Last one to post wins the internets (archived)

in other words... In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of scientific articles from JSTOR, with the intention of making them public. At the age of 24, Swartz had more action in favor of freedom of information, the most important probably being involved in stopping SOPA the very harsh and abusive bill to combat "piracy", and publication 2.7 million legal documents that were public in theory, but in practice could only be accessed in a very expensive manner. Also, he was the author of a short and comprehensive manifesto against limiting the access to information and knowledge.

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Dion just wanted to make sure that in his absence things hadn't changed and everyone still views him as a tool.

Dion just wanted to prove that he can copy & paste with the best of them in the anti-security movement without truly understanding anything.

He would have taken a short break from browsing gay-torture-porn and stumbled across something on Wired or Digg or The Guardian that had anti-sec/anon in the title, then he would have remember "Hey, that's the stuff i pretend to care about!"

He then would have skimmed the article (whilst patting the damp patch on his trousers with an old t-shirt) only reading the choice parts displayed in bold, he’d then copy those megabytes up only to dump them in a highly irrelevant place, destroying all context thus taking everything away from a sad story.

Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself? Rather than spend 35 years in prison. Probably, but when your avatar has an anon mask and your copy and paste skills are tighter than a newborns, what does it matter...

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Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself?

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Geesh. How about a [spoiler] tag before you go ruining the surprise ending next time. :no:

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself? Rather than spend 35 years in prison. .

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Apparently the internet does a good job of killing the spark that fuels the human spirit.

I'm pretty sure that less intelligent,less admired, less well heeled soldiers lying there with their legs blown off and drowning in their own blood or cancer ravaged single moms lying in agony in their sterile hospital beds pleading to God for but one more moment of precious breath,view this Aaron guy (regardless of what less than fair thing might have befallen him) as a bit of a ungrateful,cowardly and selfish tool.*



*Please disregard above rant if it comes to light that he was really killed by a CIA assassin.

The important thing here is that dion read half an article about it, he might even watch the crowd funded documentary about it if it ever gets released, or he might even watch a trailer for it on youtube. Or he might even bookmark the trailer. Or he might even watch Taylor Swift music videos on youtube. Worst case scenario, he gets a new laptop and doesn't back-up his bookmarks. But Taylor Swifts music will live on, and that's what’s important here.

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Originally Posted by dion09529

in other words... In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of scientific articles from JSTOR, with the intention of making them public. At the age of 24, Swartz had more action in favor of freedom of information, the most important probably being involved in stopping SOPA the very harsh and abusive bill to combat "piracy", and publication 2.7 million legal documents that were public in theory, but in practice could only be accessed in a very expensive manner. Also, he was the author of a short and comprehensive manifesto against limiting the access to information and knowledge.

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If for the last action, the publication of legal documents, the FBI failed, ultimately, to find sufficient legal grounds to impeach him for downloading JSTOR articles, prosecutors worked very hard, Swartz's indictments blamed on totaling 50 years in prison plus a huge fine. Meanwhile, prosecutors offered a sentence of six months in prison provided admitting guilt. If Swartz wouldn't have pleaded guilty and was sentenced, his lawyer argued that prosecutors should be required 7-8 years in prison, other experts said it could take more. Very significant is that the inquiry was taken from the beginning by the Secret Service, which says a lot about the importance given by the government, not just for this case, but the issue in general.

Well that made fuck all sense.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIdp--mBdi0

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Well that made fuck all sense.....

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Well, what did you expect? It's a Dion post, which means we lose meaning in translation. Even if Dion copies, then pastes, someone else's work, he somehow manages to lose the meaning between the copy and the paste. Only Dion has the innate ability to turn something meaningful into something else.

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:)

Smooches

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:whistling

You can no longer have the internet - it's alive I tell you....ALIVE!!!!

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Last one to post gets $20.

Starting a new thread.

If you don't know the rules then there's <1% chance you will win anyway.

If you do I'll tell you.

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good thread made me laff

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The important thing here is that dion read half an article about it, he might even watch the crowd funded documentary about it if it ever gets released, or he might even watch a trailer for it on youtube. Or he might even bookmark the trailer. Or he might even watch Taylor Swift music videos on youtube. Worst case scenario, he gets a new laptop and doesn't back-up his bookmarks. But Taylor Swifts music will live on, and that's what’s important here.

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Hoi Mulder,you seem like the thoughtful type.The kind of guy who while playing Splinter Cell ponders larger questions like " Is the real reason that Sam Fisher seemingly needs to try and solve all his problems through violence stem from the fact that he's repressing his latent homosexuality?" and stuff equally mindy.

Anyway what I really want to ask you is ,let's say you went totally mental and decided to have a dinner party at your new house with people from FST as the guests.
Given the choice and you had to pick only one,would you invite Dionnumbernumbernumberetc or OlegL and why?

