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I'm just going to state this, as statefully as I can, without trying to be sensationalist. Everyone I come across these days insist on calling me "schizophrenic" or "paranoid" or what have you:

But "Marshall Law", as I understand it, is _more or less_ in effect, and a lot of people are talking about Obama's UAVs and whatever it is they do. (I know it was repealed. But you get what I mean. We're all consuming roughly the same information; so can we just bootstrap past the facts, please? I don't want to play semantics, pedantics, or any kind of fact-checking game.)

So I must ask: Is this a civil war? When do we call it that? 100 years ago, it meant having a militia or something of that order. Now we all play slapstick at our keyboards and write "modules" and pentests. Is it possible to call a spade a spade?

I'm asking seriously here. Every week I have to stop and ask myself, "Should I read the news? Will there be another episode or thread of death that I'll have to keep track of on account of something our government did?"

I really do appreciate Mr. Schwartz efforts and work. But this country is taking heavy demoralizing blows every week.

Beating someone down who isn't trained or prepared to fight is a different matter from beating down leaders, ideologues, activitists, and fighters. It seems like this country, our communities, are being served heavy blows, in much the same way the U.S. demoralizes the "Middle East" with its extended arm of Social/Big Media.
To some extent I agree. Justice should not be a result of prosecutors pulling punches, but of a justice system that allows for a robust defence to succeed consistently over a harsh prosecution.

The problem with letting prosecutors not prosecute to the full extent of the law on their own judgement allows for selective favouritism, like white college kids getting off with a warning where a black street kid gets serious time.

Relying on prosecutors to be lenient or "do the right thing" places the defence in the wrong hands - a court that allows a strong defence to succeed over or moderate a prosecution should be at the heart of the justice system.
I have no issue with HTML/CSS and a bit of Javascript. But still find it surprisingly hard to get my head around native development languages (C, Obj-C, Python etc)

As someone who is also learning to program, I think the most difficult things are not the actual languages and using the right syntax etc. It's the meta information and terms that are used, as well as a lot of tutorials making assumptions ie. I had to find out what a 'gem' was.

Recently starting to look at Ruby, I had to work out the different between a live environment like irb and just having code written into a text editor such as Sublime.

I have a feeling that these kinds of things throw people off, and I'm yet to find a great resource that really explains these things clearly all in one place.
this website froze my Chrome beta three times today, but it was totally worth it. (probably Chrome's fault anyway.)
Do you type the word in or do you use copy and paste?

I always force me to retype words that I look up (e.g. using dict.leo.org) to at least partially commit something to memory.
And yet, even given DUI laws of varying (arguably insufficient) harshness people still drive drunk. 20 years from now or so, when self-driving cars are the norm, DUI will thankfully be a relic of the past, and many lives will be saved.

Change the system.
https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas
I've seen the one funeral at a time solution play out, (it's still playing out where i live, inter country conflict).

It is something of a solution, but not much. Those older folk have a long time to poison a new generation, and the ideas which they hold are easy to believe and propagate.

It's only through real leadership and setting exampls which run counter to the narrative, that our hope lies now.

While the old grudges are being laid to rest, the effect is more like reduced signal propagation.
Pickpocketing, really? You want pickpocketing to get the same "serious time" as bank robbery?
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> This is Timothy McVeigh thinking, and it makes you a loser just like it did to McVeigh. You can never kill or destroy enough people to defeat Washington, D.C.

What? McVeigh murdered innocent people. The parent is proposing investigating the prosecutor for breaching the mores and laws that govern her profession using the legal system already in place. These are not exactly equivalent.

I have no interest in defeating Washington, D.C. I have no desire to "win" if "winning" requires me thinking "like Osama Bin Ladin" (or do you mean not thinking? because I think he's dead, last time I checked).

There's no worse fear for a bureaucrat than to be hoisted by their own petard, to face a misconduct investigation, and possibly criminal and civil charges. A lot of harm can be prevented if her public service career is ended early on the count of what she has done to Aaron (and presumably others): I'd rather her career end as an associate in a think-tank (or whatever), rather than as the next Rudy Giuliani (who also started his career as a DA).
Perhaps I was unclear: they're not giving away three articles to the entire world every two weeks, it's three per-person.
Absolutely none.

Indeed, to accuse an insulter of racism for deriding someone as belonging to another species is to conflate the concepts of race and species. At best that's ignorant; at worst it's racist!

As to the prosecutor's species, isn't the saga of Aaron Swartz sufficient evidence? As to her race, have a look at her picture and judge for yourself:

http://goo.gl/JNck7
I don't find the two analogous. Aaron would not have been charged with wire fraud if he had asked JSTOR, even if the original content owners tried to sue him. However, he did not secure any kind of consent and it becomes a different situation. Not saying what I think happened was right but I don't think it is the same.
The vast majority of people will never experience the harshness of the US justice system, except those that chance or circumstance chooses. That really sucks, because how is anything supposed to change for the better if there isn't the awareness and outcry against the unfairness of the system?
Except that what grandparent was pointing out what not a case of victim blaming at all; rather, that the response was completely disproportionate to the act.

