Academic plagiarism is a huge issue and very common. I have even seen different academic departments (e.g. math vs physics) fight each other over these issues. When undergrad students and graduate students do work for a professor and are not named in the paper or the work is given to another student for use and publication, students have no recourse. It is important to understand that many grad students have no grant or employment contract which cedes IP rights to the university/professor. University in-house counsel and IP departments have no oversight of publication or assignment of credit. I would only perform work for a professor (for free without an employment contract) if I could demand a contract outlining ownership.
I would say the example of academic fraud you describe is "not uncommon." What is common is competing academic groups commonly do this. One might be on the funding-proposal review panel of a competitor's proposal. It gets rejected. Two to three years later, out comes a journal article reporting the exact same study (question & how to answer it). That's not complete evidence, but raises reasonable suspicions.
I've had it happen to me several times. Other times, a "potential collaborator or funder" has shown interest, and I have shared, then lo and behold they go propose the work as their own, or use it to get a job. I've had other times where my name appears on a journal article as co-author, although I might have never seen nor been informed of the draft.
My last example is a great one. Employer was a scumbag. My data showed, by several techniques, that "the answer was 'NO'," (essentially). He kept changing it to "YES" in each round of drafts. I did not see the final version that he sent in. This was to be "Accepted with changes" to the journal Science, one of the top two journals in the sciences. I happened upon a printout of the email stating such, as well as a printout of the final revision, just before submission. What would you have done? I called up the Editor at Science and nuked it. ("All you have to do is to ask for their data, and you will see.") It did not publish, and probably got the asshole boss blacklisted from Science.
Back on-topic: As a scientist, your reputation is incredibly important. Pulling stunts like the ones that OccamsRazorTime or I have described will earn enemies, which tend to accumulate. Soon enough, there is no one of quality that will work with such jerks.
As for the UCLA case, the story is not in. But know this: Groups advance the State of the Art in their field by building, within the group, what prior students and postdocs have done. And in any case, students are really employees – by law some places, for example Rutgers. IP law is, unfortunately, not generally taught in grad school. Even a four-week seminar series would be enough for students to learn how to protect their, their group's, and their colleagues' ideas.
My bet here is that it was mental illness, or/and a lack of understanding what 'contributing to a group focused on a topic-area' actually means. A grad/postdoc benefits from the work of his/her forebears in the group; the advisor's: guidance advice, and funding ; and of colleagues in the same group.
They would probably burn pretty hot, but yes, the possibilities are rather startling. It will be an interesting day when SSDs overtake HDDs on practical metrics such as data density, and even more so on price.
Any predictions on when that is going to happen?
It has. DARPA. At all length scales, save for the smallest. I apologize for spawning the "thermal via" frenzy of the past few years. Sorry.
The original poster was not criticizing reuse of ideas. What's with the tone?
OK. My tone was harsh – the opposite of what it should have been.
This was actually a textbook case of not fixing what isn't broken, despite SpaceX modding so much other stuff. They did not throw the baby out with the bath-water, so I should have been supportive of the "For interest's sake..." comment.
Brewster Kahle has a reasonable, albeit obvious, solution.
But will DVD drives be around in 1000 years?
I solved this problem about 10 years ago. All a future civilization needs is computer technology and an x-y scanner at, say, half the optical resolution of silver (or platinum) emulsion photographic film.
For interest's sake, the idea of a crushable hhoneycomb landing leg arrangement was used for the Apollo Lumar Modules. It was very light as it only needed to be used once, unlike a hydraulic or spring system. Have a look at page 6 of the LM Structures document at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
So? If a technology works, you keep using it.
Don't fix what isn't broken.
At any rate, these are not the spot-welded honeycombs of the Apollo days. I would wager that that they are extruded aluminum honeycombs.
Rolling back is no possible because it would collapse the international payment system. The bank that received the funds would not be very happy if the transaction was rolled back while the criminals...
Fuck the SWIFT System. They take over a week for me to get a few thousand over from the US to the UK (allies).
PayPal will let me do it instantaneously. I do it all the time.
And buy a myDAQ from sparkfun.com. It comes with a free student version of LabView (only diff. is a watermark). The myDAQ is an entry-level A/D converter, power supply, signal generator, etc. The specs are pretty sweet for the price.
