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Should setting information free get you locked up? Aaron Swartz, JSTOR, and the theft of information | Opensource.com
Should setting information free get you locked up? Aaron Swartz, JSTOR, and the theft of information
Aaron Swartz is 25 years old. He's smart, tenacious, talented. And, in the view of the US Attorney General, a dangerous man currently charged with wire and computer fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, and criminal forfeiture. He was released pending a September trial on a $100,000 bond.
His crime? Downloading more than four million documents from the JSTOR digital library.
What he did and whom he did it to
JSTOR, which stands for Journal Storage, is a not-for-profit organization that offers a collection of academic journals and publications for license to libraries, educational institutions, publishing companies, and individuals--for a fee. These organizations then turn around and offer JSTOR access to their members, students, or employees, usually through library services.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)--the network through which Swartz did his dastardly downloading--offers free access to its students and faculty. However, Swartz was not a student at MIT. He broke into a network closet to gain direct access and used a faux student account (Gary Host or, cleverly, ghost) to log in.
In September 2010, Swartz began accessing and downloading the JSTOR files. Eventually, his rate of download prompted JSTOR to deny all MIT-identified computers access and raised the suspicions of JSTOR and MIT admins. Swartz was found out, and convinced to turn over the hard drives that stored the data he'd copied. MIT decided not to press charges once the material was returned and Swartz agreed to make no further efforts to distribute it. The US Attorney General's office chose to continue the prosecution.
Show me the money
A $100,000 bond is pretty high. There are lots of crimes for which the average bond is far less. Assault. Battery. Rape. Manslaughter. (Murder typically is unbondable, or at least a cool million .) Theft bonds out between $5,000-$50,000, depending on the value of the items stolen.
So what was the value of the documents that were taken? According to the indictment, JSTOR's annual subscription fee for a large research university would cost more than $50,000. "Portions of the subscription feeds are shared with the journal publishers who hold the original copyrights," it continues. The publishers set the fees for their articles and choose which ones can be purchased individually.
Value is also dependent upon rarity. In this case, JSTOR's files remained unchanged and (mostly, save for the outage at MIT) available. What Swartz was attempting to take from JSTOR was the ability to enforce rarity by charging a premium for access.
Who is Aaron Swartz?
Swartz co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification before he was old enough to drive. He got into Harvard and left after a year to start Infogami--a tech company later bought and integrated into Reddit, which was then bought by an arm of Condé Nast. He started another company, Jotit. He is an activist and co-founded Demand Progress, a largely digital, progressive political organization.
And why is he doing this?
Swartz has been under this kind of suspicion before. The FBI got involved in 2009 when he--with the encouragement of Carl Malamud and others--began downloading and openly redistributing documents from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which was in the midst of a trial run of openness.
PACER documents had been made available to a small number of libraries (17), and Swartz had managed to download 20% of the available info before the service was shut down. Though Swartz was investigated, no charges were filed.
Swartz, Malamud, and others felt the PACER documents and other government-generated records--many of which are legally required to be available to the public--should be made easily accessible, on the public web, where they could be freely copied and indexed by search engines like Google.
JSTOR is an archive of largely academic articles, many of which are based on research funded by public grant or written by people working for state-sponsored universities. Some people, like Swartz, believe that this puts them on the same level as any other public record and that they should also be freely available online.
But even if the information should be public, the process of moving records online encounters roadblocks. The fees that are generated through requests for information help pay for maintenance. Converting large volumes of traditionally stored information to digital form is arduous, especially since some must be redacted or otherwise altered to protect the personal, private information of involved parties. And some types of information are controlled by knowing who has access to them.
Repercussions of the JSTOR case
The revolution in information technology affects everyone. Despite objections, the way we do things involving data has and will continue to change. For instance, who bothers to look up something in an encyclopedia anymore? How many people still visit the bank teller to find out their balance or deposit a check? We trust PayPal and Amazon with our financial information, and it is clear that even public agencies take advantage of the ability to record, store, secure, and distribute private information over the Internet.
Swartz's goal in his actions was to accelerate this process. When it came to JSTOR, in his view, the roadblocks have already been overcome. He believes the documents should be publically available because their contents were in part publically funded. The work of digitizing them has been done, and they do not contain private information.
"It's like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a political action group Swartz helped found.
But then, most library patrons don't check out a pile of books after first getting a fake library card and stealing the key to the library. Swartz has been indicted on multiple charges, including computer fraud and unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer. The charges could result in up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Despite his methods, the case poses several questions about the cost of access and value of information. The amount of Swartz's bail suggests a far more serious crime--theft of valuable property--than the charges brought against him. The verdict may tell tell us something about how much information is worth.
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IMHO The ends don't justify the means. (Dons fire resistant mackintosh.)
I think we're confusing what he did and his motivation. You asserted that his bail seems unreasonably high for "theft," but you already divulged that he's not being charged with simple theft, but wire and computer fraud. I'm guessing, without even following links, that he's being charged with some permutation of the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. As you say, the charges allege that he willfully broke into MIT's systems, used a falsified account ("ghost"), in order to access JSTOR and download information that he was not otherwise entitled to access legitimately (without "going through channels," i.e. getting the library card, paying the fee, registering a valid account).
I appreciate that what he may be trying to illustrate is that the documents JSTOR is charged with keeping safe result from partially publicly funded research, but it's not for Mr. Swartz to decide that this information "wants to be free." There are legal means to crack open this nut. Breaking into computer systems and falsifying records shouldn't be necessary. Has he tried the legal means already?
Just as we saw in London recently, smashing shop windows, torching police cars, and stealing TVs and other goods, don't directly address issues of social inequity and injustice. They directly address a desire to cause mayhem or upgrade one's own property. Protesting injustice is a poor justification of committing larceny, assault, vandalism, or even terrorism.
Let's illustrate this with a more personal example. If you and I worked for a public agency, would the details of our salary and compensation be public record? Would it be okay for John Q. Hacker to break into our agency's HR systems, steal all the information and then make it available, all because we're civil servants and our salaries are made possible by tax revenues?
I personally hope that engineering and information technology schools still teach about the laws that govern these realms. Ignorance of the law is not a justification for breaking it. I suspect that young Mr. Swartz will not appear in court to answer to his personal convictions about how information should be free, but to defend himself against The People's charges that he broke into protected computer systems and stole data from a discretionary access system. I don't care what the data was, I just want techies to learn that there are real-world consequences from this kind of mischief. If Swartz does jail time, it's not because he valiantly tried to crusade in the cause of public access to digital information, but because he ignored the law and broke into multiple computer systems.
Don't even get me started on what the RIAA did, suing citizens (including little girls and grandmothers) for huge amounts for alleged file-sharing. But that wasn't in criminal court, those were civil matters. I personally think the RIAA was coming on way too strong by demanding huge amounts (IIRC, settlements usually were far less) in order to over-dramatize their case. I'd like to think that it backfired on them, illustrating instead just how greedy and antagonistic the music publishers (RIAA being their industry representation) were towards consumers.
I agree with you that otherwise freely available publications should not be sequestered behind a paywall just because the publishers can do so. I wonder how many, if any, of the JSTOR documents were published under public domain copyrights that were bent or violated by charging for access. Still ... content owners, publishers, and their appropriately licensed distributors are entitled to charge fees that cover their expenses, aren't they? Isn't LEXUS/NEXUS all about a subscription-based search engine and database made up of public records of a legal nature, that would otherwise (through great effort and expenditure of time) be available for free? LEXUS provides a system to access the information quickly, easily. Their system includes the storage and distribution facilities that couldn't be supported without subscriber revenue. I doubt that the clients that pay those fees are irate, because the service saves them time and money. (Granted, if subscription fees balloon out of proportion of the value returned, subscribers would revolt, and the service could be in danger of collapsing in on itself.)
