At least with the journals I've submitted to, it is perfectly legal for them to give out copies of the PDF or post them for free on department websites. Although you give copyright of the final article to the journal, the copyright agreements usually have details saying you are free to post it elsewhere as long as you don't incorporate any of the editing or formatting done by the editors to put the article into its final form.
Yes. Part of the deal usually involves the author being given 50 to 200 reprints of an accepted article just as it will be published. Each reprint comes with nice glossy covers showing the full reference to the article (author, title, journal, date, volume, issue, page range, etc.) in a decent sized font. At least, that's what I always got, but it's a few years since I submitted stuff to journals; mostly, I just publish at conferences nowadays. Whether a journal article or a conference paper, if anyone asks for an electronic copy, I send them the PDF without hesitation.
But why oh why must there be a slashvertisement for a media event to build hype and excitement? Whatever the product, let's wait until a few facts can be gleaned and the hype-blurb safely ignored.
We might as well just demand equal hype for Dr. Bob's iChiropractic iApp for iOS which will iChange your iLife for the iBetter. It would be as reliable and accurate as the typical media event surrounding the launch of a mass-market consumer product.
Not available for Firefox 7.0.1 and not available since before 4.
Maybe you should check your facts a little. They appear to be outdated, or just wrong...
On the PC I'm posting from (posting via Opera 11.51), I have Firefox 7.0.1, and on its Extensions page, it says I have Facebook Blocker 1.0 which was released on 26 July 2011. Both Firefox 7.0.1 and Facebook Blocker 1.0 say that it's enabled, BTW.
For web browsing and general use, even older hardware should be sufficient. Just don't burden it with an OS which demands too much. One of our PCs at home is an 8-year-old laptop - a Sony VAIO VGN-A117S - which sports a 1.7GHz Celeron and 1GB RAM and ATI Mobility 9600. It runs Lubuntu 10.04 LTS and is used extensively every day for lots of stuff, including browsing the web. Browsing is easily fast enough with Chromium, Firefox, and Opera.
Minor bitch: this old laptop has the nicest screen in the house: a 17" 1920x1200 which seems nearly impossible to find these days, current offerings max out at the shortscreen 1920x1080. Those 180 vertical pixels are very useful.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
Switching off all cookies is overkill for the issue described by GP. If you're using Firefox, it's sufficient to install an add-on such as Facebook Blocker, which explicitly blocks all requests to Facebook which originate from non-Facebook sites. This obviously blocks tracking cookies from Facebook like-buttons on other sites, but does not interfere with your use of Facebook (if any; better to avoid Facebook sites completely).
I assume you already have a strategy for wiping LSO Flash objects ("super cookies"), such as Better Privacy or equivalent Firefox plugin. Some browsers don't need an add-on to do this. For instance in Opera, the delete private data action can also remove LSOs.
"incidents raise concern" -> as if this is something new ? it has been so since internet had become available for masses to host websites personally. anyone who had remotely got affiliated with hosting industry knows that.
Yup. And this is one of the reasons I host my own site myself, at home. Where there have been no intrusions (not yet, anyway). Where the backup system works, with an off-site copy updated weekly. It's not a very important site to anyone else (typically only 30 GB/month in traffic), but it's important enough to me that I look after it.
My reaction to discovering that there are bozos with web sites who don't have backups and trust others with their site security: Sorry, fellas, but I sure hope you enjoyed getting reamed with that baseball bat, 'cos you were asking for it...
Then better buy some clean clothes at the destination airport. Euhm... wait a minute... what destination airport?
It's OK, leave the clothes behind. As yet, there are no laws against nudity in space.
A good shave and a powerful laxative will cut the launch weight down a tad more.
This 500K$ to Mars thing... Is it so different from "pray this much to get into Heaven"?
Yes. The cost of getting to Mars is empirically measurable, and the target is to get that cost below a specified level.
That makes them as different as fire and ice.
Just a guess, but the Free Press lacks standing. Therefore, the lawsuit will be dismissed.
I would imagine it's quite easy to have standing in this case. Just have a fixed line broadband for your home and a wireless internet for your phone. If the carriers start disconnecting litigants to prevent you from having standing, they'd be stepping into some deep shit.
The suit could be dismissed for other legally valid reasons (especially for not contributing sufficiently to the right election campaigns).
An angle grinder with any metal-cutting bit will slice clean through the platters and circuit boards, making a pretty shower of sparks. It's much more satisfying than just using a drill, and at least as effective as swinging a big hammer on them.
BTW, remember that destroying hard drives could easily be construed as "willful destruction of evidence" if you're later accused of anything (terrorism, copyright violation, or other heinous crimes). So, whatever method you choose, it might be advisable to destroy them out of the public eye...
