If there was any indication of him having had mental health issues (beyond illusions of grandeur) prior to the announcement of the charges against him, then if anything memorials for him should be for mental health awareness. Instead people are dedicated to making a martyr out of him in spite of the fact that he broke the law.
And your condescending assumptions do nothing to move the conversation forward.
Yeah, the prosecution was heavy handed but that completely overlooks the fact that Swartz broke the fucking law and was a total idiot about it.
That completely overlooks the fact that threatening a young man with 35 years in prison is going to put unbearable stress on him
He had - until he took the coward's way out by taking his own life - the constitutional right to a fair trial. He could have defended himself or had an attorney do it for him. It is not uncommon in this country for prosecutors - particularly long before a trial has begun - to suggest that they will shoot for the moon with punishment. However the maximum possible sentence is very rarely handed down.
In the end, though, he knew what he did was illegal. He was never granted access to that wiring closet; the mere fact it was unlocked does not mean he had the right to abuse it. The charges that were going to be brought against him had more to do with the methods he used than the number of papers he was trying to release.
He didn't deserve to die for what he did, or to go to jail for 35 years
Nobody but Aaron Swartz killed Aaron Swartz. Nothing he did was honorable or worthy of being honored.
what basically amounts to civil copyright infringement
No, he did more than just infringe on copyright. His followers try to make it sound as if that was the meat of the charges but that overlooks the more egregious parts of what he did. He opened a closet at the library and connected through there (rather than using the connection in his own office). He then used so much bandwidth in the library that he made it more difficult for other users to access the resources they were there for. The real charges are along the lines of vandalism, disruption, and breaking and entering.
I'm so tired of seeing people masterbating over chances to honor Aaron Swartz I wish I could vomit on the laps of these political idiots. Yeah, the prosecution was heavy handed but that completely overlooks the fact that Swartz broke the fucking law and was a total idiot about it. He had the constitutional right to defend himself in court and face his accusers. He did not, however, have any constitutional right to enter the wiring closet at the library and interfere with other peoples' ability to use library resources just to further his agenda.
I even agree that the papers should be accessible. But I do not agree with his methods. He could have downloaded all these papers from his own desk instead, but he had to make it into performance art and go enter the library wiring closet. And don't use the fact that the door was not properly locked as a defense, either - no reasonable person would have assumed that a wiring closet was intentionally left unlocked so people could monopolize library bandwidth at their leisure.
In short, let the dead kid lay dead. He doesn't deserve any honors. He didn't deserve the ones he has already been given and doesn't deserve any additional ones either. He was a fool and a coward to boot.
I have found that in recent (say 10 or so) years dealerships have become a lot more cost competitive; at least for some types of repairs and maintenance procedures. One example I have noticed is with oil changes. My car uses synthetic oil, and a lot of it. I priced out what it would cost me to change the oil myself if I bought the appropriate oil at the local parts store, and the filter. I then called the dealership and their cost to me for the same was only $5 more. If I had done it myself I would have spent $5 running the used oil somewhere for disposal, and likely had to spend time afterwards cleaning up part of my garage. it was well worth the $5 to let them do it.
I have found other similar situations with brake jobs (I would normally do these myself but in situations involving stuck calipers or parking brake pads that won't release, I call and price it out at the dealership and local brake shops).
Now, I haven't encountered the need for a really large repair yet. I don't know if this scales or not. But it does suggest that the dealerships are aware of consumers pricing out these things and have brought their charges down in response.
This seems highly unlikely given the pro-monopoly stance that the administration of Barack Hussein "Lawnchair" Obama has taken up to this point. They didn't stop any of the airline or bank mergers that we have seen since 2009. They didn't reign in the massive control that the insurance industry has over the consumer (indeed they gave the industry more power). They didn't stop telecoms from merging either. Why would they get involved in this?
This looks like window dressing more than anything. The Administration is trying to get some positive PR but eventually they will let it slide through because the free market is teh awesome!
They are still working on better chemical cocktails for cryopreservation. We know we can do this with single-celled organisms and there is some evidence it works on organs as well. It might be questionable science, in that you might pay in and never wake up again, but it isn't really junk science.
Why do people still spend money on this?
It gives them hope. Does it harm you for them to spend their money this way? Sure there are other things they could do that would likely be more beneficial for mankind as a whole, but there are worse things, too.
