The effect is quite audible on my macbook pro. If I visit thepiratebay results page and disable adblock plus, the fans noise up from zero to the top speed in 30 seconds. Firefox CPU usage jumps to 25%. This stops as soon as the web page is closed, of course.
Why travel to the US while there are good security conferences in Europe? Take Chaos Communication Congress every December, or the Dutch and German summer camps that take place at around the same time as DEF CON. I've just been to SHA2017, it was large, lots of fun and some really interesting talks.
So how does that work when you see your mom/sister/daughter/grandmother/etc?
People are sexually desensitized to those they grew up closely with. That's a strong trait acquired by natural selection, because incest is very bad for the survival rate of offspring.
Now, if you first meet your sibling as an adult, there is nothing to stop attraction at the emotional level (except your reasoning, knowledge, and social pressure).
KLM's Economy extra is a wonderful idea when one is in full controll of the purchase. Unfortunately it does not work with govt employers (virtually any govt!) that all set "economy only" rules. So I prefer - where reasonable - Air Canada, where every seat is like KLM's economy extra. Now, if only KLM figured out how to call that class plain economy on the receipt, it would have made it so much more attractive.
I don't bitch and moan because when booking a flight for work, I'm required to find the cheapest option (especially important since I work for the Government) and justify my choice if it's not the cheapest.
Guess that's an inefficient government? The cheapest options are often expensive ones (no pun), because of the inconveniences and lost work time/productivity they entail. Having to document the obvoius is adding insult to injury.
Another factor is, navigating the airline pricing is art. Travel planning is complex optimisation. Can't be formalised.
To be fair, I suspect that if you did this (i.e. conducted an experiment that polled random people on the street about such topics) you'd find that the overwhelming majority could answer perfectly fine.
Sci-hub provides a service that is needed to improve the advancement of knowledge and development of our civilisation. Enter DOI, hit Enter, here is the PDF of the article. Any article. No geographic restrictions, no walled gardens, no logins, no fees, no delays. In the 20 years of internet, the legacy publishing model has been unable to provide this service to everyone on the planet. So the legacy model is now being forced to change. That is good.
It took the book industry 10 years of underground text exchanges and free e-libraries to even start offering ebooks of most titles (including older titles). It used to be impossible to read an electronic version legally, or pay for the book without forcibly getting the dead tree in one's possession; now it is, for most books (Amazon / Kindle). It took 5 years of Napster and the like for the music industry to start offering kind of usable electronic service (iTunes). For the movies, we are not even there; the customer choices and delivery format are substantially selectively restricted. So keep pirating the movies.
My older reason not to publish with Elsevier: the copyright transfer agreement does not grant a license to publish the journal version on a personal or employer's website. Most other subscription model journals in my field allow that, so I have a collection of my journal articles online -- all legal. Can't do that with Nature articles though (which I reluctantly accept because of the journals' high reputation), and can't do that with Elsevier (shitty impact factor, but the same rules as Nature).
The newer reason is that academic publishing societies (such as AIP, IOP) accept that they are in the quest for the advancement of knowledge rather than making money, and don't actually consider suing the founders of sci-hub (and similar cases) to be an ethical option. Elsevier does, no qualms about that. So don't publish with Elsevier.
All the above has NOTHING to do with the journal quality. Publishing research with little or no quality checks is quite possible in lots of subscription-based journals.
The authors had the choice of publishing through these journals or not. They made their choice; they assigned their copyrights to the journals. Nobody held a gun to their heads
A gun no, just an incentive to continue in academic jobs. You have to play with the system even if you don't like it.
it's called "theft", and is treated as such by the courts and by most people who actually _write_ and publish such papers
Lots of my papers published in subscription-model journals are in sci-hub. I'm glad they are. It's time to dismantle the closed publishing model. As a scientist, I lend my moral support to the team behind sci-hub. I will also not publish with Elsevier, even though I already made that decision years ago for other reasons.
I wonder how many employee's homes got infested by bringing bedbugs in clothing and personal belongings. The facility is surely possible to treat with heat, but would then re-infestation occur via employees bringing them back from their homes? Should the employer offer bedbug treatment to any employee who needs it, at the same time?
This is an expensive problem.