Likewise, back in the day, CompuServe charged significant hourly fees for accessing their network which contained, in part, news and other information that were available elsewhere (e.g. AP news reports, NOAA information), but the convenience of accessing the information all in one channel was a value-add that customers demonstrated was worth the money.
Since Melanie's clarified that the bail isn't directly tied to the "value" of JSTOR's sequestered content, I wonder what the true value of that content is. How much does JSTOR charge? Is it a seat license, or a blanket site license? From what I read, MIT pays a fee, and all MIT students and professors have access to JSTOR's library -- sounds like a good deal to me. Those fees help pay for development and maintenance of the software used to store and distribute the articles, so it seems like a fair tradeoff. Perhaps Swartz knows something I don't....
This isn't the only business model out there. Those publications could all sell their material to readers through a distributor whose operating expenses are subsidized by per-transaction fees (say for argument 5%) when any subscriber "buys" a document from the service.
I realize I'm playing devil's advocate here. I'm disappointed anytime a smart cookie like Swartz resorts to alleged illegal acts to prove a point or publicize an inequity. Why? Because unless we pervert our legal system, the case will be about the computer crimes he is charged with (which, I checked, are indeed derived from Ye Olde Computer Fraud and Abuse act), not the greater sociopolitical issues he'd like his actions to be about.
It is a common misconception that bail is determined by the severity of the crime, when, in fact, it is based on a variety of factors. The primary purpose of bail is to ensure that the accused appears in court. A person who is considered a flight risk, especially a person of means who does not have strong ties to the community (eg dependent family living in the area and a job that requires physical presence) will likely have a higher bail than someone entrenched in the community who is accused of the same (or even more serious) crime. The chart referenced in the article shows average "assumptive bail" which is a recommended starting point for the judge when there are no extenuating circumstances in place.
Bail is not 'punishment' for the crime, since the accused has not been found guilty.
I would say that what he did was obviously a bad idea. But there are a lot of possible mitigating factors that people don't seem to grasp.
First, what account was he using? I read that the account was a guest account. Being a university IT staff person, I can tell you that these are fairly common. We often have guests on campus that need access for the day/week or longer. If he used a guest account, he may not have been illegally accessing the system.
Second, did he actually use force to enter the network closet? It would seem that if he forced his way in, the IT staff would have noticed that the door had been tampered with. This would have caused him to get noticed right away. If the door was unlocked and there were no signs stating restricted access, you can't blame people for going in. Our IT closets are locked, but there is no indication what is actually behind the door or that its an IT closet.
What material did he actually get? Much of the material JSTOR has is actually public domain. You can't really steal public domain material can you?
At the end of the day, both JSTOR and MIT settled the matter without legal intervention. What I don't understand is how the DA has the right to charge him with anything. Out of the crimes he was charged with, they are only crimes if the owners of the systems deem it so. If you entered my house but I told the police it was ok, they really have no case to charge you with breaking and entering do they? This whole mess smells like an election effort by a DA wanting to be a judge, IMHO.
"... if the door was unlocked and there were no signs stating restricted access, you can't blame people for going in..."
You cannot walk into an unlocked supermarket and eat your lunch and walk out without paying. Its theft.
When the wunderkind that invented RSS opened the closet to access the network he knew he was stealing.
I'd have to spend some time (that, sorry, I don't have at the moment) confirming, but I seem to recall that at least early provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act didn't stipulate that "unauthorized intrusion" required breaking through physical or technical barriers to get in. And that used to make me very, very uncomfortable. I've seen home lighting systems that were running on Windows CE, with an open web interface, connected directly to the Internet without a firewall or proxy (why, I can't imagine), with a default configuration of NO password protection (again, I can't imagine why). If someone on the Internet finds the device, and turns all the lights off, is it an intrusion? Is it a criminal offense, or rather, should it be?
I'm sure details will surface, e.g. was the network closet marked, was it left completely vulnerable to entry, were there any safeguards or practices to determine if intruders were plugging things in willy nilly? In this post-Napster, BitTorrent world, I'd be really, really, really surprised if this equipment truly was left exposed and unmonitored (unless it was a "honey pot"). I mean, c'mon ... at MIT?
I think that the point Bascha is making is that the defendant will, like any of us would, endure a sort of pre-punishment in having to incur legal expenses to mount a defense. Even unfair laws that no jury will enforce can cause damage to our society through prejudiced enforcement making citizens expend personal funds to defend properly (unless a reasonable prosecutor's office declines to prosecute). Setting high bail is just the beginning of the defendant's financial burden.
@ David : Are you saying when he entered the closet and plugged something into a switch, (or whatever he did in the closet) that the guy who invented RSS was so naive he didn't know it was wrong?
Are you saying he did not think he was stealing when he accessed the MIT network with a false name?
Are you saying that stealing is OK if force is not used?
I guess if you are saying those things, then maybe it's unfair that he is prosecuted. I do not think those things.
I think stealing is wrong. From the facts presented by the OP, it seems fairly clear to me that this is not even in question. "… most library patrons don't check out a pile of books after first getting a fake library card and stealing the key to the library."
So perhaps you think 100K was too high a bail? Apparently not, the post states he is out on bail. If he shows up for trial, I think he gets it back.
I do agree with the OP when he says that there are questions society needs to address about access to data and information. What is public? What is private? Who owns private information? What is the responsibility of government with regard to data and information it holds?
If Aaron sought to bring these issues out by his actions, then he was successful. (It doesn't make stealing right; and he shouldn't be surprised to be prosecuted.)
Are you saying when he entered the closet and plugged something into a switch,... [Swartz] was so naive he didn't know it was wrong?
No, I'm not saying that. ... And I think he is capable of understanding exactly what he was doing. Whether he was conscious of the legal risks, I have no idea.
Are you saying he did not think he was stealing when he accessed the MIT network with a false name?
No, I'm not saying that. ... I have no knowledge of his frame of mind or thoughts while allegedly performing the acts cited in the charges.
Are you saying that stealing is OK if force is not used?
Wait for it ... no, I am absolutely not saying that either. ;) I think if you reread my comments, you'll understand that I was questioning if it's an illegal intrusion even if no "forced entry" techniques (e.g. cracking passwords, bypassing proxies or firewalls, using SQL injection techniques to insert code into a server, etc.) are utilized.
I guess if you are saying those things, then maybe it's unfair that he is prosecuted.
I'm not asserting any of the points you asked about.
So perhaps you think 100K was too high a bail?
I don't think I meant to imply or state that. My understanding is that bail is set based on a variety of factors, including the flight risk of the defendant, the financial ability of the defendant to skip bail (think OJ Simpson, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, et), etc. I am not a lawyer, so there is more that I don't know about the bail setting process than I do.
Your analogy isn't quite correct. The right analogy would be that you invite someone into your home, and then they go into a part of the house that you don't want them in. Its not really breaking and entering because you invited them in. Most universities invite the public in all the time, it goes with being an open learning space. I can also tell you that the number of non university technicians coming and going from network closets is substantial. We ALWAYS have contractors working on campus, and I quite often see normally locked doors propped open.
Its also not theft. At least not of materials. He didn't take anything physical. At most he fraudulently used a service he wasn't suppose to. Also remember that JSTOR and MIT didn't press charges, which is probably why the only things he was charged with are crimes not requiring a victim's complaint.
