If JSTORE didn't want to make the archives available to scripts, it would have been easy to tighten the access. When a service publishes their data in an openly accessible way-- with an API, or with a query front end, or just the file-system shell interface, this is an indicator the data is OK to access in a script or batch job.
No password was required on the MIT network (hence no hacking on Swartz's part), and the JSTORE documents were available in a shell, which indicates JSTORE didn't do much to establish their value-add to legitimize their ownership of this IP. Just saying.
You're right, but it shouldn't require establishing sterling bona fides to protect Swartz from 35 years in prison, or even the threat. One thing he most complained about was the lawyers absorbing all his money, and then moving in on his parents home. In the US judicial system we're innocent until proven guilty if the defendant continues to pay in to the legal system. And defense lawyers are the only profession to have arranged that non-payment of their bills is a criminal matter and not a civil matter, as it would be with not paying your surgeon, roofer, or computer consultant.
he broke in and physically hacked into their network
No, sorry, there was no hacking. He plugged in a CAT5 cable because it was faster and the WiFi connection would reset periodically. Done. That's not hacking.
He broke a trust in a club (People on campus) and spoiled the party for the members of that club.
Good, lets brand him a felon and then throw him in federal prison for 35 years. That will teach him to cut out the "petty unpleasantness" he was spreading, and stop inconveniencing the People on campus.
Thank you sir, you are completely correct. Corps have convinced government at every level that their needs-- for protection of future profits, for protection of trade secrets, for maintaining their own security rubrics, for protecting their IP)-- make it necessary they be able to interpret and prosecute their own lines of inquiry, sanctions, and punishments against citizens. Government at every level (and on both sides of the aisle) is jumping at the chance to hand them anything they ask for, from SOPA passed in secret, to pepper spray for college protesters, to absurd prison terms for the unregenerate such as Aaron Swartz. It's shocking and unsustainable, but it's happening.
All jokes aside is it just me or is it sad we have to point out to fricking scientists doing these studies that "correlation does not equal causation" like they are noobs?
Some of what passes for bad science is really bad reporting. Science reporting in the mainstream media is terrible, and the source of most bad interpretations and conclusions. It's cheaper for a corporation to pay journalists to spin the science than it is to pay for the science. Let government pay for the science, and let Fox news interpret the findings. Welcome to the plutocracy. Please remove your shoes.
Dear AC, The parent AC was encouraging open-mindedness and a willingness to do more research. I think anecdotal evidence with a sample size of two is an acceptable way to promote more research. It's not evidence so much as motivation. There's not much science on cannabis yet.
You make a good point. My theory is the 1% don't realize if they pauperize everyone they'll end up poor themselves. I don't know how it was in other times, but today it's no problem to be both rich and ignorant.
A poster elsewhere in this thread mentioned personal debt-- negative net worth. This is the definition of slavery, and some among the 1% probably assume they'll make money from usury. Fie.
Oracle, the database and connection software is quite respectable. The problem with Oracle is the organization which sells and services it. They like to "partner" with their customers, and comport themselves like a criminal enterprise. They send auditors to their customers' sites to ensure license compliance (meaning shake-down money for Larry Ellison). Training is expensive, but so are trained Oracle specialists. They're risking ruining Java with slow updates, and MySQL development seems to have slowed-- probably a good thing. Larry Ellison doesn't really get open source.
There are many Oracle-like features in PosgreSQL, so it's helpful to learn, but here in the US, Oracle work pays very well-- probably the best in the industry. I don't know how many of those jobs are available. I do know there's some foreign competition, both from Europe and Asia. The company I work for has some excellent DBAs from India monitoring our servers.
I believe the happy CEO cut personnel costs by 40%, unless there is some arithmetic I'm missing here (which often happens with CEO fiscal shenanigans).
They'd have an extremely hard time pressing felony(!) charges. This is a fat-fuck bureaucrat, management lardo with an ego problem, who happened to get pwned, hard! The CIA is full of these guys-- think DMV only the clerks are given Glocks with silencers, and don't have to talk with anyone-- they're sitting around waiting for their pension, maybe an interview on the Today Show. Certain IT companies (especially security-related) love to hire these guys, who sit around thinking up threat scenarios, trying to figure out what a router does, and when they get too boring, they're sent out to trade shows in their bad suits and funny ways of talking.
The employment future of the leaker is not in the hands of this idiot. The HR department is legally obligated to confirm the employment period, and is legally enjoined from telling anything else, not matter what the employee's status at the time of their leaving. Cisco got caught and exposed doing what they do-- screwing over (in this case) the CA education system for millions of dollars. They do the same in many industries, public and private. It sucks to be caught at that, but it happens all the time. And this beefcake with the polyester dress pants will survive his job too, if he just shuts up.
