Friday, March 22, 2013
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Aaron Swartz and Manipulation of Mental Illness
The tech and legal communities this week are debating the suicide of 26-year old computer genius (and that is not too strong of a word by any means) Aaron Swartz, who was found to have hanged himself last Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. The Wall Street Journal gives background on legal troubles Swartz, who was believed to be suffering from clinical depression, was facing:
A few years ago, Mr. Swartz caused a stir by downloading some 20 million pages of court documents from the fee-charging Pacer website by exploiting free access given to libraries. No charges were ever brought, and no crime was committed, his lawyer said. But his efforts to make online content available for free ultimately brought him into conflict with federal prosecutors.Read more »
He was arrested in 2011 and charged in a scheme in which he allegedly logged into the computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and using it to download millions of academic journal articles from a database called JSTOR, owned by a nonprofit group.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Sorry for the light posting ... again
Between my law practice and editing Rising Sun Falling Skies, I've had almost no time to blog. Will try to blog more often, but posts may, as you've seen, be sporadic for a bit.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
On the bright side of life
The largely disastrous negotiations surrounding the so-called "Fiscal Cliff" at least gave us this, by far the best picture evah of House Speaker John Boehner:
Friday, December 7, 2012
Remember
December 7, 1941. The unprovoked (no matter what leftist historians say) attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Carrier Striking Force Kido Butai.
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