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Yes and that window of opportunity is already slowly closing, the real pressure points are that technicalities and an overly literal interpretation of the law should not trump morality, that selective prosecution is rife with abuse and another important area is that justice should be about actual justice rather than career advancement as well as the negotiation tactics involved in plea bargaining.
"I remember what scared me to death with C++ when I was using it with frequency was the potential to end-up with these horrible inheritance trees"

I don't think you can blaim C++ for that. The time when 'we' hadn't learned the "composition over inheritance" lesson yet just happened to coincide with that of "let's write our framework in C++".
The west coast of Europe has a big advantage over that of the USA: the Gulf stream.

It's nice to have an ocean-sized "hot water bottle", running at about 15C in winter.

(Also: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp )
It was not at all realistic to think a 35 year sentence would have been handed down for downloading scientific papers, even in America.

He was an extremely talented rich white kid, associated with a top university who would have had dozens of high profiles vouching for him in court.

I guess his lawyer did a terrible job of telling him not to worry.
It's still just a lie. A cosmetic lie, but a lie. Are fake breasts less fake than a fake girlfriend? They're all just lies used by these people to get whatever they want from it.

Of course this is horrible, but it's funny how people don't think fake breasts, makeup or photoshop on personal pictures are also horrible. In those cases they are just tools, right?

Hypocrisy is the name of this age.
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There is another post on the front page of a guy who tried this and got busted. You're vastly oversimplifying how hard maintaining a lie of this level is.
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We aren't lawyers, we can call her a liar if she appears to be one, especially if "there's a lot of room for interpretation." It's a huge joke that we're debating whether "the lawyer says they're not lying" is a good argument. What's problematic for her is that "the ecosystem she's operating in" aren't the only forces at work. Maybe she thought the age-old mechanism of press releases and who-gives-a-shit-what-lawyers-say would work the same as it always has, but that doesn't mean it has to be that way. Lawyers can't force us to operate in their ecosystem, and I have a feeling that they're exceedingly poor at existing in any other ecosystem, as best exemplified by the words of her husband, former IBM Websphere QA Stud Tom Dolan (i.e. one of us).

An additional complication is that her bosses simply might not care what she said and will keep her on the job with no changes, regardless. Deaf ears are still an option.
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This company gets worse and worse.

Youtube recommendations creeped me out today so I deleted my account, also sick of it asking me to use my real name when it's the most disgusting comment section on the internet
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You really should read up a bit on this. His three lawyers all failed to reach a conclusion to the case that did not include jail time, possibly greatly increased during the actual sentencing (true, the latter was a small chance but a chance anyway).

source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit...
The main problem I see with the design is the orange border on the box below the categories and the blue banner, other thing is after selecting a category I had to go back to the main page to select another one...
Nah, Gingerbread is on 48% of devices because of the broken model where the carrier and phone maker get to decide if the phone gets Android OS updates or not and they have no direct incentive to provide updates (because unlike Apple they aren't making money on the app side to justify the OS update costs), in fact they have incentive not to provide updates in order to persuade users to upgrade to new devices as soon as their contract is up.

This combined with the fact that ICS was only released a little more than a year ago (half the term of most people's cell phone contracts) and Honeycomb was never officially put on to phones.

While some of those Gingerbread phones were in fact just "cheap phones" a lot of them were also high end (and everything in between) for the time they were sold.
> "I think he committed suicide because he thought he was going to be Bradley Manning-inged. I wish he would have waited a little longer and had a little more hope but it's easy to be cool and logical from a comfy chair, meanwhile his mind was facing darkness."

Both agreeing and disagreeing here...

I don't get how everyone assumes that Aaron was making a logical decision when he killed himself. It's very possible he was depressed and wasn't thinking clearly at all. It's also very possible that this trial made him depressed. But to assume that he was thinking reasonably about the circumstances and decided it was best not to live is a huge assumption. Depression completely warps reality.

Also, I'd like to add that given this, I think we're all being a bit unfair to the prosecutor. Sure, she overstepped the bounds of reason. But it's very possible she triggered an underlying mental illness in Aaron. Yes, she is partly to blame. But so is everyone else. MIT didn't step up. But also his loved ones near him didn't do enough to help. It's quite simply a tragedy. Painting Ortiz as a murderer is as wrong a painting Swartz as a felon deserving of a 35 year prison sentence.
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That still only impresses the kind of people who would be impressed by a sports car; the solution obviously is to hang out with more shallow people. Make 'em dumb fucking sexists for bonus points.
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If you don't know the correct encoding of a sequence of bytes, then you don't yet have a string, just a sequence of bytes. You can decode the bytes into a string, or encode a string using a particular encoding into bytes.

