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Must Reads: The Millennial Cancer Patient, Revisiting Aaron Swartz and More

Must Reads: The Millennial Cancer Patient, Revisiting Aaron Swartz and More

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During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee and lie back with our iPads, laptops, smartphones and Kindles.

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Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls. The Obama administration just granted his wish -- at least as it pertains to research funded by taxpayers.

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Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activism

#SuryaRay #Surya The Department of Justice admitted that Aaron's Swartz past activism played a role in his prosecution, according to a new report. The revelation came during a briefing led by Steven Reich, an associate deputy attorney general, in front of the Congressional Oversight Committee, which is investigating the government's prosecution of the late activist and coder, who committed suicide on Jan. 11. _The Huffington Post_ initially reported the news. A committee aide later confirmed the report to _Mashable_. "That is consistent with what the investigators heard from the Justice Department," the aide said. Prosecutors focused on Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto." The federal prosecutor… Continue reading... More About: Aaron-Swartz, computer fraud and abuse act, open access http://dlvr.it/30fDPX @suryaray

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Hacking Hollywood: How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film

#SuryaRay #Surya When Seth MacFarlane takes the stage at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday to host the Academy Awards, it will be 84 years after the first such ceremony in 1929 and 44 days after the death of Infogami co-founder and anti-Hollywood/anti-SOPA activist Aaron Swartz. I love films. My father, an opera singer, taught me at an early age to appreciate the dramatic arts, and I was a theater actor in my youth. Some of my greatest heroes in life are filmmakers like Passolini, who gave so much of themselves to their work. I'm an indie film director, and I've been on the other side of the spectrum in big-budget filmmaking. I should be working in Hollywood today -- but I'm not. The reason… Continue reading... More About: Aaron-Swartz, Digital Cinema, filmmaking, Hollywood, Oscars http://dlvr.it/304fB1 @suryaray

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White House Directive Expands Access to Scientific Research

#SuryaRay #Surya The White House announced today a new directive expanding access to publicly funded scientific research, which could pave the way for scientific papers to be available on the Internet -- for free. In a memo, along with an official response to a We The People online petition, John Holdren, the director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) ordered publicly-funded agencies to share their research papers, data and findings within 12 months after their publication. The directive is applicable to federal agencies that spend more than $100 million in research and development, which should cover all the major agencies like NASA, or the National Science Foundation… Continue reading... More About: Aaron-Swartz, open access, scientific research, scientology, US http://dlvr.it/2zyx2d @suryaray

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Congresswoman Posts Revamped ‘Aaron’s Law’ on Reddit

#SuryaRay #Surya Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has revised and expanded "Aaron's Law," her proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in honor of Aaron Swartz. The congresswoman posted the revised bill on Reddit Friday afternoon. "Thank you, Reddit and everyone else who provided feedback to the original rough draft bill to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the wire fraud statute -- the laws the government used to unfairly prosecute Aaron Swartz," Lofgren wrote in the post. The new draft addresses some of the concerns that were raised when the first proposal was made public. The bill still de-criminalizes terms of service violations, just like the first version did, but it als… Continue reading... More About: Aaron-Swartz, computer fraud and abuse act http://dlvr.it/2tXb5T @suryaray

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Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Site, Threatens Supreme ‘Warheads’

#SuryaRay #Surya The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the US federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to declare war on the U.S. government. The group claims mysterious code-based "warheads", named for each of the Supreme Court Justices, are about to be deployed. As of midnight Pacific time, the front page of Ussc.gov -- the Federal agency that establishes sentencing policies and practices for the Federal courts -- is filled with a long screed in green on black, together with this YouTube video: The statement opens with a lament for Aaron Swartz, the Reddit programmer and Internet activist who committed suicide earlier this month. Promising revenge for his treatment at the han… Continue reading... More About: Aaron-Swartz, anonymous http://dlvr.it/2rhJLn @suryaray