Huh? It's very easy. If your paper is good, just submit it to a known prestigious journal
This completely misses the reason why those fake journals exist in the first place -- which is usually so an industry group can point to 'science' which supports their claims.
Tobacco, oil, pharma, and political groups all have an interest in these so they can try to win public opinion.
This isn't fake journals scamming the people who submit papers, this is fake journals which are created to produce cite-able papers which have the appropriate spin for the groups which pay fund them.
It's all about how you present your skewed position as being equally valid to the position you're trying to counter, and making sure it's even more difficult for people to say your claims are bunk.
Don't laugh. Back in 2008. if you told a group of guys with Windows Mobile phones that it would be dead from Microsoft-induced suicide by 2010, you would have gotten laughed at.
Which is amusing, because everyone else was laughing at them for having Windows phones.;-)
Three years ago, Microsoft crawled from the Vista abyss and gave us Windows 7.
And to counter my previous point, I must be one of the few people who has had an actual good overall experience with Vista.
I bought a big honking machine knowing I'd be running Vista, and if you throw enough resources at it, it was actually pretty good and quite stable. It's still my main desktop in fact -- my Linux boxes have been relegated to VMs running on Vista.
Though, I'm not getting a warm fuzzy about Window 8, so I might see if I can't still get a Win 7 machine provided I can afford something which is actually an upgrade from what I have now.:-P
So we are competing in our own country for jobs with people being paid in the $35000 to $50000 range when those jobs cost $100k locally and require degrees that are a lot more expensive to obtain here than in india.
Welcome to globalization... the corporations and governments tell us it's inevitable and that it's good. Now it's a race to the bottom.
The companies who want this aren't incapable of finding talent, they're unwilling to pay the salaries of Americans.
They're inshoring the jobs basically and driving down domestic wages by making you compete with underpaid foreign workers.
Since corporate profits will be at an all time high, so will executive bonuses and shareholder value.
Somehow, that makes it even more awesome for the rest of us.
Not coincidentally, Rogers is the author of CISPA (now v2.0), a bill that would provide legal immunity for businesses that share threat data with the government, while allowing intelligence agencies to use it for 'national security' purposes
These people want this information shared for their own purposes.
This has nothing at all to do with protecting banks from DDoS -- it's about ensuring government access to all of our data. If they can get private industry to hand them data they can't collect on their own then they can circumvent other laws.
I agree with the assessment that no law is going to make this kind of attack hitting from all over the world (and probably on zombie computers) go away.
These people just want the total surveillance world that scares the rest of us.
Be polite? Sure. Smile? What have you got to smile about?
Well, in general, I've found smiling at people gets a better response, so I usually try to make it my default position.
At the end of the day, I don't think the process would go any smoother for me if I'm cranky with them. If I treat them decently, they don't feel the need to demonstrate who is in charge.
Then again, I also make a point of not flying through the really major airports, because those ones are going to suck no matter what you do. My one experience with customs at Newark taught me that it isn't an airport I'd ever fly through again, since the default position of the agents is "cranky asshole". Chicago just plain sucks and is to be avoided. In some of the less major airports, there's a chance of the people actually having a little latitude and a better attitude.
What you have to look forward to is putting your shoes back on without benefit of any chairs in the area, repacking your carry-on while passengers behind you are impatiently waiting for you to get out of the way, and being sure you've actually collected all your personal effects before rushing out of this island of traveler terror.
You know, having been through airports for almost 20 years now... if you know what you've packed and minimize the crap you have on your person, that's not actually even that tough.
And since my luggage has been packed to telegraph the fact that I don't have anything suspicious (because I don't), and because I know what's in my pockets and can shed it quickly, I haven't had them check a bag or make the metal detector go 'beep' in well over a decade. It's usually under 2 minutes from starting to put stuff in the bin to picking stuff up at the end.
BUT, with a bit more education in linguistics, design, computing science, or a number of other areas, suddenly you're someone who can land anything from an administrative job designing courses for ESL schools, to a community college languages head (they love to get people with a PhD and diverse training) to work at a marketing or communications firm, to a research job at a tech firm.
