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This meets your "halfway credible" standard, although I can't vouch for its ultimate accuracy:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

This blog describes a scenario in which JSTOR blocked Aaron's IP, then MIT blocked his MAC address, then JSTOR blocked an MIT IP range after he kept circumventing their attempts to cut him off. Ultimately, "Swartz broke into a closet in the basement of a building at MIT and connected his computer directly to the network — hiding his computer under a box so no one would see it."
Because we used to do these things with tables but tables aren't cool enough since the "War on tables" (because tables aren't the right way to do layouts) and nothing better has been available. Hopefully CSS3 will fix these things.
I've thought a lot about this myself. I'm going to coin the term 'outern' for this. Essentially, someone who handles the little things for the in-house team, while they take care of the big things. I could see it working really well for certain cases.
I was hesitant to try ARC at first - all of the tutorials I saw started with storyboards, which was terrible nonsense, and I wrongly equated that to ARC. I still think about where my pointers are, I'm just writing less code now and I love it. ARC's very, very nice.
Am I the only one who thinks that the current situation requires removing text from the federal register rather than adding it? In both cases, the changes here are insertions, with no deletions. There's plenty of offending code to delete, why let it rot more?
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I do understand the point that this was unethical. What I found interesting is that most outsourcing projects fail. This guy had a talent that let him not only outsource(1), but get results that beat everyone else in the building. The skill and deviousness of this individual would have put him on the fast-track for management if he'd been a little more careful.

But you are nonetheless correct. Usually you have to rise to the level of VP of a division before this level of unethical behavior becomes acceptable business as usual.

(1) Interesting what happens when engineers outsource vs. managers, no?
Intellectual dishonesty is certainly wrong in a deep way.

Several of us here obviously have our jaws dropping thinking: "What!? 34 times slower when typically perfs are quit ok, what is going on here?!"

Where do you put the limit? You realize that your "counter argument" makes no sense.

918 times slower? Would that be enough?

What about 8734 times slower?

Where do you draw the line?

Why do you keep insisting saying that "34 times slower" is "nothing to see here, move along"?

What about 1923408130294870918234 times slower? Would that be enough for you to consider something may be wrong?
I'm saying if you choose to configure your server to answer a request, you had better not come back later saying you didn't mean to answer that particular request. It's exactly in the spirit of the web, publishing something at a url is a grant of access to whatever was published.

So what was the sentence in question?
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I imagine the point of this attack is to effect/inconvenience students so they complain to the MIT administration.

If that's the objective, it's not a very well chosen one IMO. As I and others have posted elsewhere in this thread, MIT is already conducting an investigation, and I expect that students who are at all likely to complain to the administration already know about this and are already watching what happens, and will make their displeasure known if the appropriate action isn't taken once the investigation is complete. I doubt that this DDoS attack will have a significant effect on that.

Plus, as has also been posted elsewhere in this thread, investigations take time. Is this DDoS attack going to continue until it's finished? How does that help? Or is the objective to get students to demand heads before all the facts are known? How does that help?
Yeah, I think I went too far.

But believe me, this came to the point where I almost cried of anger. The sentiment of powerlessness is strong.
A solution no one suggested is using a fingerprint scanner to login as they usually test against all possible local users, and are extremely convenient to use. Face scanners have similar properties.

There are certainly issues with them, and like all things security there are some tradeoffs to be made. Since the users are local, things are inherently less secure anyway (password entry can be observed, hardware keyloggers can be easily hidden, chances are you can boot a live CD and inject any software you want).

As an example my Lenovo laptop has fingerprint recognition and Android devices have face recognition.
Or not pursue charges based on politics, and instead focus on the 'good of society'.

Step back a bit.

They charges didn't even need to be pursued. What "good" was ever going to come of it in any possible situation where charges were pursued?
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This is no more or less ethical than if the company terminated Bob so it could outsource the work to China. The only difference is that Bob pocketed the profit instead of the company.
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It's not just unethical, it was also risky and stupid. See my point about security concerns.

I understand what you're saying about his ability to find an outsourcing firm that actually did good work, and maybe that is because he's skilled in that area, or maybe he was just lucky. But given his demonstrated inability to make good decisions, his unethical behavior, and his disregard for the security implications of his actions, I don't think he'd make for a good manager.
if you're interested in the tech scene, save yourself the tuition money. For a tiny fraction of the cost, spend a year building your own product/offering and you will learn more than in any b-school.
> The concept of physically restraining someone from committing suicide is completely antithetical to the idea of man being free. You cannot believe in one while advocating for the other.