Windows 8 is over a year away. Perhaps Windows Phone 8 will be out by then which will allow this kind of capability.
The way the MS marketing guys play with version numbers, it'll probably be Windows Phone XIV or something. The new version is marketed as 7.5 but reports itself as 7.1 internally.
There is another means: https://www.facebook.com/settings Click "Download a copy of your Facebook data." and follow the instructions.
Except that that only gives you the information that's currently accessible to you and other facebook users. It does not include the photos and posts you've "deleted" (but which facebook still stores). It certainly does not include the history of sites you've visited while logged into facebook, or any other tracking history which facebook has gathered and associated with your name. Think about it: facebook has at least an order of magnitude more information on you personally than you appear to think. All of it is used for customizing sales of your identity and your interests and so forth to facebook's customers (you're the merchandise, not a customer).
VLC on Android is something I and my kids have been waiting for. It's worth it, as this is our primary media player at home (Ubuntu + Lubuntu + PCLinux OS).
You are saying the business model of pets.com and Groupon are the same?
Other than the fact that pets.com eventually had the honesty to admit it was utterly and completely bust, even after trying sock puppets to delay the inevitable, yes.
I find it severely depressing that I'm completely unsure if you're joking or not...
Unfortunately, the severance settlement was not a joke, but a tragedy of Greek proportions.
Had I been on the board, I would have voted for nothing more or less than an exit interview by Lefty and Fingers and an old-fashioned baseball bat (or any group of HP shareholders wearing steel-toecapped boots). A dark alleyway would have been the preferred interview venue, but similar locations would suffice.
I still want to know how Leo swung $2 million a month for his walking papers.
Actually, it took a lot of courage and fortitude on his part. He had to talk the board down from their initial settlement offer, which was vastly greater (it's only shareholders' money, not their own). Apparently, he wanted the monetary compensation to be so small that it counted as an obvious reprimand, almost an insult, and he clearly succeeded. A mere $25million is as hard a slap in his face as this board could be expected to give...
Difference is made in storage yards: less space taken. And on container vessels: there is much much more volume of cargo going from China to the US and EU than the other way around, and liners routinely ship empty containers all the way back to China. Finished products simply contain much more air than raw materials, one container of raw materials can easily become five containers of finished product.
For trucks, there is also a potential reduction in fuel use, if empty containers have to be transported a significant distance.
Container carrying ships also can't carry much other than containers. It's hard to see the benefit, since the number of containers transported to and from each port (allowing for triangle routes and other route differences) must balance. Empty containers remain empty. Even if you came up with "disposable" containers, there would likely not be much change in the ship movements; just less load on some legs of the voyage.
like Winston Churchhill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"
How about this: "gonorrhea is the worst form of venereal disease, apart from all the others that have occurred". That statement is just as true as Churchill's. But neither statement justifies its object (government or venereal disease) as something one should actually want, merely that it identifies the least bad member of the class of such objects.
Of course, Churchill referred to representative democracy, whose limitations and failings are manifest in the USA end several EU countries. Democracy could alternatively (and would preferably) refer to direct democracy, which has a less dreadful record in places such as Switzerland, and would greatly devalue the inflated self-importance of elected representatives in any polity with an educated populace.
I was under the impression that you outsource to SAVE money. My perception is changed.
Outsourcing reduces headcount. It does not necessarily reduce actual cost or improve quality or timeliness. Many of us could cite counterexamples, where outsourcing increased costs and/or reduced quality and/or led to delays. From the CEO's point of view (which comes largely from market silliness), the effect of outsourcing on total costs or achieved output is much less relevant than its impact on the fixed cost part of total costs, and supposedly[*] gives greater flexibility in dropping costs should business decline.
[*]Most of the smart subcontractors (and even many stupid or ineffectual ones) will insert contractual conditions which subvert this, in the interests of obtaining a guaranteed income.
Being able to point the finger of blame at an outside source has significant value.
And this is the primary motivation behind employing contractors in many places.
A slightly different rationale applies to taking on consultants. Their job is to figure out what you want to do, and then provide "outside expert opinion" that this is, in fact, the best strategy. They take the blame like contractors, but pocket the money anyway.
And that listing is unjust. You should look into Belgian politics if you want truly surreal things. Compare Italy to Belgium and they almost seem to have a sane government.
Well, Italy has a government (loosely speaking). Belgium still does not.
The question of sanity in government of either country is thus moot. Not that there's much evidence of sanity in Italy's government, anyway.
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At least with the journals I've submitted to, it is perfectly legal for them to give out copies of the PDF or post them for free on department websites. Although you give copyright of the final article to the journal, the copyright agreements usually have details saying you are free to post it elsewhere as long as you don't incorporate any of the editing or formatting done by the editors to put the article into its final form.
