The most logical course to being threatened with a little jail time is to kill yourself?
The government proposed to throw him in a cage for months or years, along with a bunch of people who were a lot tougher and meaner than he was. The government would work diligently to prevent escapes, but protecting inmates from each other would not be a priority. Assuming he survived this experience, once he got out, he would be ineligible (as a result of his felony conviction) for any form of work he was qualified for, and thus would be faced with, at best, a life of scraping by with low-wage unskilled labor.
I can see why suicide looked like a rational alternative.
So in one sense, prosecutorial overreach destroyed him, but in another, behavior without full knowledge of the consequences led him down that same path. Aaron could have gone on to become the next Larry Lessig if he had had guidance on how to moderate his methods and work to change the powers that be from within.
ROTFL. Lessig hans't changed "the powers that be from within". He merely outlined that the system doesn't work that way. He LOST Eldred, his side LOST 2600, he LOST Kahle, and he LOST Golan. The next person who believes in the myth of change within system even as the system demonstrates otherwise? No, I don't think it's likely he would have become that.
what's the difference between cement and concrete?
Cement is a binder, concrete is an aggregate made from cement, sand, and stones (and often other materials). "Cement block" is really concrete.
Concrete blocks are obviously going to stand up to tornados better than plywood, certainly in terms of debris resistance. If you're building a tornado shelter you'd run rebar through the voids and fill with cement mortar so you have a solid structure.
Well, Hal, if this is what it takes to let you sleep at night despite your and your school's part in Swartz's persecution, have at it. But I doubt too many people are buying it; at this late date pretty much everyone's mind is made up anyway.
It seems that "using power responsibly" usually means subordinating oneself to the whims of politicans and bureaucrats; to defy their will using one's technical prowess is immature, irresponsible, etc. The upshot is that if you're not a politician, you should sit down, shut up, and obey. I don't accept that.
You can't legally fly so much as a toy helicopter anywhere outside in New York City except in a few designated parks which require membership to certain clubs. None are in Manhattan. So what are you going to do, make it even MORE illegal?
But you're going to need an industrial-strength "USB condom". Data lines optoisolated. Power lines hooked to a battery in the condom. Both data and power lines on the "dangerous" side protected with fuses and overvoltage protection devices. And a microcontroller implementing a filter to make sure it can't pretend to be anything but a block storage device. Feasible, but worth it? I don't think so.
You are absolutely correct. 1984 is here, the proles don't care, and it's boot stamping on a human face forever time. But why are you so happy about it?
And faking your own tell may be card sharping, but it's not cheating, nor is having a pretty girl accomplice flirting with the sucker as long as she's not telling you what cards he has.
Beating the other guy at cards and taking his pretty girl accomplice (who was flirting with you) to your room isn't cheating either, but in the movies he usually takes violent exception to it.
For better or worse, the standard of living in the US and similar countries is dependent on a complicated weave of people, business and law. You can break the system, but then you've bought it. How are all the disconnected angry people with guns going to rebuild a society?
Pretty much the same way they did last time. With the local systems largely intact, use them to rebuild state and national systems. Whether that's possible or not would be a big question.
Is it really going to be better than what we have? Can you think of some, perhaps less violent ways of accomplishing something useful?
Seriously? No, that ship has sailed. No amount of talking, protesting, or voting is going to change a damned thing. 1984 is HERE and NOW; they're tracking everything and everybody, and anyone who says otherwise is as crazy as they claim the tinfoil-hatters who used to obsess about tracking were. The only remaining questions are "Is violence a possibility at all, or is it really a boot stamping on a human face, forever?" and "If violence will work, is it possible to apply without completely destroying western civilization?"
Codeine is still the gold standard for cough suppression, so it seems unlikely that it's outright banned. Maybe Rx only in the US, though.
You've greatly underestimated the fanaticism and mean-spiritedness of the drug warriors. Having made pseudoephedrine (the gold standard for decongestants) very risky to buy if you don't want to have your house raided next time meth shows up at the local high school, they're already working on making it outright illegal (as they have in Mexico).
They've also recommended banning of Percocet and Vicodin on the grounds of liver damage -- due to the acetaminophen the drug warriors themselves wanted included so they could kill addicts slowly and painfully. Making codeine outright illegal would be right in line for them. Their answer for pain: man up and suffer. Their answer for congestion: man up and suffer. Their answer for coughs will likely be no different.
Funny thing, I'd imagine desomorphine or meth from Novartis or Merck & Co. doesn't have these problems.
Sure doesn't. Not even if it's being made on the side by an employee looking to supplement his paycheck. Unfortunately when pharmaceutical-grade meth starts hitting the streets, the cops pretty much can figure out where to go looking.