The medical device companies (Medtronic, Boston Scientific, et al) have been putting a lot of effort in to this field. Engineers - Biomedical, Electric, and others - have lots of good opportunities from this right now.
Has the government - beyond just the white house - been inclined to revoke any tax exempt statuses in memory? I don't recall a single one. Just because Scientology has only a slightly higher public approval rate than ebola doesn't mean the government is likely to take a stand against them.
Besides, even if it was revoked, they would likely just find a really good accountant / lawyer team and end up paying the same amount (or less) in taxes. Last year Prudential insurance paid no corporate income tax and received a $106 million rebate. Time Warner cable paid no taxes on $4.3B in profit, CBS no taxes on $1.8B. Scientology could probably do better on their taxes by registering as a corporation anyways.
Tenure is rapidly going away, partially as more universities are replacing regular faculty with adjunct faculty and using the availability of the latter as justification for worse treatment of the former. Go look at the closest 4-year school to where you live and see how many tenure-track STEM openings they have. Then look this summer to see how many openings they have for adjuncts.
That is actually a pretty big assumption you are making, there. The Neitzes do each have one R01 (research) grant through the NIH (you can look them up here if you'd like) however research on this scale can't be done with only that large of a budget. While each of those grants are six-figure totals, those are multi-year grants and they pay salaries (faculty, postdocs, grad students, and technicians), they buy supplies, and they pay the university to keep the lights on. There was certainly additional funding coming from other sources to get through to human testing.
So indeed, some of it was publicly funded, but we don't know from any of the information in front of us how much of it was publicly funded. Just because they work at a public university doesn't mean they didn't have some non-public money coming in to support their research; this is quite common today with the way research budgets work when dealing with the federal government.
At a minimum, these deals should have a clause requiring the amount of public money spent on such research should get paid back from these corporate proceeds before the schools and companies start collecting.
That isn't a terrible request, provided you are willing to request that happen only if the corporate proceeds actually pan out. There are other faculty at public universities who try to start their own companies and the companies end up going broke without ever turning a profit.
Even some of her most diehard supporters thought that the last half dozen scandals would keep her from running
The "last half dozen scandals" have consisted of the email server bit and 5 nonsensical conspiracies. I don't particularly like her that much but the unending stream of hatred the GOP directs at her produces semi-laughable results at times.
He declared last week, and wasn't on the front page. Why not? I'm guessing it's because Paul is a favorite object of man-love here on slashdot while Hillary is a favorite punching bag. You don't get many readers in to a celebration, but you get plenty of them for a pseudo lynching.
He seems knowledgeable on a lot of the Linux stuff but he doesn't seem to understand that his Lenovo Yoga is not a thinkpad. He mentions a few things that he misses from having previously used a thinkpad (the better keyboard and the better pointing device being two such things) and doesn't seem to realize that he is using a laptop that is not designed to compete with the thinkpads. There are convertible thinkpad tablets out there for that purpose.
Shh! Don't tell that to the slashdot conservatives. You know that, I know that, wikipedia knows that, but to the conservative narrative 1992 is squarely in the Clinton years and everything bad that happened during it is 100% his fault.
Just as everything that happened between 2000 (when Clinton left office) and now is Obama's fault.
People who want to rumble around in loud, turbulent metal machines, well, fair enough.
No, what I am after is not that, either.
My gripe about >>99% of all Asian cars (and frankly most of the cars sold by the American brands as well) is that they disconnect the driver from the road and from the driving experience in general. It isn't just that they are quiet. They are quiet and they don't accelerate well, they don't handle well, they don't transmit any feel of the road, and perhaps worst of all the seats don't encourage drivers to care about any of this.
Yeah, most sedans have seats now that are comfortable like a La-Z-boy. I don't want that, though. I want comfortable like a good task chair. A La-Z-boy encourages me to tune out and fall asleep. A task chair encourages me to focus. Built in creature comforts in seats like heat, A/C, and massage don't help either - again they encourage the occupant to pay less attention to the road and the task at hand.
That said, I do like a nice exhaust note when I step hard on the pedal. I don't see that as the same thing as "loud, turbulent". You can have a genuine exhaust note on a car that is quiet at cruising speed - many many vehicles have demonstrated that.
