"The system provides an opportunity for referees to try to avoid embarrassment for themselves, which is not the goal at all," he says.
So, if a reviewer sees a paper that has actual data and a conclusion that goes against the consensus of the scientific community, the reviewer may reject it for fear of appearing foolish? Or rejecting someone just because of their publicized personal beliefs?
Here's a hypothetical, a climate scientist who's an openly devout Christian finds data that sheds doubt on human caused global warming will be rejected because someone's afraid of looking foolish.
Okay, I have no horse in this race, as I only have a passing interest in online social networks (enough to read the article, but not enough to join one), so I am not very passionate about this news in one way or another, but...
Dude! Are you that paranoid about being labeled a "fanboy"?
This will make their debt the responsebillity of the buyer and not the management
No it won't. They're only selling the assets and not the business entity. If they were selling the whole SCO enitiy - if someone bought all the outstanding common stock - then you would be correct, IIRC business law.
If you look at most business sales, the buyer only purchases the assets - includes any trademarks and other IP. Sometimes, as part of the deal, the buyer will take on some of the debt. SCO is in bankruptcy, this is strictly an asset sale and the proceeds will go to the creditors.
It goes for the liabilities too. By purchasing just the assets, the previous entity keeps the liabilities (lawsuits, judgments, and years ago, any environmental liabilities). That's the basics and there's a shit load of subtleties that the lawyers worry about - especially when it comes to environmental problems.
Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 - a sharp increase.
*In Sean Connery's James Bond voice* Of course they have.
My sister, Bertha, is looking for a nice intelligent man. The only requirement is that you can bench press 300lbs - it's for your safety when you have sex with her and she's on top.
Ah, so they're geeks who couldn't get laid and are taking it out on the World using whatever political or religious justification that they have as an excuse.
"Open Source" is MAGIC! Just wave the "Open Source" magic wand over any software and it makes it superior and people will just gravitate to it because of its superiority!
They want each and every user to be responsible for where he wants to host his own data, be it on a home server, on a rented remote server, or via a specialized service provider.
And do you honestly expect the typical FB user to do that - set up and manage their own server?
And if specialized service providers sprout up to host this data, wouldn't that be creating the same situation that this software is supposed to be trying to get away from: other having control of your data?
Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your profile among communities, but that remains to be seen.
But what's the point in doing that when you can have one profile on FB?
I can see it as an internal type of thing. Meaning, a big corp uses this in house for a company directory or for project management: this would be great for a huge project and folks have their projects on their profile, or issues, tickets, whatever....
But this won't knock out FB. FB took that markets a long time ago.
Now, all they have to do is to convince 500 million people (or whatever it is FB claims today) to move over to their service that has no whistles or bells.
Umm..
1/ Build competitor
2/ Release to world
3/ ???
4/ Complete and utter failure.
That is utterly correct. It's too late. Facebook has hit critical mass and Dispora is too late to the party. Facebook has pretty much crushed MySpace and every other social networking site - LinkedIn is hanging on because it has the "professional" crowd - but even then, I see a lot of folks who are using Facebook for that purpose and businesses are finding it more and more important to have a FB profile.
Being Open Source is nowhere near a good reason for folks to flock to it. So what? What features will Dispora offer that will make it compelling for folks to cast aside their social "investment" in Facebook? None that I can see.
"We know that this is a joke, but we're going to approach it as if it's a serious thing."
Your tax dollars at work, people.
Yeah, well if you did a survey, I bet most of the people in the area would approve that their Sheriff's department is "doing something" about online child predators. And if the Sheriff in the county is elected, you just know in the next election he's going to have something that states he fought child internet predators.
The electorate is a bunch of morons - I mean morans.
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Immigrants pay taxes and pay into the pension system and consume (i.e. buy shit thereby creating more demand in the economy).
Dalek's don't navigate stairs. They level the building.
Like Chuck Norris!
Wait...is that part of that meme?
Then there's the risk of letting shit go through to appear "unbiased".
"The system provides an opportunity for referees to try to avoid embarrassment for themselves, which is not the goal at all," he says.
So, if a reviewer sees a paper that has actual data and a conclusion that goes against the consensus of the scientific community, the reviewer may reject it for fear of appearing foolish? Or rejecting someone just because of their publicized personal beliefs?
Here's a hypothetical, a climate scientist who's an openly devout Christian finds data that sheds doubt on human caused global warming will be rejected because someone's afraid of looking foolish.
