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>that prosecutors didn't stretch the CFAA or wire fraud statutes to make a case against Swartz, and that they weren't unusually vindictive with Swartz in negotiating a plea

Yes, he was definitely doing that and he was right to. I am not saying he ought to play jury, just address some of the counterarguments.
Completely agree. Using starred emails as a to do list is not effective because you do not have an easy way to prioritise these actions.
We seems to be entering reactionary times all over the world.

Free speech, freedom of expression and sexual revolution are downplayed to whatever random old mom won't find embarrassing.

This is bad.
The 3-step test is a farce. All it comes down to is whether jurors think it's art. Here's a test for whether something is music:

1) Is it an animal?

2) Is it detergent?

3) Does it lack any musical value?
Wow, did you not even think for a second about the consequences?

We'd need to decouple work and wages

Well what incentive would people have to go to 11 years of college then to become a surgeon? What incentive would a start-up founder have to work 80 hour weeks for years on end if there was no chance to get rich off of it?

What job would have the most people applying for if no job paid any money? In other words, if salary and job were decoupled, what result would we see?

The job which required the least amount of effort. The more difficult or time consuming the job, the less applicants there would be.
Disturbing, but valid point.
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You are welcome.

>Would you say that this ability confers an immunity to therapy?

I assume you are talking about me basically over-analyzing myself and it not helping me? The curious thing really is, I think ultimately I am just doing what most depressed people are doing, digging myself in further. When before trying therapy, I felt depressed and always sort-of out of place and "wrong", now I have no shortage of "proof" how broken I am, even by design/bringing up. When before, my issues were more in the here and now, it sort of spiraled into "everything has been wrong from the very start because those are the conditions I grew up under and missed out on this,this,this etc....". A more "sophisticated" kind of very toxic thinking and turning in circles,in cycles, if you will. If this ultimately works for or against therapy or bettering oneself, I cannot say. So far I think it has had some things easier, understanding connections or correlations; and some things harder, like this toxic thinking. But instead of that I might be circling over something else if I wasn't over-analyzing.

I think the confronting part does help because you become more aware of what's going on, otherwise you are almost at the mercy of whatever pattern you are following. The biggest "wow" or almost relief was reading about other people with similar thoughts and problems. Of course I wouldn't have doubted there are others out there before - but reading about it and in detail, how someone else says things you have felt or thought 100% the same, was an interesting and calming experience. Like FINALLY someone gets it.
I guess one part of the problem is deciding on a flat-fee for a year, or a price which is dependent upon the number of accounts/users you have.

Were it me I'd rent a VPS and configure email myself. A less technical user might find that too much work (although online control panels might make it more palatable).

A decent VPS might cost $20/month or $100/year and would be sufficient to handle mail for 50ish users.

Sure a VPS just for email might seem like overkill..
WTF? Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK?

This is an idiotic law that should be overturned. I hope they appeal and take it to the supreme court.

Why aren't the producers of SAW movies charged then?
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Oh yes, local VMs and VMs on servers and in the cloud are great; but you also need one device in front of each office worker that connects to them.
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Good point

looking at it from the perspective of the working class automation is scary in the short term, just like the invention of automated farming equipment was scary in 1870, 70-80 percent of the US population was employed in agriculture

Now approximately 2-3 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture, is flipping burgers really that different?

I know the perfect way to gain 100% employment outlaw all farming machines, but you can see the flaws in that solution. Everyone is hurt by higher cost food and the opportunity cost of all the work that is more complex

True the people that put up the money and took the risk of engineering innovative ways of doing things better see the largest benefits, but the person that gets the innovation wrong many times goes broke.

The "working class" needs to realize that the nature of work is changing and the assembly line education we were all feed is not going to cut it in a fast pace economy we are living in today.
What's relevant & interesting here is that this levels the playing field (at least somewhat.) Google's struggle to monetize mobile ads - on search & elsewhere - means that there is still time for another company to figure that out first and dominate the mobile ad revenue market.

Desktop ads existed in a mediocre state for a long time before Adwords changed the game. The mobile landscape resembles the desktop landscape before Google invented Adwords.
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I work at a level way way below that of an executive and I get minor communications which prompt me to seek legal counsel (thank goodness we can afford it). I assure you that he ran this discussion by his lawyers before responding to Jobs, he would have been a complete fool had he not.

This entire document seems like it was crafted to make Colligan look virtuous, and maybe he was, but if so, it was because his lawyers told him that it would be to his benefit.