I've just had a misfortune to stay in a hotel in Paris infested with bedbugs (Hotel Aladin at Les Gobelins). Found them after two nights in the place, after bites inflamed all over my body. To be on the safe side, I ordered emergency treatment of my luggage, which was performed by dousing it with a chemical, with all my belongings laid out right on a Paris street. Possibly an overkill, but better be on the safe side. I also washed the clothes I was in as soon as I could. I also packed electronics in tight plastic bags and ran it through thermal treatment back home.
Funnily when I tried to check in to another, better, Paris hotel _after the treatment_ and told them of the problem I had, the hotel manager swiftly escorted me out of the reception. He told they had bedbugs and it took them two months to get rid of, so they were not taking any chances. I had to stay silent when searching for a room after that.
First, the title is misleading. They used a satellite equipped with classical optical telecom to checkup some ground-based quantum receiving technology, but this was NOT quantum communication with the satellite. The sat they used is dead classical, built for other purposes. A new properly equipped quantum satellite would be needed for actual quantum communication.
Second, this is old news. The team has been reporting this experiment at conferences for the past year. This is to say, the German experiment was much less impressive but they got it a year ahead of the Chinese team.
How do I prepapre for the theft? I have Prey installed https://www.preyproject.com/ , and leave the machine unlocked and unencrypted. When it was stolen, the police arrested the thief within 90 minutes of him switching the machine on. (This works, of course, becase thieves are not smart.)
For really confidential stuff, we have other secure machines and procedures. The notebooks are for daily work.
That's a good points. The next thing will be post-quantum crypto, and will probably need to exchange data of significant size, even if everything else is made efficient.
Legacy systems will quickly become obsolete, as their stagnating performance will make them useless for future computing and communication tasks. Sure you can have a working 300 baud modem, but what would you do with it on today's internet and industrial control systems? Servers will probably time out trying to deliver a web page through it. In the world where Moore's law reigns, retiring older technologies only makes sense.
Thanks. Seriously, that's another compromise. I tried to switch to Linux twice, with several years in between. Both times it ended up in a UI and experience disaster, I lost work files and/or OS installation within days of starting it. I don't think I am sufficiently geeky, or non-dumbass as you say, to manage Linux on a personal computer. We run it on lab servers and there it's good but, in my experience, it's too much of a geekhole for the PC used by non-programmers.
I am talking about my own experience (Win 7) and I compare Windows updates to other vendor's updates. Okay I agree with you, now I remember, Windows update probably broke one thing in my computer and it can no longer hybernate correctly. That happened on travel and caused me a day of mess. I'd blame that on buggy Apple's drivers for macbook, though. (That's another compromise.)
The problem is, not letting it update is even worse. I did that for a while years ago, then had to reinstall the OS from scratch as it got thoroughly infected.
As the article points out, a big part of the reason is that people disable automatic updates. This should never be done, but I can understand. Automatic updates are rude. They change and break things. Windows updates got kinda nicer last few years (after you disable automatic reboot http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d... ), but all other software updates are still crap. Every time I run a third-party sofware update (Adobe, Flash, etc.), it breaks and resets things. No I don't want a new UI for Acrobat that makes the icons twice the size (nope, forced). No I don't want the load-at-boot reinstalled (nope. reinstalled. fire msconfig and regedit to get rid of it). No I don't want to reinstall the auto-update (ditto). No I don't want my print settings reset to default (nope, done). And crap like that, every time. This is a price for security that we should not have to pay.
Assange already gave some bullshit excuse as soon as the pardon was announced months ago.
It was reasonable, even prudent, to wait until Manning is actually released from the prison. Who knows, a pardon decision may get reversed and overridden. That wasn't in Assange's bullshit excuse months ago, but anyway. He has had time to think this through in these months. Now Assange must turn himself in to the US authorities, as he promised.
What I don't understand is why other journals can't take the market share.
In my field (quantum physics and engineering), there are lots of good alternatives. Most journals are published by non-profit and academis societies (IOP, APS, etc.). Actually the one or two relevant journals by Elsevier are at the low end of the quality spectrum.
Slashdot Mirror
P.S. Could that be a reason for inconsistencies in battery life tests of the latest MBPs?
The effect is quite audible on my macbook pro. If I visit thepiratebay results page and disable adblock plus, the fans noise up from zero to the top speed in 30 seconds. Firefox CPU usage jumps to 25%. This stops as soon as the web page is closed, of course.
