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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 01:45 AM EST |
"Chong agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to
distribute drug
paraphernalia in exchange for non-prosecution
of his wife, Shelby, and his son,
Paris."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Chong#US_vs._Chong [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 02:57 AM EST |
Carmen Ortiz claimed that she knew of Swartz' mental conditions 18 months ago,
inclusing the suicide risk. Still, it appears as if Ortiz and colleagues
proceeded as if that risk didn't exist.
Prosecuting mentally ill is is
special. Here are some random quotes from the web:
www.lawofficer.com/article/investigation/prosecuting-mentally-ill:
“Presence of mind is everything. Faith in your thought process. I
don’t know what it’s like to be mentally ill. Nor do I have anyone close to
me—myself, close friends or family members—who are mentally ill. But I have to
imagine that physical illness is much easier to deal with. That’s why it’s so
difficult to grasp how, for the past 20 years, my client has been living without
presence of mind, without faith in his thought process. Only to find out now,
during this trial, that what he had thought was real was a product of his
delusion. And, this prosecutor [pointing to me], wants you to convict this poor
man of attempted murder because he’s mentally ill. ”"
Here an
excerpt from MENTAL
HEALTH and CRIMINAL JUSTICE AN OVERVIEW BY ANDREW E.
TASLITZ:
"Apart from the cruelty of this state of affairs, it
raises questions about whether housing the mentally ill should be a major
function of the criminal justice system in the first place and whether our
treatment of them has any connection to that system’s goals of retribution,
rehabilitation, education, deterrence, and proportional punishment, though it
certainly serves one systemic goal: isolation.
Here is a UK
perspective
(http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/mentally_disordered_offenders/#b01):
The question of fitness to plead may be raised before arraignment
by the prosecution, defence or Judge. In the majority of cases it is likely that
the defendant will respond to medical treatment and the trial will take place
within a reasonable period .The defendant may be remanded to hospital for a
report on his medical condition (section 35 Mental Health Act 1983) or for
treatment (section 36 Mental Health Act 1983) while he is awaiting trial.
Archbold 5-891 - 5-892. In cases of serious or enduring disorder, the issue of
fitness to plead should be determined. If there is a reasonable chance that the
prosecution case will be successfully challenged, the issue of fitness to plead
should not be determined before arraignment, but postponed until a time before
the defence case is opened (Archbold 4-170). This may result in a conclusive
verdict of acquittal and avoids the need for the issue of unfitness to be
determined at all.
Another paper by Taslitz -
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1005758
"The
privilege against self-incrimination has been widely attacked as lacking any
sound theoretical basis. This article seeks to craft a new one, a variant on the
supposedly discredited mental privacy rationale. Drawing on cognitive psychology
and linguistics, this piece argues that the privilege is best understood as
designed to prevent the compelled disclosure of words or their equivalent. The
piece takes oral speech as the paradigm case but expands the argument to written
and internet communications. Compelled revelation of words actually changes the
speaker's thoughts, feelings, and character while exposing him to unfair
judgments about his fundamental nature based upon incomplete information -
judgments that his audience will make based upon his words and paralingustic
cues alone. The privilege seeks to protect the speaker against this
re-definition of his identity in ways that he has not chosen. The privilege is
thus more about privacy of words than of thoughts, more about voice (in a very
literal sense) than simply about silence. "
A "mentally ill"
Swartz was indeed forced to accept charges on 13 counts? How serious is
that?
Ponder that Aaron Swartz really had some form of mental illness.
Threatening his with 35 years of prison, is that constructive?
Many
people with no mental disorder would at least think of suicide at the thought of
up to 35 years in prison and most would NEVER accept to utter lies in
court.
This case really hit a nerve.
--- ______
IMANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 03:08 AM EST |
I am joining
siftdna.org in a
moment of silence
to mark Aaron Swartz’ passing. On January 25, I will bring
down my blog for the day to honor his contributions and mark
the tragedy of
his passing.
Aaron’s treatment by MIT is not unfamiliar to me. Back when
I
was a graduate student there, I extracted security keys
from the original
Microsoft Xbox video game console. I still
remember the crushing disappointment
of receiving a letter
from MIT legal repudiating any association with my work,
effectively leaving me on my own to face Microsoft.