Codeine (the main precursor to krokodil) is already prescription-only in the US, so the precursors aren't cheap and available. So there's no great advantage for opiate addicts; they seem more likely to stick with oxy, heroin, or other already-common opiates that kill you somewhat slower and without the flesh-eating side-effcts.
Whatever your opinion on who best execute plans, the point is, shady behavior triumphed at a business prize centered around ethical business practices to do social good.
This IS social good. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one; they screwed one guy to help 5.
Nope. "Help yourself to the data: 100% of the time". Then dig through the data looking for something interesting. When you find it, come up with a plausible alternate and aboveboard means that you could suspect its existence, and present that to a judge for a warrant, at which point you get the data through traceable means, and use if for prosecution. That's "parallel construction".
I find that a kind of odd statement. First of all, I wonder what you mean by "major" hurricanes and making landfall. Is "major" category 3, 4, or 5?
Yes.
And Sandy is a pretty dubious non-major hurricane, given that it had the largest diameter of any Atlantic cyclone, which was a large contributing factor to how damaging it was.
The traditional criteria for measuring hurricanes is Saffir-Simpson. If you're going to go back after the fact and say "Sandy only had 80mph winds but it counts as major due to diameter" you have to concretely define your new criteria and then at the least go back and reclassify all the historical hurricanes according to the new criteria to see if there's any anomaly. Even then you're risking bias (e.g. by picking different new criteria until you find an anomaly), but at least you have something.
Besides, I think if you actually applied your criteria prior to 2005, you'll find that it eliminates so many hurricanes that an 8 year gap isn't statistically anomalous at all.
No, it doesn't. This is the longest major hurricane drought since records have been kept. After 2005 some forecasters kept predicting doom based on exactly this criterion (major hurricanes making US landfall); to their credit, at least one group admitted their predictions were no good after failing many times.
Since Wilma, there have been no major hurricanes which have made landfall on the US mainland. Zero. Sandy was not a "major hurricane"; it did a lot of damage because of where it hit, but it was still only Category 1 in strength. This is the longest major hurricane drought on record.
Verisign's roots are included by default. If you think the NSA doesn't have the private key for all US based certificate authorities, you're not nearly paranoid enough. And there's no way they don't have Verisign's; Verisign is far too cozy with the government.
Do you really think they don't want to have lively debate between educated, thoughtful people with different views?
Yes. The heart of their objection is they are afraid commenters will actually be able to affect the world, and they want to be the only ones who do that on their site.
For people who want to control their weight, while not feeling miserable and lethargic and excruciatingly famished all the time, there will be more to the process than "calories in vs. calories out"
If you have those requirements, the problem is overspecified (that is, there is no solution which meets the requirements) for most people.
Looks like Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (the Iraqi Information Minister during the second Gulf War) has snagged himself a new contract. WE ARE NOT SPYING ON ANY AMERICANS, AND THERE IS NO FAILURE OF OVERSIGHT.
Lead-free solder for plumbing works fine, though it's a little harder to work with. Lead-free solder for electronics is a smaller disaster than it used to be, but rework with it is not really feasible.
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The government proposed to throw him in a cage for months or years, along with a bunch of people who were a lot tougher and meaner than he was. The government would work diligently to prevent escapes, but protecting inmates from each other would not be a priority. Assuming he survived this experience, once he got out, he would be ineligible (as a result of his felony conviction) for any form of work he was qualified for, and thus would be faced with, at best, a life of scraping by with low-wage unskilled labor.
I can see why suicide looked like a rational alternative.
ROTFL. Lessig hans't changed "the powers that be from within". He merely outlined that the system doesn't work that way. He LOST Eldred, his side LOST 2600, he LOST Kahle, and he LOST Golan. The next person who believes in the myth of change within system even as the system demonstrates otherwise? No, I don't think it's likely he would have become that.
Cement is a binder, concrete is an aggregate made from cement, sand, and stones (and often other materials). "Cement block" is really concrete.
Concrete blocks are obviously going to stand up to tornados better than plywood, certainly in terms of debris resistance. If you're building a tornado shelter you'd run rebar through the voids and fill with cement mortar so you have a solid structure.
Well, Hal, if this is what it takes to let you sleep at night despite your and your school's part in Swartz's persecution, have at it. But I doubt too many people are buying it; at this late date pretty much everyone's mind is made up anyway.
It seems that "using power responsibly" usually means subordinating oneself to the whims of politicans and bureaucrats; to defy their will using one's technical prowess is immature, irresponsible, etc. The upshot is that if you're not a politician, you should sit down, shut up, and obey. I don't accept that.
More like "can" and "cannots". The question of how to handle the "cannots" doesn't go away just because you refuse to identify them.