If you have a really nice sports car and I open the hood to see what engine it has and how it works, yes, I am in the wrong for not asking your permission first. However, if you then try to sue me for $100k because you claim that you had to have expensive maintenance done, you had to get the entire car diagnosed and $20k of repair done, etc. then you are clearly responding in an inappropriate manner.

That's what the whole "NASA had to shut it's systems down for 3 weeks at the cost of $41000 to check and fix it's systems" is about.

I hope you see now how that is very much different from the "she was asking for it" kind of BS.
>So yes it is possible to allow free, unrestricted access, JSTOR just decides to only do that to certain IP ranges. If they allowed that with everyone, Aaron wouldn't have to jack his laptop into an unused open closet to pull articles.

I'm not talking about hosting or downloading. I'm talking about the digitization of documents and to pay the salaries of their ~200 staff.
Not to minimize what you wrote: wanting to regain control is a part of having suicidal thoughts, regardless of the political situation. Often the only relief to people who are suicidal is the thought that they can control when to end their life (which sometimes brings slight relief without having to go through with it).
The shear amount of laws has made it impossible to be fully versed on all the things you can and can't do.

It seems something like mandatory sunset provisions are the only possible solution as our legal system accumulates more and more cruft.

Eventually there will be so many laws that we will cease to be a nation under the rule of law, because the only thing that will matter is prosecutorial discretion.
>Their digitization is largely done by a for-profit company.

I was unaware of this. What company does the digitization for them?
Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but this might be more poignant on a weekday, when individuals meant to see said protest are actually at work.

That being said It's a great idea and I wish I could be there.
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The difference is that having to avoid certain public places for fear of being assaulted infringes on your personal freedoms. Locking down a server does not.
This is so woefully inadequate.
i believe you mean using functions, not closures. your post doesn't seem to have the same misnomer, and simply explains lexical function scope. it doesn't seem to touch on the closure, while your parent comment does.
I don't know if you can call it a civil war when only one side has a military. There are no defined "sides" even. Not everyone in government or politics is a bad guy -- look at Sen. Wyden or Rep. Lofgren, for example.

It's almost like the internal struggle we all face in our own lives. Doing the right thing is hard, doing the wrong thing is convenient. So the people we have running our government are human, they pick the wrong thing sometimes. Most of the time they probably don't even realize they're acting like the bad guys. People can rationalize anything.

What we have to do is to stop them when they do wrong. The check on the common criminal is law enforcement. The check on law enforcement is Congress. The check on Congress is the people.

We the people need to do our job.
> Those older folk have a long time to poison a new generation, and the ideas which they hold are easy to believe and propagate.

This is definitely possible. But my hope is that the internet has started to change these things. Even someone living in a small rural town can now see what other young people are thinking and be exposed to a more diverse set of ideas.

For example, if you go on Reddit, you can see how people have become atheists after reading about how religion is bunk. Someone who is forced by their parents to go to church every Sunday can find solace in the fact that there are others going through the same thing, and that there are others who have successfully escaped from such situations. I think such communities have the ability to accelerate change among the youth.
You misunderstand. I didn't say that the troubles would pass. I said that the depression would pass, and that life would become worth living again.
US Govt Ups Felony Count In JSTOR/Aaron Swartz Case From Four To Thirteen (2012)
I happen to be flying there the day after tomorrow. I just checked and there are no earlier flights that I could take.

Is there anything further planned that you're aware of?
$35 Raspberry Pi computer gets its own app store
Amusingly, the very regulation you cite is being cited on the basis of people misunderstanding a 40 year old regulation being loosened...

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/14/la-county-updating...
Obama should rather pardon Bradley Manning before something else is done to him in military prison.

We sadly cannot do anything for Aaron now.
One thing you didn't mention is strict mode. I think this rule is awesome for preventing issues like in your "bonus gotcha".
> No need to be sensational. Who do you blame more? Aaron for getting himself in the position or Ortiz who was doing her job?

That is naive.

Do US attorneys zealously prosecute every incident of "stealing" that appears on their radar?

Also, "doing your job" is an abdication of responsibility and not a justification in and of itself.
$10,000: The Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants
Things he made:

https://www.jottit.com/

http://openlibrary.org/

http://watchdog.net/

http://reddit.com/

http://webpy.org/

HN will miss your contributions.
Rest in Peace. #Love.
Something needs to be done, I agree, but I do not understand what you mean when you say "we the people". (I'm not sure how one reads the Internet Declaration of Independence and walks away thinking that phrase is meaningful in any politically relevant sense.)