Andrew
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 11:31 AM EST |
`"a beefburger rarely contains 100% beef .. An economy
beefburger must contain
47% meat .. Under European law, the
term "meat" is defined as "skeletal muscle
with naturally
included or adherent fat and connective tissue" which has
not
been mechanically stripped from the carcass.
Any meat that has been
pressure-blasted from the carcass
must be listed separately as MRM
(mechanically removed) or
MSM (mechanically stripped) meat. MRM meat or paste
can in
theory be used in economy burgers but has to be listed as a
separate
ingredient.' link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 12:56 PM EST |
Why the Moon Landings Weren’t
Faked --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 01:43 PM EST |
The skeptics said a small district with declining enrolment and a
tight budget could never pull off a job best left to big corporations.
“We
heard lots of that,” said Tim Agnew, project manager. “ ‘You can’t do this. It
can’t be done. Your numbers are too low.’ We’ve proven that wrong.”
The
district invested about $1.5 million in the project, converted three
classrooms in the former Saanichton Elementary School to high-tech offices, and
hired a small band of computer programmers to begin work in fall 2011.
The
idea was to use local expertise to develop a student information system that was
made by B.C. schools for B.C. schools — and do it for a fraction of what it
costs to buy and operate a commercial product.
Less than 17 months later,
Saanich officials say they are close to finishing the core version of a system
that has the potential to save taxpayers and cash-strapped school districts
millions.
Lindsay Kines,
Victoria Times-Colonist
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BCeSIS Wikipedia
Saanich School District [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 02:58 PM EST |
Record
labels will pitch in to keep UK retailer
HMV alive --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 02:56 AM EST |
Although the conduct of Ms. Ortiz’s office may
seem
disproportionately harsh, this is unfortunately par for
the course. Rather than
a procedure dictated from
Washington, U.S. attorneys and local D.A.’s enjoy
broad
discretion in the charges they press. Thanks to tough-on-
crime laws and
mandatory-minimum sentencing, prosecutors are
able to extort—if they so
choose—a quick end to the
proceedings and a headline-worthy admission of guilt.
To
single out the conduct of Carmen Ortiz as an anomaly of
America’s system of
mass incarceration would be to
misunderstand its character.
She is a
symptom of the entire
disease.
Christian Stork, WhoWhatWhy[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 11:06 AM EST |
An anti-piracy group with the stated aim of shutting down
file-hosting services by strangling their finances has wasted no time in going
after Kim Dotcom’s new baby. Robert King of StopFileLockers says that his outfit
has started a campaign to have the payment processor accounts of Mega resellers
terminated. King, who is affiliated with the adult industry, says that from the
start Mega was never intended to be a legitimate service and has “all the
fundamental qualities” of an infringing file-locker.
enigmax, TorrentFreak
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Wikipedia:
Kim Dotcom born on 21 January 1974 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 11:10 AM EST |
It was only supposed to last for 3
months! --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 12:03 PM EST |
nationalpost [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 01:01 PM EST |
New Unspeakable Vault - enjoy!
Unspeakable Vault
(of Doom)
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 01:10 PM EST |
Open Government was published in 2010 by O'Reilly Media. The United States had
just elected a president in 2008, who, on his first day in office, issued an
executive order committing his administration to "an unprecedented level of
openness in government." The contributors of Open Government had long
fought for transparency and openness in government, as well as access to public
information. Aaron Swartz was one of these contributors (Chapter 25: When is
Transparency Useful?). Aaron was a hacker, an activist, a builder, and a
respected member of the technology community. O'Reilly Media is making Open
Government free to all to access in honor of Aaron. #PDFtribute
-- Tim O'Reilly, January 15, 2013
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 01:11 PM EST |
New. XKCD.
XKCD
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
br>
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 01:15 PM EST |
“I said to the chancellor, ‘Why
are
you destroying my son?’ He said, ‘We are not.’ ” --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 01:16 PM EST |
“Evidently the corollary to Arthur C Clarke’s famous quote on
technology and magic is that those who create it are witches and wizards. You
like the magic and you need a few practitioners but when things start getting
weird, it’s pitchfork o’clock.”