Suggesting that you put someone in a "rubber room" is a bit ridiculous, but it's normal to put someone that is suicidal under suicide watch. Keep in mind that mental health can be a huge factor in someone being suicidal. In other words, they're not thinking straight, so it's fair to help them during that time.

Having the right to end your life is different than others trying to help you through a challenging time and show you that there are other ways out.
Anyone who can call Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens "religious fanatics" with a straight face is either attempting to deceive the audience or themselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt9QCAUPPeY
I remember reading somewhere about paying $230 to get it done within a couple of days. If that was your plan(60K/year, not to mention the amount of money and time you would need to invest to start a serious company) then whats the problem of paying that relatively little amount of money just to get it out of the way?

If you're planning to build a company, I don't think this will be your biggest problem. Unless, if you're doing this part time, then its even easier, just get an individual account.
It's worth noting that Prof. Kerr stated that he used the indictment as a significant source of the facts in his legal analysis. I would be inclined to trust it a lot less as an account of what actually happened than for the analysis of what the law says given the facts he describes.
Are non-citizens residents allowed to vote on these petitions?
This just happened to my friend yesterday when I told him to install VLC. I think he may have clicked an ad instead of the first search result. I saw three pages for different add-ons and toolbars with several pre-checked checkboxes apiece. After unchecking and clicking through it just exited (hopefully) and launched the VLC install program.
President Obama's war on whistleblowers is generally an attempt to silence the stories that present the US in an unflattering (though true) light. Just mentioning this in case anyone thinks that Franken's quote indicates that the mainstream left actually shares Chomsky's principled stance.
This should be tempered somewhat with: "if your goal is to catapult yourself into a management position at a large organization." Basically, the kind of big companies that pay the kind of salaries that justify typical MBA tuitions can fill their recruiting needs by just looking at the top 5-7 (usually, Booth and Columbia are thrown in with Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, Sloan, and Kellogg). And these days, even at the top schools it's not like everyone is choosing between McKinsey or Goldman like they used to. A lot of people have to hustle in ways they did not before.

Of course, that's not the only career track that might be helped by an MBA. If you've got an established track record and want to move up within your organization, or to a higher level position in a related organization, getting a well-known but not elite MBA can still give you a boost.
Thanks so much for all your comments. I got to learn a heap from you.
genuine question as a non front end engineer- do you recommend reading the CSS spec as a reference guide? im basically asking whether someone learning to be good in CSS should read the spec or pick up one of the recommended books (that appear from time to time on HN).

For example, i never had to read the spec for ruby to get jruby to work.
So, "any device which communicates with any device" then? We might need to add a clarification that communicating with itself is included, and that communication could be uni-, bi-, or multi-directional...
When I signed up for OKCupid however many years ago that was, it told me explicitly that a human being made that decision, not an algorithm.
The point of business school isn't learning, it's networking and signaling. Even within the "tech scene" if you want to work for one of those VC's, a Wharton degree and a stint at Goldman is going to go a long way.
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I read it as evidence of the erosion of state's rights. Perception is reality and those folks clearly thought they needed Daddy DC's permission.

/sound of me slapping myself on the head/

I should have thought of that.
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You seem to have the perspective down rightly in how business works, compared to the moralists.
Certainly we wish they'd done something while Aaron was alive.

The effect we can now hope for is prosecutors everywhere will learn that despite it being very unlikely that something bad will happen when they over-prosecute for career advancement, if it does, they're going straight under the bus.

A moments hesitation in the mind of the next Ortiz/Heymann duo thinking about levering up against a "soft target" is a very good thing.
Very few sites are so dynamic that something can't be cached for at least a second. Even a heavily dynamic site like HN with people commenting all the time could at least cache for logged out users.
I think part of the problem is there isn't a single other place which is objectively better than SFBA on every metric which matters to startup people, and yet people would prefer to stay together/have a critical mass of people.

Seattle, Boulder, and Austin are probably the most viable options right now, if you want more libertarian/sustainable government combined with the same overall feel of the Bay Area. It would be better if there were one place which was head and shoulders better than all the others.