Note that this document references a phone call that happened first, this call was totally undocumented and points to the fact that both sides were feeling each other out to seek a benefit, when it was clear that Palm held the poor hand, they started crafting a defense.
good point! "a surprise packet". In those websites no one is allowed to reveal his/her identity... And how can you trust someone you can't see real past works as freelancers are only allowed to upload some pictures and text for their portfolio.

IMHO The review and star rating system in that websites seems to be failed as almost anyone has 10/10 rating and reviews are copy/pasted copies. So these things can not act as a mean of trust between two parties.

It seems to me transparency is the way to go.
> I believe this is wrong, because anyone who wants to do that believes that its own interests are for some reason better than what the market values. It's good and all, do whatever you fancy, but not on my dime - not on public money. Get a real job.

If that's your chosen frame of reference, then that's not your dime. Or the public's dime. At that point it's the market's dime.

And the market doesn't particularly care if you believe it's wrong or not, or whether its goals are in fact better than this particular individual's interests.
Thanks for the heads up on followup.cc what a brilliant idea!
You are very right. Processing the data is what drives me. Its just hard to the point of impossible in my trained field(s) [architecture/GIS/planning/etc.] with current tools so I need to invent something to do it for me (which should help others in different fields too). Its on its way...

As for your first comment, I agree that the process is important, but finishing something can be important too, and the two [good process and good product] aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
How do you interact with software? With keys/buttons. Think of power button as another key. Microsoft conditioned all of us to never ever touch that power button, but it is all right now. I promise.
Worth mentioning that the court probably didn't take the consent of those random citizens into consideration before making them watch the material either. If that were the case, the government probably committed a bigger crime than the producer did.
What have I done bad with paid advertising?
If you're giving a warning, at least explain what the danger is!

(it's cheaply made scat/vomit porn)
I disapprove of your scatological pornography, but I will defend to the death your right to produce it.
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No offence, but I think you will get more responses and advice from Reddit about this. Try the ones below:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Divorce/

http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships

http://www.reddit.com/r/depression/
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> However the future is bright

... for attackers with some knowledge of side-channel attacks, which are almost impossible to block from Javascript.
Philip let me address the three legal issues you seemed curious about.

1. Non-compete clauses are not exactly "illegal" in California rather unenforceable. They are put into agreements typically as boiler plate "I agree for a period of 'x' I will not work for a company that competes with employer or start my own." So if you were hired in California and went to work for a competing company in California, it would be safe to say if there was a non-compete" clause in the original contract the courts would not enforce it. However, these are multi-national corporations so non-compete clauses can be enforceable in a lot of jurisdictions outside California.

2. As it relates to the idea that Apple was trying to sign an agreement with Palm not to hire each others employees, anti-compete is between the employer/employee not two competing companies, so the companies have the contractual right to enter into these agreements. *This may be a general rule, but your gut instinct is right on because there are a number of exceptions that would make agreements between competing companies illegal, for example if they had an effect of price fixing.

3. Apple's approach of "threatening lawsuit" for patent infringement is not tactful, but not extortion either. Laws on this point can be very strict, for example you cannot necessarily threaten lawsuit, but Apple is within its right to send cease and desist with formal demand when it feels its patents are being violated. Naturally, part of a demand is agreement to not pursue the lawsuit if the demand is met. It may sound like extortion, but do not forget Palm does not have to agree to the terms of the demand (Palm might not even be violating Apple patents) and Palm can always take its chances in court and even if they lost they could still hire Apple employees.
> The jurors in the trial, as is the case with all obscenity trials, had to sit through Isaac's films to determine if they merited any artistic value.

Oh. My. God.
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It is worth pointing out that the traditional problem of robots is control -- if just once, some bucket is 1mm off target, some robot arm which grabs it will grab it off-center and torque it, and when it drops it will spill, which ruins some nearby work area and requires the process to be shut down and manually corrected. That's the failure mode: error propagation.

Inability to anticipate load is a problem here, but it's not as dire as you're claiming -- the worst is that someone waits for a while longer, and this only applies if you don't have humans manning the registers -- after all, humans can indeed issue an order to a robot of "give me a dozen macs now!"; that is an order which robots can accept. I'm much more concerned with the fact that a totally-automated burger joint might not notice a hole in the wall forming due to water damage, or a rat making its way in through the aforementioned hole in the wall, following the smells of delicious burgers.
The local news website of where you live. It can be fascinating to read what goes on in your own neighbourhood.
"During the trial, jurors were forced to watch hours of videos in which females engaged in sex acts involving human waste and animals."