And honestly. I'm sure a majority of us here are prepared to print a gun and build a quadcopter at the drop of a pizza slice.

[Ugh. Of course that doesn't mean "let's go out and get crazy!" I just want to make it clear that something is emerging socially in this country, and it is due to the fact that weaponry is so widely available. (And even further, by the Bureau for Justice Assistance, my Terminal is technically considered a weapon.) Many of us defend the idea of printing a gun, and this in itself is problematic for something like a "Congress" that cannot even begin to understand, in any practical sense, what 3D printing amounts to economically and socially.]
House Of Sarunds, The Chocolate Alchemist Cannot wait to try
Expectations and responses (provided by give()) are actually held internally. Your syntax is cleaner for very simple responses, however will become increasingly complex, particularly when the response itself is determined by a callback. Adding more params would clutter your example terribly. Also, the mime's are passed to callbacks which provide response so that additional functionality can be added, see this recent use-case:

Parody\Mime::create('App\Text')
-> onCall('create') -> expect('WTF' . DS . 'Yo') -> give(function($mime) {
return $mime
-> onCall('underscorize') -> give('wtf' . DS . 'yo')
-> resolve();
});
Eww, bad formatting, apologize, as I'm not familiar with hacker news comment system, but you can see the case here:

https://github.com/dotink/inKWellToo/blob/master/external/te...
Jan 13th (Sunday) 1pm, Oakland Sudoroom: Aaron Swartz and Kopimism
Yeah.

The way I see it is that the elderly could still effect politics, but only indirectly. If 7+ decades on this planet have not taught them how to effectively communicate their ideas to younger generations, then I really don't see how they could have any worthwhile insight at all.

If you are old, you can engage in public political discourse and pass on your knowledge, but you have no business leading by example anymore. That time is past.
Retype. Somehow I feel more connected to the words when I type them by myself.
Erm, this sounded more to me like: people who are frustrated he was persecuted, come here to figure out how to take action on his beliefs which we share. Bad wording to be sure but the spirit was healthy.
Aaron Swartz, hero of the open world, RIP (Brewster Kahle)
The typical accused criminal in the US pays exactly zero to defend himself. The counties and states are more efficient than the feds, and as it happens, your typical burglar/rapist/drunk driver/drug dealer is, in fact, guilty, and plea bargains a year or five in the pen.

But, when the feds want to railroad a person, well, that person gets railroaded. He probably should have skipped bail.
Video game industry emerges from White House meetings unscathed
By difference I of course mean Aaron not having killed himself.
Say, someone accidentally runs one of your family members over. Would you be satisfied with a "Oops, my bad"?
Yes, this is against "social norms". Fuck social norms.
>Eventually there will be so many laws that we will cease to be a nation under the rule of law, because the only thing that will matter is prosecutorial discretion.

We are long past that point, which is the reason for the post title (and the book from which it's drawn). Even the lawyers don't understand areas of the law that are outside their own narrow specialty.

The root of the problem is the federalization of criminal law. People used to say "Don't make a federal case out of it!" because that used to mean something - federal cases were for the Al Capones of the world and people who interfered with the mail.

Over the years Congress (with the acquiescence of the courts) has essentially shed any constitutional limits on its power. Federal law now applies everywhere (in the world) and to everything. The solution isn't mandatory sunset provisions - lots of laws have sunset provisions already and they're just routinely extended. The solution is a federal government that's limited to the powers delineated in its charter.

That means, for example, you could have a federal law against importation and transport of drugs across state line, but possession and sale could only be regulated at the state level. Same with guns, speed limits, "assault weapons", currency transactions, and damn near everything else against federal law. As Joe Citizen you would know that things you did wholly inside your state couldn't be illegal under federal law outside of a few narrow areas.

The way it works now is everyone is a felon, and if the feds want you they can throw a hundred minor charges at you that all carry 3-5 years, so you're looking at 500 years in jail... unless you take a plea. Innocent or guilty you take the plea. God only knows how many innocent people are rotting in jail because they didn't want to risk life in prison over something relatively minor.
What I don't understand about prosecutors is their incentive. Do they get bonuses for fellonies?
Accidentally spelling "shear" when you intended "sheer" is a mistake.

Accidentally convicting someone for rape with a life sentence (due to bad due process) is ALSO a mistake.

There is a big difference in magnitude AND consequence.

Unless you are willing to label Aaron as just "collateral damage"?
The human element that is included in the justice system is there to make it stop when it runs awry, not to make it go through selective enforcement.

When we get this backwards really bad stuff happens.
If it's a purely economic or "political" crime, I think it's a lot easier to deal with. I mean, even if you accept that Aaron did all these things and that they were crimes, there's nothing morally repugnant about it.