That's the way I'm interpreting this study.
zomg! Pre-alpha! This thing is sure to be a failure!
I think it will - Facebook has the market locked up.
I may be wrong, and I usually am, but Dispora has no chance.
Okay, I have no horse in this race, as I only have a passing interest in online social networks (enough to read the article, but not enough to join one), so I am not very passionate about this news in one way or another, but...
Dude! Are you that paranoid about being labeled a "fanboy"?
He's the inside guy for El Incompetentito! The masked one who fights for truth, justice, and the Open Source way!
Troll'in.
Troll'in down the river...
Now the ladies!
Troll'in ...
Open means Incompetent?
That can't be right. I thought it meant not quite finished and don't expect documentation.
Put the flame throwers down... it's a joke.
*swinging noose*
You ain't said nut'in 'bout nooses and we don't take kindly to that kind'a talk, boy!
...
What?!? You really didn't think you'd post a topic like this on Slashdot and think you were getting away unscathed, did you?!?
Bwahahahahahahahahaahahaa *cough* *cough* *cough**cough**cough*
Shit, I'm get'in too old for this shit.
This will make their debt the responsebillity of the buyer and not the management
No it won't. They're only selling the assets and not the business entity. If they were selling the whole SCO enitiy - if someone bought all the outstanding common stock - then you would be correct, IIRC business law.
If you look at most business sales, the buyer only purchases the assets - includes any trademarks and other IP. Sometimes, as part of the deal, the buyer will take on some of the debt. SCO is in bankruptcy, this is strictly an asset sale and the proceeds will go to the creditors.
It goes for the liabilities too. By purchasing just the assets, the previous entity keeps the liabilities (lawsuits, judgments, and years ago, any environmental liabilities). That's the basics and there's a shit load of subtleties that the lawyers worry about - especially when it comes to environmental problems.
Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 - a sharp increase.
*In Sean Connery's James Bond voice* Of course they have.
Thank you.
My sister, Bertha, is looking for a nice intelligent man. The only requirement is that you can bench press 300lbs - it's for your safety when you have sex with her and she's on top.
and the only damage you'll cause with a MBA or Economics degree is...
Hemorrhoids from talking out of our ass all the time.
I buy that.
I find feeding them dumps the data.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
They want each and every user to be responsible for where he wants to host his own data, be it on a home server, on a rented remote server, or via a specialized service provider.
And do you honestly expect the typical FB user to do that - set up and manage their own server?
And if specialized service providers sprout up to host this data, wouldn't that be creating the same situation that this software is supposed to be trying to get away from: other having control of your data?
Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your profile among communities, but that remains to be seen.
But what's the point in doing that when you can have one profile on FB?
I can see it as an internal type of thing. Meaning, a big corp uses this in house for a company directory or for project management: this would be great for a huge project and folks have their projects on their profile, or issues, tickets, whatever....
But this won't knock out FB. FB took that markets a long time ago.
Now, all they have to do is to convince 500 million people (or whatever it is FB claims today) to move over to their service that has no whistles or bells. Umm.. 1/ Build competitor 2/ Release to world 3/ ??? 4/ Complete and utter failure.
That is utterly correct. It's too late. Facebook has hit critical mass and Dispora is too late to the party. Facebook has pretty much crushed MySpace and every other social networking site - LinkedIn is hanging on because it has the "professional" crowd - but even then, I see a lot of folks who are using Facebook for that purpose and businesses are finding it more and more important to have a FB profile.
Being Open Source is nowhere near a good reason for folks to flock to it. So what? What features will Dispora offer that will make it compelling for folks to cast aside their social "investment" in Facebook? None that I can see.
I know flash gets much hate around here....
Nah, not at all.
BTW, is the source code released? I want to add code that gives a fatal shock to developers and designers who use Flash.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not trying to minimize molestation, it's a real and terrible thing.
I find rather annoying that you had to be that explicit and make that statement even here on Slashdot.
"We know that this is a joke, but we're going to approach it as if it's a serious thing."
Your tax dollars at work, people.
Yeah, well if you did a survey, I bet most of the people in the area would approve that their Sheriff's department is "doing something" about online child predators. And if the Sheriff in the county is elected, you just know in the next election he's going to have something that states he fought child internet predators.
The electorate is a bunch of morons - I mean morans.
The customizations many vendors tack on to Android suck (for the most part). Just leave Android alone and it works fine.
I read your comment imagining you were in tears - blubbering and yelling "Leave Android alone!"
Frick'in Internet memes....