Comment Illegal to mine something publicly available? (Score 1) 240
I understand that mining all the vast quantities of data is wrong ethically, but it can't be illegal, or?
I don't have pretty much any data that would make me overly sad if I lost it, I just haven't been a programmer for long enough.
It's harder to replace 10 computers than a bunch of bash scripts and simple C programs.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis