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by GHFigs 14y ago
The article doesn't specify when he held that title. Of the dozen or so living former Deputy Directors of the CIA[1] there are only a few that I would expect to not to still be surprised at how much you can find out over the Internet. H
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Ah yes, his one page letter where he says "We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive." That's being awfully selective. He also says "We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and sha
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by GHFigs 14y ago
JSTOR had no legitimate right to withhold from a credentialed researcher with valid access Did JSTOR or MIT know that's who they were blocking? To my knowledge, he made no effort to contact either party even after it was evident that they
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The reason it's in the news RIGHT NOW is due to the current story about leaked documents showing the US government secret legal case for targeting US citizens. You neglected to mention that the document in question was obtained and publis
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The only thing that's protected Assange from being bundled into a jet and whisked to a foreign jurisdiction is his high profile. Says who? How is that theory anything more than part of the image he's made for himself? The only reason peo
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You neglect how much of Assange's media image is his own creation. The very idea that his editorializing and spotlight-seeking are essential to the task of publishing leaked information is one that he created, not one that follows directly
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I think that 'people on HN' are smart enough to evaluate things on a case-by-case basis and to avoid generalizations like that. If only!
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by GHFigs 14y ago
It's much more likely that you're witnessing the confluence of confirmation bias and the inherent ambiguity created by many different sets of people operating under the same name. We have, in fact, been through this before with "Anonymous",
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The guy killed himself for something greater then you. No. One thousand times, no. He killed himself because he wasn't emotionally equipped to handle the situation he was in. That's why anybody does it. What he thought he was doing when
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? I think the most accurate thing you could say is that the odds vary considerably based on the intentions and actions of the operators with
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by GHFigs 14y ago
He was responding to a comment making the argument that something cannot be a crime if no damage is done and no one is hurt. He even quoted the as much of the comment he was replying to. Please, please, please , pay attention to context be
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Rather than wasting my time explaining to you why it is wrong... As a matter of fact, explaining why someone is wrong is generally less of a waste of time than insulting them. Consider the benefits: they might learn things they didn't kno
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by GHFigs 14y ago
So the "dog pile" on Apple that you perceive doesn't exist because people hate Apple for its success. It's because people have emotional opinions about Apple and thus will actually read stories about Apple. I don't understand the distinct
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Abstracting virtues from the person you're ascribing them to is a lot like religion. Opinions will differ on whether that's a bad thing or not, but it may be useful for many to be mindful of the difference between eulogy and hagiography.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The 'several federal laws every day' angle is there to remind each and every one of us that we could be treated like Aaron Swartz, whether we think we're violating a law or not. You mean "convince", not "remind". You're trying to persuade
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by GHFigs 14y ago
There seems to be some confusion about what "it" refers to. You keep referring to Safari. The original poster referred to KHTML, which for most intents and purposes "turned into" WebKit. That's how I and apparently most others understood hi
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by GHFigs 14y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Plenty of people ignore privacy issues on Facebook, and there are plenty of "silly and exaggerated stories" about government surveillance that get people freaking out.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're buying into and regurgitating the myth that the world reduces into "good vs. evil" and that the difficulty involved in making sense of what's going on is not because the world is inherently complex but because somebody is pulling the
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I agree Your comment started with a lie and didn't get any better.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
your legal name is important because it enables the relationship between you and the complex society you inhabit While I agree with this statement, it also occurs to me that society may be becoming sufficiently complex to warrant a level
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by GHFigs 14y ago
We do not agree. I am not saying it's a crude measure, I'm saying you're measuring the wrong thing. File size is the wrong thing to measure . It doesn't matter what estimate of file sizes you can come up with, because file size is the wro
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I think you don't understand what you're saying. If you were to judge the contents of a library by the size of the largest items on the shelves (exactly as you have done with torrents), you would come away with the mistaken impression that
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Would you judge the contents of a library by the size of the books?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The only reason we aren't aware of the number of military conflicts taking place is because they aren't on the evening news. That's a little unfair. They're rarely covered on submission/popularity-driven news sites, either. People tend no
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by GHFigs 14y ago
What a trash comment. Actually, it's not. You just disagree with it. Sometimes when you disagree with someone's conclusions, it's hard to see the merit of their reasoning. We need to... There are two complications to this. One is that t
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned on HN, you can't submit a link to it FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867752
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I regret clicking on the link, just like always. I don't want to even bother wasting my time on debunking this crap. Just think about how much time you could have saved not reading it or writing an angry comment about it!
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I have looked at news.arc and I do not come to the same conclusion about how flagging works. Without any additional information to understand the allegations, I've concluded that this is probably bullshit.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You could've just asked me earlier. In all sincerity, the quality and quantity of your earlier comments on this left me with the impression that you had nothing but accusation and rage. (Disclaimer: I use Windows on a ThinkPad. I have a S
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by GHFigs 14y ago
how the entire internet is twisted and malformed because of copyright laws I'm even more confused now than I was before. Thanks for trying.

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