They always say insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results yet we respect meteorologist about how the weather would be everyday and plan our days accordingly. Science is not just towards everything. System is rigged :-p

So, basically they are working estimations, guesswork and their assumptions. I want to see the evidence that says yes this is what it’s without any biased(all that estimations, guesswork and assumptions) information in it. This is my gripe with these DNA research. We share 98% or more of our DNA with a lot of other living beings yet these guys are like look here we found ATCG here and it must be human because we got this from human remains. While the human book is 3 billion letters long. What they found is open to all kind of interpretation and discussion but somehow nobody discuss these issues in this field.

Thank you for your answer. Correct me if I’m wrong but this sounds like they are doing a lot of guess work in that. I’m really trying to wrap my head around it but basing your findings over 26 modern human populations and going back doesn’t sound like solid way to go since you’re looking for something you have and interpreting it based on that modern data while it can be something else and/or you’re biased (like assuming that you have human DNA from dozen or more base pairs).

Also finding certain mutations sounds good but considering the rarity, the age of these findings, natural degradation and base pair counts in their findings makes it very iffy to believe it’s exactly what they say it’s. How can you be so lucky to find such discerning markers all the time and this consistently? It sounds improbable to me. I might be missing something in-between and I’m trying to find it but so far couldn’t. If you or anyone else knows please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Can some please let me understand how they are finding these miraculous genetic/DNA material long past their normal degradation times and how they are so sure that it belongs to humans or their ancestors? As far as I know DNA has 521 years half-life. So every 521 years you’ll be losin 50% of the viable DNA without doing anything. So, by this math there shouldn’t be any viable DNA in anything past couple thousand years but somehow we are keep finding miraculous DNA all over the place that goes back millions of years. When I read about these findings I see that they are talking about couple base pairs and best ones are talking about 120 base pairs. Considering human genome has over 3 billion base pairs how are these scientists are so sure about their findind?

You beautiful human thank you for making me laugh.

I’ll welcome living in 40K universe to this bullshit.

Or the customers who were children grow up?

I can tell you that this applies to a lot of businesses and countries. At this point counting the ones that it doesn’t apply would be a shorter list.

Says the loser on 4chan who supposed to have wife and children…

As I get older I’m feeling like this all the time…

This just reminding that Postal is the cause of all the violence because we played games on certain hardware. I’m pretty sure at the time if they had ISIS terrorist attacks they would blamed Postal as the cause.

Take deep breaths to reach under.

Nice try to stop thinking and focus on your breathing.

Good luck.

May I suggest https://www.crowdsec.net/ for those pesky scrappers? I’ve been using their free service for about 3 years on my personal server and it’s very good for dealing with these kind of problems.

I’m sorry for the late reply. Life happens.

Having access to network or a material doesn’t give you unlimited rights. As for the JSTOR he didn’t have the right nor a permission to access for establishing a separate machine on the network to download everything. In simplest terms he abused his right in the wider term they charged him like a drug dealer because he didn’t have any reasonable excuse to do so because his access was limited by fair use. So trying to say he was free to use JSTOR is not a blanket excuse for anyone. By your definition any government employee has full rights to anything and everything they are given access to… Does that sound alright? No because it’s bullshit to claim you have unlimited rights to do anything and everything once you have access. JSTOR established to be an academic tool and source and it’s clearly stated that you can do so in a reasonable frame. To add to this subject US Copyright Law also doesn’t grant unlimited rights. That’s why academical establishments such as JSTOR can use copyrighted material under fair use clause. Now all this in mind downloading gigabytes of data which you can never be able read in your lifetime or study or research humanly possible is an abuse of that access right and fair use under the copyright law. Not to mention his laptop in the closet was sending thousand of request per second while being connected to an access point he was not allowed or approved to use.

I’m sorry to say this but they had him death to rights as they say. He was doing something he shouldn’t be doing and he was abusing his right to access. All those things you’re talking about his beliefs are just the butter on the bread or excuse my language but a nail on the coffin.

You want to believe he done nothing wrong and they did him dirty for his beliefs be my guest… But please don’t try to lecture me about legal framework about his prosecution.

Have a nice weekend.

I would like to clarify something so that there won’t be any misunderstandings. Law doesn’t require distribution or intent to distribute. Copying a copyrighted material without proper approval or license is enough. Which is what he did.

Below is the related section from the US Copyright Law, under section 506 Titled “Criminal Offences”:

(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or

As you can see they didn’t need his intentions to distribute it was a factor used not required. I hope I made it clear about why I don’t think it was because if his beliefs.

I wish you well.

I respect your opinion and let me say that I agree that his beliefs played a role but he wasn’t punished harshly because of his beliefs. He was made an example not because of his beliefs but because the people in charge at the time wanted to show that they are in control. You feeling strongly about how the prosecution put together their remarks and how they used his own remarks against him I understand. (I’ll tell you that I’m a lawyer with over 20 years of experience you want to believe me or not is up to you.) But I can tell you if they were doing it just because of his beliefs they could’ve charged him for each and every copyrighted material he downloaded from the servers. Considering he downloaded gigabytes of material in mostly text format they could’ve went an charge him for each and everyone of those. Just by doing that they could have easily finish his life with thousands of years of prison sentence and charge him hundreds of millions in monetary damages. Instead they turned it into one big case. You can check the law and see if it’s possible or not. In the end let’s agree to disagree. I wish you well and I hope that he is in peace.

Nope! They made an example of because they didn’t know how to deal with internet crimes so they decided he will be the scapegoat for their failures even though they knew his so called crimes didn’t require such harsh punishment. They went after him so hard to make an example out of him to warn others. If you think they did it because of his beliefs you’re doing injustice to what he went through.

It doesn’t matter what he believed. They wanted to make an example of him and build their carriers thanks to that example. The only people they went after this hard were Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.