Bytes != strings.
Doesn't seem to do anything that Android and/or Firefox OS doesn't already deliver. To me it looks like yet another corporate trying to play innovator.

AND ... where are the app developers going to come from? The good ones are already flat out with IOS & Android and if they have any free bandwidth, then they'll look at Firefox OS which at least Mozilla behind it and with that considerable credibility for being able to deliver.

You only need to look at Nokia and HP efforts and how they fizzled to see that Tizen's chances are limited before it even gets out of the starting gate.
> The first, which she made at the outset of the case, was that he was facing 35 years if convicted at trial.

No, that was not what she said. She said that he could be facing up to 35 years. In other words 35 years would be the maximum penalty. There is no implication that she was seeking the maximum penalty at any time.
you're well aware that the for example the couchbase cross-datacenter-replication has it's own share of problems such as "what happens when the same dataset gets modified in both clusters?". IIRC it just drops the older change and keeps the newer version. That may or may not be a problem to you, but for others that might just be the nail in the coffin. Every datastore out there has different trade-off that are acceptable for different use-cases. And postgres has it's own share of tradeoffs, but it works quite nicely for a lot of use-cases.
> Lawyers can't force us to operate in their ecosystem

Unfortunately we are doing exactly that. All of us are operating in an ecosystem crafted by lawyers. And so when we run into the boundaries set we will find lawyers or legally schooled people on all three sides of the table, the prosecution, our defense counsel and the judge.

They use our language but in a way that appears twisted and dishonest to laypeople. We pay - with huge sums of money and with time served - for the privilege.

Ortiz is using her position as a stepping stone to further her career. Aaron was to her a conveniently placed cobblestone that she could put her spiked heel on to make it to the next level. I'm pretty sure she regrets this, but only because it damaged her career chances.

I certainly wished that justice would be more about what's really best for society instead of about protecting special interest and selective prosecution but this is something that I did not need the Aaron Swartz case for to become aware of.
From the article:

> HER: “I don’t want to eat here.”

> ME: “What? I thought you said…”

> HER: “I never said I wanted KFC.”

I'm a divorced guy, and my ex-wife sure did have her faults (like, cheating), like I did have mine, but I thank the gods of marriage and divorce that she never pulled that kind of stuff on me. I find this kind of stuff very disingenuous, it's like the weight of the whole relationship falls on only one person.
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My facebook girlfriend is "Sweetba Bytruth" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKhLJeLHC4 ) or something, but I don't think anyone is falling for it ^^
I second this. I've gone back and forth between the vanilla CM9 build and the Samsung touchwiz on my Galazy S2. While the CM9 feels faster and cleaner, it's all lacks some key features. For example the vanilla music player doesn't support displaying ID3 MP3 lyrics, a feature my windows mobile phone could do back in 2003. This feature is critical for podcast courses with embedded lecture notes. And yes, the widgets work better in touchwiz too. In the end, I always go back to the more feature complete touchwiz.
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Anyone who's nerdy enough to need a fake girlfriend is nerdy enough to know how to create and populate a fake profile quickly.
He's not the only one:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/02090421710/carme...
Then you have a very "public" (on Facebook) bust-up where she makes you seem even more attractive by complaining about the attention you supposedly get from some other hot girl, and "break up" so you can show up all "emotional and vulnerable" at the party....
>Besides, social interactions need some amount of deception; makeup is deception (and fake breasts, and hair dye, etc.)

Sure, I can empathize with that, no-one is perfect, not our heroes and certainly not myself.

Ashamedly at one point, I seriously contemplated buying Twitter followers, as a quick boost to perceived social status. I was already rationalizing 'Oh it's just marketing' before deciding against it.

It appears to be a slippery slope though, from which making up major parts of our life story, does seems rather far removed, from a flashy tie, or a dash of makeup.

