It's more of a double-blind thing in the review process. Helps with neutrality as neither the reputation of the submitter nor of the reviewer gets into the way. Honesty is one thing, but scientists are also human. Getting a chain of negative reviews from one person you can identify will hardly leave you in the position of neutrally reviewing them later, as hard as you may try.
Well, yes, it has restarted. Not for transporting people, but walking robots for transport duty in rough terrain are coming up quite nicely. See Big Dog, for example.
I found a video of the contraption that is shown in one of the pictures of TFA here. Conspicuously, it only shows a daring engineer rocking back and forth in the cockpit, while never showing the legs of the thing actually moving. Would be great if anyone could dig up more video of this. Needs more brass wheels and handles to qualify for proper steampunk, though.
Come to think of it, are you also blaming the 9/11 victims for working in the WTC, a known terrorist target that had seen attacks before? If not, please explain your cognitive dissonance.
Hm. When you are done relocating the coastal cities, the settlements in the flood plains, everyone in tornado alley, everyone along the San Andreas fault, every house on a mudslide prone slope, everyone in the danger area of an active volcano, all the towns in wildfire areas - where exactly do you stack the people?
True, but I give the GP the benefit of the doubt when you show me comparable posts before Kathrina, which definitely hit the poorer quarters with predominantly black population hardest.
And if you don't want to break your leg, don't get out of your bed. If you don't want to get sick, well, better shoot yourself right now. Are you taking special glee in seeing other people suffer? Is mocking them after the fact giving you one of those really special hardons?
It's a difficult line to draw, but generally, I would not consider publishing anything "civil disobedience". It's another category than the disruptive acts by the skript kiddies in question. Apart from that, I don't consider Thomas Paine the measure for everything.
There are certain kinds of projects that do not have any payoff. Amongst other names, we call those "art". But I guess nowadays we are devolving into a rabble of cultureless beancounters.
Well played, Sir. Let me just add as a biochemist that the genetic differences are too marginal to even justify the concept of "race" in humans. Local varieties that differ on a ultimately meaningless level.
Except that civil disobedience is not ever anonymous. It means standing up for your rights and taking the consequences. Take that "white people only" seat, chain yourself to that military installation gate. See also civil courage. A bunch of script kiddies operating out of anonymity are something completely different. Anonymous cowards.
"The lulz" is a concept that is as far from the sort of humor that never can be evil as possible. The "lulz" are the domain of the trickster, of Loki or Coyote, and those guys operate in a moral gray zone beyond good and evil.
God beware someone endeavors something that is beyond the scope of the next fiscal quarter or the next election period. You of little mind are really scared by that thought, aren't you?
IIRC Stonehenge has an astronomical purpose - in particular determination of the equinox for calendar keeping. Kinda important if you want to know when to go out and saw your fields. The easter island statues are indeed more obscure, but most likely the result of an epic dick waving competition between competing chieftains.
Parody? Perhaps. Troll? Definitely. But, by Cthulhu's Tentacles, he is a damn fine one. Just look how many people swallow his bait hook, line and sinker in every single story. Getting his same pitch in on topic in lots of threads, mostly making FP and not even bragging about it. Dr Bob walks tall amongst trolls. He is a paragon of trolldom and a shining example for the young generation. I salute him.
True. In the end, mycoplasm is just another contributing factor to signal/noise in your dataset. It's completely illusory to assume that you get noiseless measurements given the amount of data involved.
The biophysics prof overseeing my PhD work was adamant though, that one should call it in silicio. "In silico" is bad latin, and if something pissed him off, it was bad latin...
Don't know how it is handled in the US in particular, but here in Europe, patent attorneys have a scientific/engineering background and are not pure lawyers. I am working in a patent law firm at the moment. I, personally, am a biochemist. The guy in the office to my right is a physicist, office to my left EE, across the hallway, we got a ME, a geologist and wine chemist (don't ask)... So we generally do have a clue about the technology involved.
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It's more of a double-blind thing in the review process. Helps with neutrality as neither the reputation of the submitter nor of the reviewer gets into the way. Honesty is one thing, but scientists are also human. Getting a chain of negative reviews from one person you can identify will hardly leave you in the position of neutrally reviewing them later, as hard as you may try.