[...]
The quote from ACK is of
course that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic”.
Peter Nixey [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: dacii on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 05:10 PM EST |
Link (I hope it
works) The chapter he wrote was very interesting :) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 08:20 PM EST |
Link
In the first event, it says he attempted to
gain access,
but does not say he did gain access. 5 days later it says
he did
gain access. In both events, SQL injection was
reported.
And the letter
states that access (or the attempted access)
was to both College systems *and*
external systems.
How would they know about the external systems unless
they
really were not external? Perhaps Skytech monitoring
systems?
Link
The Dawson College
computer science student who was expelled after discovering a security breach in
a system used by students across Quebec has been offered a scholarship by the
company behind the software.
"We will offer him a scholarship so he can
finish his diploma in the private sector," said Edouard Taza, the president of
Skytech.
The school will not change their
mind.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: indyandy on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 08:21 PM EST |
The French tech site 'Numerama' quotes a French local news site, the 'Courrier Picard' with a story about how a man
living in Amiens was taken directly to court accused of (and admittedly guilty
of) piracy.
(Google Translation of Numerama), (Google Translation
of Courrier Picard)
He, like most people in France, assumed that he
would have two warnings before any action was taken, but no: the three strikes
process is just one option available to rights holders. They can choose to go
straight to court.
Fortunately for him the fine requested by the prosecution
was very reasonable compared with other cases we have heard of, but this must
come as a shock to many French people living with a false sense of security. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 08:59 PM EST |
A Harvard scientist has said it
would be possible to clone a Neanderthal baby
from ancient
DNA if he could find a woman willing to act as a
surrogate.
He told Der Spiegel, the German magazine: "I have already
managed to extract enough DNA from fossil bones to
reconstruct the DNA of the
human species largely extinct.
Now I need an adventurous female human."
The
professor claims that he could introduce parts of the
Neanderthal genome to
human stem cells and clone them to
create a foetus that could then be implanted
in a woman.
"Now I need an adventurous female human" - that's all he
needs. Any volunteers out there? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: DMP on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 09:35 PM EST |
I don't know if anyone has posted this already, if so, my apologies for
repetition!
The revenge of Linux (against Microsoft). See this
article [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 07:40 AM EST |
Editor’s note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known
by his
pseudonym
weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-
described Internet
troll.
In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open
Internet. There was an API on this server, a URL with a
number at the end. If
you incremented this number, you saw
the next iPad 3G user email address. I
thought it was
egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a complete
target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the
API output to a journalist at Gawker.
I
did this because I despised people I think are unjustly
wealthy and wanted to
embarass them. I thought this is the
United States of America where we have the
right to do basic
arithmetic and query public webservers.
I was convicted
of two consecutive five-year felonies, and
am now awaiting
sentencing.
Andrew Auernheimer,
TechCrunch
---
weev
Wikipedia
Long interview from 27/nov/12
by Adrian
Chen on Gawker
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 10:42 AM EST |
Mozilla
debuts two Firefox OS
developer preview phones...
Today
the browser maker unveiled two
developer preview phones for Firefox OS that
it’s offering
in partnership with the Spanish startup Geeksphone, which is
building the phones, and Telefonica.
True to its low-end focus,
Mozilla is placing the spotlight
mostly on the less-powerful Keon (above). It
features a
small 3.5-inch screen, a 1 gigahertz processor, 4 gigabytes
of
storage, and 512 megabytes of RAM. With those specs, the
Keon would barely even
cut it as a cheap Android phone in
the U.S. today. But in Brazil, where Mozilla
is debuting
Firefox OS phones later this year, it’s representative of
devices
that many consumers will actually be able to afford.
On the slightly
more powerful end, Geeksphone is also
working on a developer preview phone
called Peak (right). It
sports a 4.3-inch screen, 1.2 gigahertz dual-core
Snapdragon
S4 processor, and a much better camera than the
Keon.
See the Mozilla press
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 12:51 PM EST |
marketwatch [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, January 22 2013 @ 01:43 PM EST |
Former Microsoft vice-president spills the
beans on Steve Ballmer’s toxic management style in a new tell-all
book --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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