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I disagree with his assertion that clutter doesn't bother kids as much as adults. My kids always play more contentedly for longer periods after we've done a big purge or simply organized their toys. I think they get overwhelmed but don't know how to articulate it.
In most US states, 11 months and 29 days is the limit for misdemeanor crimes; hence the term 11/29 (anything more is typically felony).
>"They are making it more difficult for members of the general public to access academic article"

Given what may happen if change can be made is this really anything? This is how most of the mostly 3rd world student/academics live 100% of the time for most articles.

They are not attacking students sites AFAIK they are attacking the MIT network I really doubt the Faculty are not seeing this and thinking.

This is an attack for unproportionately persecuting someone for trying to free up scientific information. I don't see it as revenge for his death.

DoJ won't change, but academics might.
Exactly. Even if it was "so no one else would see it", for all we know that "someone else" to Aaron was the homeless person that kept his stuff in that closet.
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Let's not forget Morris's father was very, very connected.
Lock-in I do worry about, but not because they might terminate the service. I'm pretty sure that they'd give us a year, and that year would be filled with all manner of startup looking to help the GAE orphans. At the very least, the open source GAE replacements would start getting a lot more attention.

I'm not saying "no risk", but I am saying "less risk than you think".
It depends on what arrangement he had with/for his heirs, and with his registrar.
Even the Granick analysis you quoted earlier came to "over a year" for the probably guideline calculation, not 35 or 50. And it never talked about additional charges adding to the sentence in the "sentencing" portion.

She did talk about each additional conviction adding to the maximum possible sentence for a plea bargain, but then said that the guideline calculation is still the same.

She linked a PDF of hers, and I tried to read it, but ironically it requires HTTP authentication to some journal archive which I haven't paid for and don't have access to.

I've also tried going through the 2011 Federal sentencing guidelines to confirm what you gleaned from Granick, but to be honest they're too byzantine for me to get through in a few minutes with no training.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure how you got from Granick to what you're talking about here. Perhaps I missed a linked article from the site hosting her original article?

Either way I don't see how it would make sense to credit '# of charges' alone in sentencing as it is well-known that in general the prosecution has to bring all charges it can prove related to the case, if only because of double-jeopardy.
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Thanks, I was honestly confused, not trying to nit pick.

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Anyone know the best way to make it so set defaults to {validate:true}? Override Backbone.Model.set, extend options and call original?
I've read that, his argument is that "it's negligible", not that it doesn't have an impact. In his anedoctal evidence link it's adding 15-30ms to render times.

Add a couple * selectors - one in the reset, one more in your base sheet - plus a couple descendant * selectors, global box-sizing/position rules and you've put a heavy saddle on the matching and rendering engine. It might not matter for 80% of websites, but you need to be aware of it.
Pardon me, but Paint.NET is not open-source.

"You may not modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, or create derivative works based upon the Software or any part thereof."

I did find this, but I've never used it: http://code.google.com/p/openpdn/
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It's the same way I understood it as well.

In fact, it's the only reason I can see that the prosecution could proceed at all without JSTOR's support, is under the idea that the prosecution is responsible for the state's interests and not only the victim's.
Probably a good lesson there in developing for walled garden environments.
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Feature detection is too idealistic and cannot always be trusted. There are many browser bugs that you cannot know without studying the user agent string. Feature detection is a good pattern but I think it wasn't wise to drop it from jQuery core.
The change in policy means that instead of needing 0.013% of the voting age population to sign your petition you need 0.052%.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28+25%2C000+people+%2F...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28+100%2C000+people+%2...

Please leave the hyperbole and fatalistic rhetoric on other sites.
I have yet to see a petition taken seriously and obtain results. Im not American, but this seems just like lip service. Correct me if im wrong.
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Valid points, all affected by the fact that GAE is open source. [0] [1]

[0] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/#svn...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/appengine-go/source/browse/
Utilizing storyboards and xibs is one of the best way to decrease development time. Stop the coding madness!!!!

The only people I still know that avoid heavy utilization of these do not understand how to properly use them. Go learn!
Does this even matter?

Aside from beer recipes & death stars, what success stories are there behind these petitions?
> You have your own place to sleep at night, with (nice) furniture.

> You have access to cars!?

> You have access to high speed internet

Let's be fair - relative to the people around him he's abated his consumption of things considerably and relies on services that are shared or transferable. Sure, if he wanted to be super edgy he could live in a mud hut and write code on a paper pad, testing it out whenever he can access the local community center computer. But relative to the people around him, his consumption profile is conservative and doesn't deserve ridicule.

