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Well FUCK jstor. I want a payday.
most lawyers I know, know how to party rock.
If I had the ear of middle management in America's security service I'd suggest a different approach to evangelizing at a grassroots level. Let's stop pretending startups can ignore the law and make knowledge of the law a distinguishing mark in the pedigree of a startup hacker.
That's a debate worth having.
My opening salvo: The point at which individuals and corporations use of cryptography can be denigrated as, "Making it hard to detect terrorist activity" is the exact point at which it becomes impossible for the individual or the corporation to meaningfully engage with law enforcement. The escalation of the rhetoric surrounding e-crimes blurs and negates our ability not only to judge appropriate penalties, general severity, but also when, how, and to whom to report these crimes.
Its very hard to even tell when and if a crime has been committed.
In such a chaotic environment it is inevitable that money and connections and influence supplant the law.
I didn't realize that. He was accessing student services allocated to him under his enrollment with the university. I won't try to litigate the case here. I see why it might be complicated by that fact.
I want to know who called in the secret service/electronic crimes division here? MIT (who's only concern was trespass) or JSTOR who might be able to enforce contract terms on MIT or a EULA on Aaron at best?
Someone should read Catherine Malibou and Francisco Varela :-)
Neuroscience is already bored with not only subsystems, the holistic nature of the brain, but also the notion of the brain as the body's sole processor of cognition.
Michael Pickett of the secret service who aided MIT's IT staff and security in strong arming Aaron and escalating the case and the relevant charges. His presence and influence was the main factor in pumping up the charges and gathering evidence to support them when this could and should have been a matter between the school and its student.
(-: hehe don't let life pass you by, and don't trust anyone under 30.
The population density of the area around Baltimore means this is emphatically NOT Ferguson. Given its proximity to DC, Philly, and NY I can only ask, "When do the buses leave?"
1) Do away with "voting day". I cast my vote, and I get snail mailed a receipt. If its wrong, I can call in and cast my vote over the phone. If its right, do nothing.
2) Begin a publicity campaign to make the default vote a public vote. If you are worried about being fired, ostracized, or otherwise targeted because of who you vote for then walk your butt down to the polls and get in line with grandma and the guy in the tinfoil hat.
Meanwhile I'm going to roll my wheelchair over to the computer room and use my screen reader to cast my ballot publicly because IDGAF.
Can't this guy make a point without sweeping generalizations?
Also, do we need so much swearing... think of the children?
I think we would all agree that persuasiveness is an axis upon which to judge arguments. "Strangeness" is far out there on the persuasive axis.
Maybe so far out there that Richard Dawkins and Neil Degrasse Tyson are arguing in the other room... but its on the axis somewhere.
The pervasive mindset is that mailings, tv/radio ad spots, and other traditional media platforms have a known and predictable return on investment. Using the web for organizing and fundraising is the new kid on the block. Despite the impressive showing in 2008 and 2012 on the Obama campaign its not a known/repeatable representative showing.
Every dollar spent on your web presence needs to return 5$ or more to funnel into these more stable predictable forms of outreach. Its not enough to be self sustaining or slightly profitable.