Gotta collapse that wave function. Quarter pound of C4 will do.
Well, yes, it has restarted. Not for transporting people, but walking robots for transport duty in rough terrain are coming up quite nicely. See Big Dog, for example.
Being purely acoustic, this still doesn't solve the "light in the refrigerator" question, though.
I found a video of the contraption that is shown in one of the pictures of TFA here. Conspicuously, it only shows a daring engineer rocking back and forth in the cockpit, while never showing the legs of the thing actually moving. Would be great if anyone could dig up more video of this. Needs more brass wheels and handles to qualify for proper steampunk, though.
I suppose the food is growing inside the local grocery stores, too?
Come to think of it, are you also blaming the 9/11 victims for working in the WTC, a known terrorist target that had seen attacks before? If not, please explain your cognitive dissonance.
Hm. When you are done relocating the coastal cities, the settlements in the flood plains, everyone in tornado alley, everyone along the San Andreas fault, every house on a mudslide prone slope, everyone in the danger area of an active volcano, all the towns in wildfire areas - where exactly do you stack the people?
The beauty of the free market in action...
True, but I give the GP the benefit of the doubt when you show me comparable posts before Kathrina, which definitely hit the poorer quarters with predominantly black population hardest.
And if you don't want to break your leg, don't get out of your bed. If you don't want to get sick, well, better shoot yourself right now. Are you taking special glee in seeing other people suffer? Is mocking them after the fact giving you one of those really special hardons?
For anyone who can't read the racist numbnut dogwhistles: The parent translates straightforward to "The uppity niggers had it coming."
It's a difficult line to draw, but generally, I would not consider publishing anything "civil disobedience". It's another category than the disruptive acts by the skript kiddies in question. Apart from that, I don't consider Thomas Paine the measure for everything.
There are certain kinds of projects that do not have any payoff. Amongst other names, we call those "art". But I guess nowadays we are devolving into a rabble of cultureless beancounters.
Well played, Sir. Let me just add as a biochemist that the genetic differences are too marginal to even justify the concept of "race" in humans. Local varieties that differ on a ultimately meaningless level.
Except that civil disobedience is not ever anonymous. It means standing up for your rights and taking the consequences. Take that "white people only" seat, chain yourself to that military installation gate. See also civil courage. A bunch of script kiddies operating out of anonymity are something completely different. Anonymous cowards.
"The lulz" is a concept that is as far from the sort of humor that never can be evil as possible. The "lulz" are the domain of the trickster, of Loki or Coyote, and those guys operate in a moral gray zone beyond good and evil.
Now could slashdot stop feeding the attention whores with 2 stories per day, pretty please?
Just the other side of the coin. You are baffled by something that can't be quantified by "investment" and "payoff". Lack of perspective.
God beware someone endeavors something that is beyond the scope of the next fiscal quarter or the next election period. You of little mind are really scared by that thought, aren't you?
IIRC Stonehenge has an astronomical purpose - in particular determination of the equinox for calendar keeping. Kinda important if you want to know when to go out and saw your fields. The easter island statues are indeed more obscure, but most likely the result of an epic dick waving competition between competing chieftains.
Parody? Perhaps. Troll? Definitely. But, by Cthulhu's Tentacles, he is a damn fine one. Just look how many people swallow his bait hook, line and sinker in every single story. Getting his same pitch in on topic in lots of threads, mostly making FP and not even bragging about it. Dr Bob walks tall amongst trolls. He is a paragon of trolldom and a shining example for the young generation. I salute him.
True. In the end, mycoplasm is just another contributing factor to signal/noise in your dataset. It's completely illusory to assume that you get noiseless measurements given the amount of data involved.
The biophysics prof overseeing my PhD work was adamant though, that one should call it in silicio. "In silico" is bad latin, and if something pissed him off, it was bad latin...
Don't know how it is handled in the US in particular, but here in Europe, patent attorneys have a scientific/engineering background and are not pure lawyers. I am working in a patent law firm at the moment. I, personally, am a biochemist. The guy in the office to my right is a physicist, office to my left EE, across the hallway, we got a ME, a geologist and wine chemist (don't ask)... So we generally do have a clue about the technology involved.