Yes. Part of the deal usually involves the author being given 50 to 200 reprints of an accepted article just as it will be published. Each reprint comes with nice glossy covers showing the full reference to the article (author, title, journal, date, volume, issue, page range, etc.) in a decent sized font. At least, that's what I always got, but it's a few years since I submitted stuff to journals; mostly, I just publish at conferences nowadays. Whether a journal article or a conference paper, if anyone asks for an electronic copy, I send them the PDF without hesitation.
But why oh why must there be a slashvertisement for a media event to build hype and excitement? Whatever the product, let's wait until a few facts can be gleaned and the hype-blurb safely ignored.
We might as well just demand equal hype for Dr. Bob's iChiropractic iApp for iOS which will iChange your iLife for the iBetter. It would be as reliable and accurate as the typical media event surrounding the launch of a mass-market consumer product.
Facebook Blocker [mozilla.org]
Not available for Firefox 7.0.1 and not available since before 4.
Maybe you should check your facts a little. They appear to be outdated, or just wrong...
On the PC I'm posting from (posting via Opera 11.51), I have Firefox 7.0.1, and on its Extensions page, it says I have Facebook Blocker 1.0 which was released on 26 July 2011. Both Firefox 7.0.1 and Facebook Blocker 1.0 say that it's enabled, BTW.
For web browsing and general use, even older hardware should be sufficient. Just don't burden it with an OS which demands too much. One of our PCs at home is an 8-year-old laptop - a Sony VAIO VGN-A117S - which sports a 1.7GHz Celeron and 1GB RAM and ATI Mobility 9600. It runs Lubuntu 10.04 LTS and is used extensively every day for lots of stuff, including browsing the web. Browsing is easily fast enough with Chromium, Firefox, and Opera.
Minor bitch: this old laptop has the nicest screen in the house: a 17" 1920x1200 which seems nearly impossible to find these days, current offerings max out at the shortscreen 1920x1080. Those 180 vertical pixels are very useful.
Although you can always turn off cookies. But I can't say I've done that lately to know how that would affect today's web experience like turning off JavaScript does.
Switching off all cookies is overkill for the issue described by GP. If you're using Firefox, it's sufficient to install an add-on such as Facebook Blocker, which explicitly blocks all requests to Facebook which originate from non-Facebook sites. This obviously blocks tracking cookies from Facebook like-buttons on other sites, but does not interfere with your use of Facebook (if any; better to avoid Facebook sites completely).
I assume you already have a strategy for wiping LSO Flash objects ("super cookies"), such as Better Privacy or equivalent Firefox plugin. Some browsers don't need an add-on to do this. For instance in Opera, the delete private data action can also remove LSOs.
"incidents raise concern" -> as if this is something new ? it has been so since internet had become available for masses to host websites personally. anyone who had remotely got affiliated with hosting industry knows that.
Yup. And this is one of the reasons I host my own site myself, at home. Where there have been no intrusions (not yet, anyway). Where the backup system works, with an off-site copy updated weekly. It's not a very important site to anyone else (typically only 30 GB/month in traffic), but it's important enough to me that I look after it.
My reaction to discovering that there are bozos with web sites who don't have backups and trust others with their site security: Sorry, fellas, but I sure hope you enjoyed getting reamed with that baseball bat, 'cos you were asking for it...
This is why Google shelved their version of this tech. The implications were too big.
I don't know... I fed my pr0n directory to Picasa's face recognition, and the results were pretty awesome.
You mean there are people with noses shaped like... that?
Then better buy some clean clothes at the destination airport. Euhm... wait a minute... what destination airport?
It's OK, leave the clothes behind. As yet, there are no laws against nudity in space.
A good shave and a powerful laxative will cut the launch weight down a tad more.
This 500K$ to Mars thing... Is it so different from "pray this much to get into Heaven"?
Yes. The cost of getting to Mars is empirically measurable, and the target is to get that cost below a specified level.
That makes them as different as fire and ice.
Just a guess, but the Free Press lacks standing. Therefore, the lawsuit will be dismissed.
I would imagine it's quite easy to have standing in this case. Just have a fixed line broadband for your home and a wireless internet for your phone. If the carriers start disconnecting litigants to prevent you from having standing, they'd be stepping into some deep shit.
The suit could be dismissed for other legally valid reasons (especially for not contributing sufficiently to the right election campaigns).
An angle grinder with any metal-cutting bit will slice clean through the platters and circuit boards, making a pretty shower of sparks. It's much more satisfying than just using a drill, and at least as effective as swinging a big hammer on them.
BTW, remember that destroying hard drives could easily be construed as "willful destruction of evidence" if you're later accused of anything (terrorism, copyright violation, or other heinous crimes). So, whatever method you choose, it might be advisable to destroy them out of the public eye...