Even if harping on about it is self-indulgent, it is not nearly as bad as the conspicuous consumption and hoarding that so many 1st world citizens take part in.
OTOH, if you want to see a really politically unconnected, very "unsympathetic" defendant get utterly fucked, the Escher Aurenheimer ("weev") case is a perfect example.
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What does fucking a 13 year old girl in California have to do with Aaron Swartz's JSTOR case? I don't see the connection.
I think it is B.S. when hackers take down an easy target for no apparently good reason.

I respect those that take chances to risk their freedom for the good of humanity. For example, if a government were lying to its people about something that was negatively impacting them or their future, and only bad was coming from that information being restricted, then I could not argue with those that took on risk to release that information. I could not support doing anything illegal, but I would at least respect it. But, busting on MIT has no value I can see, and in-general attack-oriented hacking is just as bad as the Cobra Kai.
I think they chose the name as an homage to the name of how the data is represented from an engineering standpoint. A graph is a data structure that has many nodes connected together. In this case, a node is a person, photo, location, etc, and the edges represent how they are related to each other.
Am I missing something or is everything you are saying wrong ?

Apple hasn't removed the New Release section, it was two taps for me to find the Top Free/Paid apps in each category and the process for registration for single developers hasn't changed.

I also don't agree that getting into mobile apps is a bad thing right now. If you can make something great you have every opportunity to do well.
Here's a recent survey that shows the media's credibility has dropped in the double digits over the past decade:

http://www.people-press.org/2012/08/16/further-decline-in-cr...
As mentioned by eblade — could you have simply used this to get a DUNS number?

https://developer.apple.com/ios/enroll/dunsLookupForm.action
Nice short article: 10 things you can do to really support Open Access: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.de/2013/01/10-things-you-can-d...
>3. The government needs to cover the expenses for the defense, limited to the amount spent on the prosecution. (this doesn't seem politically palatable, but it needs to be addressed somehow)

I like the idea of this, the thing to watch out for is going to be accounting shenanigans. For example, if you account for resources the prosecutor uses but not the police, they'll just arrange it so that all the expensive legwork is done under the auspices of law enforcement and on paper all the prosecutor's office does is type it up and file the paperwork.
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I think that while that may have originally been the case, I feel that we've long since passed the point of particularly efficient layout engines with as few pathological cases as possible. Particularly computational costs, since I think you'll find many sites doing some part of layout in javascript.
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Btw, Oxford and UBC <<< )__) -99pts apparently ?
Ignore ad nominum arguments, you say?
The Onion predicted this behavior: http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc...

Poe's Law strikes again.
If the Internet Archive would support hosting the content/collection, I'd be willing to throw $50-100 into a pool to prepay the domain for the next 10-20 years.

The content can't be over a GB. Hosting that all static in S3 would be, what? ~$0.10/month+transfer costs?
Not sure whether to be impressed by his resourcefulness, or disgusted by his ripping off of his employer.
Seriously:
How can I get Bob to work for me?

I could do with someone who can organize and manage programmers.
I clicked, and I see a long list of papers. Which one is the relevant one to this topic? I'd like to read them all, but can't afford that much time right now...
Apple controls their own requirements. They don't have to require a DUNS number, and didn't until recently. If DUNS sucks, it makes perfect sense to blame Apple for requiring them.
> Sure, the legislation won't go anywhere if you go out of your way to make it seem like a one-party issue.

And to pile on, it's hardly only GOP members who believe in "personal responsibility". But that doesn't let overzealous prosecutors off the hook anyways.
Would there be any legal problem with essentially "hellbanning" those responsible from any online service you operate (with the possible exception of E911, etc.)? If we find out who at MIT was responsible, as well as Ortiz and Heymann, refusing to allow them to create accounts, or putting their accounts into a horrible tarpit with no outside connectivity, would seem like a much better form of protest than DDoSing MIT.
As well as the other reasons given here, the cost of conversion is much higher than you might otherwise think. Especially for banks, you have to prove that the new software meets with compliance regulations, not only for the financial regulators but also for the auditors (banking auditing is especially tough).

Compliance does not mean just "meets all the unit tests", but also meets specifications like guaranteed uptime, stringent physical security (that alone could rule out many cloud services), tight audit trails, recoverable failures, incorruptible data, and so on.

It opens up a whole can of worms that will dwarf the development cost of the software conversion alone. It's easy to see why many banks stick with their current working system.
No, It's more like your 18th cousin 6 times removed raped someone... You don't know the guy, never met him, and some troll on the internet is blaming you for murder because you haven't publicly denounced him.
My Lessig is not always technically correct moment came while reading the future of ideas. He compares radio spectrum to an Ethernet hub, everybody plugs in and it just works. Problem is, there's a reason everybody moved from using hubs to switches, which are a lot more like centrally controlled cell towers. Its not a bad thing, but he is not a bits and bytes person.
The alt-tab behaviour is borderline unworkable for anyone who's used Windows or Linux windows managers before 2011 and is trying to work with a case like several terminal windows and a browser window.