Rail track sabotage is nothing new, and when done properly can lead to significant loss of life and service disruption. We still ride trains.
Why travel to the US while there are good security conferences in Europe? Take Chaos Communication Congress every December, or the Dutch and German summer camps that take place at around the same time as DEF CON. I've just been to SHA2017, it was large, lots of fun and some really interesting talks.
So how does that work when you see your mom/sister/daughter/grandmother/etc?
People are sexually desensitized to those they grew up closely with. That's a strong trait acquired by natural selection, because incest is very bad for the survival rate of offspring.
Now, if you first meet your sibling as an adult, there is nothing to stop attraction at the emotional level (except your reasoning, knowledge, and social pressure).
KLM's Economy extra is a wonderful idea when one is in full controll of the purchase. Unfortunately it does not work with govt employers (virtually any govt!) that all set "economy only" rules. So I prefer - where reasonable - Air Canada, where every seat is like KLM's economy extra. Now, if only KLM figured out how to call that class plain economy on the receipt, it would have made it so much more attractive.
Guess that's an inefficient government? The cheapest options are often expensive ones (no pun), because of the inconveniences and lost work time/productivity they entail. Having to document the obvoius is adding insult to injury.
Another factor is, navigating the airline pricing is art. Travel planning is complex optimisation. Can't be formalised.
To be fair, I suspect that if you did this (i.e. conducted an experiment that polled random people on the street about such topics) you'd find that the overwhelming majority could answer perfectly fine.
Uh, unfortunately not.
Sci-hub provides a service that is needed to improve the advancement of knowledge and development of our civilisation. Enter DOI, hit Enter, here is the PDF of the article. Any article. No geographic restrictions, no walled gardens, no logins, no fees, no delays. In the 20 years of internet, the legacy publishing model has been unable to provide this service to everyone on the planet. So the legacy model is now being forced to change. That is good.
It took the book industry 10 years of underground text exchanges and free e-libraries to even start offering ebooks of most titles (including older titles). It used to be impossible to read an electronic version legally, or pay for the book without forcibly getting the dead tree in one's possession; now it is, for most books (Amazon / Kindle). It took 5 years of Napster and the like for the music industry to start offering kind of usable electronic service (iTunes). For the movies, we are not even there; the customer choices and delivery format are substantially selectively restricted. So keep pirating the movies.
My older reason not to publish with Elsevier: the copyright transfer agreement does not grant a license to publish the journal version on a personal or employer's website. Most other subscription model journals in my field allow that, so I have a collection of my journal articles online -- all legal. Can't do that with Nature articles though (which I reluctantly accept because of the journals' high reputation), and can't do that with Elsevier (shitty impact factor, but the same rules as Nature).
The newer reason is that academic publishing societies (such as AIP, IOP) accept that they are in the quest for the advancement of knowledge rather than making money, and don't actually consider suing the founders of sci-hub (and similar cases) to be an ethical option. Elsevier does, no qualms about that. So don't publish with Elsevier.
All the above has NOTHING to do with the journal quality. Publishing research with little or no quality checks is quite possible in lots of subscription-based journals.
https://sci-hub.cc/ works for me.
The authors had the choice of publishing through these journals or not. They made their choice; they assigned their copyrights to the journals. Nobody held a gun to their heads
A gun no, just an incentive to continue in academic jobs. You have to play with the system even if you don't like it.
it's called "theft", and is treated as such by the courts and by most people who actually _write_ and publish such papers
Lots of my papers published in subscription-model journals are in sci-hub. I'm glad they are. It's time to dismantle the closed publishing model. As a scientist, I lend my moral support to the team behind sci-hub. I will also not publish with Elsevier, even though I already made that decision years ago for other reasons.
I wonder how many employee's homes got infested by bringing bedbugs in clothing and personal belongings. The facility is surely possible to treat with heat, but would then re-infestation occur via employees bringing them back from their homes? Should the employer offer bedbug treatment to any employee who needs it, at the same time?
This is an expensive problem.