As I said though it seemed like this would turn the world on its head for mass spec; tiny accurate sensors the size of eraser heads. It hasn't happened yet, and I'm not connected to it well enough to know why.
Hyundais are so narcoleptically boring to drive they might as well just drive themselves and let the owner take a nap. Equally true for Toyota and Honda, even though Hyundai is Korean and the other two Japanese.
I saw an academic talk on MEMS applied to mass spectrometry about a decade or so ago. It was promising to be the next greatest sensor; smaller, faster, lower power and sample requirements, with better resolution across wide mass ranges. For the most part it hasn't made it yet. It has turned out some interesting data in a few labs but it is far from being commercially viable.
Hopefully this group has figured out some other way to make it work for this specific application, and someone can build on it from there. It is impressive technology.
Are you sure it is fixed? I still see it twice every time I load it. Not that it is terribly important this far out, as it has been off the front page for some time now...
googling "tesla battery capacity" will tell you the Model S battery is 85 kWh. At $230/kWh that is $19,550. Seems to me the economics stays utterly prohibitive except for rich pricks.
And how many owners have had to replace their battery pack? This is not really an expense that owners plan to encounter, though it is an expense that goes in to making the car. That said, the $20k battery pack is a significant part of the cost of the drivetrain. You can't replace the drivetrain on a brand new BMW 3 series for $20k.
It might not be the best deal in motoring, but it is far from the worst. The reduction in cost also suggests that Tesla is on their way to producing a $30k car as promised.
I expect that documentary - even though it was not in any way, shape, or form connected to Michael Moore - is not very popular with this crowd. However, if you were to take the time to watch it you may find it quite insightful. One thing in particular is that they found the battery manufacturers were not at fault - at least not as much as the other "suspects" - as they were doing the best they could with the technology of the time. It will be interesting to see how the market changes now that better batteries are becoming available.
The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.
Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.
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It is highly unusual for "failure machine" samzenpus to post something that is critical of republicans. Thanks to whoever hit him.
If there was any indication of him having had mental health issues (beyond illusions of grandeur) prior to the announcement of the charges against him, then if anything memorials for him should be for mental health awareness. Instead people are dedicated to making a martyr out of him in spite of the fact that he broke the law.
And your condescending assumptions do nothing to move the conversation forward.
Yeah, the prosecution was heavy handed but that completely overlooks the fact that Swartz broke the fucking law and was a total idiot about it.
That completely overlooks the fact that threatening a young man with 35 years in prison is going to put unbearable stress on him
He had - until he took the coward's way out by taking his own life - the constitutional right to a fair trial. He could have defended himself or had an attorney do it for him. It is not uncommon in this country for prosecutors - particularly long before a trial has begun - to suggest that they will shoot for the moon with punishment. However the maximum possible sentence is very rarely handed down.
In the end, though, he knew what he did was illegal. He was never granted access to that wiring closet; the mere fact it was unlocked does not mean he had the right to abuse it. The charges that were going to be brought against him had more to do with the methods he used than the number of papers he was trying to release.
He didn't deserve to die for what he did, or to go to jail for 35 years
Nobody but Aaron Swartz killed Aaron Swartz. Nothing he did was honorable or worthy of being honored.
what basically amounts to civil copyright infringement
No, he did more than just infringe on copyright. His followers try to make it sound as if that was the meat of the charges but that overlooks the more egregious parts of what he did. He opened a closet at the library and connected through there (rather than using the connection in his own office). He then used so much bandwidth in the library that he made it more difficult for other users to access the resources they were there for. The real charges are along the lines of vandalism, disruption, and breaking and entering.
I'm so tired of seeing people masterbating over chances to honor Aaron Swartz I wish I could vomit on the laps of these political idiots. Yeah, the prosecution was heavy handed but that completely overlooks the fact that Swartz broke the fucking law and was a total idiot about it. He had the constitutional right to defend himself in court and face his accusers. He did not, however, have any constitutional right to enter the wiring closet at the library and interfere with other peoples' ability to use library resources just to further his agenda.
I even agree that the papers should be accessible. But I do not agree with his methods. He could have downloaded all these papers from his own desk instead, but he had to make it into performance art and go enter the library wiring closet. And don't use the fact that the door was not properly locked as a defense, either - no reasonable person would have assumed that a wiring closet was intentionally left unlocked so people could monopolize library bandwidth at their leisure.