Then, arguably, skip the PhD and go straight onto that other training which will get you a job.
What you're describing is finishing up your PhD, and then having to get trained into other fields to have marketable skills.
None of the jobs you're describing would need you to complete your doctoral work, so it sounds like you're saying "Yeah, it's a waste, but if you re-train afterwards, you can actually find jobs". Designing ESL courses sounds more like you need a degree in education, and not a PhD in literature.
People should study what they want. Productivity increases mean we can provide for everyone with fewer people needed. That means we can easily afford a basic income, and challenges to stimulate individuals to unleash the native curiosity and creativity most of us are born with.
What have you seen that suggest that is true?
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
We don't live in the Star Trek universe where we have unlimited resources, and you can pursue whatever interests you. And it was only ever a small percentage of all of the people in the world that had this illusion that we can provide for everyone -- the rest of the world has been struggling just as much as ever.
We need to rethink pre-industrial age, feudal economics and understand that money is a tool that should benefit us
No, we need to look at it in the context of our current industrial age of feudal corporate economics which is the new god demanding a sacrifice. Everything now is measured by "shareholder value", and an expected year-over-year gain to keep the stock markets going up. A world where corporations want to tell universities what they should be doing.
Pretty much the entire economy since about 2008 has been moving away from this enlightened society you seem to think is still around.
Not to downplay this persons experience... but, since this is Slashdot, and a tech-heavy web site... show of hands for people who are shocked a PhD in literature may not be an awesome career path? Anybody?
Universities are pinched, and there's an increasing move among governments to say "why are we training people for stuff for which there are no jobs?". I knew someone years ago who was in his 5th year of university, working on a BA in English, had massive debts, and no prospects -- and the question at the time was, "other than personal interest, what will this degree ever do for you?". He had no idea about that.
Unfortunately, much of the 'humanities' subjects in university are so specialized and highly focused, that it's hard not to see how some of this is relevant to anybody except other people with PhDs in the field.
I've known a few people who studied post-modernism in literature... and even they couldn't tell me what you'd use it for other than a purely academic discussion. For that matter, they mostly can't even define what post-modernism is to a layman, or why it has to be so incomprehensible that a computer generated paper gets accepted into journals.
Sadly, some degrees can only qualify you for academia, and if those positions aren't available, what have you gained by it? The ability to cite Chaucer while asking me if I want fries?
Don't want a gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? Don't get one!
That will be my strategy. Any future consoles which require a constant internet connection will simply not get bought.
I've already disconnected by XBox from my network because I started seeing ads in the home screen in the game. Unless they're paying me for the ads, I don't give a crap about their revenue stream.
If Microsoft can't understand why people don't want this, then they can try to figure out after the fact why nobody is buying it. Required internet connection is a non-starter for me.
Once again, the arrogance of these guys is, while unsurprising, still quite galling.
It is a rendering engine. How many end users have even heard of webkit?
Anybody who has ever looked at their task manager and wondered WTF WebKit2WebProcess process was and why it was using so much memory.
I find it tends to try to use as much memory as it possibly can, and even if it's sitting just on a single web page over time it bloats enough that I have to exit the browser and restart it to reclaim it
I just wish Safari could actually delete cookies without that webkit process crashing. I suspect both Apple and Google would far rather I kept cookies so they could make money from me.
I'm starting to lose my patience with webkit based browsers.
I doubt that. There is no clause that says only one individual can use a username/password
Actually, most sites have TOS lines which say you can't share your password with anybody, and that you're not allowed to log into someone else's account or ask for their password.
So this notional employer logging into your Facebook account most likely is in violation of the TOS, and would have broken the law.
It's an amazing coincidence that when it comes to the security that your anger or problem should always be directed at the group other than the one you are currently talking to.
Only because everything I responded to was in relation to airlines, connecting flights, and boarding; not security.
Security has nothing whatsoever to do with boarding of planes and making connecting flights except it's one of the things which can contribute to delays you should be factoring in. Yet an amazing amount of people still think they can show up at the airport 20 minutes before the flight and still make it.