They haven't learned a thing since college, and/or they just want to put in their hours and go home until they are able to retire.
This is the difference between good coders and bad coders, no matter the age (well, except for the retire part). This is a career whose first mandate is constant learning and refreshing of skills. If an organization finds itself with older programmers and technicians who haven't learned anything new, that's a sign of bad management, and a waste of human capital. One of the things that led me to leave consulting for a steady job 20 years ago was the huge cost for training to stay up to date. Since then, my employer has footed the cost of that development.
And yes, I'm an old developer, 59, and do mostly database work.
This looks like another Adobe exploit. Both the bad guy and the good guys used it. And when they infected Boris Badenoff's computer, they only took.doc's and not.pdf's. I wish I could be so selective.
I assume there was a list of remedies on about page 14 of the license agreement you probably clicked through when you signed up for their service. My advice is same as previous poster, move and forget about it.
Oracle hasn't in the past worked with a lot of end user software, and it shows. I get the impression Larry Ellison doesn't like the short turnaround required for desktop software updates. The out-of-band java update they released for (at least) Windows 7 a couple weeks ago was disorganized. Two support people at work managed to install separate versions on their own computers. Version 7 is actually a point update of version 6. They may be the same version, and only show differently in Control Panel. Our company uses a lot of java (and Oracle software) and it's getting difficult to keep it organized and keep Oracle products talking to other Oracle products.
I can imagine their biggest problem is the number of platforms they have to support-- and software versions. I've learned to skim through the documentation for indications of incompatibility between versions of software before installing anything. Grumble.
The market is different, supporting *nix vs Windows 8. I'm willing to bet the *nix pro makes more money, even though there are more total Windows 8 support jobs.
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If JSTORE didn't want to make the archives available to scripts, it would have been easy to tighten the access. When a service publishes their data in an openly accessible way-- with an API, or with a query front end, or just the file-system shell interface, this is an indicator the data is OK to access in a script or batch job.
No password was required on the MIT network (hence no hacking on Swartz's part), and the JSTORE documents were available in a shell, which indicates JSTORE didn't do much to establish their value-add to legitimize their ownership of this IP. Just saying.
You're right, but it shouldn't require establishing sterling bona fides to protect Swartz from 35 years in prison, or even the threat. One thing he most complained about was the lawyers absorbing all his money, and then moving in on his parents home. In the US judicial system we're innocent until proven guilty if the defendant continues to pay in to the legal system. And defense lawyers are the only profession to have arranged that non-payment of their bills is a criminal matter and not a civil matter, as it would be with not paying your surgeon, roofer, or computer consultant.
he broke in and physically hacked into their network
No, sorry, there was no hacking. He plugged in a CAT5 cable because it was faster and the WiFi connection would reset periodically. Done. That's not hacking.
He broke a trust in a club (People on campus) and spoiled the party for the members of that club.
Good, lets brand him a felon and then throw him in federal prison for 35 years. That will teach him to cut out the "petty unpleasantness" he was spreading, and stop inconveniencing the People on campus.
Thank you sir, you are completely correct. Corps have convinced government at every level that their needs-- for protection of future profits, for protection of trade secrets, for maintaining their own security rubrics, for protecting their IP)-- make it necessary they be able to interpret and prosecute their own lines of inquiry, sanctions, and punishments against citizens. Government at every level (and on both sides of the aisle) is jumping at the chance to hand them anything they ask for, from SOPA passed in secret, to pepper spray for college protesters, to absurd prison terms for the unregenerate such as Aaron Swartz. It's shocking and unsustainable, but it's happening.
All jokes aside is it just me or is it sad we have to point out to fricking scientists doing these studies that "correlation does not equal causation" like they are noobs?
Some of what passes for bad science is really bad reporting. Science reporting in the mainstream media is terrible, and the source of most bad interpretations and conclusions. It's cheaper for a corporation to pay journalists to spin the science than it is to pay for the science. Let government pay for the science, and let Fox news interpret the findings. Welcome to the plutocracy. Please remove your shoes.
Dear AC, The parent AC was encouraging open-mindedness and a willingness to do more research. I think anecdotal evidence with a sample size of two is an acceptable way to promote more research. It's not evidence so much as motivation. There's not much science on cannabis yet.
That's what he gets for clicking through the license and TOS pages on webmail. The guy is obviously a desperado.
