Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 01:46 PM EST |
A Justice Department representative told congressional staffers
during a recent briefing on the computer fraud prosecution of Internet activist
Aaron Swartz that Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" played a role in the prosecution, sources
told The Huffington Post.
Swartz's 2008 manifesto said sharing
information was a "moral imperative" and advocated for "civil disobedience"
against copyright laws pushed by corporations "blinded by greed" that led to the
"privatization of knowledge."
"We need to take information, wherever it
is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff
that's out of copyright and add it to the archive," Swartz wrote in the
manifesto. "We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to
download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need
to fight for Guerilla Open Access."
The "Manifesto," Justice Department
representatives told congressional staffers, demonstrated Swartz's malicious
intent in downloading documents on a massive scale.
Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 02:03 PM EST |
Come ON! Its got a touch screen!
I though access to all those Android apps was the whole
point?!
Was this rushed out and the android integration will be added
later?
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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 Friday, February 22 2013 @ 02:11 PM EST |
According to the Entertainment Software Association, 47 percent of
gamers are women — effectively gender parity. But only eleven percent of game
industry employees are women, measuring across all departments. It's the same
mismatch we saw last night: women in the audience, but none on
stage.
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Authored by: lnuss on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 04:52 PM EST |
A potential aviation application for Android is stymied by a patent troll:
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2013/130221patent-battle-stifles-aviation-
innovation.html?CMP=News:S2RM
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- Working Link - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 07:04 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 06:33 PM EST |
A federal court handed hedge fund manager David Einhorn an initial victory
Friday in his push to get Apple to share some of its vast cash hoard with
shareholders.
Judge rules against Apple in Einhorn cash fight [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 07:56 PM EST |
What happened to Mark Webbink? Haven't seen an article in over a month. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 10:57 PM EST |
Link to PDF
It actually (to my ear) strikes some
good notes,
appreciating the role the NIH has historically played in
promoting
open access to federally funded research output.
I guess the bottom line for
now is just asking other
agencies of the federal government to draw up plans to
do
something similar, though not necessarily identical, to
promote open access
within 12 months of publication.
--- Recursion is the opprobrium of
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Authored by: Nick_UK on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 03:23 AM EST |
The story from the Reg:
Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 12:09 PM EST |
The Other
Angle
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 01:56 PM EST |
"Remember Nikon Corp.'s Android-powered smart cameras like the Coolpix S800c?
Well it appears that adding Google Inc.'s free operating system isn't going to
be quite so free -- Microsoft Corp. has successfully shaken down the Japanese
camera maker for a licensing fee". link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 06:00 PM EST |
“To maintain control over society, leaders have embraced enhanced
surveillance technology,” the
[NY]Times explained. “But some have
turned it on one another — repeating patterns of intrigue that go back to the
beginnings of Communist
rule.”
Washington Post
Perhaps the NYT and WP should take lessons in Chinese
history. These "patterns of intrigue" go back 3000 years or more. Without
constant churning of their culture
by foreign invasions the Chinese have
managed to maintain consistent methods of dealing with internal dissent. Sun Tze
has instructions on how to use spies. The
Chinese were writing operas about
bedroom spying before Mozart or Monteverdi. We shouldn't be surprised they're
now using modern technology, and using it against
foreigners.
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