You can't legally fly so much as a toy helicopter anywhere outside in New York City except in a few designated parks which require membership to certain clubs. None are in Manhattan. So what are you going to do, make it even MORE illegal?
But you're going to need an industrial-strength "USB condom". Data lines optoisolated. Power lines hooked to a battery in the condom. Both data and power lines on the "dangerous" side protected with fuses and overvoltage protection devices. And a microcontroller implementing a filter to make sure it can't pretend to be anything but a block storage device. Feasible, but worth it? I don't think so.
You are absolutely correct. 1984 is here, the proles don't care, and it's boot stamping on a human face forever time. But why are you so happy about it?
Beating the other guy at cards and taking his pretty girl accomplice (who was flirting with you) to your room isn't cheating either, but in the movies he usually takes violent exception to it.
No power, no electronics, just a bunch of keys with springs. The microphone in the computer reads the keypresses.
Pretty much the same way they did last time. With the local systems largely intact, use them to rebuild state and national systems. Whether that's possible or not would be a big question.
Seriously? No, that ship has sailed. No amount of talking, protesting, or voting is going to change a damned thing. 1984 is HERE and NOW; they're tracking everything and everybody, and anyone who says otherwise is as crazy as they claim the tinfoil-hatters who used to obsess about tracking were. The only remaining questions are "Is violence a possibility at all, or is it really a boot stamping on a human face, forever?" and "If violence will work, is it possible to apply without completely destroying western civilization?"
You've greatly underestimated the fanaticism and mean-spiritedness of the drug warriors. Having made pseudoephedrine (the gold standard for decongestants) very risky to buy if you don't want to have your house raided next time meth shows up at the local high school, they're already working on making it outright illegal (as they have in Mexico).
They've also recommended banning of Percocet and Vicodin on the grounds of liver damage -- due to the acetaminophen the drug warriors themselves wanted included so they could kill addicts slowly and painfully. Making codeine outright illegal would be right in line for them. Their answer for pain: man up and suffer. Their answer for congestion: man up and suffer. Their answer for coughs will likely be no different.
Sure doesn't. Not even if it's being made on the side by an employee looking to supplement his paycheck. Unfortunately when pharmaceutical-grade meth starts hitting the streets, the cops pretty much can figure out where to go looking.
Codeine (the main precursor to krokodil) is already prescription-only in the US, so the precursors aren't cheap and available. So there's no great advantage for opiate addicts; they seem more likely to stick with oxy, heroin, or other already-common opiates that kill you somewhat slower and without the flesh-eating side-effcts.
This IS social good. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one; they screwed one guy to help 5.
Nope. "Help yourself to the data: 100% of the time". Then dig through the data looking for something interesting. When you find it, come up with a plausible alternate and aboveboard means that you could suspect its existence, and present that to a judge for a warrant, at which point you get the data through traceable means, and use if for prosecution. That's "parallel construction".
Yes.
The traditional criteria for measuring hurricanes is Saffir-Simpson. If you're going to go back after the fact and say "Sandy only had 80mph winds but it counts as major due to diameter" you have to concretely define your new criteria and then at the least go back and reclassify all the historical hurricanes according to the new criteria to see if there's any anomaly. Even then you're risking bias (e.g. by picking different new criteria until you find an anomaly), but at least you have something.
No, it doesn't. This is the longest major hurricane drought since records have been kept. After 2005 some forecasters kept predicting doom based on exactly this criterion (major hurricanes making US landfall); to their credit, at least one group admitted their predictions were no good after failing many times.
Since Wilma, there have been no major hurricanes which have made landfall on the US mainland. Zero. Sandy was not a "major hurricane"; it did a lot of damage because of where it hit, but it was still only Category 1 in strength. This is the longest major hurricane drought on record.
Verisign's roots are included by default. If you think the NSA doesn't have the private key for all US based certificate authorities, you're not nearly paranoid enough. And there's no way they don't have Verisign's; Verisign is far too cozy with the government.
Yes. The heart of their objection is they are afraid commenters will actually be able to affect the world, and they want to be the only ones who do that on their site.
If you have those requirements, the problem is overspecified (that is, there is no solution which meets the requirements) for most people.
Looks like Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (the Iraqi Information Minister during the second Gulf War) has snagged himself a new contract. WE ARE NOT SPYING ON ANY AMERICANS, AND THERE IS NO FAILURE OF OVERSIGHT.
That's not what I call "limited". More like a rewrite, or at least a salvage operation.
Lead-free solder for plumbing works fine, though it's a little harder to work with. Lead-free solder for electronics is a smaller disaster than it used to be, but rework with it is not really feasible.
Fortunately, no one used lead-free solder back then.