Making sure you make your connecting flight isn't what TSA does.
It's like a disfunctional marriage where somehow the household work gets done, but neither person has uttered a word to the other in 5 years.
No, actually that's a lousy analogy to what the post I replied to said since he was talking about making connecting flights and how shitty airlines handle that.
In this case, it's more like you were supposed to meet your wife for coffee, but got a speeding ticket on the way, she gave up on waiting for you and left, and then saying that it's the cop fault for giving you a speeding ticket.
The TSA sucks in a lot of ways, and has a lot of problems. Missing a connecting flight but having your baggage travel on... well, that's between you and your airline and has nothing to do with the TSA.
Airline travel sucks, for several independent reasons. There is no Catch 22 involved when it was your airline who screwed you in terms of being angry at the TSA.
Wow. No, I have never encountered that form of retail, and I don't think I'd be inclined to unless they're a lot cheaper than anywhere else and I knew exactly what I was buying.
Are you an idiot? Nice false dilemma there skippy.
Yes, I voluntarily work in a field which occasionally requires air travel, because it pays better than McDonald's.
I could choose to be a wage slave and work for shit money because it wouldn't involve air travel, but that wouldn't get me anywhere. You could choose to not be so thick.
That's hard for some people when you find out that your conecting flight has your luggage, but you are 30 seconds late to board, so all your belongings are headed on, but not you.
That's odd, because for the last 10 years, when they're calling the flight and if you don't come to the desk, they say they'll pull your luggage. They're not supposed to let your luggage fly without you. If they're putting your luggage on and not you, I think they're in violation of FAA policy.
And, the people you need to be angry with are the agents of the airlines NOT the security folks. The customer dis-service reps deserve a little ire now and then. But getting into it with security is just asking for trouble.
I've been flying long enough that I allocate *lots* of time to make connecting flights -- like 1.5-2 hours minimum to absorb any delays, more if it's winter or an international flight. Mostly because I've learned you need to account for delays and other things which work against you.
Any time I see someone who allocated 20 minutes to catch a connecting flight, I just shake my head, because it was never realistic for you to make that connection in the first place. In some airports it can take more than that to get to your next gate if it's in a different concourse.
And this is why i'll never step onto a commercial airliner again.
Well, you're definitely free to make that choice.
For many of us, air travel is a reality that comes with our jobs. Not flying isn't really an option.
Which means your next best solution is to make the process involve as little hassle for yourself as possible.
Do I think the TSA is stupid, wasteful, and draconian? Absolutely. Do I think going through airport security is the time to make a beef about it? Not bloody likely.
One was merely insensitive: the passenger asked a flight attendant if she'd ever been hijacked.
Modern reality is that there's probably a list of words that if you simply don't say in the context of air travel you'll be better off. I should think any mention of 'bomb', 'hijack', 'gun', 'crash' isn't going to go well in most cases.
You can always choose to exercise your right to say something more inflammatory (it is your right after all), but there is likely to be some consequences from it... so using your judgement can't hurt since your 'right' doesn't occur in a vacuum.
Me, I just go for the meek, somewhat tired, and maybe slightly tipsy traveler who doesn't want to give them a hard time and whose bags x-ray as utterly boring and doesn't set off the metal detector.
I don't like the TSA and the security theater, but I have little interest in pissing them off either.
I was really expecting them to unleash the dogs on him for that
Well, there's little room to interpret buying you a drink as anything threatening.
But the people who make jokes about having bombs or firearms? Well, that's just stupidity on their behalf, because it won't be taken well. You might as well go to a women's crisis center and make rape jokes -- they're just not going to work.
I've long since learned that at an airport, it's best to just play it cool, and be seen to be non-threatening or angry with them. Untie the shoes before you even get called, make sure you know what's in your pockets so you can remove it (a shocking amount of people don't seem to know what they're carrying), smile at them -- they may be idiots with no real training in some cases, but they respond to polite a whole lot better.
Some people seem to think it's a good time to make a political statement or otherwise act like an ass. It's your choice to do that, but certain kinds of jokes with these kinds of people are never going to be taken nicely. Hell, even "Airplane" in 1980 was making the "Hi, Jack!" jokes, and that was long before people got ramped up to the current state.