Could we not turn our gaze from heroes, instead towards ideals, knowing full well that we will never fully be able live up to them, but with the daily challenge to see how far we get?
For this to be truly dishonorable, one would first have to accept that the enormous influenced by relationship status and physical appearance is a good thing. If one do not accept that relationship status and physical appearance should have such high impact on society, then such deception is not going to bring to mind any concept of dishonor or a lack of integrity.

Enron on other hand had a large negative impact on society. Killing the environment also bring a large negative impact on society. Wall St. execs that cheats people out of their homes, steal farms from farmers, and put people homeless on the street clearly brings to mind the concepts of dishonor and a lack of integrity.

Comparing deception directed at peoples superfluous obsession with relationship status and physical appearance, and deception that are made in an effort to earn money on the bones and lives of others are dishonest thinking. Its like comparing a DDOS attack against a corrupt police station, with terrorist attacks. They two things has nothing in common, and neither does Enron and deception regarding relationship status or physical appearance.
I'm talking about what's on the systems we use, not about what's the theoretical best case for us. I do envy those living in their ivory towers, downvoting for a laugh.
Thanks for pointing this out.

The value-too-long error was actually relating to the search query; a silly bug we've never noticed before.

Regarding fares - we're at the mercy of the agencies and airlines whose inventory we can access, and sometimes it will be the cheapest and sometimes it won't, but ultimately we're trying to establish connections with enough agencies/suppliers that wherever the cheapest fare happens to be, you can find it via our site. It's a big job, but we're getting there.
Yeah, I agree. That's the reason why I stay away from Samsung phones. In practical terms they're great, but they're shockingly un-aesthetic. In hardware and software.
Because it is summer in Australia, I think the title should be changed to 45.8 degrees Celsius not Fahrenheit.
the point is that the real intent is somewhat independent and almost orthogonal to pressing the "like" button. that's the point the article is making about noisy and dirty data.
Facebook increasingly feels like hanging out at the mall...
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Strange definition of "funny"! Who are these "normal people" that are being talked about? Does anyone decide whether or not to use craigslist based on their database? "Users" are mentioned, but of course the users of databases are actually developers, not the actual end users of whatever the developers are making.

It is reasonable to believe that not all developers are idiots. Developers have to make choices all the time and databases are just another choice. If they make a bad choice for their use case then they suffer the consequences.

Yet another "I did A because of B & C and all people who make different choices must be wrong".
If Broadcom breaks even, that alone is good advertising, and it's charitable.
Women are selling contact from their own authentic profiles.

If you claim that this is misogynistic, you are claiming that women hate themselves.
I've noticed that software developers (and people in general), at the highest level, are split into three camps.

One of them takes the "nothing really matters at all" attitude (see: the majority of PHP developers). These people do not subscribe to dogma in the least but lack structure to such an extent that everything is a mess.

The next category is of the opinion that everything must be done in a certain way (the Plan 9 creators, most Java developers). This camp emphasises dogma above all else, even at the expense of common sense.

The final group, which is in the minority, consists of those who are truly pragmatic while taking the ideal into account at the same time. They tend towards perfection but know that the universe is not perfect. These are the Zen masters of development.
Yes, only a couple of people, and originally as a sideproject. I met one of them in Cambridge, UK. They pivoted their `business-model' several times. Originally they wanted to sell hardware, but then became technically a licensor. (Somebody has probably written more about the history somewhere. What I know is from a talk given at a HN London meetup. The video might be online.)
Touchwiz is definitely the 'last worst' of the Androids and some of the feature tweaks are/were definite improvements.

Having said that I've got a fairly close to vanilla Jelly Bean on my SGSII now and I can't think of anything I miss from stock.
If Linus said her statements were _false_, he'd probably be wrong. Both statements appear carefully crafted.

If Linus said she made two _deliberate deceptions_, he'd be absolutely correct. Each statement exaggerates to suit the purposes of the context.

But Linus said she lied. If you define lying as deliberate deception, he was right. If you think a lie must also be false, you can accuse him of sloppy English. But Linus is only "dead wrong" if you think deliberate deceptions can be perfectly ethical.

Personally I wish Linus would slightly reword his post so that it doesn't confuse people who get hung up on semantics instead of his central point.
> It was not at all realistic to think a 35 year sentence would have been handed down for downloading scientific papers, even in America.

It's easier to say this when you're not facing prison and financial ruin.

He wasn't being charged with "downloading papers". He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, criminal damage, etc.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/21/aaron-swart...)

