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It's hamsters all the way down. Not blaming any hamsters for wrongdoing is implicitly agreeing with the system.

happy reading: http://kspaink.home.xs4all.nl/fishman/home.html

Just one little anecdote for old times' sake. I used a sequential dialer to scan for interesting numbers in the country capital. After hitting one particular number the phone to wh…

This still side-steps the question of the use of discretionary powers in deciding to prosecute this case in the first place.

> Harvard fellow uses MIT's network surreptitiously to violate the terms of service to download a nonprofit's entire database and then give it away for free, putting them out of bu…

I've read the piece carefully and the thing that stands out for me most is the bit about the data being 'property'. It is argued that since JSTOR claims property rights with a tang…

People will respond differently when faced with the same challenges. Just because one guy can spend 14 years in prison and 2 in solitary confinement is no reason to assume that we'…

Nobody called for her imprisonment or hounding her to the point where she's going to hang herself. Just a corrective measure to a system that has clearly spun out of control. A cha…

Because in todays legal climate most of the things that were 'gray' back then are forbidden explicitly now. Things that as a kid in my days you'd be receiving a stern talking to fo…

The problem with Guantanamo is that it exists at all as an extra-judiciary area specifically designed to deny inmates certain rights.

Aaron was also a vocal critic of the Obama administration, specifically the 'kill lists'.

> If others are going to follow in Aaron's footsteps, they will have to make one particular change: be better at remaining unidentified. Either that or be fully aware of the conseq…

The fact that it was 'perfectly legal' definitely does not make it right.

It is as relevant, if not more relevant today than when it was written.

I support them, as long as they do the right thing afterwards and make the owners aware and do not do anything destructive or that violates someone's privacy.

Because if the sellers would have found out about the HN thread it might have negatively impacted their ability to negotiate a good deal, they showed quite clearly how weak their n…

Patents definitely foster progress by the looks of it.

Everybody that will be born between now and 67.5 years from now will have exactly that same life expectancy, half of those will die as well.

That's just a fig leaf. If Apple gets to corner the smartphone market it will make them trillions. When you want to know about a motive for some act the easiest way is to follow th…

Listing lego as an example of a company defending themselves against copycats is a pretty dumb move, it is well established that lego originally copied the brick idea from the Engl…

Cheaper but otherwise the same is better.

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/tim-cook-memo-line-by-line