On the other hand, I once had a TSA agent become very interested in the my GPS for golf after he'd examined it. A friendly chat and a quick product endorsement, and I was on my way.
since they are comitting a federal crime if they USE that password
Doubtful. Employers and people looking after copyrights will be given exemptions to use 'extra legal' methods in order to pursue their requirements.
Thee and me get screwed, but companies and other donors will be exempt. Politicians, as always, will be exempt.
Just like how Sony never got prosecuted for installing root kits or the *AAs can use shady techniques to investigate -- because they were protecting copyright, so all of those pesky laws against what they did don't apply.
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This completely misses the reason why those fake journals exist in the first place -- which is usually so an industry group can point to 'science' which supports their claims.
Tobacco, oil, pharma, and political groups all have an interest in these so they can try to win public opinion.
This isn't fake journals scamming the people who submit papers, this is fake journals which are created to produce cite-able papers which have the appropriate spin for the groups which pay fund them.
It's all about how you present your skewed position as being equally valid to the position you're trying to counter, and making sure it's even more difficult for people to say your claims are bunk.
I was just thinking the same thing ... you can't take copyrighted images and turn them into 'art' unless the people who you got it from say OK.
I can't see how taking these images from Google Maps could even come close to something he's allowed to do.
Time travel is possible -- it's just that so far we've only figured out the forward, linear kind. ;-)
This reminds me of JK Rowling's "A Casual Vacancy" since this kind of casual hack figures into the plot.
I for one welcome our new super-sized crustacean overlords. :-P
Which is amusing, because everyone else was laughing at them for having Windows phones. ;-)
And to counter my previous point, I must be one of the few people who has had an actual good overall experience with Vista.
I bought a big honking machine knowing I'd be running Vista, and if you throw enough resources at it, it was actually pretty good and quite stable. It's still my main desktop in fact -- my Linux boxes have been relegated to VMs running on Vista.
Though, I'm not getting a warm fuzzy about Window 8, so I might see if I can't still get a Win 7 machine provided I can afford something which is actually an upgrade from what I have now. :-P
Welcome to globalization ... the corporations and governments tell us it's inevitable and that it's good. Now it's a race to the bottom.
The companies who want this aren't incapable of finding talent, they're unwilling to pay the salaries of Americans.
They're inshoring the jobs basically and driving down domestic wages by making you compete with underpaid foreign workers.
Since corporate profits will be at an all time high, so will executive bonuses and shareholder value.
Somehow, that makes it even more awesome for the rest of us.
???
Profit
Well, Feinstein has figured out banning the guns won't work, and the NRA just want to Blame Someone Else.
I wouldn't go around thinking they've suddenly agreed about something.
These people want this information shared for their own purposes.
This has nothing at all to do with protecting banks from DDoS -- it's about ensuring government access to all of our data. If they can get private industry to hand them data they can't collect on their own then they can circumvent other laws.
I agree with the assessment that no law is going to make this kind of attack hitting from all over the world (and probably on zombie computers) go away.
These people just want the total surveillance world that scares the rest of us.
Well, in general, I've found smiling at people gets a better response, so I usually try to make it my default position.
At the end of the day, I don't think the process would go any smoother for me if I'm cranky with them. If I treat them decently, they don't feel the need to demonstrate who is in charge.
Then again, I also make a point of not flying through the really major airports, because those ones are going to suck no matter what you do. My one experience with customs at Newark taught me that it isn't an airport I'd ever fly through again, since the default position of the agents is "cranky asshole". Chicago just plain sucks and is to be avoided. In some of the less major airports, there's a chance of the people actually having a little latitude and a better attitude.
You know, having been through airports for almost 20 years now ... if you know what you've packed and minimize the crap you have on your person, that's not actually even that tough.
And since my luggage has been packed to telegraph the fact that I don't have anything suspicious (because I don't), and because I know what's in my pockets and can shed it quickly, I haven't had them check a bag or make the metal detector go 'beep' in well over a decade. It's usually under 2 minutes from starting to put stuff in the bin to picking stuff up at the end.
