This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
Yosem
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Web Update
By Anne Cai
NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Hal Roberts
hrobe...@cyber.law.harvard.edu wrote:
I'd like to back this up. I haven't done any research on circumvention
usage for a couple of years, but it doesn't pass the sniff test to claim
that a majority of the 500 million Chinese Internet users are on
Hello all,
You may have heard that Internet activist Aaron Swartz was announced dead
after he apparently committed suicide
yesterdayhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-suicide_n_2462819.html.
Regardless how he died, it's just important to pay tribute to the
significant work he
Correction in the title of my previous message, it should be (1986-2013).
Sincerely,
Walid
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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com walid.al-sa...@oru.se
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF
Irony:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library
I can't even think about this, what a loss to our community, what a light
guttered out so young!
Shava
On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote:
This is a
..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava Nerad wrote:
Irony:
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library
This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
domain it's comparable to source code that is
..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:06:55PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com
wrote:
This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote:
We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
their knowledge output to a private business interest.
A great way to
While I sympathize with the open access spirit of this thread, and have no
intention to detract from the eulogizing of Aaron Swartz, I think that in all
fairness a few things should be pointed out.
JSTOR is not a journal publisher. This is an important distinction since it
means that JSTOR's
Hi folks, can you help me understand how to interpret this data? It
appears that Gmail's SSL certificate changed fairly frequently during
the month of December. That seems wrong to me. What's this all mean?
https://www.betweennowhere.net/blog/2013/01/gmails-changing-ssl-certificates/
The
John Adams j...@retina.net writes:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, John Adams j...@retina.net wrote:
Google has stated publically that they rapidly roll their SSL
certificates. Nothing to see here, no blog post to write, move along
now...
Thanks for pointing that out, I must've missed
Rapidly means several days to a week for google.com. We (Cyberspark.net) watch
the Google.com SSL certs (not gmail) and it takes at least a few days as they
roll new certs onto multiple IP addresses (round robin DNS). I have only
monitored this for the last two years, but it's been the same
All you are doing is pointing out obvious flaws in the Wired report.
Yes. Since you used it as a source it seems relevant to point out its flaws.
I can just the same present the obvious counter-argument that regular
non-VPN users very rarely search for terms related to whatever
revolutionary
I really respect Aaron's work, and don't mean to detract from it.
But perhaps we can use this to talk about the issue of depression in the
technology community? (Especially academia - we are, after all on a
Stanford run email list)
I have several friends in academia who suffer from depression.
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