Why should I, a researcher, have to pay journals to publish my work, sign over my copyrights to them, and have my work paywalled with ridiculous prices to access my work?
That's an easy one for Elsevier to answer: "Because MONEY! Sweet, sweet money. Not your money, oh no, OUR money! It's all OURS! Mine, mine, mine, ME ME ME!"
The only way this could possibly get better is if Apple started selling his music -- his original compositions originally self-recorded onto local storage and then involuntarily moved to the cloud -- to other Apple Music customers without his consent.
It could get better- they could sue him for illegally downloading/copying his own music, like the filthy profit-killing pirate he is!
"...iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple's database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn't recognize -- which came up often, since I'm a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself -- it would then download it to Apple's database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me"
Wow, what a fabulous process. I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Oh, wait...
Seriously, the idea that Apple (or any company) could remotely reach into your PC and remove arbitrary files is mind-bending. Yes, I'm sure their EULA "allows" it, but still, WTF??
So while they may not send a lot of legit mail outside of Russia, I'd say Mail.ru is still a net positive.
That's like saying "the tsunami that washed your burning house out to sea put out the fire, so lets have a round of applause for the tsunami."
Or...to use a car analogy: the car accident turned you into a quadriplegic, but the upside is that you won't ever need to go shopping for clothes again!
I'm going to make a comment and my comment will be so great, unlike those other comments which are awful. When you see my comment you'll know how great it is, it'll be so great that you'll actually get tired of how great it is. And my comment will win. It'll win and win and win. It'll win so much you'll get tired of it winning, that's how much it'll win and how great it will be. And no one else will have comments as great as my, I guarantee it, there is no problem with my comments, everyone knows that and they agree that my comments are great. I'll build a wall around my comments and I'll make Slashdot pay for it, you'll see. And it'll be a great comment, a beautiful comment, a comment like no other comment before it. And there will be a Reply button in my comment, a big, beautiful Reply button. And those who want to reply can do so after they've been vetted. Nobody builds Reply buttons like me. Trust me, my comment will be great and it will win.
There is a Russian underworld? I thought the Russian underworld successfully merged with the Russian government during the Yeltsin era and is now literally blossoming under Putin.
You are correct. Check out the "Russian Business Network", or RBN. They're definitely part of the day-to-day operations of the Russian economy and are meshed intimately with the government at nearly every level. They make the Mafia look like rank amateurs.
"The Copyright Office requires the use of proprietary JavaScript in order to submit the comment and they are only accepting comments online unless a person lacks computer or Internet access."
I'm sorry, but that collection of words makes no sense. If I lack "computer or Internet access" how the hell am I supposed to send comments online?
Single-payer has advantages that private, for-profit hospitals cannot compete with. No marketing, tremendous bargaining power, and more standardized care make a huge difference. Other countries have been doing it successfully for decades, and the VA here shows it can be done.
Some things should NOT be run for profit, including health care, education, and prisons.
I have to admit, the credentials of the researchers notwithstanding, I find the notion that medical errors are the "third-leading cause of death" in the US is hard to swallow.
Alcohol, car accidents, heart disease, smoking, stroke, cancer....all those things kill millions. The idea that improper diagnosis and/or treatment outweighs those things just seems unrealistic to me.
Less than two percent has never qualified as "many" in any circumstance. It qualifies as "close to nobody". If I said "nobody uses Windows 3.1 anymore",most people would agree. More people use Windows 3.1 on the desktop than does Linux on the desktop.
Then it would seem that "many" people are using Windows 3.1. Hint: It doesn't matter if 95 BILLION people are using something else, but a million people doing anything counts as "many" by any stretch of the imagination.
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Your penis is so fucking small
Yes, yes, that is undoubtedly the issue here. Yes, my small penis is definitely the reason why I think many people are using Linux on the desktop. It's so obvious! lololol
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You really need to go out and get some sex done, even if you have to pay for it.
Lol, I'll ask my wife if I can "go out and get some sex done". She's pretty open-minded but I'm not sure she'll go along with your idea.
You, on the other hand, seem to be very comfortable about paying for sex, so perhaps you could take your own advice.:) (If you ever get a wife or girlfriend or boyfriend or goat or whatever and actually have some sex, you might not come off as being so tightly wound. Like I said, that Steve Jobs poster is going to be of limited usefulness in the long run.)
Did anyone else notice the checkbox to disable ads for high karma users is now gone on Slashdot? It stopped working a few weeks ago, and now it's just gone altogether.
I still see it. I don't use it because I use Adblock, but it's still there at the top-right of the page.
Normally I'd be against what you're suggesting...but sometimes (like today) I'm inclined to endorse it wholeheartedly, and maybe even open a KickStarter to fund such a project. All we need is a snappy name for it...
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Two words, Microsoft...Linux Mint.
Go ahead, I dare you. I dare you to force my PC to upgrade to Win 10.
I've already been using it on my laptop in anticipation of this, and so far it works great for me.
Why should I, a researcher, have to pay journals to publish my work, sign over my copyrights to them, and have my work paywalled with ridiculous prices to access my work?
That's an easy one for Elsevier to answer: "Because MONEY! Sweet, sweet money. Not your money, oh no, OUR money! It's all OURS! Mine, mine, mine, ME ME ME!"
Wait...they FORCE me to upgrade and then bill me for it? Now THAT'S innovation!
The real crime here is that 3 sandwiches and 15 wings costs $56.77.
They must come wrapped in gold leaf, delivered on the backs of Nubian slave girls.
The only way this could possibly get better is if Apple started selling his music -- his original compositions originally self-recorded onto local storage and then involuntarily moved to the cloud -- to other Apple Music customers without his consent.
It could get better- they could sue him for illegally downloading/copying his own music, like the filthy profit-killing pirate he is!
