Comment Re: "we was signing people up" (Score 1) 107
Of course he is a classy guy. He accomplished what others wouldnâ(TM)t or couldnâ(TM)t do.
Of course he is a classy guy. He accomplished what others wouldnâ(TM)t or couldnâ(TM)t do.
Got that right. Aside from us having unregulated rates here, which canâ(TM)t help, mining occurs where itâ(TM)s cold and with cheaper power. Hence, mining is done in some Scandinavian countries and Russia.
Especially ironic because âoeValley Girl (1983) actors and their ilk are now over 50. Thank the maker that Next Gen, Millennials, etc. have helped bring down the likes of fast fashionâ(TM)s soul and body crushing manufacturers who sold their trash to the likes of Forever 21 and others.
"The kid was criminally stupid in not reporting the vulnerability through the responsible disclosure contact"
Neither he, you nor I are under any such obligation and how he accessed the data was neither vulnerability nor crime.
"The kid was criminally stupid in archiving the data instead of working towards fixing the problem"
The problem is not his to "fix" and archiving the data is not a crime which could have been done by any number of spiders and bots incl The Wayback Machine.
Stop being an apologist for the criminally stupid authorities and their heavyhanded overreach
It sounds like many people knew of this vulnerability generally. Therefore, that IT group should have known it was an issue from the start. Sounds like this fellow is a collector like the poor sod who glommed the articles from JSTOR (prosecuted under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) U.S. vs. Swarz.) He eventually committed suicide, I believe. JStor ended up releasing its archives to the public, and MIT (as much as corporately and humanly possible) did some heavy duty "soul-searching." see: https://www.theawl.com/2011/08/was-aaron-swartz-stealing/
Nuns never hit my hands with a ruler or other object during high school the 70s (the either had given up or the order was more progressive). Neither did my grade school public school teachers harm me in the 60s. But, my dad said his left-handed brother (b. 1927) had his left arm tied behind him to prevent him from writing with his sinister hand. That didn't work and only made him more stubborn. Tending to play ambidextrously (left-handed mits were hard to find so I threw right-handed), I batted left. Ironically, left-handed pitchers always threw me off when playing city league girls fast-pitch softball. But, had no problem hitting of right-handed pitchers.
What has to actually change to prevent these kind of out of proportion, justice and claims?
Human nature.
Of course, how could he forget--corporations are people, too.
Speaking as a woman who has designed and managed content for corporate and personal websites, it is not the pedantic bs, or the "nice things" snark that are the issue to making changes or additions to the Wikipendium as we do maintain WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, and Tumblr sites (and do compose their pages and sites from scratch or modify existing templates). No, you said it in your first sentence before sinking into the low-hanging fruit of female bashing, kidding, or whatever you call it. Simply put, the interface is a fucking nightmare even to make a simple change or addition. And if you must, it's FUGLY too.
Generally an outlier, the media describes Rasmussen as conservative. And that's on a good day. Who else has polled how ebooks are perceived and used by the general public? Just it jive with this organization's?
But why do students pay for papers in the first place? Maybe part of it is lack of time, interest, and the fact that too many students attend college with no good reason for being there in the first place. However, according to Andrew Delbanco, who reviewed the books, that fact remains that, "[...] there are very few poor students at America's top colleges, and a large and growing number of rich ones." In addition, Delbanco includes a quintessential anecdote regarding the issue of what amounts to pay for parchment:the sense of democratic legitimacy is undermined if people believe that the rich are admitted to selective colleges and universities regardless of merit while able and deserving candidates from more modest backgrounds are turned away.
Meanwhile, maybe the question should be, who doesn't need to pay for papers when all that is needed is for dad or mom to cough up a library or chemistry building? For the most part, a lot of this is trumped by the fact that the founders of Google are graduates of Stanford, a noteworthy university, and one I know that still routinely recruits people of all races and income levels.To make his case, he (Golden) has assembled an anthology of sordid stories intended to show how the rich rig the system to get what they want. It all reminds me of a story I have on good authority about a meeting at a New York City private school of high school seniors with their college counselor. The counselor, trying to help them prepare for their college interviews, asked what they would say about what special contribution they would bring to the college of their choice. "I'm very outgoing," said one. "I'm passionate about community service," said another. The discussion took an unexpected twist when one young man said, simply, "a library." "What do you mean, a library?" asked the counselor, a little taken aback. "Well, my dad said he'd give a library to whatever school I want to go to." Golden's book amounts to the charge that colleges are lining up to take Dad up on his offer.
Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.