Aaron Swartz committed a service violation that resulted in the loss of that service to thousands of other law abiding users for several days DO NOT FORGET.
He is no martyr, he was a punk and got popped for pilfering paid for content in order to "liberate it" You steal, you steal. Doing electronically makes it wire-fraud.
Don't want to go to PMITAP? Don't commit wire-fraud.
Seems that the DAs office in NYC should be busy issuing Arrest Warrants for manufacturers of Guns, Knives, Automobiles, Hammers, Crowbars and Household Cleaning Products.
Ahh fuck it -- just arrest anyone who has ever made anything. We can't be too sure.
I'm sure Duct Tape has been used in many abductions and murders. And arrest everyone at Google too -- how many murder suspects have been found to have used their site to help them commit their crimes?
If they don't want people linking to them, the should set up an Apache Redirect Rule for all Get Requests that have a Foreign site as the Referrer.
Silencing free speech and expression with lawsuits when you can easily curtail that behavior on your own should be seen as unconscionable and any such lawsuit dismissed, with any fees associated in the defense against those claims rewarded to the defendant.
It's very appropriate as it's the new standard of Government Publication Policy to refer to everything in as dramatically characterized a manner as possible so that civil servants and political types can understand it. Using references to popular media such as comic books, TV and Movies is highly recommended to insure the greatest comprehension and retention on information comprehension by 6 year olds, Members Congress and the Military.
Consider the following proposed report title: "Future Risks of the Rise in Use of Stimulants and Nootropics in the MIlitary", see... it almost bores one to sleep just reading that bit. Now consider this "Future Mutant Powers in the US Military Present Potential Dangers!" -- Wow! Our Freedom Fighters are going to be Mutants with Heat-Ray Eyes!?!?! How Kick Ass is that! Let's give you buckets of cash to make this happen!
What I'm saying is that money is falling out of use, maybe not for you, but for me and many others.
Why pay ATM fees to grab $20 or even $60, when you could just pay with a debit card and have the retailer pay for the transaction fee (aside from certain a-holes like ARCO and some corner stores that pass on the fee to the consumer)
About a decade ago, I would typically keep about $100 in the house just because. Now days it's rare if I have $15 around at any given time. Mostly I keep a roll of quarters in the car to pay for meters, and even those are starting to go the electronic payment route.
And if you don't like ATM fees, use the grocery store checkout as your ATM. Yes, you have to buy something, but a pack of Altoids is a lot less than most ATM fees, and much more invigorating;)
I imagine that most people (such as myself) don't carry any significant quantity of cash on them anymore since most every Retailer and Restaurant will take a Visa Debit card issued from your bank.
So it only makes sense to go after iPhones and iPads since going after someone's wallet will typically net you $60 or less, while you can offload that shiny iGadget for a couple hundred.
If it weren't iDevices, it'd be something else. The real culprit here is a profound culture shift from cash based shopping to electronic payments.
Is it April 1st already? Since when does the Court ever defer to common sense -- especially when computers or the Internet is involved? I'd better go read the article myself, the submitter probably dun goofed.
Indeed -- From study, it seems that Albert Einstein's brain may have better enabled him to make his discovery's on the workings of space and time.
“Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary,” said Falk, the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State.
“These may have provided the neurological underpinnings for some of his visuospatial and mathematical abilities, for instance.”
Not all brains are the same and when extraordinary ability is granted to such a narrow focus such as mathematics, I would have to guess that the cause would have a physical cause rather than simply "putting his brain to use more than 99.9999999999% of us"
Seriously -- things were so much better when we had the Red Scare to keep our Government busy. Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, it's been a constant War On The People.
Can the US and Russia please just go back to hating each other? I've had it with my government truing to come up with new and improved ways to infringe my rights.
Don't you remember the Steve Jobs puppet they had that kept re-inventing things that were already invented? Sesame Street has been educating kids about tech for many years now.
Is it too outlandish to consider that perhaps having a certain bacteria could cause you to metabolize foods differently, resulting in weight gain regardless of diet and exercise?
Really -- it's not that outlandish an idea. Of course a good diet and exercise are splendid -- but the fact is there are millions of people who do diet and exercise see very poor results compared to others.
The only thing that's changed is that hot internet startups tend to get bought up pretty quickly and rolled into whichever walled garden their new Mega-Sized Overlord happens to own.
If it were a walled grden, you'd have to "pay to play" just to have the opportunity to launch your online startup -- e.g: the iTunes App Store. Today we see Instagram making a Billion off a couple weeks of effort for an app that would have netted hardly enough to pay the developers rent back in 2000.
Times are actually pretty good and in fact easier for small startups to realize a handsome profit.
IQ is in fact the sole measure of not only one's intelligence, but of social superiority and we have the number sequences and visual diagrams to prove it!
In Britain this is quite chilling. These are a people that WANT a Nanny State Gov't that regulates politeness with an iron fist and enforces public safety with a million cameras. Essentially, the gov't is saying they might have to live their lives a little less sheltered and allow other people to say things that they may not like.
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Aaron Swartz committed a service violation that resulted in the loss of that service to thousands of other law abiding users for several days DO NOT FORGET.
He is no martyr, he was a punk and got popped for pilfering paid for content in order to "liberate it"
You steal, you steal. Doing electronically makes it wire-fraud.
Don't want to go to PMITAP? Don't commit wire-fraud.
Yeah -- but that is only spec'd at 172 TFlops, a long way away from 30 PFlops.
All the News we think is fit to print and in our best interests.
All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month, and try our best to live within our means. Why can't America?
Because FUCK YOU! WE'RE AMERICA -- that's why.