Nothing really touches SFBA for VC, though, and Stanford is probably the world's best university for applied CS with startup involvement.
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The critical difference is if his work was "officialy" outsourced, his company would ensure that agreements were in place with respect to information security and at least some level of vetting took place before passing specifications to a 3rd party.
Congratulations :) That's one of the main factors in why I'm moving in the next year or two. It's a toss-up between WA (which has good gun laws) and TX/NV which have excellent gun laws. (I'll probably be an FFL-07 anyway, so WA's laws aren't substantially different for me, but for someone who wants regular civilian ownership of SBRs, WA is inferior to NV or TX)
It's hardly a "small" hack. Who would be running the site, paying for bandwidth, etc. Who decides who gets a memorial like this? It's essentially creating infinitely long registrations and adding a "special case" that will remain in the internet's infrastructure forever.
That's a good point regarding the petition, which is why direct action against these people should not be limited to signing the petition.

Indeed, they should be harried out of their professional and private lives as thoroughly and relentlessly as they drove Swartz to suicide. Their lives should be made not worth living.
I agree completely - but it's a good step in the right direction. I didn't mention it in the letters I've already written, because I didn't know about it, but I'll certainly be working it into the letters I haven't written yet.

Hopefully you'll do the same.
I think the idea that it was the Piers Morgan petition[1] getting 109k+ signatures was more likely to be the straw.

As mad as everyone online is about Aaron, I don't think it's actually that big an issue in Washington. The brouhahas after Sandy Hook sounds much more plausible as an issue big enough to cause a change.

[1] http://universe.byu.edu/beta/2013/01/14/white-house-rejects-...
The problem with prosecutorial discretion is that it allows prosecutors to drift down from the baseline sentencing (see: DACA re: DREAM Act) but also choose not to. In this case, the AUSA clearly decided that maximizing the sentence was the best way to get a plea bargain to increase his metrics of successful prosecutions.

The law is never going to be perfect, and our outcries do more to serve as a perpetual reminder (see: SOPA) against legal overreach than any law will be.
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I got one of those emails and I don't consider myself to be particularly attractive. I just assumed they sent them to everyone.
Companies really hate it when you use globalization to bolster your side.

Whether that be buying DVDs, software, books, watches, or any type of good or service, the big buys will try to make it illegal.

Boo fucking hoo.
I think of caching for apps like clothes for people...while you could survive naked, it's more comfortable with clothes, and you're protected from heat, cold, etc. Of course there is the problem of being over/under dressed, but you have to wear something.
If you are arguing that geographical distance leads to inefficient supply lines, this seems dubious. Australia, third from the top, has the lowest population density of most countries listed, having a land area almost as great as the USA, but with one fifteenth of the population, and with by no means the same level of transport infrastructure.

Given that the US is aiming to inoculate near 90% of the population for the current influenza problem, your deductions about distribution may need to be examined more closely.
On one hand, this employee was a security liability. He shipped his 2fa key to a firm out of the country, allowing outsiders into the network. It's one thing to accidentally become a security hole, but I am guessing that this employee deliberately violated company policies to pull this off.

On the other hand, if the work was better than the employee could have produced individually, then this was a net benefit for the company. I think it's obvious that the company couldn't keep the employee, but it might be worth bringing him back as a consultant to manage the team in China if the company finds that acceptable.
The real amazement and shock in this story isn't the fact that someone outsourced their daily development job to China the real story is The Register has blatantly ripped off a Verizon Business case study by Andrew Valentine only linked in the middle of the article: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-stud...
God bless you Mark Zuckerberg :O
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Among Christians, the "first day of creation is 6000 years ago" theory didn't really gain prominence until the early 1900s, as a part of the Christian Fundamentalist movement (which pushed strong literalism), which itself was a reaction to the Liberal Christianity movement of the late 1800s (which pushed the idea that all of scripture was figurative). Wikipedia has fairly straightforward summaries of the history of both groups.

Consider this very modern-sounding quote:

>> "For who that has understanding will sup­pose that the first, and second, and third day, and the evening and the morning, ex­isted without a sun, and moon, and stars? and that the first day was, as it were, also without a sky? And who is so foolish as to suppose that God, after the manner of a husbandman, planted a paradise in Eden, towards the east, and placed in it a tree of life, visible and palpable, so that one tasting of the fruit by the bodily teeth obtained life? and again, that one was a partaker of good and evil by masticating what was taken from the tree? And if God is said to walk in the paradise in the evening, and Adam to hide himself under a tree, I do not suppose that anyone doubts that these things figuratively indi­cate certain mysteries, the history having taken place in appearance, and not literally."