> US attorney Carmen Ortiz said: "Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."

> If convicted Swartz faces maximum jail terms of 35 years and possible fines of up to $1m. Swartz appeared in court on Wednesday and was released on bail of $100,000.

And it'd mind-boggling that we're talking whether 35 years is realistic or not; the fact that prison is considered a suitable punishment for the alleged crime is a disgrace, and something that shames America.
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Have you spent any time in prison? Have you visited anyone in any prison? Which federal prison do you suppose Mr Swartz would have been sent to if he had been convicted?
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“Things like this are what happens (at the very least) when you put people who are fresh out of high school or a GED program … with minimal training and even less professionalism, into the position of being in charge of analyzing nude images of people in a hermetically sealed room.”

Earlier this year, a woman filed a complaint against the TSA, claiming she was forced to pass through the nude body scanner three times so the agents could repeatedly see her naked. Passenger Ellen Terrell told CBS 11 News that she was told by an agent that she has “such a cute figure”, then singled out for a ‘random’ body scan. She was asked to pass through the nude scanner three times and heard the agent talk to the back room employees over a microphone.

“Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go,” she heard the agents tell the back room employees.
The winters are milder than say, Berlin, but at least Europe gets hot in the summer.
> It's very possible he was depressed and wasn't thinking clearly at all.

I'd take that as a given.

> It's also very possible that this trial made him depressed.

I think to think otherwise would be to ignore plenty of evidence to the contrary.

> But to assume that he was thinking reasonably about the circumstances and decided it was best not to live is a huge assumption. Depression completely warps reality.

Yes. And this is the bit for which Aaron carried some responsibility, if you're prone to depression you should not position yourself in situations where extreme stress and threats to your personal freedom might result. Being a person prone to depression and being an activist that takes very visible steps antagonizing powerful entities is not something that you should want to combine in the same person. That didn't stop Aaron from being who he was though and in some sense he seems to have felt driven to do these things. Note that I say this as a strong supporter of everything that Aaron stood for and fought for.

> Also, I'd like to add that given this, I think we're all being a bit unfair to the prosecutor.

No we're not. She's been using people to further her career. This is disgusting.

> But it's very possible she triggered an underlying mental illness in Aaron.

She pushed him to the brink and then across it. There is no excuse for such behavior.

> Yes, she is partly to blame. But so is everyone else.

This we agree on.

> MIT didn't step up.

They did the opposite, they pushed for punishment including jail time according to most accounts.

> But also his loved ones near him didn't do enough to help.

You know NOTHING about that and should refrain from such comments.

> It's quite simply a tragedy.

No, it is an utter failure of the judicial system.

> Painting Ortiz as a murderer is as wrong a painting Swartz as a felon deserving of a 35 year prison sentence.

Nobody is painting Ortiz as a murderer, and she painted Swartz as a felon deserving of a 35 year prison sentence and now tries to make it seem as if that was just business as usual. This madness should end.
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> Personally I wish Linus would slightly reword his post so that it doesn't confuse people who get hung up on semantics instead of his central point.

Yes, that would be for the best because as it is it's not just people who get hung up on semantics that are going to be bothered by this, it will allow opposition to his statements to reject them out of hand as untrue. And that is the bigger worry.
Motorbikes / scooters seem like they'd work well. Much cheaper metering, a lot of unmetered space available, and traffic isn't a problem.
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Thanks for the link to that C++ style guide
What's the more brainless, the person who watches a movie and contemplates it, or one who dismisses it without a thought?

Without a thought, and without paying attention to any indicators.. or merely without watching the full-length movie? Huge difference. But I appreciate the irony of telling me how my decision-making process goes without having the faintest idea of it, not to mention my ability to appreciate beauty or "subtlety". Subtlety.. I might watch The Hobbit one day just to think back to this post and laugh.
It's perfectly legal. Anything that's in public is part of the public record.
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What do you think this will possibly achieve? How many times has the internet lynch mob been misguided, for you to realize that this is a shitty way to approach matters?

Not only that, but if you want to reiterate Linus' statement (as you seem to be suggesting, to Ortiz herself), at least realize that he made a fool of himself here. The two statements don't contradict themselves, and going from that to a "lie" is counter-productive to the discourse that needs to be held. Suggesting to harass individuals based on flaky grounds (or really, in general), also not productive.

And welcome to HN.