Just what the US citizenry needs -- a Red White and Blue equivalent of the good ol' Nazi Brown Shirts.
I'm feeling safer already.
I heard you like Moons.
Except that the passenger was not present -- the offending article was in a checked bag.
an electric toothbrush began vibrating inside a bag checked onto an AirTran flight
You think baggage handlers are authorized to do anything but hit the panic button?
Seems that the DAs office in NYC should be busy issuing Arrest Warrants for manufacturers of Guns, Knives, Automobiles, Hammers, Crowbars and Household Cleaning Products.
Ahh fuck it -- just arrest anyone who has ever made anything.
We can't be too sure.
I'm sure Duct Tape has been used in many abductions and murders.
And arrest everyone at Google too -- how many murder suspects have been found to have used their site to help them commit their crimes?
If they don't want people linking to them, the should set up an Apache Redirect Rule for all Get Requests that have a Foreign site as the Referrer.
Silencing free speech and expression with lawsuits when you can easily curtail that behavior on your own should be seen as unconscionable and any such lawsuit dismissed, with any fees associated in the defense against those claims rewarded to the defendant.
What Happens On The Internet, Stays On The Internet.
Because the amount of energy required to provide suitable electro-magnetic shielding for the duration of the journey would be prohibitive.
It's very appropriate as it's the new standard of Government Publication Policy to refer to everything in as dramatically characterized a manner as possible so that civil servants and political types can understand it. Using references to popular media such as comic books, TV and Movies is highly recommended to insure the greatest comprehension and retention on information comprehension by 6 year olds, Members Congress and the Military.
Consider the following proposed report title: "Future Risks of the Rise in Use of Stimulants and Nootropics in the MIlitary", see ... it almost bores one to sleep just reading that bit. Now consider this "Future Mutant Powers in the US Military Present Potential Dangers!" -- Wow! Our Freedom Fighters are going to be Mutants with Heat-Ray Eyes!?!?! How Kick Ass is that! Let's give you buckets of cash to make this happen!
What I'm saying is that money is falling out of use, maybe not for you, but for me and many others.
Why pay ATM fees to grab $20 or even $60, when you could just pay with a debit card and have the retailer pay for the transaction fee (aside from certain a-holes like ARCO and some corner stores that pass on the fee to the consumer)
About a decade ago, I would typically keep about $100 in the house just because. Now days it's rare if I have $15 around at any given time. Mostly I keep a roll of quarters in the car to pay for meters, and even those are starting to go the electronic payment route.
And if you don't like ATM fees, use the grocery store checkout as your ATM. ;)
Yes, you have to buy something, but a pack of Altoids is a lot less than most ATM fees, and much more invigorating
I imagine that most people (such as myself) don't carry any significant quantity of cash on them anymore since most every Retailer and Restaurant will take a Visa Debit card issued from your bank.
So it only makes sense to go after iPhones and iPads since going after someone's wallet will typically net you $60 or less, while you can offload that shiny iGadget for a couple hundred.
If it weren't iDevices, it'd be something else.
The real culprit here is a profound culture shift from cash based shopping to electronic payments.
They are no longer free and require registration, unless linked to from Google News.
Yes, because 136.4C (277.52F) is sooooo much more plausible.
Is it April 1st already? Since when does the Court ever defer to common sense -- especially when computers or the Internet is involved?
I'd better go read the article myself, the submitter probably dun goofed.
Indeed -- From study, it seems that Albert Einstein's brain may have better enabled him to make his discovery's on the workings of space and time.
“Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary,” said Falk, the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State.
“These may have provided the neurological underpinnings for some of his visuospatial and mathematical abilities, for instance.”
-- http://www.examiner.com/article/differences-albert-einstein-s-brain-may-explain-his-genius
Not all brains are the same and when extraordinary ability is granted to such a narrow focus such as mathematics, I would have to guess that the cause would have a physical cause rather than simply "putting his brain to use more than 99.9999999999% of us"
Seriously -- things were so much better when we had the Red Scare to keep our Government busy.
Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, it's been a constant War On The People.
Can the US and Russia please just go back to hating each other?
I've had it with my government truing to come up with new and improved ways to infringe my rights.
Don't you remember the Steve Jobs puppet they had that kept re-inventing things that were already invented?
Sesame Street has been educating kids about tech for many years now.
On Slashdot the "Editing" job duties consist solely of hitting the "approve" button on selected story submissions.
Is it too outlandish to consider that perhaps having a certain bacteria could cause you to metabolize foods differently, resulting in weight gain regardless of diet and exercise?
Really -- it's not that outlandish an idea. Of course a good diet and exercise are splendid -- but the fact is there are millions of people who do diet and exercise see very poor results compared to others.
The only thing that's changed is that hot internet startups tend to get bought up pretty quickly and rolled into whichever walled garden their new Mega-Sized Overlord happens to own.
If it were a walled grden, you'd have to "pay to play" just to have the opportunity to launch your online startup -- e.g: the iTunes App Store.
Today we see Instagram making a Billion off a couple weeks of effort for an app that would have netted hardly enough to pay the developers rent back in 2000.
Times are actually pretty good and in fact easier for small startups to realize a handsome profit.
IQ is in fact the sole measure of not only one's intelligence, but of social superiority and we have the number sequences and visual diagrams to prove it!
In Britain this is quite chilling. These are a people that WANT a Nanny State Gov't that regulates politeness with an iron fist and enforces public safety with a million cameras. Essentially, the gov't is saying they might have to live their lives a little less sheltered and allow other people to say things that they may not like.
Pure Anarchy.