Comment Re:Snuck [Re:wifi is slow [Re:His choices...]] (Score 1) 194
For the record, that video shows him walking casually into the room, not "sneaking" into it. You might see something nefarious going on, but I don't.
He also was a criminal with criminal intent in every action he took.
Or he was practicing non-violent civil disobedience, which until recently was considered a virtuous American value and taught to school children.
Do you revile Henry David Thoreau as much as you do Aaron Schwartz?
It was only after he was repeatedly blocked from doing that by wireless access (being blocked should have been a clue to him) that he snuck into the closet.
OOoooh. Did he sneak in on his belly like a cobra or on tippy-toes like the spy-vs-spy cartoon? Seems like that would just draw undo attention. Or maybe he just walked in, and you are making shit up.
He could have downloaded the data from his own desk in his own office. Instead he went to the library and entered a wiring closet that was clearly not supposed to be open to the public.
If you were going to download a lot of data, would you choose a node with many hops to the server or just a few? I would pick the one closest to the server.
They already are.
This. Each an every NSL needs to be challenged.
I tried running emacs from the emacs shell and got the error
emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
I am somber.
Am I confused, or is this the same amoral sack of shit who lied to Congress with a straight face about NSA activities???
Yep. Circumventing the law, lying to Congress, sounds like a perfect match for the banking industry.
The Commonwealth's motion to compel decryption does not violate the defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment because the defendant is only telling the government what it already knows.
The thing that gets me is that the government doesn't know the password so he is telling them something they don't already know.
Again, where do you get the contracts from if you lack the network?
From the gettin' place.
Disclaimer: You may or may not find that amusing depending on whether you've seen "No Country For Old Men"
In this economy, the question is rather whether you're not well enough connected to find something else. Skill plays little role anymore when it comes to unemployment.
If you are highly skilled and those skills are in demand, hire yourself. You can't be fired unless you fire yourself. You can't be underpaid unless you underpay yourself. You can take as many vacation days as you like.
If you succeed, that's great. If not, you have no one left to blame but yourself.
None of your questions can be answered by science. Science is a great tool, but can't answer "why" things are the way they are. Just be grateful it is not different, otherwise we wouldn't even be here to ask the questions.
Similarly, asking what happened before the big bang is meaningless. Stephen Hawking puts it beautifully:
Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them.
This doesn't mean you can't enjoy pondering these questions if that's what you want to do, but do so with full realization you're now in the realm of philosophy, religion, and mysticism - not science.
Why do researchers have to sacrifice an industry paycheck to do it? In other words, why won't industrial pharma hire more talented scientists.
There is more money in treating a medical condition than in curing it. Once a disease is cured, there is no need to take expensive medications anymore. The financial incentives for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies is to keep a patient in treatment for as long as possible.
No because even junk bonds actually represent something of actual value.
Yeah, junk. The stuff you pay people to take away.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
