These days, I not only don’t log, I refuse to talk to anyone who does. I often refuse to communicate without encryption. But I had to continue to log during the investigation. I was told that changing my behavior while being investigated could be held against me, because in an investigation it is suspicious to learn from your mistakes. - http://phnk.com/post...
It appears that the prosecution did not know about about the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, despite the fact that it was published on Swartz’s blog and widely circulated within the open-access community, until Norton herself told them about the document during her meeting with prosecutors. As Norton details, she did not think it was possible... - http://phnk.com/post...
(via The Protesters Are Right: Evidence Suggests More Election Fraud in Last Week’s Elections in Armenia — The Monkey Cage) - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
While all software breaks occasionally, Excel spreadsheets break all the time. But they don’t tell you when they break: they just give you the wrong number. - http://srqm.tumblr.com/post...
"It's difficult to create tables in LaTeX, especially if some columns are calculated. Excel2LaTeX allows you to transform the current selection from Excel to LaTeX." -- Honestly, I hate both tools here (MS Excel and LaTeX tables).
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La Quadrature du Net rappelle que la meilleure façon de lutter contre la contrefaçon à but lucratif de biens culturels consiste à légaliser le partage non-marchand dans un périmètre bien circonscrit, de manière à favoriser le partage décentralisé (peer-to-peer) au détriment des plateformes centralisées de streaming et de téléchargement direct (à... - http://phnk.com/post...
"To be clear, you should learn to code if: 1. You love writing and debugging and refining and documenting and supporting code. 2. You love to see the working result of your labors. 3. It excites you to empower other people (your users and other developers). 4. You have modest financial needs. 5. Don't mind spending a lot of time working by yourself. 6. Don't mind being misunderstood."
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As the Congressional investigation into the DOJ’s prosecution of Aaron Swartz has continued, apparently a DOJ representative has admitted that part of the reason it insisted on having Swartz plead guilty to a felony and go to jail, no matter what, was that it feared the public backlash for the original arrest if they couldn’t then show a felony... - http://phnk.com/post...