In short, let the dead kid lay dead. He doesn't deserve any honors. He didn't deserve the ones he has already been given and doesn't deserve any additional ones either. He was a fool and a coward to boot.
I have found that in recent (say 10 or so) years dealerships have become a lot more cost competitive; at least for some types of repairs and maintenance procedures. One example I have noticed is with oil changes. My car uses synthetic oil, and a lot of it. I priced out what it would cost me to change the oil myself if I bought the appropriate oil at the local parts store, and the filter. I then called the dealership and their cost to me for the same was only $5 more. If I had done it myself I would have spent $5 running the used oil somewhere for disposal, and likely had to spend time afterwards cleaning up part of my garage. it was well worth the $5 to let them do it.
I have found other similar situations with brake jobs (I would normally do these myself but in situations involving stuck calipers or parking brake pads that won't release, I call and price it out at the dealership and local brake shops).
Now, I haven't encountered the need for a really large repair yet. I don't know if this scales or not. But it does suggest that the dealerships are aware of consumers pricing out these things and have brought their charges down in response.
This seems highly unlikely given the pro-monopoly stance that the administration of Barack Hussein "Lawnchair" Obama has taken up to this point. They didn't stop any of the airline or bank mergers that we have seen since 2009. They didn't reign in the massive control that the insurance industry has over the consumer (indeed they gave the industry more power). They didn't stop telecoms from merging either. Why would they get involved in this?
This looks like window dressing more than anything. The Administration is trying to get some positive PR but eventually they will let it slide through because the free market is teh awesome!
Why do people still spend money on this?
It gives them hope. Does it harm you for them to spend their money this way? Sure there are other things they could do that would likely be more beneficial for mankind as a whole, but there are worse things, too.
The medical device companies (Medtronic, Boston Scientific, et al) have been putting a lot of effort in to this field. Engineers - Biomedical, Electric, and others - have lots of good opportunities from this right now.
Has the government - beyond just the white house - been inclined to revoke any tax exempt statuses in memory? I don't recall a single one. Just because Scientology has only a slightly higher public approval rate than ebola doesn't mean the government is likely to take a stand against them.
Besides, even if it was revoked, they would likely just find a really good accountant / lawyer team and end up paying the same amount (or less) in taxes. Last year Prudential insurance paid no corporate income tax and received a $106 million rebate. Time Warner cable paid no taxes on $4.3B in profit, CBS no taxes on $1.8B. Scientology could probably do better on their taxes by registering as a corporation anyways.
Tenure is rapidly going away, partially as more universities are replacing regular faculty with adjunct faculty and using the availability of the latter as justification for worse treatment of the former. Go look at the closest 4-year school to where you live and see how many tenure-track STEM openings they have. Then look this summer to see how many openings they have for adjuncts.
This is publicly funded research
That is actually a pretty big assumption you are making, there. The Neitzes do each have one R01 (research) grant through the NIH (you can look them up here if you'd like) however research on this scale can't be done with only that large of a budget. While each of those grants are six-figure totals, those are multi-year grants and they pay salaries (faculty, postdocs, grad students, and technicians), they buy supplies, and they pay the university to keep the lights on. There was certainly additional funding coming from other sources to get through to human testing.
So indeed, some of it was publicly funded, but we don't know from any of the information in front of us how much of it was publicly funded. Just because they work at a public university doesn't mean they didn't have some non-public money coming in to support their research; this is quite common today with the way research budgets work when dealing with the federal government.
At a minimum, these deals should have a clause requiring the amount of public money spent on such research should get paid back from these corporate proceeds before the schools and companies start collecting.
That isn't a terrible request, provided you are willing to request that happen only if the corporate proceeds actually pan out. There are other faculty at public universities who try to start their own companies and the companies end up going broke without ever turning a profit.
Even some of her most diehard supporters thought that the last half dozen scandals would keep her from running
The "last half dozen scandals" have consisted of the email server bit and 5 nonsensical conspiracies. I don't particularly like her that much but the unending stream of hatred the GOP directs at her produces semi-laughable results at times.
He declared last week, and wasn't on the front page. Why not? I'm guessing it's because Paul is a favorite object of man-love here on slashdot while Hillary is a favorite punching bag. You don't get many readers in to a celebration, but you get plenty of them for a pseudo lynching.