I think my analogy is more accurate. I'm not drawing comparisons with grocery stores, or sneaking off to the master bedroom at my boss' dinner party, and such -- comparing private computer networks and servers to an Safeway store is going to eventually tie you up in knots. I'm comparing oranges to oranges ... intrusion to a computer system that one would not ordinarily have access to.
Depending upon the legal interpretation of the charges, Count 3 indicates clear theft. Oh, no not material goods like Wonder Bread and Oscar Mayer bologna, or my boss' Rolex Datejust, but theft on data. I'll save you the click (Bascha provided the link above):
"Count 3
Unlawfully Obtaining information from a protected computer 18 USC 1030(a)(2), (c)(2)(B)(iii) & 2
... and thereby obtained from a protected computer information whose value exceeded $5000 -- namely, digitized journal articles from JSTOR's archive -- and aided and abetted the same.
All in violation of 18 USC 1030(a)(2), (c)(2)(B)(iii) and 2."
Or if you insist ... 'and thereby obtained slices of bread, sliced meat, and sundry condiments,' or 'and thereby obtained my boss' watch worth in excess of $5000.' Again, I think the question we're chewing on is, is Mr. Swartz' alleged theft of data the same kind of grand larceny as David Niven stealing the Pink Panther?
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Its not exactly clear that he used a protected computer system. Some accounts of the incident indicate he was using a guest account. He was downloading the info to a laptop. The system may be set to allow all local accesses as its authentication. When you create a guest account for people to use, you are giving permission. If he actually hacked his way into the system, then he should be found guilty of that. But its not clear that is what happened. From my own experience:
Many computer systems used to have banners welcoming the user to the system. Our ISO banned such banners and strictly requires a certain banner now. Why? Because if someone sits down at a terminal, and the screen says welcome, you can't really make a case that they accessed the system without permission. Saying "Welcome" is actually giving permission. Our banner now reads basically: "If you are not a university student or employee, disconnect immediately!"
@Gary: Ok, the analogy could have been stronger.
Are universities different than business? (I haven't been near a university in 30 years, and then it was only a college.) In business, I do not expect my invited guests to enter my wiring closet, and I would consider it a breach of security if I found them there.
With regard to your quibble about theft… would you mind if I wire my house into your home's electrical system? Electricity is not material. Ask yourself, are you going to call me a "perpetrator of fraud" or a thief when you have to pay your electric bill? MIT pays for infrastructure, maintenance, access to the data that was taken, bandwidth to the internet and electricity to run the network.
Without regard for your question of actual theft, there is an interesting point raised here in questioning the interest of the state in prosecuting when the "victims" are not interested in pursuing the matter. If you do not report me to the authorities for perpetrating fraud on your electricity, what interest does the state have in this?
A true story that happened recently in the building I work in, during the summer. Workman were in the building working on running data lines for a lab renovation. One of them stood outside a locked computer lab waiting to be given access. One of the faculty in the building, being very nice and helpful, let the worker into the lab. The faculty did not know who he was, there is no ID system for guests, no way to know why he was there. Physical access at most universities is fairly easy to get. And once some employee invites you in, its hard to prove that you illegally accessed the environment. Like I said before. Universities are very open environments. Its most likely why MIT just wants to drop the matter. Why would that want to damage that culture of openness they spent so long creating?
Ok, let's put this all the way out on the table.
You said:
"Its also not theft. At least not of materials. He didn't take anything physical. At most he fraudulently used a service he wasn't suppose to"
In every jurisdiction I have been aquainted with, there is a law regarding "Theft of Services"
* If you have a dumpster, and I toss stuff into it, I'm not "stealing" anything material from you - in fact I'm GIVING you something - so, it's not a crime, right?
* If you tap into someone's cable connection, you are not "stealing" from them, and what you are taking is not "material", right?
* Sites like WESTLAW provide access to information which is - in large part - already publicly available. So, if I hack WESTLAW's site and, (for all intents and purposes), rsync their entire site, or make a copy of their entire database(s) file(s), that's not a crime, right?
I wold beg to disagree, so let me take this point-by-point.
First, the dumpster:
As you may already know, dumpsters are not cheap - just to get one - and when they haul the beast away - brim-full of stuff you never put there, YOU pay for all this stuff BY WEIGHT. So, it should be obvious that by adding stuff to your dumpster, I am "stealing" capacity that you could have used - or I am forcing you to pay, by weight, for stuff you never intended to pay for.
Second: The cable connection.
Even though I am personally of the opinion that most cable operators hideously overcharge for the services they render - that does not give me the right to take access to services that I have not rightly paid for. The cable companies pay huge bucks for access to many, if not all, of the channels they carry and they have the recurring costs of maintanance as well as equipment to send the signals along the line. So, you have a bunch of people illegally tapped into the cable line - and each connection drops the signal strength by - say - 3 db.
To paraphrase Warren Buffett - a few db here, a few db there, and pretty soon you're talking real signal loss. And pumping signal into a cable costs money. Real money. (And if you don't believe me, ask a ham radio operator.)
Third: WESTLAW, (or FindLaw, etc.)
This is probably the closest to the case in point, but it is still illustrative.
In the case of services like WESTLAW, (et. al.), the information they provide is - by and large - already publicly published information.
However, the service they provide - not unlike JSTOR - isn't just the information itrself, it's the collation, sorting, categorizing, filtering, access to similar citations in other jurisdictions/courts, etc. etc. etc. This service saves lawyers and judges countless hours searching every court's / jurisdiction's records - local, state, and federal - all over the country, just to find information about a particular ruling.
Summary, Accessing JSTOR's data isn't about just the data - it's about the services they provide in collating, sorting, giving access to particular articles without searching for a needle in a haystack, and so on.
Even if he had "hacked" a publicly available, free, web--site - the fact that he tried to do mass downloads is also a huge issue since bandwidth costs money and by consuming huge amounts of bandwidth he is stealing bandwidth that legitimate patrons could be using for their own purposes.
IMHO, this is an open-and-shut case. We're not talking civil rights here - we're talking about clear-and-simple theft of services.
Oh, and by the way. . . . Prosecuting a case where the "victims" don't complain? That's what government oversight is for - protecting those who may not have - or want to expend - precious dollars fighting something that may cost them more in legal fees than the potential return.
Case in point: Many years ago there was a huge scandal on Long Island. LILCO, the electric company at that time, was using old, outdated, uncalibrated/out of calibration electric meters that had not been changed and/or checked for decades. The NYS Public Service Comission - and the NYS Attorney General's office - took LILCO to court, both criminal and civil - and hammered them into the ground.
The result of this was that the ratepayers got whopping refunds of the overcharged electricity and LILCO had to go out and replace darn near every meter with a NYS Certified meter before they could begin charging for the electricity again.
The "victims" didn't prosecute - in many cases the victims were entirely unaware that they were being scammed. And if they did, who has the money to take a giant utility company - with legions of expensive lawyers - to court?
Were it not for the NYS PSC, these people would probably still be paying 3x, 4x or more than the rate they should be paying.
What say ye?
You make some good points, but there is a big difference between your examples and what happened at MIT. One of those differences is harm. MIT pays a yearly fee to get these electronic databases for its library. Most universities will give the general public access to their library without question. That resource may be UserID authenticated or may be location authenticated. If its the latter, he would have been perfectly fine accessing it while on MIT's campus. JSTOR is located at MIT, so the university may just get blanket access. Unless you are at a university, it is hard to understand the level of openness that the school fosters as part of its existence. It is a far cry from a corporate setting where you would not have access to anything that you didn't actually need.
