To be fair, on Slashdot you can make use of the moderating system and filter out low-scored comments. Most news sites (like WaPo) have no such functionality, and moderation is extremely rare, so really, it's not so much Slashdot that should be disabling comments, it's Reuters (OP), NYT and the other "traditional" media establishments that haven't yet implemented effective moderating systems that should be following WaPo's lead.
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on/.
Journals also typically allow you to put your article on arXiv. In general, I'm pretty sure you retain the rights to your own article. As an example: the American Institute of Physics' Transfer of Copyright Agreement [pdf] allows the author
to give permission to third parties to republish print versions of the Article or a translation thereof, or excerpts therefrom, without obtaining permission from AIP Publishing LLC, provided the Publisher-prepared version is not used for this purpose, the Article is not published in another conference proceedings or journal, and the third party does not charge a fee.
In other words, as long as you're not using the corrections you get back from AIP's peer review process, you can put your article anywhere that doesn't charge a fee and isn't a journal. The agreement goes on to EXPLICITLY grant you the right to the journal-edited version on your own personal webpage or on arXiv.
It's a similar problem to what happened in Egypt during the first revolution. On the one hand, you have a dictatorial despot (Mubarak, Assad). On the other, you have pro-democracy revolutionaries who may not be friendly to Western interests (Egypt democratically elected Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood). So when deciding who to "root for" you have to ask yourself: do you believe in democracy above all else, or are you more interested in seeing a pro-West government in power? It's a tricky question, and it's why the US has (weakly) condemned Morsi's overthrow and the violence against his supporters while stopping short of calling the action a coup d'etat. Still, it's better than the old US policy of
They've got to be protected
All their rights respected
Until someone we like can be elected.
Downloading CentOS isn't at all like pirating a copy of Windows--Red Hat consists almost entirely of open source code. People pay for Red Hat for the support. I've actually worked on a cluster where we paid for one copy of Red Hat for the head node, then loaded 15 copies of CentOS onto the remaining nodes. Nothing wrong with that at all.
They're pro-Assad, so it depends on whether you consider Assad to have committed unforgivable atrocities or whether you consider him the legitimate president of Syria.
Yeah, sorry about that. I was basing the story off the speculation that was circulating yesterday at the time of the outage (and it wasn't just Fox Business News). It was only after I hit "submit" that I found the NYTimes blog post about it being not an attack.
"I look back at my decisions and wonder, 'How on earth could I, a junior analyst, possibly believe I could change the world for the better over the decisions of those with the proper authority?'"
That struck me as an apology for the action itself.
1. People who take hand-written notes often later transcribe them digitally, thus going over the notes one more time than people who just record them digitally in the first place.
In short, Google isn't doing anything that the other ISPs aren't doing (it's not like there's any indication that they will actually enforce the ban), and the reason the language is there is that Google will likely roll out a business package in the future.
Are Twinkie addicts really that committed to "authentic" Twinkies? Plenty of companies make knock-offs, which, in my limited experience, are not significantly different from the real McCoy.
Slashdot Mirror
To be fair, on Slashdot you can make use of the moderating system and filter out low-scored comments. Most news sites (like WaPo) have no such functionality, and moderation is extremely rare, so really, it's not so much Slashdot that should be disabling comments, it's Reuters (OP), NYT and the other "traditional" media establishments that haven't yet implemented effective moderating systems that should be following WaPo's lead.
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on /.
to give permission to third parties to republish print versions of the Article or a translation thereof, or excerpts therefrom, without obtaining permission from AIP Publishing LLC, provided the Publisher-prepared version is not used for this purpose, the Article is not published in another conference proceedings or journal, and the third party does not charge a fee.
In other words, as long as you're not using the corrections you get back from AIP's peer review process, you can put your article anywhere that doesn't charge a fee and isn't a journal. The agreement goes on to EXPLICITLY grant you the right to the journal-edited version on your own personal webpage or on arXiv.
That's too bad. I'm a Pisces.
They've got to be protected
All their rights respected
Until someone we like can be elected.
Downloading CentOS isn't at all like pirating a copy of Windows--Red Hat consists almost entirely of open source code. People pay for Red Hat for the support. I've actually worked on a cluster where we paid for one copy of Red Hat for the head node, then loaded 15 copies of CentOS onto the remaining nodes. Nothing wrong with that at all.
They're pro-Assad, so it depends on whether you consider Assad to have committed unforgivable atrocities or whether you consider him the legitimate president of Syria.
No argument from me.
It's working fine for me (oddly, downforeveryoneorjustme agrees with you...)
Yeah, sorry about that. I was basing the story off the speculation that was circulating yesterday at the time of the outage (and it wasn't just Fox Business News). It was only after I hit "submit" that I found the NYTimes blog post about it being not an attack.
As in, back to the first hand. Is there a less awkward / more correct way of wording that?
Submitter here.
The NYT themselves claims they weren't hacked. This probably would have been a better choice for the first link than the humor column I originally chose. This non-attack-related downtime cause is elaborated on further in this article posted to zdnet (thx trb).
On the other hand, Fox Business is also citing an unnamed source in saying it was a cyber attack. On the other hand, an unnamed source in a burlap sack is worth the sack.
I wasn't commenting on his sincerity, and the two aren't mutually exclusive.
"I look back at my decisions and wonder, 'How on earth could I, a junior analyst, possibly believe I could change the world for the better over the decisions of those with the proper authority?'"
That struck me as an apology for the action itself.
1. People who take hand-written notes often later transcribe them digitally, thus going over the notes one more time than people who just record them digitally in the first place.
2. Studies have that reading harder-to-read fonts assist in recall/retention. Hand-written notes certainly fall in the category of harder-to-read.
God bless you, Washington Post.
They actually went to the trouble of including a damn chart, which shows just how weak the correlation actually is.
Google Fiber Server Neutrality Violation Being Overblown
In short, Google isn't doing anything that the other ISPs aren't doing (it's not like there's any indication that they will actually enforce the ban), and the reason the language is there is that Google will likely roll out a business package in the future.
Don't ask me--I didn't write the law. I'm saying it specifically excludes mice.
I understand you probably mean morally/ethically, but legally mice aren't protected under the Animal Welfare Act.
I enjoyed the pun (candidates making ideal candidates)
I was more saying that, since the waters around Shetland happen to be rich in oil, it's conceivable that Denmark might want Shetland back.
Denmark has a pretty strong claim to Shetland.
Didn't we just have an article this morning (EST) about how Twinkies were the programmer's "Breakfast of Champions?"
Are Twinkie addicts really that committed to "authentic" Twinkies? Plenty of companies make knock-offs, which, in my limited experience, are not significantly different from the real McCoy.
Sorry, I think you're just catching my bias against cell phone video.