"...iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple's database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn't recognize -- which came up often, since I'm a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself -- it would then download it to Apple's database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me"
Wow, what a fabulous process. I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Oh, wait...
Seriously, the idea that Apple (or any company) could remotely reach into your PC and remove arbitrary files is mind-bending. Yes, I'm sure their EULA "allows" it, but still, WTF??
Why would the stitching robot have access to the internet?
Because people are stupid.
So while they may not send a lot of legit mail outside of Russia, I'd say Mail.ru is still a net positive.
That's like saying "the tsunami that washed your burning house out to sea put out the fire, so lets have a round of applause for the tsunami."
Or...to use a car analogy: the car accident turned you into a quadriplegic, but the upside is that you won't ever need to go shopping for clothes again!
>What part of that is in any way unclear?
The part with the words.
The Beginning Of The End.
I'm going to make a comment and my comment will be so great, unlike those other comments which are awful. When you see my comment you'll know how great it is, it'll be so great that you'll actually get tired of how great it is. And my comment will win. It'll win and win and win. It'll win so much you'll get tired of it winning, that's how much it'll win and how great it will be. And no one else will have comments as great as my, I guarantee it, there is no problem with my comments, everyone knows that and they agree that my comments are great. I'll build a wall around my comments and I'll make Slashdot pay for it, you'll see. And it'll be a great comment, a beautiful comment, a comment like no other comment before it. And there will be a Reply button in my comment, a big, beautiful Reply button. And those who want to reply can do so after they've been vetted. Nobody builds Reply buttons like me. Trust me, my comment will be great and it will win.
Last year, more people physically traveled to a stadium to watch the League of Legends finals than did so for the College basketball finals.
That's because League of Legends is at least somewhat interesting.
There is a Russian underworld? I thought the Russian underworld successfully merged with the Russian government during the Yeltsin era and is now literally blossoming under Putin.
You are correct. Check out the "Russian Business Network", or RBN. They're definitely part of the day-to-day operations of the Russian economy and are meshed intimately with the government at nearly every level. They make the Mafia look like rank amateurs.
"The Copyright Office requires the use of proprietary JavaScript in order to submit the comment and they are only accepting comments online unless a person lacks computer or Internet access."
I'm sorry, but that collection of words makes no sense. If I lack "computer or Internet access" how the hell am I supposed to send comments online?
"Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services - expert"
Wow, no shit?? Bloomberg is really on the cutting edge of newsy stuff, like fer sure. Oooh, and their big discovery is "Exclusive" too.
You could run this headline every day and it would be true. Has Bloomberg just discovered email and hackers and stuff?
Tomorrow's story is "malware infects Windows computer"
WHAT YOU SAY???
A friend that runs a small anti-spam company says that he's "never seen a legit email" from Mail.ru, period.
I'm sure they exists, but when they're only 0.000000000000000000000001 of the volume, it's probably hard to detect.
Well said, and you are entirely correct.
Single-payer has advantages that private, for-profit hospitals cannot compete with. No marketing, tremendous bargaining power, and more standardized care make a huge difference. Other countries have been doing it successfully for decades, and the VA here shows it can be done.
Some things should NOT be run for profit, including health care, education, and prisons.
I have to admit, the credentials of the researchers notwithstanding, I find the notion that medical errors are the "third-leading cause of death" in the US is hard to swallow.
Alcohol, car accidents, heart disease, smoking, stroke, cancer....all those things kill millions. The idea that improper diagnosis and/or treatment outweighs those things just seems unrealistic to me.
Remarkably, no airplane made the list.
Errr. I'm not sure the airplane can really be considered a "gadget".
If that's the case then we might as well say that aircraft carriers were the most influential "gadget".
The real problem with Carlybot is that they couldn't overcome the 'uncanny valley' issue with her facial expressions.
Wait a second...
Rafael Cruz AND Glen Beck both said Ted Cruz was "anointed by god" to be the next president. How could god have gotten it so wrong??
Less than two percent has never qualified as "many" in any circumstance. It qualifies as "close to nobody". If I said "nobody uses Windows 3.1 anymore",most people would agree. More people use Windows 3.1 on the desktop than does Linux on the desktop.
Then it would seem that "many" people are using Windows 3.1. Hint: It doesn't matter if 95 BILLION people are using something else, but a million people doing anything counts as "many" by any stretch of the imagination.
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Your penis is so fucking small
Yes, yes, that is undoubtedly the issue here. Yes, my small penis is definitely the reason why I think many people are using Linux on the desktop. It's so obvious! lololol
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You really need to go out and get some sex done, even if you have to pay for it.
Lol, I'll ask my wife if I can "go out and get some sex done". She's pretty open-minded but I'm not sure she'll go along with your idea.
You, on the other hand, seem to be very comfortable about paying for sex, so perhaps you could take your own advice. :)
(If you ever get a wife or girlfriend or boyfriend or goat or whatever and actually have some sex, you might not come off as being so tightly wound. Like I said, that Steve Jobs poster is going to be of limited usefulness in the long run.)
I've still got it, but ticking it does nothing. It's back again on the next reload, unticked.
Submitting a comment doesn't add it to the discussion, either - it just goes "Working...". Reloading the page shows the comment, though.
I noticed this too...I thought it was just me.
It just shows "Working" forever, but as you said, reloading the page shows the comment was added.
Did anyone else notice the checkbox to disable ads for high karma users is now gone on Slashdot?
It stopped working a few weeks ago, and now it's just gone altogether.
I still see it. I don't use it because I use Adblock, but it's still there at the top-right of the page.
Normally I'd be against what you're suggesting...but sometimes (like today) I'm inclined to endorse it wholeheartedly, and maybe even open a KickStarter to fund such a project. All we need is a snappy name for it...