Can you Slashvertise that too?
Just wait until they switch to blipverts instead...
Windows 8 is over a year away. Perhaps Windows Phone 8 will be out by then which will allow this kind of capability.
The way the MS marketing guys play with version numbers, it'll probably be Windows Phone XIV or something. The new version is marketed as 7.5 but reports itself as 7.1 internally.
There's an app for that, and it's free!
There is another means: https://www.facebook.com/settings Click "Download a copy of your Facebook data." and follow the instructions.
Except that that only gives you the information that's currently accessible to you and other facebook users. It does not include the photos and posts you've "deleted" (but which facebook still stores). It certainly does not include the history of sites you've visited while logged into facebook, or any other tracking history which facebook has gathered and associated with your name. Think about it: facebook has at least an order of magnitude more information on you personally than you appear to think. All of it is used for customizing sales of your identity and your interests and so forth to facebook's customers (you're the merchandise, not a customer).
VLC on Android is something I and my kids have been waiting for. It's worth it, as this is our primary media player at home (Ubuntu + Lubuntu + PCLinux OS).
You are saying the business model of pets.com and Groupon are the same?
Other than the fact that pets.com eventually had the honesty to admit it was utterly and completely bust, even after trying sock puppets to delay the inevitable, yes.
I find it severely depressing that I'm completely unsure if you're joking or not...
Unfortunately, the severance settlement was not a joke, but a tragedy of Greek proportions.
Had I been on the board, I would have voted for nothing more or less than an exit interview by Lefty and Fingers and an old-fashioned baseball bat (or any group of HP shareholders wearing steel-toecapped boots). A dark alleyway would have been the preferred interview venue, but similar locations would suffice.
I still want to know how Leo swung $2 million a month for his walking papers.
Actually, it took a lot of courage and fortitude on his part. He had to talk the board down from their initial settlement offer, which was vastly greater (it's only shareholders' money, not their own). Apparently, he wanted the monetary compensation to be so small that it counted as an obvious reprimand, almost an insult, and he clearly succeeded. A mere $25million is as hard a slap in his face as this board could be expected to give...
Log this!
Your log appears to be a floater.
Difference is made in storage yards: less space taken. And on container vessels: there is much much more volume of cargo going from China to the US and EU than the other way around, and liners routinely ship empty containers all the way back to China. Finished products simply contain much more air than raw materials, one container of raw materials can easily become five containers of finished product.
For trucks, there is also a potential reduction in fuel use, if empty containers have to be transported a significant distance.
Container carrying ships also can't carry much other than containers. It's hard to see the benefit, since the number of containers transported to and from each port (allowing for triangle routes and other route differences) must balance. Empty containers remain empty. Even if you came up with "disposable" containers, there would likely not be much change in the ship movements; just less load on some legs of the voyage.
like Winston Churchhill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"
How about this: "gonorrhea is the worst form of venereal disease, apart from all the others that have occurred". That statement is just as true as Churchill's. But neither statement justifies its object (government or venereal disease) as something one should actually want, merely that it identifies the least bad member of the class of such objects.
Of course, Churchill referred to representative democracy, whose limitations and failings are manifest in the USA end several EU countries. Democracy could alternatively (and would preferably) refer to direct democracy, which has a less dreadful record in places such as Switzerland, and would greatly devalue the inflated self-importance of elected representatives in any polity with an educated populace.
I was under the impression that you outsource to SAVE money. My perception is changed.
Outsourcing reduces headcount. It does not necessarily reduce actual cost or improve quality or timeliness. Many of us could cite counterexamples, where outsourcing increased costs and/or reduced quality and/or led to delays. From the CEO's point of view (which comes largely from market silliness), the effect of outsourcing on total costs or achieved output is much less relevant than its impact on the fixed cost part of total costs, and supposedly[*] gives greater flexibility in dropping costs should business decline.
[*]Most of the smart subcontractors (and even many stupid or ineffectual ones) will insert contractual conditions which subvert this, in the interests of obtaining a guaranteed income.
Being able to point the finger of blame at an outside source has significant value.
And this is the primary motivation behind employing contractors in many places.
A slightly different rationale applies to taking on consultants. Their job is to figure out what you want to do, and then provide "outside expert opinion" that this is, in fact, the best strategy. They take the blame like contractors, but pocket the money anyway.
And that listing is unjust. You should look into Belgian politics if you want truly surreal things. Compare Italy to Belgium and they almost seem to have a sane government.
Well, Italy has a government (loosely speaking). Belgium still does not.
The question of sanity in government of either country is thus moot. Not that there's much evidence of sanity in Italy's government, anyway.