And that every post on this site is either NBZ spam or devoted to Word Games I now officially know the meaning of hell.

I suggest that this thread is closed.....so I can win

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And that every post on this site is either NBZ spam or devoted to Word Games I now officially know the meaning of hell.

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At least something good came from all the whining. :happy:

It's an invasion, hands up for anal probing if it's an alien inspired one.

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And that every post on this site is either NBZ spam or devoted to Word Games I now officially know the meaning of hell.

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At least something good came from all the whining. :happy:

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Your wife said some similar in reference to your sex life when she found out she was pregnant.

I know ... everyone's a winner

madness!

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in other words... In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of scientific articles from JSTOR, with the intention of making them public. At the age of 24, Swartz had more action in favor of freedom of information, the most important probably being involved in stopping SOPA the very harsh and abusive bill to combat "piracy", and publication 2.7 million legal documents that were public in theory, but in practice could only be accessed in a very expensive manner. Also, he was the author of a short and comprehensive manifesto against limiting the access to information and knowledge.

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If for the last action, the publication of legal documents, the FBI failed, ultimately, to find sufficient legal grounds to impeach him for downloading JSTOR articles, prosecutors worked very hard, Swartz's indictments blamed on totaling 50 years in prison plus a huge fine. Meanwhile, prosecutors offered a sentence of six months in prison provided admitting guilt. If Swartz wouldn't have pleaded guilty and was sentenced, his lawyer argued that prosecutors should be required 7-8 years in prison, other experts said it could take more. Very significant is that the inquiry was taken from the beginning by the Secret Service, which says a lot about the importance given by the government, not just for this case, but the issue in general.

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Why this indictment is tougher than the injury crimes or even death, which any normal person would consider more serious? Firstly because it's a lot of money, of course. Scientific publications's editors, make huge profits: one of the largest, Elsevier, had in 2010 a profit of 724 million pounds (about 900 million euro at that time) and a profit of not less than 36%!

The idea of making scientific journals available to the masses is a good one. However, he did go about "solving" the problem in a rather dumbass way.

I'd like to win.

I think Reality opened the floodgates for the stupids or something else.

As a chemistry researcher, I fully support open journals. Especially since academic research is usually owned by the university or professor...the journal should have no exclusivity.

But hey, if someone can lock it down and make money on it, they will!

I agree with these pages

I may go all rogue and beginning banning all these accounts if this keeps up. There's no good reason why we should have a sudden surge in posts from users who signed up 4 years ago with one post under their belt, to all suddenly come back and start posting nonsense.

I am totally lost!

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I may go all rogue and beginning banning all these accounts if this keeps up. There's no good reason why we should have a sudden surge in posts from users who signed up 4 years ago with one post under their belt, to all suddenly come back and start posting nonsense.

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1. Make user group that only has access to the bt section.
2. Put all of these guys in there.
3. ???
4. Serious fucking profit, to the max.

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I may go all rogue and beginning banning all these accounts if this keeps up. There's no good reason why we should have a sudden surge in posts from users who signed up 4 years ago with one post under their belt, to all suddenly come back and start posting nonsense.

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At risk of sounding like a douche, I'll say RealitY is really testing my patience with this shit. :dabs:

I'm not sure if he did anything or not. I shot him a PM asking about it so we'll see. Maybe he sent out one of those mass "we haven't seen you in a while" emails.

I guess I'll leave all the accts and posts. I thought for sure some spam links and posts would follow but for the most part they seem to be legit posts.

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If for the last action, the publication of legal documents, the FBI failed, ultimately, to find sufficient legal grounds to impeach him for downloading JSTOR articles, prosecutors worked very hard, Swartz's indictments blamed on totaling 50 years in prison plus a huge fine. Meanwhile, prosecutors offered a sentence of six months in prison provided admitting guilt. If Swartz wouldn't have pleaded guilty and was sentenced, his lawyer argued that prosecutors should be required 7-8 years in prison, other experts said it could take more. Very significant is that the inquiry was taken from the beginning by the Secret Service, which says a lot about the importance given by the government, not just for this case, but the issue in general.

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Why this indictment is tougher than the injury crimes or even death, which any normal person would consider more serious? Firstly because it's a lot of money, of course. Scientific publications's editors, make huge profits: one of the largest, Elsevier, had in 2010 a profit of 724 million pounds (about 900 million euro at that time) and a profit of not less than 36%!

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For this money, obviously the companies have strong political influence, making an effective lobby for more restrictive rules as to access to information. Elsevier promoted these restrictions not only for privately produced content (however, much of the scientific content is based on public money), and for a aberrant bill that would be completely eliminated public access to information produced from public money.

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I'm not sure if he did anything or not. I shot him a PM asking about it so we'll see. Maybe he sent out one of those mass "we haven't seen you in a while" emails.

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