Welding, plumbing, pipe fitting, and saying "would you like fries with that" ... then the cycle starts all over again.
Then, arguably, skip the PhD and go straight onto that other training which will get you a job.
What you're describing is finishing up your PhD, and then having to get trained into other fields to have marketable skills.
None of the jobs you're describing would need you to complete your doctoral work, so it sounds like you're saying "Yeah, it's a waste, but if you re-train afterwards, you can actually find jobs". Designing ESL courses sounds more like you need a degree in education, and not a PhD in literature.
What have you seen that suggest that is true?
That was the kind of thing which happened while people's parents could still afford to send them to school to "find themselves", but over the last few years has mostly gone away.
We don't live in the Star Trek universe where we have unlimited resources, and you can pursue whatever interests you. And it was only ever a small percentage of all of the people in the world that had this illusion that we can provide for everyone -- the rest of the world has been struggling just as much as ever.
No, we need to look at it in the context of our current industrial age of feudal corporate economics which is the new god demanding a sacrifice. Everything now is measured by "shareholder value", and an expected year-over-year gain to keep the stock markets going up. A world where corporations want to tell universities what they should be doing.
Pretty much the entire economy since about 2008 has been moving away from this enlightened society you seem to think is still around.
Not to downplay this persons experience ... but, since this is Slashdot, and a tech-heavy web site ... show of hands for people who are shocked a PhD in literature may not be an awesome career path? Anybody?
Universities are pinched, and there's an increasing move among governments to say "why are we training people for stuff for which there are no jobs?". I knew someone years ago who was in his 5th year of university, working on a BA in English, had massive debts, and no prospects -- and the question at the time was, "other than personal interest, what will this degree ever do for you?". He had no idea about that.
Unfortunately, much of the 'humanities' subjects in university are so specialized and highly focused, that it's hard not to see how some of this is relevant to anybody except other people with PhDs in the field.
I've known a few people who studied post-modernism in literature ... and even they couldn't tell me what you'd use it for other than a purely academic discussion. For that matter, they mostly can't even define what post-modernism is to a layman, or why it has to be so incomprehensible that a computer generated paper gets accepted into journals.
Sadly, some degrees can only qualify you for academia, and if those positions aren't available, what have you gained by it? The ability to cite Chaucer while asking me if I want fries?
That will be my strategy. Any future consoles which require a constant internet connection will simply not get bought.
I've already disconnected by XBox from my network because I started seeing ads in the home screen in the game. Unless they're paying me for the ads, I don't give a crap about their revenue stream.
If Microsoft can't understand why people don't want this, then they can try to figure out after the fact why nobody is buying it. Required internet connection is a non-starter for me.
Once again, the arrogance of these guys is, while unsurprising, still quite galling.
Anybody who has ever looked at their task manager and wondered WTF WebKit2WebProcess process was and why it was using so much memory.
I find it tends to try to use as much memory as it possibly can, and even if it's sitting just on a single web page over time it bloats enough that I have to exit the browser and restart it to reclaim it
I just wish Safari could actually delete cookies without that webkit process crashing. I suspect both Apple and Google would far rather I kept cookies so they could make money from me.
I'm starting to lose my patience with webkit based browsers.
Actually, most sites have TOS lines which say you can't share your password with anybody, and that you're not allowed to log into someone else's account or ask for their password.
So this notional employer logging into your Facebook account most likely is in violation of the TOS, and would have broken the law.
Only because everything I responded to was in relation to airlines, connecting flights, and boarding; not security.
Security has nothing whatsoever to do with boarding of planes and making connecting flights except it's one of the things which can contribute to delays you should be factoring in. Yet an amazing amount of people still think they can show up at the airport 20 minutes before the flight and still make it.
Making sure you make your connecting flight isn't what TSA does.
No, actually that's a lousy analogy to what the post I replied to said since he was talking about making connecting flights and how shitty airlines handle that.
In this case, it's more like you were supposed to meet your wife for coffee, but got a speeding ticket on the way, she gave up on waiting for you and left, and then saying that it's the cop fault for giving you a speeding ticket.
