Vivtek

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721.
by Vivtek 14y ago
You can't deny the Tea Partiers know how to work a bandwagon, though. Plus Issa is far, far older than the Tea Party and he'll be in office after they're measuring the dustbin for the new curtains.
722.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I agree with the sentiment here, but some of the specific claims are certainly wince-worthy. College prank? Greatest prodigy of his generation? Little to no commercial value? All those claims are a lot more complicated than that! Not to
723.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, any reader of Omni was right on board - I know I was. My mom worked at the post office (rural carrier) and I blew her mind telling her that email would largely supplant postal mail. She just reminded me of that last year, actually.
724.
by Vivtek 14y ago
It would probably be useful just to say something like "script output" - I expected the right pane to display the compiled result from the left pane, but instead saw error messages. And yeah, expected error messages like the no-/bin should
725.
by Vivtek 14y ago
OOOOooh.
726.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Does this presume a local Unix filesystem? It sure doesn't like the lack of a /bin directory on Windows.
727.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Great! Money well spent, then!
728.
by Vivtek 14y ago
That's it exactly. She's taken stuff from her photo portfolio and warped it to match the Maps aerial photography. It's brilliant! But it probably has more impact for me since it's where I'm living and I've seen many of these buildings qu
729.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Nicely put. I was more aware (marginally) of his political activism and vaguely knew something of his past (I do really like his writing about web.py - and now that I'm reading it, all of his writing). It seems to me he was driven by the n
730.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Nicely played.
731.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Ha. They're actually not contradictory, if you look at it like a lawyer. They never said to the court or to his lawyers that they'd seek maximum penalties. They said it to the press . Jesus, that's slimy. I'd say Ortiz is still in de
732.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Like Philip Greenspun says, for all we know he wanted to do metaanalysis. There's no evidence at all he planned to distribute the files.
733.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Living in Puerto Rico would kill this man.
734.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm pretty sure a 4-digit PIN is baked into the standard, but you're right about policy settings like that. I'd like that, too.
735.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Same problem. I'm in Hungary but that doesn't make me Hungarian, and my business is based in Indiana. If you want to appeal to this crowd you'd better be prepared to think a little harder about internationality.
736.
by Vivtek 14y ago
No. XML was the first serialization language with widely available drop-in libraries at all - it essentially pioneered that concept. As such, it was a freaking Godsend in the late 90's or so. Believe me, the ability to just link in exp
737.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Ooh, weirdly the earlier torrent available of JSTOR data was JSTOR's free-access stuff older than 1923 - which is just about the same size. How coincidental!
738.
by Vivtek 14y ago
The size of this is suspiciously equal to Greg Maxwell's release of the JSTOR archive of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Yes, the PDF scans of just those 18K documents are 33GB. I suspect Aaron's archive was far, far
739.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Europe's healthcare has nothing at all to do with "the spot they're in". The spot is due exclusively to short-sighted compromises in the structure of the Eurozone - the idea was to get into cheap markets and it paid off great for Germany,
740.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Thanks for contributing to this thread - I've been looking for something like this for years!
741.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Fix the machine, not the people? ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi )
742.
by Vivtek 14y ago
He wasn't the Lord Jesus Christ, and he may not have been greedy for money, but damn straight he was greedy for knowledge. Aren't you? Aren't we all, here?
743.
by Vivtek 14y ago
You know what Aaron's sin was? Greed. If he'd set this same thing up so that it would download JSTOR over the course of, say, two years, nobody would ever have been the wiser, we'd actually have that data today since it's actually been
744.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Not to mention I just saw a timely political cartoon about the hot issue of gun reform - from 1881. I don't think it's going to get resolved.
745.
by Vivtek 14y ago
"Not about me." Richly ironic, that. But he was right. I feel much better about life when I don't read the news - and I'm typically far more productive during those periods when I manage to abstain.
746.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I am - but it's not working for me, either.
747.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Every cause needs a symbol. It's facile to then scoff at those using the symbol to say that they're ignoring everything else. One step at a time. Also, in reference to your final point, and it's well taken: some of us try to be.
748.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, about that "higher development" thing - that's not the way evolution works (every organism on the planet is the result of the same 4.5 billion years of adaptation), but it is the way racism works. Let's keep this kind of sentiment awa
749.
by Vivtek 14y ago
What Lessig sees as the moral problem may not be the retrieval itself but the use of resources. I dunno, I'm just guessing.
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Aaron Swartz's Legacy(vivtek.com)
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