You make a good point. My theory is the 1% don't realize if they pauperize everyone they'll end up poor themselves. I don't know how it was in other times, but today it's no problem to be both rich and ignorant.
A poster elsewhere in this thread mentioned personal debt-- negative net worth. This is the definition of slavery, and some among the 1% probably assume they'll make money from usury. Fie.
Close to the median however.
Oracle, the database and connection software is quite respectable. The problem with Oracle is the organization which sells and services it. They like to "partner" with their customers, and comport themselves like a criminal enterprise. They send auditors to their customers' sites to ensure license compliance (meaning shake-down money for Larry Ellison). Training is expensive, but so are trained Oracle specialists. They're risking ruining Java with slow updates, and MySQL development seems to have slowed-- probably a good thing. Larry Ellison doesn't really get open source.
There are many Oracle-like features in PosgreSQL, so it's helpful to learn, but here in the US, Oracle work pays very well-- probably the best in the industry. I don't know how many of those jobs are available. I do know there's some foreign competition, both from Europe and Asia. The company I work for has some excellent DBAs from India monitoring our servers.
I thought the same as you on reading the headline. I thought perhaps Netflix's code had caused data centers to fail.
Often in publications, this kind of word misuse is caught and corrected by someone called an editor.
Posting to clear a mistaken moderation. This is a very good point.
But only the guilty have something to lose in the case of mandatory DNA tracking. Why protect perpetrators?
Developers care about APIs. Developers create apps. Users care about apps.
you left out
"... Profit!"
I believe the happy CEO cut personnel costs by 40%, unless there is some arithmetic I'm missing here (which often happens with CEO fiscal shenanigans).
They'd have an extremely hard time pressing felony(!) charges. This is a fat-fuck bureaucrat, management lardo with an ego problem, who happened to get pwned, hard! The CIA is full of these guys-- think DMV only the clerks are given Glocks with silencers, and don't have to talk with anyone-- they're sitting around waiting for their pension, maybe an interview on the Today Show. Certain IT companies (especially security-related) love to hire these guys, who sit around thinking up threat scenarios, trying to figure out what a router does, and when they get too boring, they're sent out to trade shows in their bad suits and funny ways of talking.
The employment future of the leaker is not in the hands of this idiot. The HR department is legally obligated to confirm the employment period, and is legally enjoined from telling anything else, not matter what the employee's status at the time of their leaving. Cisco got caught and exposed doing what they do-- screwing over (in this case) the CA education system for millions of dollars. They do the same in many industries, public and private. It sucks to be caught at that, but it happens all the time. And this beefcake with the polyester dress pants will survive his job too, if he just shuts up.
380 million is nothing to Apple. At least they weren't forced to apologize again. Mea culpa!
They haven't learned a thing since college, and/or they just want to put in their hours and go home until they are able to retire.
This is the difference between good coders and bad coders, no matter the age (well, except for the retire part). This is a career whose first mandate is constant learning and refreshing of skills. If an organization finds itself with older programmers and technicians who haven't learned anything new, that's a sign of bad management, and a waste of human capital. One of the things that led me to leave consulting for a steady job 20 years ago was the huge cost for training to stay up to date. Since then, my employer has footed the cost of that development. And yes, I'm an old developer, 59, and do mostly database work.
This looks like another Adobe exploit. Both the bad guy and the good guys used it. And when they infected Boris Badenoff's computer, they only took .doc's and not .pdf's. I wish I could be so selective.
I assume there was a list of remedies on about page 14 of the license agreement you probably clicked through when you signed up for their service. My advice is same as previous poster, move and forget about it.
Just doing this to clear a bad mod. Sorry... it's a shitty situation.
Oracle hasn't in the past worked with a lot of end user software, and it shows. I get the impression Larry Ellison doesn't like the short turnaround required for desktop software updates. The out-of-band java update they released for (at least) Windows 7 a couple weeks ago was disorganized. Two support people at work managed to install separate versions on their own computers. Version 7 is actually a point update of version 6. They may be the same version, and only show differently in Control Panel. Our company uses a lot of java (and Oracle software) and it's getting difficult to keep it organized and keep Oracle products talking to other Oracle products.
I can imagine their biggest problem is the number of platforms they have to support-- and software versions. I've learned to skim through the documentation for indications of incompatibility between versions of software before installing anything. Grumble.
They could cut costs with my new inter-planetary palladium/iridium drive, just off the drawing board, and raring to go.
The market is different, supporting *nix vs Windows 8. I'm willing to bet the *nix pro makes more money, even though there are more total Windows 8 support jobs.