I also think its an error to equate MIT with the average family when it comes to the level of resources each has to mount an offensive. MIT has the money to fight this legally if they thought they needed to. So does JSTOR.
Another point to think about is that this case will do nothing good for JSTOR or MIT. At best they will get nothing out of it. At worst, this will give them a black eye in the academic community. This is the kind of thing faculty don't like to hear about when they are visiting other campuses. On the other had, the US Attorney General is a politician. This case will show he/she is tough on "computer criminals", no matter how it turns out.
One other thing a forgot to mention. In your cases, one would assume that this all happened against the "victim"'s will. Both JSTOR and MIT have publicly said that the man should not be prosecuted. So not only do they not want to press charges themselves, they are actually standing up for the guy being charged.
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This will come down to a jury trial. Curiously, socialists who are all about rights mainly neglect the role of the jury in our justice system. The citizen jury is really a Fourth Branch of our government because under the Constitution, no citizen can be convicted of a serious crime unless the accusation is judged by two juries, the grand for indictment and the petit jury at trial.
This is a great opportunity for those who are concerned about this egregious prosecution to understand the role of the jury in dispensing justice. If no jury will convict, then government cannot impose unjust laws. The role of the jury is not to be a pawn of government, but as a check upon runaway government. To see that those who are guilty are convicted and those who are innocent go free as the jury decides, not as how government instructs them to decide.
I would suggest starting by browsing the web site of the Fully Informed Jury Association (www.fija.org) .
IMHO, this whole argument conflates the issues of "public domain" and that of private security of personal property.
The example of someone going into a grocery store, eating lunch and then leaving without paying is a good one.
Likewise, though the works of Shakesphere may well be public domain, this does not give anyone the right to go to a bookstore, or library, and steal the books.
A third example:
Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, (etc.) are all open-source/GPL'd software - and it is perfectly legal to legitimately access these systems (or their mirrors) to download copies. However - if you hacked your way into the computers to grab this same software (rather than using the unlocked front-door), legally you would have (should have) a serious problem to answer for. Likewise, breaking and entering to steal prepared CD/DVD's that they sell to people who want physical media is not legal simply because the content is GPL'd.
Yes, perhaps much of the information was/is Public Domain, but - as I remember - the Constitution also guarantees us to be "Secure in our persons and possessions" - breaking into a houose, store, or computer is still a crime, regardles of what you pinch or how it was licensed.
What say ye?
p.s. . . . .
I strongly disagree with the tenor of the title of this article. It makes it sound more like a crusade than a crime.
What say ye?
Here's an example that I believe should be very close to the point:
* You have a hose spigot outside your house facing the front yard.
* Your water consumption is not metered. (yea right!)
* The spigot is close enough to the sidewalk that it can be reached by anyone who goes past.
* There is a hose attached to the spigot, hung on the side of the house, near the spigot's valve handle.
Obviously, if some kid on a bycycle, riding around in the hot summer sun, decides he wants a drink of water - I would not mind at all. Even if the water usage WAS metered, the consumption is de-minimus. However, if my neighbor across the street decides he wants to drag the end of my hose across the street to fill his swimming-pool, that's a horse of a different hue.
In this case, I probably would not mind him filling a (relatively) small above-ground pool, but I would expect him to walk up to my door, knock, and politely ask permission. Even if the water WAS metered. Of course, I would wonder why he wasn't using the water from his own spigot. . . . .
In this case, if a cop comes by and sees my neighbor sneaking across the street with my water-hose, I would expect the cop to have something to say about it. Especially if I were not home, able to monitor the situation.
In essence, simply because the hose was outside and "publically available" does not give someone the right to take my hose and consume huge volumes of water.
I believe this is also true of the JSTOR case in point. They do not have guards standing watch over their system - in essence it's like a public library. And, in a public library if you ask permission to remove books, (by getting a library card), you can take as many as you want - or are allowed to take.
In his case he did the equivelent of bringing a large satchel into the library, loading it up with copies of the library's books, and leaving.without checking them out - or even getting a library card.
Likewise, if the police see him sneaking out of the library caring a huge duffel-bag crammed full of books - I would expect there to be something said and done.
IMHO, the fact that a data-store is "publicly available" does not give someone the right to go to it and mass-download the data. Even if the data is (theoretically) Public Domain. Many of the books he dragged out of the library in his big duffel-bag may well have been public domain too.
I suspect, very strongly, that if he'd had the balls to stand up on his hind-legs and politely ask permission, there may not have been any problem at all. They might have even given him rsync access. Or, they might have said "no".
In any event, he did not even offer the courtesy of asking permission - and the cops caught him dragging the hose across the street.
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By Ross T. Runfola
The Manti Te'o Internet saga may be unusual but it reflects the growing trend of Americans to communicate in online chat rooms, in which participants are generally unknown to each other, with a greater frequency than they do in face-to-face communication with friends.
As American society becomes larger and more complex, and social networking on the computer gives at least the outer appearance of some form of anonymity, it is an unfortunate truism that most adults of all ages have more virtual "friends" they interact with on Facebook, MySpace and other sites than in their own communities.
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College students should be especially vigilant in this time of increased social networking to reveal only discrete thoughts and pictures that cannot be used against them later.
Sociologists find some of these same college students feel a vague discomfort at the lack of substance of their Internet social world and thirst for more meaningful relationships in face-to-face communication whether it exists or not. A substantial minority of these students appear convinced the kind of encounter they have with people in direct, face-to- face interaction, referred to as "friends with benefits," is an acceptable new phenomenon of modern culture, as if you can have sex with friends with no emotional attachment thereafter.
Although this kind of casual relationship has been in existence for many years, it is still fraught with danger, especially for most college women. Research, especially from Catherine M. Grello, et al., finds casual sexual encounters have a greater negative impact on college women than men, since college men most often enjoy sex as a game or conquest. College women most often become "friends with benefits" with the expectation that it will lead to romantic emotional intimacy with their "bed buddy" becoming their boyfriend. They are also more prone to depression, lower self-esteem and peer group rejection than men.
Ironically, increased Internet disclosure with virtual "friends" and "friends with benefits" emanates from the same sense of isolation, and sometimes alienation, from the modern vagaries of a complex society, and the search for a more meaningful life.
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Phoenix is on its way to Mars. The latest spacecraft in NASA's program of Mars exploration launched from Cape Canaveral on August 4 of this year, and is scheduled to land in the planet's northern polar region on May 25, 2008. Its findings will help scientists answer a critical question about the Red Planet: was it ever habitable?
Phoenix is in many ways similar to the two Viking landers sent to Mars by NASA in the 1970s. Like Viking, Phoenix will stay put once it lands. And like Viking, it will search directly for organic material in the martian soil. Indeed, it will be the first spacecraft since Viking to do so. (Two previous missions designed to search for organics – NASA's Mars Polar Lander and ESA's Beagle II – were lost due to technical problems.)
But Phoenix's destination is unique. It will touch down at roughly 68.5 degrees north latitude, the martian equivalent of central Greenland or northern Alaska. During Mars's northern winter, this area is inaccessible, buried under a deep layer of carbon dioxide frost – dry ice. As spring approaches, the dry ice thaws, exposing a region of permafrost: a deep layer of water ice, frozen hard as granite, lying below a thin layer of dusty soil. It is this ice that Phoenix will explore. Scientists want to know whether this ice has ever melted, and what type of material is trapped within it – in particular whether it contains any organic substances.
