Or... y'know... maybe... and I know this is going to sound just totally crazy here, a person could just not do illegal stuff in the first place?
Sure. As soon as the laws are reasonable, proportional, and a reflection of the will of the people and not merely what they've been coerced into accepting by a system that values money and power more than fairness, logic, and actual societal benefit, then I'll stop doing illegal stuff.
As long as the law exists to protect the powerful, and not everyone equally, it's all of our duty to break the law.
A true brick is always the manufacturers fault. Software should never be able to do anything irreversible to hardware. If there's flashable firmware that could be corrupted, keep a ROM copy that can be used by setting a jumper. Anything less is pure negligence.
Not at all. Things should be considered based on research studies that take into account the likelihood of things happening and how severe the damage will actually be. They should not be considered based on how scary an author of fiction is able to portray.
We over criminalize everything in the US already. There are far fewer people that actually deserve to be in prison than we have incarcerated.
I don't consider stealing everything not guarded by private security as contributing to the economy. That will happen as there will be little deterrent due to the few charges being laid.
And what's the difference from today? If you add up all the property crime committed in 2008, it comes to just 1 percent of what was stolen in the financial crisis that year. Our justice system already lets the worst criminals go and is proud of that fact.
I've always viewed XBMC as an alternative to live TV. If i have XBMC and an internet connection, I don't need live TV at all. The PVR functionality will go completely unused here.
Yes. Freedom is the most valuable commodity we have. My personal wealth, what little of it there is, is worth nothing if it can all be destroyed by an overzealous prosecutor on a power trip.
Besides, I'd be willing to bet we'd save money over all. Putting every charge to trial would lead prosecutors to levy fewer charges. And more people who went to trial would be found innocent. This would decrease the burden on our prison system, and allow those people to contribute positively to the economy.
This has been a feature of X since before X11. It's even easier to use now with SSH supporting X forwarding. And if you're using it across the public internet, you can get good performance with FreeNX.
Unfortunately, this is all likely to go away if X is deprecated in favor of Wayland.
Do you really want every minor infraction that would put someone away for less than a year to have to go to court? Yes, yes, YES!
Do you realize how clogged the courts already are and what a mess they would be if that happened?
Do you realize how clogged the prisons are already and what a mess we are actually in?
The reason the prosecutors threaten more jail time is to give the defendant incentive to admit to what was actually done.
If you know 35 years is unjust, but it's OK to threaten someone with it in order to get them to give up their right to a trial, why stop there? Why not threaten defendents with death to coerce a guilty plea? Would you be ok with that?
Really? When I look at this country and count the problems caused by religion, I don't see many that can be attributed to Scientology. I see a lot of them that can be attributed to mainstream Christianity though. Anti-gay bigotry. Anti-birth control. Anti-seperation of church and state. Pro-censorship. Pro-creationism in science classes. etc.
These are all positions held by mainstream christians. Not every church has these problems, but the ones that do are pretty common. I don't remember the last time Scientology affected the national discourse the way Catholics or Baptists do.
That said, I would not want to be the person who was being sued over using such a service. You'd presumably have to convince a judge that your purpose for using the software in the first place was something other than engaging in or facilitating copyright infringement.... Good luck with that.
Retroshare, in addition to being a darknet file sharing app has encrypted equivalents of email, IM, IRC, web forums, status feeds, VOIP, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
Retroshare is great, but it's limited by the number of friends you have. You only ever connect to people you have an established friend relationship with. If you only have one friend, it doesn't matter how many seeders there are for a file, it will never go faster than your friend's upload speed.
The "right to a trial" doesn't guarantee you "the right to a specific outcome that you want"
Obviously not. But when you exercise your right to a trial and lose, you shouldn't get 10 times the sentence. Guilty is guilty, and should receive the same sentence either way. Anything else is punishing people for exercising their rights. Plea bargains are barbaric.
No, 35 years was a very real possibility for Swartz. None of the promises the prosecutor made were binding. And the judge could decide to be an asshole if he wanted.
Swartz had a right to a trial. It is disingenuous to claim that the punishment was proportional to the crime if he had to give up his right to a trial to receive that punishment. No, it's not disingenuous, it's an outright lie.
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Or... y'know... maybe... and I know this is going to sound just totally crazy here, a person could just not do illegal stuff in the first place?
Sure. As soon as the laws are reasonable, proportional, and a reflection of the will of the people and not merely what they've been coerced into accepting by a system that values money and power more than fairness, logic, and actual societal benefit, then I'll stop doing illegal stuff.
As long as the law exists to protect the powerful, and not everyone equally, it's all of our duty to break the law.
A true brick is always the manufacturers fault. Software should never be able to do anything irreversible to hardware. If there's flashable firmware that could be corrupted, keep a ROM copy that can be used by setting a jumper. Anything less is pure negligence.