That was written by Origen of Alexandria, probably around 250 AD (part of http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.vi.v.v.ii.html ). I've found sentiments of that nature are common among very ancient Christians, as well as among Jews of the same era.
Pretty sure I am the only one on this thread that after reading that article- felt inspired and thought this is awesome...
Isn't this the entire goal of the 4-Hour Workweek?
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> Was the prosecutor supposed to follow Aaron around 24/7 and physically stop him from hurting himself?

I think the prosecution was simply supposed to not charge him at all because despite the fact that aaronsw's actions would have led to any other random computer geek being arrested with nary a second thought on HN, this computer geek is more deserving. After all, he's just trying to "do the right thing".

Hell, in fact the prosecutor should be ashamed of daring bring any charge against someone who only went out of his way to visit some other campus than his own, evade a 1-file-at-a-time control, evade an IP ban, evade a MAC ban, evade a Wifi ban, and hide his face while trespassing in an unlocked server room, where the only reason he even got caught at all was because he simply wouldn't give up. Next thing you know they'll probably start ticketing jaywalkers.
The best part of ARC is the zeroing weak reference. Add those to the ability to send messages to nil and it really cleans up the code.

No more
if(obj != nil) [obj msg];
all over the place. Very helpful when dealing with delegates.

Oh, and I agree storyboards are nonsense :)
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No, it's meant as a 'don't drink the coolaid' and think just because you are part of something you are
A. Right
B. Don't have to accept any responsibility for the organisation you are part of.

If MIT did something wrong and you go to MIT you are responsible for being part of that organisation. No one is forced to go to MIT.

Take responsibility for who you support, be it a university, club or a job.

If you think MIT did nothing wrong, then say they did nothing wrong. Don't say I'm a member of MIT but nothing bad(= short internet issues) should happen to me cause I'm just one of the many in this organisation.
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I seriously doubt that Swartz-related petitions had anything to do with it. I agree with you that they will probably die down in a few days, but the story doesn't seem to have made it too far outside the tech industry.

I was quite surprised to hear a quick story on NRP about how his possible punishment may have been out of proportion. Has it even been covered during the major newscasts like NBC Nightly News, CBS News, Fox News, CNN, etc; at least for over 60 seconds?

I'd be willing to guess that even among those who watch a large amount of news, the average American didn't hear the story at all.
This 'cut from the bottom' structure is maybe necessary but really fatiguing.

When I was learning Chinese, we had to read such news articles. When you have to analyze it word by word, it becomes evident that the authors is just diluting the sauce, adding more water every paragraph.

Maybe it is one of the reason for journalism to be a living dead. Interesting writings, the ones that hook their readship, are just the opposite: the more you read, the deeper you are immerged in the story (for fiction), the more you understand and discover (for non-fiction).

BTW: Just checked a bit pg's papers: they are not 'cut from the bottom', not at all.
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Burglary (entry for the purposes of committing an offense) is broken down into three sub-categories: forcible entry, unlawful entry where no force is used, and attempted forcible entry. It doesn't matter if you use a tank or a paperclip, or even if you're successful.

You're not the first person to think up the "but it wasn't locked (very well)!" defense. :)
Yeah I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. He explictly set the z-index on the elements by editing the CSS. It wasn't the inherent act of editing the CSS that was the violation -- explicitly setting the z-index was.
Facebook is the place where I share personal things freely because I know its only my family and close friends. I don't let other people get in, and use LinkedIn or Twitter instead. Adding someone on facebook without knowing who the person really is? At least I am not sold.
No. Is the company defrauding someone by terminating Bob? OTOH, Bob is defrauding the company by misrepresenting others' work as his.

Or is outsourcing unethical in some other way?
>“We're looking at the real question of open government,” Issa said. “Has the government or even MIT been holding back materials that the public has a right to know?”

>Issa said he wanted to make sure “that what is paid for is as widely available as possible to the American people.”

It's good to see lawmakers paying attention to Open Access. While it is important to make sure that the unscrupulous practices of the Department of Justice are curtailed, it is also important that people pick up and carry on Aaron's campaign for Open Access.

I am upset not just because Aaron was treated unfairly, but because he was treated unfairly for doing the right thing. Freedom of Information is at the core of Internet values, and that's what Aaron fought for.