Everyone should be legally prohibited from owning copyrights. As in copyright should be abolished entirely. If I own an item, it's my right to do with it what I see fit. Use as intended, destroy, reverse engineer, or copy.
Easy. Force all government funded research to be published in an open access journal as a condition of that funding. Nature will either have to accept papers that are available for free, or become a vanity press for corporations.
Concerning impact factors, they seem a little indirect. The impact factor is the average number of citations a work in the journal receives. Why not just count the number of citations a work actually receives? If I publish a paper in Nature that receives no citations, what good is it to the scientific community and why should I get rewarded for that? If I publish a paper in PLOS One that gets hundreds of citations, isn't that more important than the publisher I chose?
Many of these journals require copyright assignment, at which point it's not your own work anymore. Just one more reason the traditional scientific publishing model needs to die a quick death.
"According to Tesla, the car needs a constant flow of power to keep its computers and systems switched on 24/7, ready to boot up instantly when the driver gets into the car.
That's just stupid. It won't hurt anyone to wait 20 seconds for the computers to boot up. If it takes longer than 20 seconds to boot the cars computers, WTF? PCs only take minutes to boot because of legacy BIOS and OS writers who don't care about boot times. Embedded computers suffer none of these problems.
Expect the narrowest possible ruling, one which applies only to the case in front of the Supreme Court and maintains the status quo for all other software patents.
We're still talking about two events that are outside of each others light cones. In order for an observer to observe both events at all, let alone ascribe them an order in time, he'd have to be travelling faster than the speed of light.
I'm quite aware of how special relativity works, thank you.
Politics is all about having to decide between difficult (and often unpalatable) choices
No, politics is all about selling your own self interest as the public interest. It's about pretending the negative consequences of the choice that benefits you, and your cronies, the most do not exist.
Everything else - events in neither light cone, which means they cannot affect us and we cannot affect them.
It will affect us eventually, when both light cones get large enough to intersect. That is, unless they are far enough away that the expansion of the universe outpaces the growth of the light cone.
Depending on an observer's motion relative to us and such an event, someone might see the event as happening at the same time as the here-and-now, or before, or after.
Wouldn't such an observer be moving faster than the speed of light?
Bitch bitch bitch. I went to High School in Ithaca NY. The sources I can find that have data for both cities put them pretty close. BestPlaces says Seattle has 152 sunny days, and Ithaca has 154 sunny days. HomeFacts says Seattle has 56 clear days, and Ithaca has 53 clear days. They're pretty comparable, but Ithaca has a lot more snow. I think I'd handle Seattle's climate fine.
I remember a math teacher once stopping class to bring our attention to a patch of blue sky that had temporarily appeared. I don't think people were particularly depressed.
They could have been intending to use it to make dirty bomb what could have exposed hundreds, if not thousands to such an ugly death.
The dirty bomb, as a weapon of mass destruction, is a myth. Disperse the radioactive material far enough to affect a large number of people, and you disperse the radiation as well. The concentration of radioactive material decreases as the square of the radius of the area of dispersal.
The fact that merely sending TCP packets can be construed as criminal emphasizes just how unjust our legal system is.
Conspiracy? He worked together with his fellow citizens. Criminal? Only because of unjust laws. Sending TCP packets is not the action of a criminal. Premeditated? Any attempt to cause change needs to be planned to be effective Harm a corporation? Yes, a corporation that exists only to harm Americans.
Notice that in both Colorado and Washington these measures were approved by the popular vote, not by legislators.
Stopping anti-union legislation in a few states.
Which states? Didn't help in Michigan or Wisconsin.
An effective protest is one where your opinions are heard and considered fairly
And that happens extremely rarely in the US. Marriage equality is one example, but a fairly trivial one. No one in power stands to gain or lose much when marriage equality is enacted. Try getting your voice heard when those in power are profiting off of the bad policy you are protesting. The overwhelming majority of issues are impossible for the public to affect because of such conflicts of interest.
First, if you need your axiom to be supported by evidence, it's not an axiom. You would have been better going with "obviously", "factually", or "provably". "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal", that's an axiom.
Second, name one effective protest in the last 10 years. Should be easy if you think there's daily evidence of such in the news.
Then you get to learn what ACTUAL violence is, either buy police officer or prison inmate.
His point is that this fellow is learning what ACTUAL violence is, by police officer and prison inmate, for doing nothing more than sending TCP packets.
Except that property damage is not protest.
Two things: A DDOS is not property damage. And are you claiming the Boston Tea Party was not a protest?
It is possible to protest without damaging anyone or anything
It's not possible to effectively protest anything in todays America. You can have your say all you want inside free speech zones, but you'll never be heard. What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
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That's what fancy splash screens are for.
Everyone should be legally prohibited from owning copyrights. As in copyright should be abolished entirely. If I own an item, it's my right to do with it what I see fit. Use as intended, destroy, reverse engineer, or copy.
Easy. Force all government funded research to be published in an open access journal as a condition of that funding. Nature will either have to accept papers that are available for free, or become a vanity press for corporations.
Concerning impact factors, they seem a little indirect. The impact factor is the average number of citations a work in the journal receives. Why not just count the number of citations a work actually receives? If I publish a paper in Nature that receives no citations, what good is it to the scientific community and why should I get rewarded for that? If I publish a paper in PLOS One that gets hundreds of citations, isn't that more important than the publisher I chose?