My GNOME 2/XFCE/MATE setup has one bar on top of the screen and that's it, I'm finding it is pretty good for screen space even on widescreen laptops.
Do you think it is better not to provide any website for registering opinions?
I wouldn't have thought that hiding his face with a bike helmet would have mattered. After all, I do weird things any time I know I'm being watched by a camera; there's one on the elevator at the garage that I habitually cover.

Orin Kerr said that stuff matters at trial.
The DUNS number has nothing to do with Apple, except for the critical fact that Apple requires one when they don't have to.
So... it's either algorithmic stalking or it's nothing that new, right? I'm going for algorithmic stalking. Now, to really be effective, I guess they're going to have to add "graph alerts" so one can get notified when (totally hypothetically), any friend of a friend living in the same city with more than n friends (to screen out the losers; replace n with your own threshold) changes her relationship status to "single". Or I guess one can just keep a saved search/smart folder of "prospects" (stalkees?) that can be "checked in" on from time to time; maybe set up a mobile alert that pings you whenever one of them is in/near your neighborhood.

So, I can see why advertisers or businesses might like this, and I can see why grudge-holding exes might like this, but I can't really see why I would want to be stalked. Thank god Facebook has such transparent and persistent privacy settings, or I'd really worry!

(yes, this is over the top)
Could you explain what is wrong in the Stack Exchange answer ?
Best viewed after zooming in -- hit "+" a couple of times, and then ">" ("<") to scroll right (left). This greatly reduces the effect of the distortion apparently caused by the banking of the plane.
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Never mind the nonlinear severity function of time in prison. Which gives me another idea - fungible jail time. I'd have spent a day in jail for Aaron.
Security, for one.
Yes, it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_land_area
Of course the states do not need DC's permission to form the Confederacy... even grade schoolers know the Articles of Confederation provide the constitutional basis for secession. ;)
It's the prosecutors who played hardball, not the judges.
All part of being an entrepreneur. It's important to be able to handle these kinds of setbacks and if you're not capable of it either become capable or stop trying.
Trying to have some language detection for (https://github.com/hemanth/togist)
Finally, someone who realizes he wasn't some magical saint who was murdered in a back alley. Any suicide is a tragedy, but it's ultimately no one's fault but Aaron's.
I don't think that's entirely reasonable.

When good things happen in "collections of many people", the leaders and the institution take plenty of credit. When bad things happen, the same should apply. And more so, really.

The university is a big place, but that doesn't mean that we can't heap scorn on things they have apparently done.
Do you really expect the White House to unilaterally implement policy on account of a few thousand 'online votes', a significant number of which might be dupes or astroturf?
Congress remains the way legislation gets passed no matter how many feedback websites the executive makes.
Entering a wiring closet with a lawful excuse is permitted. You genuinely thought it was the door to the bathroom, or smelled smoke.

Entering a wiring closet with lawful intent but not a lawful excuse is trespass. For example someone left a light on and you wanted to turn it off. The property owner can generally have you removed and file a civil case.

Entering a wiring closet with unlawful intent is a crime. For example your MAC address has been blocked from the wireless network and you intend to plug in to avoid that block.

So hopefully it makes sense now. They can't just charge him for breaking into the closet (unless he did property damage), but they can charge him in addition to another crime (and you can argue till your blue in the face if THAT was a crime, I don't have an opinion). Its like the magical "with intent to distribute" if you cut up your drugs into lots of little baggies.

(IANAL, but I did have one explain this stuff to me years ago in relation to an employee termination)
Totally agree. It's well worth working closely with your designer to make your interface work with nibs, not against them. Little things like putting button icons on the left side of the button and putting a 20px gutter between elements add up fast.
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Guests from any IP, except Aaron's IP. Until he got a new one. And then another.

Hypothetical Question: someone is accessing your network in an unauthorized way. How do you tell them? An IP is not a person, so how do you make your desire that they stop known? Block their IP? What if they come back with a new one?
Interesting you ask this, since an example was provided on the Kojo Nnamdi show today. two petitions regarding SOPA forced the White House to publicly state a position on the issue, something it had been unwilling to do up until then. That forced hand had a significant impact in torpedoing the legislation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administrati...
I've never fully grokked the physical limits behind these newfangled unlimited spread spectrum ideas. Clearly there has to be some, and not knowing specifically what they are makes me highly skeptical.
Thanks... The video was hilarious but the dude is truly insane. I assure you that, whether you agree or disagree with him, Chomsky has absolutely nothing in common with this guy. Wow! If any other Romanian is reading this, check out that video. After a couple minutes you won't know whether you should laugh or you should cry.
By the time that you have gotten to the point where you are considering a plea bargain vs. a trial you have already lost. Even if you are innocent of the crime, the plea bargain can look really tempting.