"Organic" in this context means any type of hydrocarbons, not necessarily biologically produced compounds like proteins and lipids. Hydrocarbons are produced abiotically in many places in the cosmos. Both the surface and atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, for example, are rich in hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. Hydrocarbons are also common on comets and asteroids. Indeed, one of the mysteries of Mars is that, although comets and asteroids have been slamming into the planet for billions of years, bringing with them a host of organic compounds, when Viking searched for these compounds in the martian soil, it didn't find them.
The most common explanation for the Viking results is that Viking looked only at surface soil, and conditions on the surface of Mars work to destroy organic compounds. Mars is bombarded by intense ultraviolet radiation, which can break apart the chemical bonds in organic molecules. In addition (although the notion is yet to be proven), most scientists believe that superoxides are present at the martian surface. Similar to the household disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide, only stronger, these superoxides break down organic molecules through aggressive chemical reactions.
One advantage Phoenix will have over Viking in the quest for organics is that Phoenix is headed for the martian permafrost. It will examine not only soil at the surface, but also ice buried below the surface, where the effect of radiation is reduced and where superoxides are less likely to be present. Indeed, ice acts as a preservative for organics.
Peter Smith, of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, is the principal investigator for Phoenix. He explains the importance of ice with a kitchen analogy. "In your kitchen, you don't leave your foodstuffs on the counter, because it quickly decomposes. You put your food in the freezer, and its organic materials are preserved. And we suspect that on Mars, if there are organic materials, the best place to find them preserved will be in the polar regions, associated with this ice."
Some researchers have also argued that even if organic material was present at the Viking sites, the landers' experiments could have missed them. What Viking did – and what Phoenix will do as well – was to heat up soil samples in tiny ovens, and then "sniff" the gases released to figure out what was in the oven. University of Arizona Professor William Boynton, the lead scientist for Phoenix's TEGA instrument, explained the procedure with another culinary analogy.
"If you're baking chocolate chip cookies in your kitchen at home, essentially anyone walking into the kitchen can immediately sniff and tell exactly what's in the oven," Boynton says.
It won't be quite that simple on Mars. Phoenix doesn't have a nose, much less a human brain to identify smells. Rather, as a sample is heated, various gases will be released at different temperatures. Each gas released will be a puzzle piece; to see the big picture, scientists will have to fit the pieces back together.
"When you start to vaporize something," says John Marshall, a Phoenix co-investigator who is with the SETI Institute, "you're looking at the disintegrated products. So it isn't as though the thing's just coming off in the pristine form of organics, you're actually decomposing that organic, and then you have to recompose it theoretically to understand what it was you cooked."
Phoenix's TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) has a set of eight ovens that will bake samples of soil and ice collected by the spacecraft's robotic arm, and a mass spectrometer that will catalog the gases released. The Viking landers contained similar technology. But while Viking heated its samples to only 500 C (930 F), Phoenix will heat its samples to 1000 C (1830 F).
"There's a pretty big class of organic molecules – many are actually thought to be the most likely to be present on Mars" – that "could have been present in the Viking samples, and the samples may not have gotten hot enough in order to see them," Boynton says.
Even if Phoenix finds organics, it won't have any way to determine whether they are of biological or non-biological origin. Phoenix won't answer the question: was there ever life on Mars? But by microscopic inspection of the ice, and of any particles within it, the spacecraft will be able to shed light on a related question.
"The real question we're trying to answer here is, 'Has that ice melted?'" says Smith. Melted ice – i.e., water – in contact with soil, and shielded from harsh surface conditions, could have provided a habitable environment.
If organics are present, and if the ice, at some point in the past, melted – if the permafrost was once a habitable environment – things begin to get exciting. Microbes have been found in 100,000-year-old ice in Antarctic permafrost, and when the ice was melted, the microbes revived and multiplied readily. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6935146.stm] Viable microbes have been recovered from even older ice in the Siberian permafrost. So perhaps, if life was ever present in the polar regions of Mars, it is still present, on hold, merely waiting for the next big thaw.
But that is pure speculation. Phoenix will not clarify whether the martian permafrost has a life story to tell. It was not designed to answer such questions.
"The greatest result we can find," Smith says, "is that there is a wealth of complex organics associated with this ice, and that would give us the sense that this is the place to go to search for life on Mars. Then you'd probably want wheels, and mobility, and a long-term mission. We don't have any of those things, and we are just taking the first step."
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According to a new leak, the HTC DLX will indeed feature a 5" 1080p Full HD display, 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 1.5 GB RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, 12MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, come with a 2500 mAh non-removable battery, and will be running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.
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1. lyndon420 (Posts: 4370; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
Been waiting awhile for a new beast from htc.
14. PhenomFaz (Posts: 1236; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
The Beast...UNLEASHED!
20. metoyou (Posts: 279; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
Yup same here, i was eyeing the Note2 but still a little big and my S3 a little small :)
hopefully this will solve my problem and that 1080p screen..yum!
45. doejon (Posts: 398; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
dont know what people are thinking.. u can´t tell a difference between 720p and 1080p on such "smal" screens..
but ur non-removable battery will tell ur 4 shure bro ;-)
and i bet the note 2 fits better in the hand and poket than this one ;-) not 2 mention the s-pen software ;-)
57. winthorpe (Posts: 10; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
Can't so much with video. Can with TEXT! This could be the phone reader I've been waiting for.
44. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Was hoping for MPQ8064 clocked at 2.0Ghz, 3GB RAM, cause Htc sense is RAM hungry takes up resources, PVR 543 MP4, 3500Mah battery... Another let down by HTC.
56. N.Reynolds (Posts: 257; Member since: 15 Feb 2011)
This isn't going to have HTC sense so you won't have to worry about that
2. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
this would destroy the note 2..........well at least it would for me
7. hung2900 (Posts: 956; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)
Yes, in term of how many time you have to charge it in a day.
9. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
it has a 2500 mAh battery
12. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
You say it like that's supposed to be impressive. With a 5" 1080 resolution screen & all those other top-notch specs, it's not exactly gonna win any awards in the battery life category.
15. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
i think u guys are asking for too much.....instead of bashing htc and praising samsung for a bigger battery how about you go bash samsung about their continous making of horrible plastic designs? the note 2 is 5.5 inches and this is only 5.......3100 vs 2500 on the HTC, sounds fair enough to me.....
18. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
No one's bashing anyone. It's a simple conclusion based on the facts.
22. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
yea ok dood
24. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
No need to be all butthurt about it & constantly thumb downing me, man. You can be an adult & have a logical discussion. People can disagree on things. Not a big deal.
25. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
i am man but what i see is you being in "mad" denial about samsung making bad built products and instead of admiting it "like an adult" you say accept what sammy is telling you.......and what are they telling you? that its ok to pay sum 500 - 600 dollars for a phone that has all the features in the world but a mediocre design and build AT BEST!
Grown folk are looking for something that can with stand a beating, look good, AND have around the same amount of power you have on your galaxy.....is all im sayin......dont settle for less cuz the best is yet to come from HTC n Sony as well
29. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I'm not in denial about anything. I own a T-Mobile G2. ***GASP*** An HTC phone. Why are so worried about what I think is a good value? Samsung hasn't told me anything. They've showed me that their phones are the best value for MY money. I'm glad you speak for all grown folks & what they're looking for though.
Oh, & please...feel free to thumb down me again. You're really good at it & it really seems to drives your points across better.
33. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
dood i only brought in the terrible build of samsung because you guys seem to want to compare sammys note 2 and its big battery (and ungodly big screen 5.5inches??) into the mix so thats why i pointed out their flaws.....but ok man ill leave it alone if you cant stand a little criticism..... and i hope you're happy with your plastic build and blueish tinted amoled....
36. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Yeah, I'll be extremely happy. Thanks :-)
37. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
smh lol
46. doejon (Posts: 398; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
ok guys we will see 1080p display with "only" 2500mah non-removable battery how the batterylife will be.
but don´t cry if its not as good as even the note 1..
some people get to know some facts first realy.. than talk..
it has nothing to do with bashing.. these are simply the facts.
47. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
if i do remember, the galaxy S3 is 4.8 inches and has a 2100 mAh battery......The HTC in this article is only .2 inches bigger but has a 2500 mAh battery.....So how is it not going to be good enough or "good as the note 1" wth?? Look nobody was saying it was going to have the "best" battery ever! all i was saying from the begining was the battery would be good enough and hold its own.......Nobody said it would "win any awards" like the dude that came at me in the above comments wants to say.......
50. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Hi, "dude that came at you" here. You're forgetting the very important facts this HTC phone will have a 1080 screen as opposed to 720 & a much more intensive CPU/GPU combination. Also, don't forget about heavy Sense. It isn't just as simple as "it's only .2" bigger". Those 3 factors combined will eat through that extra 400 mAh like termites through wood.
52. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
ok man well jus have to see how well it holds up cuz things arent how they used to be, I do know chips require less power to operate these devices so again ive already said it wont be the best but I know it wont be the worst either like your makin it out to be.....o and please tell samsung to make better built devices for me.... :) peace
11. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1159; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I think it all depends on what you are looking for. In terms of benchmarks or specifications, I don't think this will beat the Note II. Remember, the Note II has a 1.6 Ghz Exynos processor (vs the 1.4 Ghz Exynos found in the GSIII mentioned here in the article). It also has 2 GB of RAM vs 1.5 GB for this HTC device and 1 GB for the international GSIII. On top of that, the Note II has a 3100 mAh battery. If you are looking for software, camera, or possibly a different stylus experience (if it does come with a stylus to compete with the Note II) then the HTC may win.
However, this is still speculation as the device hasn't been announced. And like I said, it all depends on how you look at it as to whether it would "destroy" the Note II (which I also see you pointed out "at least it would for me" in your comment which is always appreciated! I was just commenting back for discussion purposes).
13. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
It's already been announced that this device will not have a stylus. Based on that & the fact that the GSIV may have a 5" screen also, I would say the line between smartphone & "phablet" just got real blurry.
16. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1159; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
Well, it's been announced speculatively. I use rumors to get myself pumped up for a device, but I don't use them to go around saying that this is what the final product will be. So, whether it does or does not, I am going to wait and see on that one. (That also goes for the supposed 5 inch screen on the GSIV. I doubt that it would have such a screen, but I will wait and see.)
EDIT: Also, just in case you were wondering, I did not thumbs you down.
19. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it, but I thought the article I read was not just a rumor. I'm pretty sure it said this device would not have a stylus. I could be wrong, of course. I wasn't wondering, but thanks. Your maturity level obviously exceeds that of most people on this site.
35. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
I found it. Turns out you were right about it being just a rumor, but it seems like a pretty legit one. It seems to me, though, that if they were planning on adding that kind of functionality, it would be known.
42. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1159; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
Eh, it's just hard to judge a picture like that. I keep looking at that and going back and forth as to whether I really believe that is sporting a 5 inch screen or not. I like to keep my mind open though.
58. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
Take a picture of something close up, and I could even say that the device will be 10" if I want to. I agree with you doc, let's wait for the official announcement.
3. MeoCao (unregistered)
They should keep the same size as One X, and One S-like aluminum casing will be a dream.
6. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
you know what man i was actually saying the same thing, if they would only make a phone with these specs but in a more compact size....it would definitely be a dream
4. xXMAKESHIFTXx (Posts: 38; Member since: 28 Jul 2012)
Just go with the 2 gigs ram!!!
5. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
i think it would be safer to assume that the Note II would be coming to Verizon before this so i'd say the Note II would be the first on Verizon to get into that range of benchmark scores. o:
8. MorePhonesThanNeeded (Posts: 645; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
Hmm, nice specs but what is with that small battery? The Note II has a bigger battery than that and that thing is already rated for some pretty poor times 6+ hours is bad for a smartphone and what's worse is the RazR MAX HD is more than likely going to come with a 3300mAh battery and get well over 10+ hours of use on a single charge. I hope that this phone gets spectacular usage out of that measly battery, I doubt it because of the 1080p screen and the 5" size. 1.5GB of RAM, why not a full 2GB? HTC get your stuff in line man, this phone has potential but already looks like it's about to trip itself up before it even gets out of the gate.
10. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
you know what the note 2 doesnt have? good build quality......stop bashing HTC im pretty sure that battery will be sufficient enough and well capable of holding its own
17. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
You constantly talk about the build quality of Samsung's phones. How many Note 2's have you held? I watched a drop test (I realize they're not terribly scientific) that featured the Note 2. It held up a lot better than the GS3. The fact of the matter is that build quality isn't the biggest factor for me when it comes to buying a phone. It's an expensive device. I don't drop it twice a day like a lot of folks seem to. If you can't keep your phone in your hand, get a nice case for it. Then, who cares about build quality? Besides, I would much rather have a phone with the best software & features that would break the first time I dropped it than a phone missing all the latest features that's built like a tank. Obviously, there's a middle ground to be found there, but I would simply buy an expensive case for my fragile phone. Now, I have the best of both worlds. Problem solved.
23. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
that sounded like a bunch of crap.......so you're telling me that you are fine with a device being prone to breaking and you are also fine with paying extra money just to keep it safe? Are you also saying you dont wanna show off your phones beauty? not too sure about that one
"Besides, I would much rather have a phone with the best software & features that would break the first time I dropped it than a phone missing all the latest features that's built like a tank."
First off, how are you going to use all those "latest features" if your phone is broken or has a cracked screen?
Also if you are talking about HTC missing features and updates well check again cuz the HTC One Series is getting an update to the latest sense 4+ as well as jellybean this month....so i dont know what you mean there
26. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
No, it's not a bunch of crap. You don't have to agree. It's just what I believe. I don't care about how beautiful my phone is. I would rather have it do what I need it to do. Maybe you should read what I said more carefully--I would have no problem spending extra money to keep my phone safe. It's an expensive device. You should take all the precautions necessary to protect it. So, I'll be using my phone just fine because it won't get cracked in its nice case.
Also, I wasn't talking about the OS. I was talking about great mutitasking. Pop-up Play. Smart Stay. S-Voice. Multi-Window, Smart Rotation. S-Beam. Air View. All the great (and not necessarily great) software features that Samsung has added to their phone to make the experience really stand out. Something that HTC is currently lacking.
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"I would have no problem spending extra money to keep my phone safe. It's an expensive device. You should take all the precautions necessary to protect it. So, I'll be using my phone just fine because it won't get cracked in its nice case."
But thats the thing! with a strong build quality YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TO PROTECT YOUR PHONE.......at least not from simple mistakes like droping your phone on occassions and rushing to pick it up and see if the screen got cracked or there are dents on it! thats all im sayin man
31. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
You are way too uptight about this. A $30 or $40 purchase to ensure a long lasting life for my very expensive phone is a very small price to pay. Not gonna destroy wallet. I will gladly pay it.
34. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
ummmm ok just know that htc is pretty much "cheaper" in cost than any galaxy BUT they also give you strong build for protection as well......so you do the math
27. ph00ny (Posts: 1234; Member since: 26 May 2011)
having dropped my note/s2 numerous times on concrete and asphalt, i can honestly say that it holds up pretty good. Now show me this prone to breaking proof. What do you think HOX is made out of? titanium?
30. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
thats good man.......but ill guess ill stop before going to far .......jus know that samsung has more reports of dents and cracks than htc has....peace
40. ph00ny (Posts: 1234; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Jeez I wonder why
Have you looked at the number of devices sold between HTC and Samsung?
41. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
you have a point BUTT.....something tells me those reports would still favor samsung if the sales where at the same level......"better build quality" would still be there if HTC "controlled" the media as much as samsung does...
53. ph00ny (Posts: 1234; Member since: 26 May 2011)
perceived quality isn't the same as actual quality
metal frame under the "fragile" plastic body is how most newer samsung handsets are made. Try flexing the chassis
54. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
"perceived quality isn't the same as actual quality"
Now how much weight would that statement hold if the phone is reporting constant damages?
proof is in the pudding man sorry
21. exynos5 (Posts: 21; Member since: 17 Aug 2012)
Htc is really stingy about the RAM....Sense is really heavy...nearly 512 MB is nearly used by it on htc one x....it wouldn't be an issue since tegra has its own VRAM and I don't think adreno 320 has its own VRAM(might be wrong)...it will be using the RAM like the Mali 400mp on the gs3....1080p display nearly pushes both CPU and GPU....
38. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
you're right sense has been pretty heavy :(...... but im counting on those things to be changed in the newest updates.........Good things coming :)
32. rizevnarastek (Posts: 347; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)
This is supposed to be the hero device and I don't think they will put such a poor battery and 1.5GB RAM and only 16GB of space. Those were the specs before no doubt, but after what they did to rehaul the OneX (+) They will put a bigger battery , more ram and 64GB of storage. Especially if this is going to be the Nexus 5 ....
39. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Actually the international S3 can do more than 12000.
Mine hits over 12400.(with a class 10 SD card I think the score would be even higher )
43. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
Htc, come on and bring out that beast smartphone already! I'm sure that this phone will be one of the firsts especially with that 1080p screen. Now this phone could sell like pancakes judging by those specs and features!
48. HTCgasm (Posts: 4; Member since: 09 Oct 2012)
it would really help htc's sales if they would add a micro-sd slot
49. HTCgasm (Posts: 4; Member since: 09 Oct 2012)
what is htc's point in being stingy about specs? Can't they SEE the competition? Seriously 1.5G of ram, 2500mah battery, and the dealbreaker, no Memory card slot. I love HTC but this is getting annoying -.-
51. DarkHulk (Posts: 1; Member since: 09 Oct 2012)
ok guys, look lets put up our pee pee's and stop this pissing contest, it comes down to this, for the most part, loyalty, most of you are too bias to provide a valid argument anyways, im loyal to htc, their specs arent perfect but niether is samsungs, they're both fantastic phones and manufacturers, so lets agree to disagree i come to this page to see reviews on phones and upcomming phones to get excited about, not read about all you people having little hissy fits, its ridiculous, realize most people are gonna get it just because its HTC, just like most people get the iphone series because its apple, so just get over all youselves, and just like the dang phones good grief.
55. hameed1989 (Posts: 47; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
I dont think this device will even come near the galaxy note 2..HTC are playing a fools game by entering this domain..even samsung got lucky when they made the Note...It cant be same for 2 companies...
Theories aside..I really do want to see the new Android OS and 12 MP camera...rest is not that awesome
59. HTCgasm (Posts: 4; Member since: 09 Oct 2012)
xperiaknight and g2a5bOe why don't you just get married already and live happily ever after? You already have the bickering down pat -.-
60. Studeo412 (Posts: 9; Member since: 04 Oct 2012)
I was waiting for this phone but there not showing me enough features so therefore ill just get the note 2. At least Samsung is showing off all the features, thats how u sell a phone not leaving ppl n suspense.


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quote: Yeah and you can thank the Democrats and fake Republicans for that(illegals).
quote: There is absolutely no link between free markets,
quote: A nation only remains a nation if it can identify its citizens. And our nation has minimum wage laws set by the government. You would have done far better to argue against those. That is what illegal immigrants get around.
quote: Illegal immigrants also do not pay taxes while legal citizens do.
quote: A legal citizen cannot work for the same wage as an illegal immigrant.
quote: Federal law would not allow the employer to pay them that little nor could they survive on the income since they'd be paying taxes on it.
quote: But if you truly believe in free market ideals, there really is no such thing as illegal immigration, just a downward push on wages due to environmental forces. With Obama halting workplace raids, he's actually keeping governments nose out of the free markets business as Republicans claim to want.
quote: But you wouldn't know it if asked a Republican. Why? Because there's no consistency in what they believe when there's a democrat in office.
quote: Exactly what part of ILLEGAL do you not understand in "illegal immigration?"
quote: That road certainly goes both ways when a Republican is in charge too:
quote: 1) Democrats can't help but spend in a deficit right now, it's what the economy needs.
quote: What I'm saying is that Republicans don't understand (or don't care to understand) is that it effectively controls the free market they so vehemently believe in not controlling.
quote: 3). Republicans made it a goal to capture Osama, not Democrats. This is not so much whining as it is pointing out a Republican failure.
quote: 5)And? Granted Democrats made a promise they probably couldn't keep in saying we would pull out quickly, but we still are pulling out.
quote: as well as leaving the timetable open for staying in there.


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quote: iPhone, Facebook, SpaceX, cure for cancer
quote: So you want the US to be vulnerable to the whims of foregin oil producers for many more years to come.. well it doesn't effect me so i couldnt careless.
quote: but how do you expect to do this switch to an alternative fuel source
quote: Currently the US has is balls nicely cupped by foreign oil producers.. keeping things statisquo is only prolonging its vulnerability.
quote: And furthermore, if you want to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, there are numerous ways to do so which don't require $1.1T USD and 30-40 years.
quote: Why? We could be using that money today for problems we're facing today.
quote: All profitable problems - even the only slightly profitable ones - ARE being solved today.
quote: Synthetic fuels are a very good long term investment.
quote: Now that's quite a statement. One that you can't even possibly begin to make credibly unless you have a crystal ball.
quote: You can't have excess reserves and $10T in deposits if there were any selfish investments left (i.e. those that the investor could benefit enough from).
quote: I guess where I find flaw in your argument, is it is kind of a chicken and egg thing. You say we should not invest until it financially makes sense, but it will never make financial success until the research is done. If we wait 30 years to begin the research, then it will be 30 years from then.
quote: We can't just bury our heads in the sand and hope all the problems will go away. If you had, instead said we should wait until we have lower our deficit, and maybe dropped the debt, then maybe I would understand and partially agree.
quote: Unless you are saying we should not be investing in any technology
quote: I think money should be spent on things like this.
quote: Why not just spend all of our money today while we're at it? Who cares about tomorrow.


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In the fall of 1990, my ministry career transitioned from parish pastor to hospital chaplain, all by way of an internship at University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.
My one-year training involved multiple calls from the emergency room where, between the usual gunshot wounds and motor vehicle accidents, I learned to recognize the symptoms of child abuse, the smell of infected wounds and more.
I learned that people do some amazingly stupid things. While most patients learned not to repeat their risk-related behaviors, slow learners often made numerous returns.
Our staff greeted them with a range of tones. Some nurses used a deadpan attitude to interview the habitual patients who'd sing the same hysterical song, second verse. Other staff members employed the upbeat approach of a game-show host, hiding ridicule.
Some veteran staff preferred the cynical approach of "seen it all before."
These were nurses who usually organized the "office betting pool" where the winner need only guess the patient's blood alcohol level.
