On The Questions Following Aaron Swartz's Death
@barnhouse Even if Swartz did not "break in" to the MIT wiring closet, it's clear that he used the closet to evade MIT's sysadmins, who knew that someone was trying to download the entire JSTOR archive and were trying to prevent him from doing so.
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On The Questions Following Aaron Swartz's Death
@barnhouse To clarify, he had a right to download *each* of the papers in JSTOR, but he did not have the right to download *all* of them, if JSTOR's terms of service are typical.
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On Where Is This "Mali" Where Frenchmen Are Having Wars?
@PoignancySelz With all the unilateral wars on terror and massive demonstrations against gays, are France and the US friends again?
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On The Week of Huge Things Flying Uncomfortably Close To Earth
If the Earth were a quarter, XE54 would have been a foot and a half away at closest. 4179 Toutatis would have been about 40 feet away.
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On Airlines, By Level of Evil
@hershmire Lufthansa is actually pretty good.
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On Murderous Twinkie Will Still Be Made After Bankruptcy Sale
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On Media Grinches of Hurricane Sandy: The Liars, The New York Post and Gawker
@Hiroine Protagonist Oh sure! Completely agree. I'm just saying that maybe in the middle of a crisis, it's better for an employee to say, "you'll pay us generously to save your ass, right?" rather than "this is your fault, so get stuffed". And to be clear my business 'empire' is a couple orders of magnitude smaller than Denton's.
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On Media Grinches of Hurricane Sandy: The Liars, The New York Post and Gawker
Due respect to you, Choire, and I get where you're coming from. But as a small business owner myself, if one of my employees declined to help out in a crisis on the grounds that it was a management screwup (even a foreseeable one!), my response would be, "I accept your resignation."
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On After The End Of Men
@petejayhawk I wonder if people named Andrew take misandry personally.
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On It's Time For Google To Buy All These Publishing Companies And Shut Them Down
#LameStreamMedia