view.Spot("run!")

Anything to slow the world-wide circlejerk that is academic writing.

Wake me up when this happens.

Use that title, out the full text up on Kindle Marketplace, see how long it takes someone to notice.

This did not occur in the US. The US Constitution is not implicated.

Is this what the singularity looks like?

No one is arguing that Aaron Swartz own actions did not contribute to what happened to him. It was suicide, after all. Way to use the all-or-nothing fallacy. Someone is arguing that MIT should not have gotten the government involved, and that there is a pattern of behavior here by them and their employees that should not be rewarded and should, in fact, be punished. I happen to think letting everyone know what these people did is punishment enough.

Mmm hmm, mmm hmm. And what ARE the names of the people employed by MIT who helped drive Aaron Swartz to kill himself? I'm not interested in threatening them, I just want to make sure their names are on the Internet and forever associated with the terrible, terrible thing they did.

I have. You're full of shit.

5$ sensor. 2,500$ software license.

5$ sensor. $2,500 software license.

Every single Ars Technica laptop review complains about the trackpad. No trackpad is sufficient. As a matter of fact, we should all consider the presence of glowing praise about a trackpad in a Ars Technica review a clear signal that they're all being held hostage by crazed gunmen and the authorities need to be informed.

New evidence recently uncovered indicates the first digital computer was developed under the leadership of Chairman Mao during the Long March. Recent academic publishings out of China claim modern hacking techniques are mere derivations of mathematical techniques pioneered in ancient China, during the Quing Dynasty. And also, they made Alien.

Less talk about it because its as close to a foregone conclusion as you can get at this point in the Appeals process?

Ideal and stereotype being equivalent, naturally. The best of us versus the majority of us.