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Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide

Posted by Soulskill on from the rest-in-peace dept.

maijc writes "Computer activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday in New York City. He was 26 years old. Swartz was 'indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with the intent to distribute them.' He is best known for co-authoring the widely-used RSS 1.0 specification when he was 14, and as one of the early co-owners of Reddit."

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  1. Re:He Is Free Now by maxwell+demon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, his body is dead. He isn't. He is simply not here. You can't prove I am wrong.

    And you can't prove that you are right.

    And if you're right, you still can't proof that he is free now. For all you know, he might be in hell.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.