The way the review service has been funded in the past is that they charge quite a bit to obtain the Journal's distribution.
Peer review is done on a volunteer basis by other researchers in your field.
Why not just put it on their institutional web server, and submit the link to google?
Because that doesn't count towards tenure.
Many of these journals require copyright assignment, at which point it's not your own work anymore. Just one more reason the traditional scientific publishing model needs to die a quick death.
"According to Tesla, the car needs a constant flow of power to keep its computers and systems switched on 24/7, ready to boot up instantly when the driver gets into the car.
That's just stupid. It won't hurt anyone to wait 20 seconds for the computers to boot up. If it takes longer than 20 seconds to boot the cars computers, WTF? PCs only take minutes to boot because of legacy BIOS and OS writers who don't care about boot times. Embedded computers suffer none of these problems.
Or 4.5kWh/24h=190W. Almost enough to power 2 100W lightbulbs.
Expect the narrowest possible ruling, one which applies only to the case in front of the Supreme Court and maintains the status quo for all other software patents.
Or maybe just not listening to music every waking moment possible.
There's enough free music on Archive.org to fill 24 hours a day.
Ah, that's a very good point. Thanks.
We're still talking about two events that are outside of each others light cones. In order for an observer to observe both events at all, let alone ascribe them an order in time, he'd have to be travelling faster than the speed of light.
I'm quite aware of how special relativity works, thank you.
Politics is all about having to decide between difficult (and often unpalatable) choices
No, politics is all about selling your own self interest as the public interest. It's about pretending the negative consequences of the choice that benefits you, and your cronies, the most do not exist.
Everything else - events in neither light cone, which means they cannot affect us and we cannot affect them.
It will affect us eventually, when both light cones get large enough to intersect. That is, unless they are far enough away that the expansion of the universe outpaces the growth of the light cone.
Depending on an observer's motion relative to us and such an event, someone might see the event as happening at the same time as the here-and-now, or before, or after.
Wouldn't such an observer be moving faster than the speed of light?
Bitch bitch bitch. I went to High School in Ithaca NY. The sources I can find that have data for both cities put them pretty close. BestPlaces says Seattle has 152 sunny days, and Ithaca has 154 sunny days. HomeFacts says Seattle has 56 clear days, and Ithaca has 53 clear days. They're pretty comparable, but Ithaca has a lot more snow. I think I'd handle Seattle's climate fine.
I remember a math teacher once stopping class to bring our attention to a patch of blue sky that had temporarily appeared. I don't think people were particularly depressed.
How much snow do you get from Septermber - June?
They could have been intending to use it to make dirty bomb what could have exposed hundreds, if not thousands to such an ugly death.
The dirty bomb, as a weapon of mass destruction, is a myth. Disperse the radioactive material far enough to affect a large number of people, and you disperse the radiation as well. The concentration of radioactive material decreases as the square of the radius of the area of dispersal.
What if the arrested individual raises a stink and files suit?
Then the tax payer suffers, never the officer.
The fact that merely sending TCP packets can be construed as criminal emphasizes just how unjust our legal system is.
Conspiracy? He worked together with his fellow citizens.
Criminal? Only because of unjust laws. Sending TCP packets is not the action of a criminal.
Premeditated? Any attempt to cause change needs to be planned to be effective
Harm a corporation? Yes, a corporation that exists only to harm Americans.
We need more of this kind of behavior, not less.
Marriage equality in several states.
Fair enough.
Marijuana legalization in several states.
Notice that in both Colorado and Washington these measures were approved by the popular vote, not by legislators.
Stopping anti-union legislation in a few states.
Which states? Didn't help in Michigan or Wisconsin.
An effective protest is one where your opinions are heard and considered fairly
And that happens extremely rarely in the US. Marriage equality is one example, but a fairly trivial one. No one in power stands to gain or lose much when marriage equality is enacted. Try getting your voice heard when those in power are profiting off of the bad policy you are protesting. The overwhelming majority of issues are impossible for the public to affect because of such conflicts of interest.
The SOPA/PIPA protests a while back would stand as an example of an effective protest
If the same provisions were not repackaged and reintroduced as IPAA, perhaps.
First, if you need your axiom to be supported by evidence, it's not an axiom. You would have been better going with "obviously", "factually", or "provably". "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal", that's an axiom.
Second, name one effective protest in the last 10 years. Should be easy if you think there's daily evidence of such in the news.
Then you get to learn what ACTUAL violence is, either buy police officer or prison inmate.
His point is that this fellow is learning what ACTUAL violence is, by police officer and prison inmate, for doing nothing more than sending TCP packets.
Except that property damage is not protest.
Two things: A DDOS is not property damage. And are you claiming the Boston Tea Party was not a protest?
It is possible to protest without damaging anyone or anything
It's not possible to effectively protest anything in todays America. You can have your say all you want inside free speech zones, but you'll never be heard. What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
But it is really fair for the Government to say protect Far Left ideas while trying to hinder far right ones?
When has that actually happened?
Sure you can use my wifi for free, but how are you going to enhance my privacy?