He seems knowledgeable on a lot of the Linux stuff but he doesn't seem to understand that his Lenovo Yoga is not a thinkpad. He mentions a few things that he misses from having previously used a thinkpad (the better keyboard and the better pointing device being two such things) and doesn't seem to realize that he is using a laptop that is not designed to compete with the thinkpads. There are convertible thinkpad tablets out there for that purpose.
Clinton took office in January of 1993
Shh! Don't tell that to the slashdot conservatives. You know that, I know that, wikipedia knows that, but to the conservative narrative 1992 is squarely in the Clinton years and everything bad that happened during it is 100% his fault.
Just as everything that happened between 2000 (when Clinton left office) and now is Obama's fault.
That year conveniently allows us to put all the blame squarely on Bill Clinton.
People who want to rumble around in loud, turbulent metal machines, well, fair enough.
No, what I am after is not that, either.
My gripe about >>99% of all Asian cars (and frankly most of the cars sold by the American brands as well) is that they disconnect the driver from the road and from the driving experience in general. It isn't just that they are quiet. They are quiet and they don't accelerate well, they don't handle well, they don't transmit any feel of the road, and perhaps worst of all the seats don't encourage drivers to care about any of this.
Yeah, most sedans have seats now that are comfortable like a La-Z-boy. I don't want that, though. I want comfortable like a good task chair. A La-Z-boy encourages me to tune out and fall asleep. A task chair encourages me to focus. Built in creature comforts in seats like heat, A/C, and massage don't help either - again they encourage the occupant to pay less attention to the road and the task at hand.
That said, I do like a nice exhaust note when I step hard on the pedal. I don't see that as the same thing as "loud, turbulent". You can have a genuine exhaust note on a car that is quiet at cruising speed - many many vehicles have demonstrated that.
An embedded microchannel in a MEMS plate resonator for ultrasensitive mass sensing in liquid. This is one published paper on (proteomics) mass spec using MEMS.
Real-time particle mass spectrometry based on resonant micro strings. This is another one.
Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time. Some times they call it "nanomechanical" instead, making it NEMS instead of MEMS.
As I said though it seemed like this would turn the world on its head for mass spec; tiny accurate sensors the size of eraser heads. It hasn't happened yet, and I'm not connected to it well enough to know why.
Hyundais are so narcoleptically boring to drive they might as well just drive themselves and let the owner take a nap. Equally true for Toyota and Honda, even though Hyundai is Korean and the other two Japanese.
I saw an academic talk on MEMS applied to mass spectrometry about a decade or so ago. It was promising to be the next greatest sensor; smaller, faster, lower power and sample requirements, with better resolution across wide mass ranges. For the most part it hasn't made it yet. It has turned out some interesting data in a few labs but it is far from being commercially viable.
Hopefully this group has figured out some other way to make it work for this specific application, and someone can build on it from there. It is impressive technology.
Are you sure it is fixed? I still see it twice every time I load it. Not that it is terribly important this far out, as it has been off the front page for some time now...
googling "tesla battery capacity" will tell you the Model S battery is 85 kWh. At $230/kWh that is $19,550. Seems to me the economics stays utterly prohibitive except for rich pricks.
And how many owners have had to replace their battery pack? This is not really an expense that owners plan to encounter, though it is an expense that goes in to making the car. That said, the $20k battery pack is a significant part of the cost of the drivetrain. You can't replace the drivetrain on a brand new BMW 3 series for $20k.
It might not be the best deal in motoring, but it is far from the worst. The reduction in cost also suggests that Tesla is on their way to producing a $30k car as promised.
I expect that documentary - even though it was not in any way, shape, or form connected to Michael Moore - is not very popular with this crowd. However, if you were to take the time to watch it you may find it quite insightful. One thing in particular is that they found the battery manufacturers were not at fault - at least not as much as the other "suspects" - as they were doing the best they could with the technology of the time. It will be interesting to see how the market changes now that better batteries are becoming available.
The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.
Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.
Me thinks you are overestimating the number of people blackmailed. That's $3 per person (he only made $30k).
You don't have to be successful in blackmail to be convicted of committing it. They said he charged
$250 to $500
To remove people's pictures, so yes there were far fewer than 10,000 people who paid him but there were 10,000+ who he blackmailed.