The worse thing is if you're accused of a morally repugnant crime. Say, rape, or child molestation, or maybe some kind of betrayal of trust (like embezzling), or even not a crime but something like snitching on a close friend over an immoral law and sending Anne Frank to the Nazis. Then, there's both all the moral scorn from other people and from yourself -- just the accusation is hurtful, even if you know at some level it's false.
I don't think this is really about it practically happening. (I mean I'd love for it to, but it's a pipe dream).

This is symbolic. It's our way of saying "fuck you" to the people responsible. The more people that sign this, the bigger the metaphorical middle finger.

Look, realistically, as concerned citizens there isn't a lot we can do here, but one thing we can do is publicly shame the people responsible for this and bring visibility to something that would otherwise go unacknowledged.
Dave Winer and his 2 cents on RSS
Maybe people figured out that not using generic keywords gives better results.
and I hate to say, especially since I just created a new account to rebut this, but David Gregory's holding a magazine has zero basis for reference in this discussion. None. Its a bit of rightwing talking point at the moment, but it has nothing to do with aarons trial. So, no, not relevant. I don't care how much karma you have, or how long you've been on this site. I've been here for four years, maybe commented a dozen times at most. You're using a blatant talking point of the right wing to what? Make some grandiose statement about "where we're headed"? As if David Gregory getting prosecuted for making a point about magazine capacity would have some how made aarons situation more.....fair? Really? This is kind of despicable.
As citizens, there should be a way to collect enough signatures to pronounce the professional death penalty(1) on a prosecutor who fails adequately represent the wishes of the people. They do ostensibly represent the people, prosecuting those who harm the public. If they fail this duty and harm the public instead...

(1) Never be allowed to serve in the role of prosecutor at any level again.
I think the best way to have informed voters is to exclude uninformed schoolchildren from voting, personally.
Obama is not friendly to our point of view. He has been an enemy of free information. He goes after whistle blowers with full force. He has threatened reporters with espionage. He wants Bradley Manning to die in jail.
Promotions, election campaigns, bragging rights, a warped and disturbed sense of self-worth, etc.
Oh really? I thought universities and companies paid for JSTOR so that they could redistribute those academic works for profit. If not, why would they care if someone else gets access without paying? And if the universities and companies didn't care, why would JSTOR, a non-profit, care?
And I think the best way is to exclude people who haven't been inside a school for decades.
The federal government is more or less designed to function by sacrificing pawns over these kinds of controversies without ever addressing the policies, cultures, or root causes that led to those controversies in the first place. And this goes all the way up to the cabinet level. Sacking one federal prosecutor will do nothing. Even sacking Eric Holder wouldn't change anything--I can't remember a single attorney general who was worth a damn and the first one I remember is Janet Reno.
If you were somehow able to pickpocket thousands of people en masse, aiming to make $15 million out of all that distress, then yes, I'd like you to go to prison.
Indeed. Public money should pay for the function of entities like JSTOR.

The public already paid 99% of the money for public research, yet only 1% of them have access to the fruits because those who paid 1% (for maintaining an archive) want it this way.
It has nothing to do with fashionable fable about ultraweathy ruining everything. The numbers of ultrawealthy are vanishingly small. They are not those who vote current political class into power and keep them there. They are not those who, knowing about politicians instituting mandatory minimum sentences of tens of years for victimless crimes, did not come to these politicians with tar and feathers but instead gave them their wholehearted support and their money to continue their campaigns. Blaming the vague alien group - being it the wealthy, Jews, Catholics, Christians, Muslims, black, white, whatever - for all problems, being behing the scenes and pulling all the ropes - is bullshit. It is your beloved middle class who has overwhelming voting power in this country. Those are the people who elect those politicians and enact those laws. Nobody is doing it to the innocent nation, the nation is doing it to itself and it is nowhere near innocent. The nation allows the current prosecutorial system where you either plead out or get a chance to fight 200 years in prison sentence with overworked public defendant that would have couple of hours to review your case if she'd sleep 4 hours a day. The nation allows the Congress to create 56 new federal crimes every year. US now has about 5000 different federal crimes, and who knows how many local too. Ultrawealthy have nothing to do with it - I'm sure if you ask random people on the street, overwhelming majority would support it with gusto.

No ultrawealthy can prevent the middle class to vote all these guys out. If they keep instead voting them in - it's time to stop blaming the aliens and start realizing who the real guilty party is.
I really think this "Age of Autism" movement is doing more harm than good.
Shall we euthanize them and harvest their bodies for food, as well? You're coming across as quite the bigot.

I don't know about you, but I learn more every year, so I imagine by the time I'm 75, I'll know at least three times as much as I know now. I'd give my 75 year old self the vote long before I'd give my 13 year old self the vote.

Nor do I think being in school adequately prepares or informs anyone to be a citizen.