

The practice varies with the character of the kid, the ugliness of their crime, etc. I'm not saying this is what Ortiz and co were thinking with Aaron necessarily but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an element. Aaron's behaviour was very removed from the situations I'm talking about, so the participants and response was very different. But he sounds like quite an... intense person, so maybe they decided they needed to put a lot of pressure on him to crush his spirit.

Of course, usually the kids don't kill themselves - but then usually it's not the justice department slapping them on the wrist. They should have realised that people like Aaron are very fragile. I won't apologise for that. A more delicate touch was required, because this outcome is just awful and a disaster for all parties. A real shame. But I do want to point out that their actions in frightening him were not necessarily without reason.

By the way, I have spent a night in a cold concrete cell sobering up and feeling like the world's biggest idiot. My escapade cost me $2700 and a lot of self-respect, and though it was awful at the time I am thankful and realise I learned my lesson very economically. Hearing Aaron's story is really painful.
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Just months after being ejected from Microsoft, former Windows Head..
Aaron killed himself two years to the day of this whole ordeal starting.

Either that's an incredible coincidence, or Aaron decided to take his life as a political statement. Given his past actions, that's an easy assumption to make.

Also, his request for a plea deal was denied in very harsh terms two days before Aaron took his own life, so even knowing just that and the fact that he really did not want to be labeled a felon, it's easy to make the connection.

Finally, Aaron's own family, partner and legal representation believe they were related, i.e. those closest to Aaron believe the federal trial was a major cause.

Of course, he also had a history of dealing with depression; I don't think anyone's denying that.
I'm not a lawyer. I don't know what the precedent is or what is reasonable when an affected party does not wish for charges to be pressed.
Interns don't shine shoes, there's a shoe shiner guy who comes around and does it.
Macros are an important part of lisps, and it's hard (as in impossible in the general case) to verify that they are type-preserving.
They have no place censoring the web at all, let alone censoring things that aren't even pornographic.
Unlike say a photocopier and a pair of scissors, or cutting a pasting a screenshot of a scanned document?

It's always been trivial to forge a signature to pass cursory examination, this is just another easy way.
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To be fair, I didn't test it extensively, but the couple of times I tried it (on French songs, mainly) it failed.

I also don't fully understand the use case, except maybe if you listen to a lot of radio in a car?

At home the music that comes out of my speakers is music I already own; sometimes I listen to radio but even then it's usually faster and more certain to just go to the station's website to check what music was playing a few minutes ago, than to be able to launch Shazaam before the song has finished playing.

Now if I could sing into an app that would be completely different.
Browser plugins?

No thanks, the browser is for documents. No need to install security holes.
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I agree, it looks like a hard problem to me too... esp. given the fact that so many of the songs have same scale and chord progressions
Maybe because many still avoid recursion like hell?
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So what is the ideology?

Are you perhaps being counter constructive by just attacking me, rather than my argument.

Feels good, but gets us no where.
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Despite the uncorrelated statistics, consider the premise "going public kills innovation."

The company's focus inherently shifts from providing value to pleasing stock holders. Its litmus of success is no longer value-based metrics, but rather marginal bumps in stock price. This inevitably results in a mindset that prioritizes short-term gains over long-term stability.

Perhaps this is why Dell is considering becoming private again.
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When a computer doesn't work, an engineer finds a way to fix it, perhaps unaware of who exactly, when and why broke it down.
What do you want - an algorithm that says the investigation was 72.3% +/- 5% margin of error responsible for his suicide?

There's no way to know, but it's probable that it's a large contributing factor based on what Lessig et al. wrote.
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I have to say vintage did my head in. I guess to me, vim requires a different mindset to a "modern" editor, and vintage mixed the two.

Now I seem to spend a few months with vim as my primary editor, get tired of it, switch to ST2 for a few months and then switch back.
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This is very silly and very pointless. If they already have the WEP keys then grabbing frames to get whitelisted MAC addresses is trivial. This does nothing but make it more annoying for legitimate users.

Also, for these silly things I usually keep a DD-WRT capable router around like the trusty WRT54G or one of the newer Buffalo routers. It's easy to use it in a bridge configuration to have as many devices as you want behind it.
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The summary field is the best way to talk about your side projects. And it takes markdown. :)
Two seconds of Googling:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/samsungs-q2-2012-earnings...