The TSA sucks in a lot of ways, and has a lot of problems. Missing a connecting flight but having your baggage travel on ... well, that's between you and your airline and has nothing to do with the TSA.
Airline travel sucks, for several independent reasons. There is no Catch 22 involved when it was your airline who screwed you in terms of being angry at the TSA.
Wow. No, I have never encountered that form of retail, and I don't think I'd be inclined to unless they're a lot cheaper than anywhere else and I knew exactly what I was buying.
For that kind of service, I'd just order on-line.
Are you an idiot? Nice false dilemma there skippy.
Yes, I voluntarily work in a field which occasionally requires air travel, because it pays better than McDonald's.
I could choose to be a wage slave and work for shit money because it wouldn't involve air travel, but that wouldn't get me anywhere. You could choose to not be so thick.
That's odd, because for the last 10 years, when they're calling the flight and if you don't come to the desk, they say they'll pull your luggage. They're not supposed to let your luggage fly without you. If they're putting your luggage on and not you, I think they're in violation of FAA policy.
And, the people you need to be angry with are the agents of the airlines NOT the security folks. The customer dis-service reps deserve a little ire now and then. But getting into it with security is just asking for trouble.
I've been flying long enough that I allocate *lots* of time to make connecting flights -- like 1.5-2 hours minimum to absorb any delays, more if it's winter or an international flight. Mostly because I've learned you need to account for delays and other things which work against you.
Any time I see someone who allocated 20 minutes to catch a connecting flight, I just shake my head, because it was never realistic for you to make that connection in the first place. In some airports it can take more than that to get to your next gate if it's in a different concourse.
Well, you're definitely free to make that choice.
For many of us, air travel is a reality that comes with our jobs. Not flying isn't really an option.
Which means your next best solution is to make the process involve as little hassle for yourself as possible.
Do I think the TSA is stupid, wasteful, and draconian? Absolutely. Do I think going through airport security is the time to make a beef about it? Not bloody likely.
Modern reality is that there's probably a list of words that if you simply don't say in the context of air travel you'll be better off. I should think any mention of 'bomb', 'hijack', 'gun', 'crash' isn't going to go well in most cases.
You can always choose to exercise your right to say something more inflammatory (it is your right after all), but there is likely to be some consequences from it ... so using your judgement can't hurt since your 'right' doesn't occur in a vacuum.
Me, I just go for the meek, somewhat tired, and maybe slightly tipsy traveler who doesn't want to give them a hard time and whose bags x-ray as utterly boring and doesn't set off the metal detector.
I don't like the TSA and the security theater, but I have little interest in pissing them off either.
Well, there's little room to interpret buying you a drink as anything threatening.
But the people who make jokes about having bombs or firearms? Well, that's just stupidity on their behalf, because it won't be taken well. You might as well go to a women's crisis center and make rape jokes -- they're just not going to work.
I've long since learned that at an airport, it's best to just play it cool, and be seen to be non-threatening or angry with them. Untie the shoes before you even get called, make sure you know what's in your pockets so you can remove it (a shocking amount of people don't seem to know what they're carrying), smile at them -- they may be idiots with no real training in some cases, but they respond to polite a whole lot better.
Some people seem to think it's a good time to make a political statement or otherwise act like an ass. It's your choice to do that, but certain kinds of jokes with these kinds of people are never going to be taken nicely. Hell, even "Airplane" in 1980 was making the "Hi, Jack!" jokes, and that was long before people got ramped up to the current state.
On the other hand, I once had a TSA agent become very interested in the my GPS for golf after he'd examined it. A friendly chat and a quick product endorsement, and I was on my way.
Doubtful. Employers and people looking after copyrights will be given exemptions to use 'extra legal' methods in order to pursue their requirements.
Thee and me get screwed, but companies and other donors will be exempt. Politicians, as always, will be exempt.
Just like how Sony never got prosecuted for installing root kits or the *AAs can use shady techniques to investigate -- because they were protecting copyright, so all of those pesky laws against what they did don't apply.