Not at all. Things should be considered based on research studies that take into account the likelihood of things happening and how severe the damage will actually be. They should not be considered based on how scary an author of fiction is able to portray.
We over criminalize everything in the US already. There are far fewer people that actually deserve to be in prison than we have incarcerated.
I don't consider stealing everything not guarded by private security as contributing to the economy. That will happen as there will be little deterrent due to the few charges being laid.
And what's the difference from today? If you add up all the property crime committed in 2008, it comes to just 1 percent of what was stolen in the financial crisis that year. Our justice system already lets the worst criminals go and is proud of that fact.
A handful of people from the banks have been criminally charged
Who exactly, and how long are they going to jail for? It's the only sanction that actually matters.
I think you'll find that these bankers care about *their* family and *their* tribe too. We're just not in either of those groups.
I've always viewed XBMC as an alternative to live TV. If i have XBMC and an internet connection, I don't need live TV at all. The PVR functionality will go completely unused here.
I'm a lot more worried about being governed by a man who makes his decisions based on works of fiction than I am of the threat of bioterrorism.
Yes. Freedom is the most valuable commodity we have. My personal wealth, what little of it there is, is worth nothing if it can all be destroyed by an overzealous prosecutor on a power trip.
Besides, I'd be willing to bet we'd save money over all. Putting every charge to trial would lead prosecutors to levy fewer charges. And more people who went to trial would be found innocent. This would decrease the burden on our prison system, and allow those people to contribute positively to the economy.
Have you tried FreeNX?
Does Matlab display graphs? That would be a good use for forwarding. I use R under X-forwarding like this all the time.
This has been a feature of X since before X11. It's even easier to use now with SSH supporting X forwarding. And if you're using it across the public internet, you can get good performance with FreeNX.
Unfortunately, this is all likely to go away if X is deprecated in favor of Wayland.
If it's not worth investing in a trial, it's not worth putting someone in jail for. Period.
Do you really want every minor infraction that would put someone away for less than a year to have to go to court?
Yes, yes, YES!
Do you realize how clogged the courts already are and what a mess they would be if that happened?
Do you realize how clogged the prisons are already and what a mess we are actually in?
The reason the prosecutors threaten more jail time is to give the defendant incentive to admit to what was actually done.
If you know 35 years is unjust, but it's OK to threaten someone with it in order to get them to give up their right to a trial, why stop there? Why not threaten defendents with death to coerce a guilty plea? Would you be ok with that?
Really? When I look at this country and count the problems caused by religion, I don't see many that can be attributed to Scientology. I see a lot of them that can be attributed to mainstream Christianity though. Anti-gay bigotry. Anti-birth control. Anti-seperation of church and state. Pro-censorship. Pro-creationism in science classes. etc.
These are all positions held by mainstream christians. Not every church has these problems, but the ones that do are pretty common. I don't remember the last time Scientology affected the national discourse the way Catholics or Baptists do.
That said, I would not want to be the person who was being sued over using such a service. You'd presumably have to convince a judge that your purpose for using the software in the first place was something other than engaging in or facilitating copyright infringement.... Good luck with that.
Retroshare, in addition to being a darknet file sharing app has encrypted equivalents of email, IM, IRC, web forums, status feeds, VOIP, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
Retroshare is great, but it's limited by the number of friends you have. You only ever connect to people you have an established friend relationship with. If you only have one friend, it doesn't matter how many seeders there are for a file, it will never go faster than your friend's upload speed.
Sure, they are tired, but it doesn't impact their ability to concentrate in the same way.
It does, they are just not aware of it or don't want to admit it.
The "right to a trial" doesn't guarantee you "the right to a specific outcome that you want"
Obviously not. But when you exercise your right to a trial and lose, you shouldn't get 10 times the sentence. Guilty is guilty, and should receive the same sentence either way. Anything else is punishing people for exercising their rights. Plea bargains are barbaric.
He was offered 6 months - likely in a minimum security summer camp, like Martha Stewart and other "white collar" criminals have served in.
Again, Swartz has a right to a trial. Could he exercise that right and receive 6 months? No? Then the 6 month offer is irrelevant.
Don't be disingenuous - he would've served 6 months
Not if he exercised his right to a trial. How is that so hard to understand?
How are other people endangered if I leave my private key in a public place?
No, 35 years was a very real possibility for Swartz. None of the promises the prosecutor made were binding. And the judge could decide to be an asshole if he wanted.
That's how I feel about all closed source software. I'm not sure why I should trust American code over Russian or Chinese code.
Swartz had a right to a trial. It is disingenuous to claim that the punishment was proportional to the crime if he had to give up his right to a trial to receive that punishment. No, it's not disingenuous, it's an outright lie.
MLK was fortunate he lived in a country where and at a time when the rule of law was respected.