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Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison for leaking JSTOR articles. Instead of fines, the Chief Security Officer should be fully responsible and face 35 years in jail if a breach hap…

One thing that's worrying about CoCs is that many of them seem political in nature and are used as excuses to abuse other members of the community who don't conform to certain opin…

Imagine being able to create windows, draw, deal with io devices (keyboard, mouse, controller, etc.) and do OpenGL graphics type work with system calls. That would allow (practical…

I think the reason using the browser for desktop UI is because graphics and UI programming is terrible. The computer architecture and operating systems we use today are built on te…

You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in fields of green

I was at a conference once setting up a booth for a company I worked for. We ended up borrowing an electric screwdriver from a booth next door, but had to turn it by hand because o…

Most people consider intellectual property as a given, and believe without questioning that IP promotes innovation. This book examines those types of arguments and makes a case tha…

I would love to see a return to simple designs where the majority of kB come from content vs ads, tracking, advanced 'design' that's annoying.

Wasn't krihelinator the same guy who was doing revision history on his repositories and making himself the only contributor? (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

The article is a bit misleading. The minimum wage is $11/hr. in Seattle and will reach $15 for large businesses by next year, and by 2021 for small businesses. Amazon by itself is …

Your article proves my point. He deliberately altered his data.

Piketty's data was already found to be fraudulent. He skewed it to push his own political worldview. https://www.ft.com/content/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feab...

I think the biggest problem with accounts in general, is that the accounts never really are deleted. Any DB admin will tell you info is never deleted.

From the comments it doesn't look like many read the article. Here's the tldr: Free software won. Yay! However, what about hardware, infrastructure, and services? Oops. All those t…

Actually (counter-intuitively) college would be more affordable for middle class and the poor in a situation where there are no loans. Consider, there are only a tiny amount of ric…

Though I can't recommend it, there would actually be better outcomes if we banned loans for college. Flooding the higher education market with cash has made it less affordable not …

It is precisely because of resource constraints that the open source model would work better. Take education for example. What if anyone could start a school with any standard for …

Imagine a building whose design and construction was governed by democracy. The architecture would be a horrible mish-mash of whatever happened to be popular, and likely architectu…

Actually, the ethically and morally right thing to do would be to respect people's right to keep everything they earn. Good causes should prove they are good causes and be funded v…

It's in their video just below the fold of their page.

1. the cloud - No. I'm trying to get more off my data off the cloud, not on it. 2. (censored) swearing in marketing materials - Not classy. Or to put it the way nextbit's marketing…

Wow! What a depraved view they have. I wonder if they would still think it was moral to limit their children to a 3rd world education because it's only fair that education (level) …

If only more people read Bastiat... http://fee.org/resources/economic-sophisms/ http://fee.org/files/doclib/20121116_thelaw.pdf