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by watty 14y ago
Context is important in law. It's not illegal to change your mac address or wear a ski mask. It can be illegal to do both of these things while committing other crimes. I'm really sick of these sensational posts/comments showing up on HN.
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by watty 14y ago
You're acting like Ninite can be used to install and remove any crapware from any installation under the sun. In reality Ninite only works with a select handful of applications. In other words, Ninite does not solve the problem that compa
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by watty 14y ago
Ninite is great and has saved me time in the past. What exactly does this have to do with the article? Are you implying that since Y Combinator funded non-junk applications that it's okay to now fund junk applications?
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by watty 14y ago
I was just pointing out he had options. He could either accept 6-8 months or risk longer jail time in favor of getting found not guilty. He chose suicide.
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by watty 14y ago
> The government indicated it might only seek seven years at trial, and was willing to bargain that down to six to eight months in exchange for a guilty plea, a person familiar with the matter said. But Mr. Swartz didn't want to do jail
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by watty 14y ago
Even good people fuck up. Aaron committed crimes and got himself in trouble. Aaron then killed himself. There are many people who could have done things differently to prevent this from happening but why should we point fingers?
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by watty 14y ago
Nothing is wrong with me, I'm just shocked at the amount of hero worship going around and complete ignorance of the facts of the case. He didn't just break the TOS and he wasn't charged with "hacking" as you keep referring to it. He was c
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by watty 14y ago
ewillbefull - he wasn't just charged with hacking, do some research: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/aaron-swartz-felony... Again, it doesn't matter if it's extremely easy to run someone over with a car or whether it's easy for a
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by watty 14y ago
I didn't realize simplicity had anything to do with the severity of a crime. How hard is it to kill someone? How hard is it to download something on Pirate bay? How hard is it to stash a laptop in an unused MIT closet and write code to d
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by watty 14y ago
There's nothing ridiculous about claiming Aaron caused his situation and killed himself. There is a prosecutor, defendant and a judge. Prosecutors typically exaggerate their case, defendants typically downplay their side, and the judge is
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by watty 14y ago
Aaron wasn't murdered, he chose to kill himself. No need to be sensational. Who do you blame more? Aaron for getting himself in the position or Ortiz who was doing her job?
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by watty 14y ago
Why do you think this? It's certainly riskier but there have been many successful companies that start out relying heavily on a 3rd party APIs.
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by watty 14y ago
I'm not sure I see the correlation between copyright and the value of US education system. Can you clarify?
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by watty 14y ago
I'm tech savvy and I access Java applets daily. GoToMeeting, VPN for several customer sites, and some commercial software we sell use it.
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by watty 14y ago
Where are you looking? I find it hard to believe you can't find any non-web programming positions, they're around. A quick search on monster.com shows thousands of them in America.
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by watty 14y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Obviously if my host goes down my entire site will go down - this is not the point. The point is that when my host is up, what % of the time will my site still be down? Well if you use a CDN that % is greater than
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by watty 14y ago
Can you expand on what information is required to use this feature? I assume you can create a new account with little to no information (or fake information) and use it.
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by watty 14y ago
> It's like Google Docs for any application Isn't this a bit too misleading? The appeal of Google Docs is that two people can work on a spreadsheet at the same time. They can be working on different cells or even different sheets of a
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by watty 14y ago
The reason we carry on as usual is because we don't believe gun control is the solution. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57559179/china-school-kn... Guess we need to control sharp objects as well? It's easy to get angry at dangerous
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by watty 14y ago
Awesome, always love new charting libraries. I'm a big fan of D3 but it's too early to use in commercial apps (in my industry).
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by watty 14y ago
Calling their solution "non-sucky" is an understatement.
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by watty 14y ago
Privacy is a legitimate concern but it's not limited to Google. Apple is tracking you, your ISP is tracking you, your phone company is tracking you, etc. Just root it and put a custom ROM on it if you're that worried (and use a VPN, DuckD
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by watty 14y ago
I can only think of one instance in two years I've owned it when I needed to get online but didn't have internet access. I used offline gmail to respond to a few emails so not a big deal. The CR48 has built in 3G but I decided against buyi
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by watty 14y ago
Sure, just create a new account (they're free).
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by watty 14y ago
> The guy is basically saying you get a Chrome browser for $249, as if that's a good thing. I think it's a good thing, and I bought one. I was lucky enough to receive a CR-48 which completely changed my opinion on a chrome-only compute
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by watty 14y ago
"Hands-off" approach is not censoring every bad article on Violentacrez. Hands off is letting users determine what goes to the front page.
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by watty 14y ago
I do not like all of Gawker and I similarly don't like all of Reddit (/r/jailbait and hundreds more). The article about Violentacrez was a legitimate and well written piece of investigative journalism. I know this because I actually read
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by watty 14y ago
It all came down to Reddit members and mods protecting a friend and influential person of the Reddit community. It even spilled over to HN where every Gawker article was flagged heavily due to HN affiliation... I'm surprised this one is o
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by watty 14y ago
I think you're looking too far into the word. In the real world, Reddit points are about as meaningful as how much Farmville cash or crops you have.
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by watty 14y ago
I assume the wet paper towel speeds up the process by a little bit? I can't imagine it makes that big of a difference and still probably slower than throwing it in the ice tray of your freezer.

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