Apple can't keep playing this doubling/halving game forever. They already strained things with the iPhone 5 form factor enough that I'm still seeing tons of apps that haven't been updated and if they want to compete with things like the Note 2 then they're really going to have to break the mold. All those beautiful IB designs are going to go out the window.

And no, I didn't miss AutoLayout but it's got to be one of the worst Apple APIs in a long time. The textual shorthand is cryptic enough to impress a Perl programmer.
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There are people along history (and I mean specifically civil servants, like Thomas More -the first that comes to my mind but by no means the only one-) who have even given his life because they did not want to comply with 'the law'... This 'complying with the law' is fedding me up.

Someone has already noticed that bankers did also act 'with the law on their part'...

And all the rating agencies, they suddendly 'just offer counsel and advice', they are in no way suggesting that a product is fit for buying or selling...

Is there a conscience out there?
With the assumption that patents are worth having, that would no longer be a bad thing. The biggest problem with these trolls is that there is hardly any risk or cost in suing, and they can disengage at any point if that starts to change. This places the defendants are at a significant disadvantage.

With that inequality out of the way, patents could be what they are promised to be: a way to ensure you can monetize to recover a significant investment that you wouldn't have made without the promise of that patent.

(I don't subscribe to the idea that patents are a good thing though; especially the kind of patents that seem to make up 99% of the patent pool).
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This illustrates why it's a terrible idea to work in a large corporation where the hiring process is managed by an HR department. The process is optimized for filtering out people. The reason why the job postings and interview questions seem to expect unrealistically high standards has nothing to do with the actual jobs requiring any of those high standards. In reality those jobs tend to be very dull and standard.

Tech start-ups and good engineering teams ask a different question: "What value this talented engineer can provide to our team or product?" Their job is not to stop people getting hired. Their job is to convert the available Human Resource to economic value as much as they can.

As far as I know hiring decisions made only by HR departments don't perform any better than randomly hiring one of those 100 candidates. Actually random is better if you really need the absolute best candidates because HR process has a high risk of filtering them out at the initial stage carried out by a clueless junior HR staff. But it's OK for the HR's sake since their actual purpose is to stop people getting hired.
I have difficulty seeing driving a (apparently innocent) defendant to suicide as morally defensible. Besides, their goal should be conviction, not death. They failed to secure a conviction. They failed.
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From the very press release we are commenting on it is clear that this is not mere speculation but what the prosecutors office claims:

"Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law."

At best you could say that her statement contradicts the one of Aaron Swartz' lawyer (I don't know, I don't have a reference for his statement), but ignoring the existence of one statement while elevating the other one to the level of truth is dishonest.
Forgetting visa's, there is also the ex-pat community. No visa problems and the employer gets closer to having people working 24 hours a day.

But, hey, it's hard enough to get people to understand that thriving development communities exist outside of London.
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This is excellent news "Yes, I opted out of the filter darling - so I can access satire, you understand."
It's sad that he committed suicide, but that is not a rational response to 6 months in a low security jail.

Conrad Black did 30+ months. Kevin Mitnick did several years. Even Martha Stewart managed 5 months.

Also, with his profile and past history, his felony conviction would not seriously impede any career he wanted to undertake.

Finally, the whole point of civil disobedience is to break a law, and get caught, punished and make (to a certain extent) a martyr of yourself to draw attention to your cause.
The most popular video games are also the most violent
If HN is any indication, it's not like the point of creating companies is to be innovative anyway.

It's all about webscaling monies.
Why would those be contradictory? If the prosecution charges a person with X, and the maximum penality for X is, say, 10 years then it seems perfectly reasonable to say that this person faces up to 10 years in prison.

In court the prosecution may well argue for, say, a 5 year penality under the given circumstances, and ultimately it's up to the judge.
Not newsworthy; for years he has regularly used products from Apple, Google, Samsung and others to have hands-on experience on the competition.
"I'll never ever understand "programmers" who aren't using a programmable text editor."

I'll never understand people that want to spend hours configuring their text editor, despite how much more productive they say it makes them. Sublime is perfectly programmable through judicious use of plugins and snippets anyway.

A subset of that, I'll never understand emacs users.
I would be interested to hear the rationale behind such a crazy tech stack.
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Ah. I've only tried in on English (language) songs. It's handy if you are out in a cafe or otherwise, public area and want to identify a song.

