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Topic: Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer
and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 |
Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer
and Internet Activist, Dies at 26
New York Times, by John Schwartz
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/12/2013 4:12:28 PM
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| Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available, was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment. He was 26. An uncle, Michael Wolf, said that Mr. Swartz had apparently hanged himself, and that Mr. Swartz’s girlfriend had discovered the body. At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web
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Comments:
Obviously a young giant in the software industry with so much more to offer. Caught up in legal issues may have lead him to take his own life. RIP.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 1/12/2013 4:15:38 PM (No. 9113085)
Suicide? He was probably getting too close to Obama´s sealed records at Harvard and Columbia.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/12/2013 4:26:09 PM (No. 9113096)
....and yet the Dishonorable John Corzine walks free....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MissMann, 1/12/2013 4:40:06 PM (No. 9113114)
Geez, I hope he had his clothes on. I´d like to think he was too smart for trying to pleasure himself by skating too close to death but lots of others have done so.
Sad news, in any case.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
alliecat, 1/12/2013 5:22:36 PM (No. 9113164)
He was being bullied by prosecutors....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TruthAndJustice, 1/12/2013 6:00:57 PM (No. 9113190)
#3.. Ur obviously a wierd liberal....a decent human being could have never have posted your fiendish remark.....
May the young man rest in peace..disbursing ...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ledwith, 1/12/2013 6:04:12 PM (No. 9113193)
Eric Holder´s justice department on the case. Reminds of the suicide of another genius: Alan Turing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/12/2013 6:08:50 PM (No. 9113200)
What #5 said about #3. Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking...where their minds reside.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gabula, 1/12/2013 6:44:47 PM (No. 9113241)
Dittos earlybird #7.
Gabula
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/12/2013 8:59:49 PM (No. 9113337)
I feel bad for anyone who feels life is hopeless.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 1/12/2013 9:04:08 PM (No. 9113344)
While Dingy Harry the bribe-taker walks free and Hilda Solis ´mislays´ five billion dollars in unemployment checks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/12/2013 9:11:45 PM (No. 9113358)
RIP
Sometimes too much knowledge, like money, is a curse.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/13/2013 12:59:21 AM (No. 9113518)
One set of laws for friends of the Left.
Another for the drones.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/13/2013 1:52:15 AM (No. 9113534)
Nobody said he should not be punished, but 35 years and $1,000,000 fine for taking scientific information that many people believe should be available for the public good????? But rapists and muderers get only 7-10 years?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/13/2013 2:47:49 AM (No. 9113547)
#14, lots of rapists and murderers get less than 7-10 years.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/14/2013 9:40:02 AM (No. 9115388)
Yes, #3 I too hope it was not auto-erotic asphyxiation.
THAT is where her mind is, #´s 5 & 7. On existing methods of accidental death.
But you both have nice days, secure in your knowledge that YOU Alone know what the topic is to revolve around.
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