Even after working months in the ER, I didn't quite understand the reaction our staff had toward a woman who arrived one hot summer afternoon strapped to a gurney and screaming her complaint.
Absent the profanity, she said something like, "It hurts! Oh, God, it hurts! You got to give me something for the pain."
Orderlies wheeled the woman into a treatment room where a nurse peppered her with triage questions. Just outside the room, a few staff members erupted with giggles of recognition, breaking loose a contagion of full-blown guffaws and horselaughs.
"Hey," I called to a particularly tall, balding male nurse, "Why are you guys laughing at that lady? That isn't cool. I think she heard you."
The nurse laughed some more, taking my upbraiding in better stride than expected.
"Were you here last week?" he asked.
"No, I was on vacation."
"Then you don't understand," he said.
He was right about that much.
"This lady was here last week with such convincing pain that we put her on an intravenous morphine drip," he said.
"And you find her pain funny?"
He patiently shook his head and then described how the woman failed to return after excusing herself for a brief smoke.
"Campus police found her hitchhiking in her hospital gown on the boulevard out front. She had an IV needle in one arm while holding the morphine bag with the other," he said.
"Why would she ...?" My puzzled voice rose barely audible from inside my naive cocoon.
"She wanted to sell our morphine, Chaplain," he said.
I studied the dirty floor as I felt the currents of emotions swirling about us. I had to admit that I could see the tragic humor in the case, but laughing at the woman's condition felt like a sellout to the cynicism emergency room workers often use to insulate themselves from the pain that surrounds them.
Jesus once encountered a woman like this. She had an incurable blood disorder that drained her of energy, money and dignity. Her search for a physician's cure only made her situation worse. By the time she came seeking Jesus, she was only looking for a human touch, a caring touch.
I learned a lot that year, but this event, more than most, taught me that not every patient would find healing, but every patient deserved a caring touch.
I approached her gurney and offered her a prayer, while doing my best to offer her the touch she deserved. A few minutes later, a caring doctor offered our patient quality psychiatric care in a rehab facility.
Unfortunately, not everyone will accept a caring touch. This time, she laughed at us. A few moments later, she left our ER against medical advice, without drugs, only a prayerful touch from her hospital chaplain.
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I'm not chaining myself to trees, but I understand that everything I do affects the environment, and it makes me feel guilty.
When the largest blackout in the nation's history occurred, it did not bother me too much. My neighbor and I already had had our own private, self-induced blackout. Living in similar apartments, we had a contest for the lowest electricity bill. The loser would pay the winner's bill and the winner would enjoy bragging rights.
I went without air conditioning, a definite power hog, opting instead for a ceiling fan at its slowest speed. My pre-war apartment runs cool, but at times during the summer I felt like a thin crust pizza in a brick oven.
Yet I persisted. The TV, radio, stereo, computer, and cell phone re-charger were unplugged so as not to leak electricity. There were moments when I sat in the dark, dressing in twilight, and feeling my way to the kitchen after sundown. Some might see this contest as a bit too fervent, but I found something refreshing in the darkness -- a conscience free of guilt.
Normally, my day is rife with guilt because I call myself an environmentalist. I'm not chaining myself to trees, but I'm green enough to understand my contribution to the daily depletion and degradation of our natural world.
It starts with the morning shower where freshwater pours down the drain - a precious resource steadily depleted. I do not run the water while brushing my teeth or shaving, but I still take a shower every day.
Around the corner is the local Johnny-on-the-Spot auto repairman operating on the street, cash only please. He pops open radiators and drains iridescent gunk into the storm drain. When it rains, the toxins will wash directly into the Hudson River. But I am quiet. What am I going to do, bark at a guy who simply does not know any better? Maybe I should. Maybe this is guilt by reticence.
Standing on the subway platform, a young man finishes his drink and throws his empty cup onto the tracks. I frown, but say nothing. The subway is already artificial and soiled, but that's not the point, trash goes into trash cans - that's civilization 101.
I am happy to be able to take a subway, and secretly relieved that the air-conditioning functions so well, even knowing full well the enormous amount of juice necessary to make me comfortable on my little commute.
I quickly trace the current back to the source. Most likely the energy is generated by burning fossil fuels, which change the Earth's climate for the worse. The fuel is also non-renewable, its extraction and production the source of tremendous environmental, political, and economic ills. I read newspaper headlines and see they're all about the war in Iraq. My tiny consolation is that I am not driving an automobile.
At the office, I work under perpetually glowing fluorescent lights and am surrounded by hundreds of mostly idle machines still sucking power. Even at night, the lights are ablaze. And the copiers and the printers go all day. I try not to notice how much paper ends up in the barrel or will end up there, today and tomorrow.
The image of a barren slope comes into my head from the aerial perspective of a soaring raptor. The rust red soil, without tree roots to hold it in place, washes downslope into a river shocked by the deluge. The hawk floats high over the stripped hills searching vainly for once abundant prey.
Perhaps I should be out campaigning for greener offices and smarter printers. Maybe I should walk into the CEO's office and help him understand; maybe I should dedicate my life to this singular cause. Instead, I go to lunch.
At lunch, guilt is a garnish to my sandwich. Large scale production of meat and poultry is tough on the environment -- from pesticide-sprayed and fertilizer-covered fields of feed crops that have left an area the size of New Jersey devoid of life in the Gulf of Mexico, to bacteria-laden animal waste spilling directly into waterways.
The newspaper I read on the way home and throw into one of the iron bins on the subway platform raises the question -- is it really effectively recycled? There are no separated waste streams on a subway platform. It is hard to know for sure about any of that these days.
Dinner comes around and my friend has made a nice fish dish, but hunger pangs turn into pangs of guilt. I cannot help but think she has unknowingly purchased one of countless over-fished species or one of the many species raked off the bottom of the ocean by commercial fishing trawlers, destroying essential habitat and killing scores of other creatures along the way.
After thirty days, I beat my neighbor in the electricity-bill contest by less than two dollars and resumed my normal existence of full-on guilt. We have to eat, we have to move goods and people, we have to run business and the society that sustains us, I know all that. But nothing says we have to do it the way we currently are. Hopefully, sooner than later, I will not have to sit around in the dark to feel free of guilt.
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ARLINGTON, Va., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched a new website on schizophrenia and published a new brochure on the medical condition which affects more than 2.4 million American adults each year.
Onset of schizophrenia often strikes men in their late teens or early twenties, while appearing in women in their late twenties or early thirties. The cause and course of treatment are different for each individual.
"NAMI has launched the new schizophrenia website and published the new schizophrenia brochure to provide up-to-date information to individuals, families and others," said NAMI Executive Director Michael Fitzpatrick.
"Everyone should know the nature of schizophrenia and its symptoms. Everyone should know the latest medical thinking on prevention, triggers and treatment."
The schizophrenia brochure can be downloaded from the website at www.nami.org/schizophrenia or ordered in packets of 25 copies each for local groups, physician offices, health fairs, conferences or workplace education.
The website highlights two areas of recent research relating to onset of schizophrenia
The schizophrenia web site includes discussion of anosognosia, more commonly known as a lack of insight. Individuals may lack awareness of their own illness-believed to be the result of problems with neurological processes in the frontal lobe of the brain. The condition can lead to tension within families and complicate treatment.
NAMI offers education and support programs to individuals and families confronting schizophrenia.


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From a March 2007 visit these pictures show a monument that has been erected north of the Konak area, at what is called Alsancak more precisely on the Kordon near Gündoğdu (with a Turkish g to be precise; I think it then means "sunrise" or "the birth of a day" or something very close). I took many pictures to show it from all sides.
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