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Comment Ubuntu Unity worst phone/tablet OS alpha test ever (Score -1, Flamebait) 121

Mark Shuttleworth wanted to develop tablet & phone OS with touch. He didn't have any way to get that built and tested, though. Shuttleworth just lied and said he wanted his "desktop of the future" to have huge buttons on it. Sure he did.

I can't believe so many people defended Unity as a desktop OS. Can't believe so many suckers bought it.

Comment Wrong. "Truth About Aaron Swartz "crime"" (Score 5, Informative) 382

"-Aaron did not “hack” the JSTOR website for all reasonable definitions of “hack”. Aaron wrote a handful of basic python scripts that first discovered the URLs of journal articles and then used curl to request them. Aaron did not use parameter tampering, break a CAPTCHA, or do anything more complicated than call a basic command line tool that downloads a file in the same manner as right-clicking and choosing “Save As” from your favorite browser.
-Aaron did nothing to cover his tracks or hide his activity, as evidenced by his very verbose .bash_history, his uncleared browser history and lack of any encryption of the laptop he used to download these files. Changing one’s MAC address (which the government inaccurately identified as equivalent to a car’s VIN number) or putting a mailinator email address into a captured portal are not crimes. If they were, you could arrest half of the people who have ever used airport wifi.
-The government provided no evidence that these downloads caused a negative effect on JSTOR or MIT, except due to silly overreactions such as turning off all of MIT’s JSTOR access due to downloads from a pretty easily identified user agent.
-I cannot speak as to the criminal implications of accessing an unlocked closet on an open campus, one which was also used to store personal effects by a homeless man. I would note that trespassing charges were dropped against Aaron and were not part of the Federal case.

http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/

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