I've just had a misfortune to stay in a hotel in Paris infested with bedbugs (Hotel Aladin at Les Gobelins). Found them after two nights in the place, after bites inflamed all over my body. To be on the safe side, I ordered emergency treatment of my luggage, which was performed by dousing it with a chemical, with all my belongings laid out right on a Paris street. Possibly an overkill, but better be on the safe side. I also washed the clothes I was in as soon as I could. I also packed electronics in tight plastic bags and ran it through thermal treatment back home.
Funnily when I tried to check in to another, better, Paris hotel _after the treatment_ and told them of the problem I had, the hotel manager swiftly escorted me out of the reception. He told they had bedbugs and it took them two months to get rid of, so they were not taking any chances. I had to stay silent when searching for a room after that.
First, the title is misleading. They used a satellite equipped with classical optical telecom to checkup some ground-based quantum receiving technology, but this was NOT quantum communication with the satellite. The sat they used is dead classical, built for other purposes. A new properly equipped quantum satellite would be needed for actual quantum communication.
Second, this is old news. The team has been reporting this experiment at conferences for the past year. This is to say, the German experiment was much less impressive but they got it a year ahead of the Chinese team.
I dunno about wife beater, but the rest of your description matches the temporary user of my notebook.
How do I prepapre for the theft? I have Prey installed https://www.preyproject.com/ , and leave the machine unlocked and unencrypted. When it was stolen, the police arrested the thief within 90 minutes of him switching the machine on. (This works, of course, becase thieves are not smart.)
For really confidential stuff, we have other secure machines and procedures. The notebooks are for daily work.
That's a good points. The next thing will be post-quantum crypto, and will probably need to exchange data of significant size, even if everything else is made efficient.
Legacy systems will quickly become obsolete, as their stagnating performance will make them useless for future computing and communication tasks. Sure you can have a working 300 baud modem, but what would you do with it on today's internet and industrial control systems? Servers will probably time out trying to deliver a web page through it. In the world where Moore's law reigns, retiring older technologies only makes sense.
Thanks. Seriously, that's another compromise. I tried to switch to Linux twice, with several years in between. Both times it ended up in a UI and experience disaster, I lost work files and/or OS installation within days of starting it. I don't think I am sufficiently geeky, or non-dumbass as you say, to manage Linux on a personal computer. We run it on lab servers and there it's good but, in my experience, it's too much of a geekhole for the PC used by non-programmers.
I am talking about my own experience (Win 7) and I compare Windows updates to other vendor's updates. Okay I agree with you, now I remember, Windows update probably broke one thing in my computer and it can no longer hybernate correctly. That happened on travel and caused me a day of mess. I'd blame that on buggy Apple's drivers for macbook, though. (That's another compromise.)
The problem is, not letting it update is even worse. I did that for a while years ago, then had to reinstall the OS from scratch as it got thoroughly infected.
As the article points out, a big part of the reason is that people disable automatic updates. This should never be done, but I can understand. Automatic updates are rude. They change and break things. Windows updates got kinda nicer last few years (after you disable automatic reboot http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d... ), but all other software updates are still crap. Every time I run a third-party sofware update (Adobe, Flash, etc.), it breaks and resets things. No I don't want a new UI for Acrobat that makes the icons twice the size (nope, forced). No I don't want the load-at-boot reinstalled (nope. reinstalled. fire msconfig and regedit to get rid of it). No I don't want to reinstall the auto-update (ditto). No I don't want my print settings reset to default (nope, done). And crap like that, every time. This is a price for security that we should not have to pay.
Here's the actual quote: If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition...
Besides I don't see a practical difference between pardon, commutaiton of sentence, etc. in this case.
Assange already gave some bullshit excuse as soon as the pardon was announced months ago.
It was reasonable, even prudent, to wait until Manning is actually released from the prison. Who knows, a pardon decision may get reversed and overridden. That wasn't in Assange's bullshit excuse months ago, but anyway. He has had time to think this through in these months. Now Assange must turn himself in to the US authorities, as he promised.
What I don't understand is why other journals can't take the market share.
In my field (quantum physics and engineering), there are lots of good alternatives. Most journals are published by non-profit and academis societies (IOP, APS, etc.). Actually the one or two relevant journals by Elsevier are at the low end of the quality spectrum.
and surrender to the US. https://www.usnews.com/news/na...
Manning is free. That was the condition. Please Mr Assange, honor your own words.