In cases like this, offering a low-ball plea bargain (e.g. '6 month sentence or go to trial and risk 35 years') can mean that the prosecutor's office would rather not go to trial (because they have a weak case). Seems to me that if the case is weak, then prosecutor shouldn't be pursuing it.

[Though, maybe if it's a case of significant loss to the victim (e.g. murder), then pursuing the case even when it's weak may make sense.]
Isn't it cheaper to throw old stuff away than sell it on eBay/garage sale/etc.?
Tim Ferris would be proud.
TODO:

- Look into using :nth-of-type(n)

- Fix bug with Reddit.

More details ?
Well with "real" real estate, there are properties that we say as a society are too important/notable/what-have-you to allow to simply be bought and sold like chattel. Between war graves, historical monuments, disaster memorials, etc. there are lots of ways we've found to set aside property to commemorate.

Despite the giant asshole I must sound like in the other threads I have really enjoyed the aaronsw writings I've been pointed to in the fallout from all of this, and I think that Winer's proposal could make a fine start to a suitable online memorial for Aaron.

If we can deliver IP over pigeon there has to be a way to at least set aside a DNS entry and coordinate hosting amongst the many who would volunteer for it.
This witch hunt is incredibly disturbing. Not only do these petitions blatantly exclude some fundamental principles of government and society, but they distracts greatly from where our focus should lie.
I started out using XIBs, but also found myself moving a lot of my controllers away from them as soon as things got non-trivial. The biggest problem I found was weak layout support, so if you had a lot of dynamic content in a screen, it was easier to make a flexible layout in code.

I also agree that the lack of "diffability" for XIBs, despite them being XML, is a pain.

Maybe I was missing something, but my experience matches the OP.
She and her family didn't want to pursue rape charges against Polanski, but the prosecutor brought them anyway.
As I posted elsewhere, it seems that "sneaky" and "strange" are equal to "wrong" and "guilty" in most people's eyes.
First, don't do this if your job is penetration testing.

Second, don't give the keys to the company to someone not authorized by the company.

Third, If you ignore all this, cover your tracks and move around between companies so that nobody can put the pieces together.
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Otherwise, I've had ideas of putting together projects that don't divulge company secrets in the offshoring world, and for that matter, I've thought about using it to get open source done under my name. I'd maintain the project, and pay offshore developers to do the grunt work I didn't want to. Sometimes I wonder if that's what substack or Jeremy Ashkenas does. ;)

But otherwise, go read Four Hour Work Week. It's not a new idea.
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First, don't do this if your job is penetration testing.

Second, don't give the keys to the company to someone not authorized by the company.

Third, If you ignore all this, cover your tracks and move around between companies so that nobody can put the pieces together.
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Otherwise, I've had ideas of putting together projects that don't divulge company secrets in the offshoring world, and for that matter, I've thought about using it to get open source done under my name. I'd maintain the project, and pay offshore developers to do the grunt work I didn't want to. Sometimes I wonder if that's what substack or Jeremy Ashkenas does. ;)
While I am sure a bunch of US developers have outsourced their jobs, certain details of this "case study" make me think this is made up, or at least a synthesis of actual cases. From the original case study post, this developer worked from home on "certain days". How many people can be at work on site, month after month, and no one notices they never actually log in to their work system? How many people are the "best developer in the building" and never mentor or assist other developers? How does he handle the time gap, which is many hours out of phase, so there is a delay to any bug fix or "little patch" or emergency fix? So an entire team of excellent Chinese developers works the night shift indefinitely? Or his commits have some of the weirdest pattern of time stamps no one ever noticed. "Hell, Bob broke the build ... at 4am!?!" How does he even answer detailed questions during code reviews when he didn't write it? We've all seen that outsourced code "beautifully commented"...? With 2fa tokens, is it really possible to not have it on your person for six months and no one notices at work? Are we do believe he is smart enough to be banking all this money with no work and excellent delivered code, and it never occurs to him to proxy his VPN connection to China instead of sending a physical token? I just don't buy it as written. Maybe part of the purpose of that case study is to put the fear of god into that subset of developers that is doing the same thing without the "Oh, he was so stupid!" mistakes. Or at least galvanize their employers to read their logs, as suggested.
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Per Chomsky, suckered into both Gulf Wars and Afghanistan.

It would help Chomsky's case a lot if he identified a post-WW2 "good war". Does he think intervening in Korea was a good idea?
Okay, that tears it! Somebody has replaced tptacek.