Made me chuckle.
This definitely puts the original article in a different perspective. It also answers my question whether the jurors were forced to watch the material.

Governments solution to a man producing movies that sexually violate animals? Sexually violate 12 random jurors.
Thanks for the catch on the register link. That's been fixed and will be released shortly.

Best of luck with finding something suitable.
My other observation with the same corollaries is that UK students tend to be better at getting on with things as GENERALLY they have been given more independence and have been treated more as adults during their undergrads. US university can feel a bit like high school++ at times (e.g. compulsory gen ed, I've even seen classes take attendance, constant exams with an average grade instead of a few big end of degree exams, homework, etc.).
For employees, pension and unemployment are mandatory, correct.

Don't mix up tax and health/pension/unemployment because (that was the starting point of this thread) one can believe that if you say 50% tax these insurances might come on top of that.

Otherwise, if you want to know how much you will have on your bank account after getting 70k/year, your link was very good AFAICS. You will most likely get something like 40k out of it.
I agree with you to a point. However, one of the big problems as I see it is that we don't have any clue what creates consciousness, and can't even agree what defines consciousness. It is very difficult to create something when you're not sure what the goal is.

I think the writer of the article I linked to makes some good points, but I don't necessarily agree with everything he says.

I think the problem with trying to predict something like that is that it is not fully a technological problem. We can make predictions about when the technology will be potentially capable of housing an intelligence, but it is much more difficult to predict when we might understand intelligence and consciousness enough to duplicate it. It could suddenly happen with the next few decades, or it might never happen.
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It's actually a fairly shallow argument, of the "it's hip to be libertarian" variety.

Does it apply to domestic animals? Does the argument extend to animal torture? If not, then why? Which animal cruelty laws should we strip from the books?

Note to self : when debating the legal and moral ramifications beastiality on HN at 2 in the morning, go to bed.
You could argue that livestock farming for human consumption (i.e killing cows to eat one) is very different from raping cows. In fact, there are laws on how to treat and kill livestock (granted there are multiple documentaries showing how nobody cares about those laws...)
It never ceases to amaze me how schmitz is doing the EXACT same thing for at least 2 decades now. He did exactly this on BBS, had other people upload to him and offer it up for download; then he ratted everyone he knew and worked with out to the police. Rinse and repeat with megaupload, let's see what kind of deal he will be going for in the end; and now there is "mega", let's see where this will go.
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I'm sure that's going to happen eventually.
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Apache Shiro, is it ready for Java EE 6? (a JSF2-Shiro Tutorial)
These bugs may have been added to the source code by Sun before Oracle acquired Sun. However, the first released version of Java that came with these bugs was done by Oracle.

Just to add I'm referring to latest zero day bugs and not the ones found by Gowdiak.
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The big "ruby" vulnerabilities that came up recently were issues in rails. I don't think that there's much irony here since the response from the rails core team was fast and professional, as was action taken by the community to patch existing web apps. Oracle sat on known vulnerabilities and didn't scramble out a fix until the department of homeland security got involved.
Obviously we're comparing applets and oranges here, but Oracle deserves a heap of criticism over how it's handling these issues, and it really brings the future of their Java codebase into question.
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You're assuming Apple wants anyone else to innovate. I would not say that assumption is correct.
Except we don't (yet) live in socialism powered by robots. These poor unskilled ex-workers can't have their beers on the beach.

Long-term, it will come to that. Humans will actually do creative, inventive jobs, while robots do all the dirty work. That's until AIs take our creative, inventive jobs. Then we're just going to be their pets.
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Yeah, as a contrary piece of information, Fred Brooks considered his single most significant act, ever, to be sending E. F. Codd to further education. Codd devised "Codd's 12 Rules," and invented the relational database.
Bought this series on DVD recently, only watched a few episodes but it really is great. His presenting style leaves a little to be desired but this is a man of extraordinary intelligence and breadth of knowledge.

If anyone is wondering on the subject matter, it plots of the ascent of man not in terms of biological evolution but cultural evolution - which seems to me to be an oft overlooked facet of how we came to be.
There is an order of magnitude between the population of Austin and NYC. Perhaps comparing Austin with a similar sized city, Columbus for example, would be a better comparison.
For starters knowing how to ask smart questions http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell
It can go the other way too. Should it be illegal to kill animals for food?