Singing into the app would be cool. In my ex-company, there were folks working on getting it to work for Karaoke. So you can hum a song and it'll figure out the right track for you to sing with. I don't know if there's a commercialised product like this.
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Except defending himself would have cost on the order of a million dollars (Per Lessig) - does he go to his family for that? Even if he turns out to be found completely innocent, him, his family, and those who he can turn to would have been wiped out financially. That part of the story doesn't get enough attention.
It's refreshing to read an article on the case that from a disinterested expert on the law, rather than the two sides in the case.

Well worth a read.
I'm with 3UK, and have rang them up to get this filter removed. The person on the phone assured me it would be lifted within 24 hours - it's still the same. This was about 5 months ago.
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Or maybe because of some bug somewhere on the way? Like congested campus wireless breaking down?

Unless you've received a notification from administrator, there is no way of telling for sure, really. Just guesswork.

And there are no physical doors on the network. So they can not be slammed in your face. All that you can observe is dropping connections, negative acknowledgements, server messages, etc.
After the fact you can try to make it sound however you like. But when your option is to get off the lawn or get a bullet in the head, it sounds entirely different. The release is loaded with statements making it sound like he "deserved it" and some empty "didn't intend to" is worthless.
One, two, a million, four million, what difference does it actually make? The crime was violating the terms, it isn't relevant where the EOF bit was transmitted. If you made the same files half as big he would have "stolen" twice as many files, or twice as big then he would have done half the crime by your logic.

He never distributed anything. No clue where you got that from?

Additionally "threatening a business model" within its self isn't a crime. In fact one might argue that it is a very good thing. Monopolies have often fallen to disruptive technologies, should we go arrest the people behind VoIP because they went after the telecos? Or the inventors of the printing press because they put scribes out of business? Or the inventor of the light-bulb because nobody had to light all of those candles each night?

The only "crime" here was violating terms. For that they want to hit him with between six months and thirty five years of jail (plus costs, fines, and a criminal record). If this same over-reaction was applied to all terms violators we would have half the country in jail right now.
What I hate, that most of the jQuery plugins have a huge lack of documentation. You select plugin and then spend next day trying to figure out how it's working. It's almost the same as dowloading random js file form random website and trying to use it. Looked through currently available repos, and half of them lack even simple plugin usage cases in repositories :)
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The maximum was so high they didn't even need to go near it for the terrifying threats of the > 10:1 ratio. The talk is that the plea would have been 6 months and that at trial they would have asked for 6 years. 12:1 ratio and they can truthfully say that they weren't asking for the maximum. They can't truthfully say that they wouldn't seek the ridiculous though.

Likewise she focused on the plea bargain offer of side of 6 months but not on the fact that this would have involved admitting guilt to 13 felonies. For someone with honour who really believed themselves not guilty (at least of serious crime) that could be as much of an issue as 6 months low security detention. For lawyers it seems to be a game and the sentence and number of convictions is the score; unfortunately the victims of the law take it more seriously.

Always look at what isn't said not just what is said.
Hey, I recognize what you're saying and agree with it. I too have been in that unfortunate and TERRIBLE cold cell once in my life and know what it feels like to have your freedom stripped from you (and mine ended up costing 10k+ in the end).

No one will ever know why Aaron killed himself fully, and that is unfortunate. Most of us only learned of him fully through his suicide. When I watch youtube videos of the guy, he seems so damn intelligent, eloquent, literate... It's hard to imagine that he wasn't smart enough or brave enough to truly ask the community for help.

That all said, one of the main things I've learned through my own past escapades and more so through tragic news like this, is that the justice system is inherently fucked up. It is designed to destroy the plaintiff. I have lived through this and it was the most miserable experience of my life (thanks ex gf I used to love for 5 years). Once you are in the 'system', or they are after you, if they have a reason (in their own mind), you are fucked.

Unless you are a multi-millionaire who can afford to pay your way out, and even still, you're most likely getting fucked from one direction or the other.

I think that is what this entire thing boils down to. Overreach of the Federal Government. Punishment does not fit the alleged and unconvicted crime.

Aaron might have had depression issues (a whole different beast in itself), but from all the empirical evidence available to the public, it seems like he was truly pushed into a corner and a high risk for suicide - and unfortunately he fulfilled that presumption.

I hope we as a society can learn from this.
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