How is bestiality more cruel to an animal than how some pigs are raised in factory farms, or veal, or the frequent abuse of chickens that we've turned a blind eye to? What about animal testing in laboratories?
Milestone release vs. rolling release is a red herring. The real problem is the issue of shared libraries and shared dependencies. This is one thing Windows got right--updating one program (usually) doesn't affect other programs on the system. But in Linux, updating one library or program might introduce bugs into all of the programs using it. Hence was born the milestone concept, where we freeze a known stable state of the entire system and use that, because all the interdependent clockwork seems to work ok at that point; and then the rolling release concept, where we acknowledge the need for new software, but update everything, top to bottom, so frequently that breakage is common.

These approaches have the added side effect of making the distro the curator of the galaxy of 3rd-party software running on it. I find this the most surprising thing--why should the OS provider have to spend the energy curating every single well-known program that runs on the OS?

What we really need is a reform in the way dependencies and packages are managed so we can update one aspect of the system (Firefox, Pidgin, etc.) and not drag in new versions of libraries that can introduce bugs in to other parts of the system. Gobo Linux started edging towards this approach but it's sadly no longer maintained.

An approach that combines a stable core--kernel, video/network drivers, etc.--that is thoroughly tested and rarely updated, plus sandboxed apps that update at their own pace and are not curated by the distro maintainer, would be the ideal approach, I think. We could even keep the concept of centrally-sourced packages.

Is this possible given that Ubuntu inherits Debian, or given the general philosophy and practices of OSS? Maybe not. But it'd go a really long way towards assuaging the constant and unforgivable breakage that happens with every new Ubuntu release. (And before someone chimes in with "you're wrong, it works perfectly for me", I have a single anecdotal data point to counter your single anecdotal data point.)
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I agree that the argument from non-consensuality does not hold water, but there is a different argument - interspecies sex carries the risk of contracting a disease. This carries the act from the land of consenting adults (plus a non-consenting-but-who-cares animal) to endangering the whole population - germs that cross the inter-species barrier tend to be nasty ones.
But if you do watch it, be sure to stay on-trend and post a video on youtube of yourself while you watch it ala Joe Rogan, and more.
You're spot on about Apple relying on NeXT technologies in OS X / iOS renaissance. I too was surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the book.
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> Either your system provides security, or it provides no security. It's not an "amount" of security. Once you're compromised, you've lost.

It's not that simple. Yes, once you are compromised that's the end of it. But security is about preventing getting compromised. There are many ways to get compromised, and different ways to mitigate the attacks.

If security was that black and white (security or no security) we would all have to use air-gap networks. There would be no internet, no REST APIs, no trusted SSL CAs, we wouldn't be able to use anything. For convenience we accept a certain amount of security risk. The risk we accept, and the security measures we take, are entirely dependent on the sensitivity of the data and the threats we expect to deal with.

If the NSA and CIA are after you, nothing is secure, they can physically break in and steal your systems, they have world class cryptographers and a stockpile of zero-day attacks to create trojans with.

But for most of us you don't have to worry about the NSA coming after us. We don't even have to worry about highly targeted attacks from criminal gangs. Average people have to worry about semi-automated attacks to scam money out of them, steal their identity, or grab naked pictures. It's likely way easier to break into your corporate network than it is to hack a cloud storage provider and replace their JavaScript code.

I recommend you read some of Bruce Schneier's essays and posts, here is good start: http://www.schneier.com/essay-319.html
Food machinery is greased with nontoxic oil.

Gun oil like Ballistol is often used.
Is it worth putting a link to the kickstarter on the front page? Would certainly help explain a lot about the project and if it's still running people can chip in.
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Where he surely has a point is the ability of the german economy to actually monetize on new and innovative technologies. Which is, to be frank, not so good no matter the german industry keeps telling. It used to be different, so.
Then it's easy for law enforcement to force Mega to remove all known versions of certain copyrighted material as they can now prove that Mega are hosting copies of that particular bit of copyrighted material, .e.g.

If they find a ripped version of a movie/ebook/whatever they can just encrypt it using Mega's scheme (which would now derive the key from the data) and get a single version of the file out. They then tell Mega to remove any files that match that encrypted file.

If all files are encrypted with a random key there's no way for law enforcement to do this.
The only universal answer for "generalist or specialist?" is that there is no universal answer.

Sometimes you want a generalist. Sometimes a specialist. Sometimes you want adaptability, sometimes adaptation. Sometimes coverage, sometimes convergence. Sometimes generality, sometimes optimality.

As for analogies ... I prefer the pin factory, myself.
Haha, good point!

At least everyone on the internet either knew what they were getting into, or had the option to close their browser once they realized what was up. Those poor jurors.