And LabView is not hard to debug if you know how to use it. It actually has lots of great debugging features like step-through, step-over, and incremental operations (hitting space to advance) so you can find the bug. Many things that people think are bugs are actually the result of the 'power-save mode' that your CPU goes into when under low load.
Digital implementations are not like analog ones. In analog, a function might occur at exactly the same time after signal, every time. With a modern CPU, which does all sorts of load-balancing, that function will occur within a distribution of times, centered around an average response time. So... Just set your nodes so they don't execute until everything required has arrived (which is built-in), or put in a 5 ms wait-function.
Another economic impact that gets brushed aside in national content supply and jobs.... There are some US manufacturers but they are not the biggest players. Installation jobs are low paying, and there are few ongoing maintenance jobs. Wind requires a bit more from a maintenance and on-going supply standpoint, and has pretty good local parts content.
Coal, gas, and nuclear all have high local construction content, and employ more people with higher paying jobs on an ongoing basis. In a changing world where automation is taking over and good jobs are harder to find, employment factors into the overall economic benefit.
... Its bunker, not bumper fuel, and its the sulfur thats removed from refined oil products, not sodium. There is no compound known as sodium dioxide, but i'm thinking you mean sulfur dioxide.
A much more intelligent response. Thanks.
Disodium monoxide can exist, but not in an atmosphere with any water vapor. And in any case, what does everyone think it is that the ocean "salt-water"?
Back to the Commenter who corrected it to "bunker fuel" and noted that it was its sulfur content that made it bottom-of-the-barrell fuel (pun intended). I ask the following question:
Although there are national laws on sulfur emissions, are there any international regulations, standards, or even recommendations on sulfur emissions by petroleum-fueled engines that sail in international waters?
The plant manager heard it would give you super powers. Sadly, it only gave them lymphoma.
Which is probably why he is coming out with it now. (That is, if it is true.)
It has the ring of a death-bed confession, but I won't pay it any mind until a source other than the "known click-bait source" reports on it.
"Wolf!"
I'm not saying it isn't true. Actually, it rings very true in comparison to what I have seen those in the board-room decide to do (or not do).
I worked at Kohler Company, a maker of cast-iron bathtubs, among other fixtures. It was well-known among the guys working the floor that, if you worked 3rd-shift (roughly 1:00 am –9:00 am), you would find your car blotted with crispy particles that would not buff-out without the use of muriatic acid (== HCl == hydrochloric acid). It was also know among the management and engineers (of which I was a part), that the CEO of the family-owned business absolutely hated the EPA controls that were placed on their foundry.
Yah, srsly. I was on both sides, so got to put the pieces together. It was rumored that the "filters" that the EPA made Kohler install were "blown-out" in the middle of the night (that is, blasted with gas in a reverse-fashion, to blow-off the pollutants that the filters were designed to capture). Well, I can tell you that when I ran experiments that required me to go in during 3rd-shift – sure enough – my car's paint was totally fucked-up with these pollutants. I am a PhD materials scientist and engineer, and DO KNOW what I am talking about in this domain.
The point of the long-winded story is that, yes indeedy, industrial companies will sometimes try to circumvent regulatory requirements. In the Poster's article, a "blow-out" of the 'radioactive dust filters' or similar was per5formed, meaning only that this is within the realm of known possibilities.
It’s interesting how some plants like to suck up certain minerals. Rice and arsenic. Tobacco and polonium. What others do you know about?
Mushrooms and strontium.
Many Eastern Europeans have a tradition of going into the forest to pick (some specific variety) of mushrooms. You know – food for free – a product of the Communist food-coupon days.
Oh, also, anything in the ocean near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which is still leaking 90-Sr (Strontium 90) into the sea, as it dissolves into the water used to keep the melted-down cores cool (preventing them from drilling through the center of the Earth all the way to China. LOL. Not.). The thousands of single-wall 'temporary' surface containers for surface water, and the underground 'ice wall' are both quite leaky.
Millions of civilians, mostly children, near Chernobyl received huge-dose iodine pills to prevent accumulation of (?? I forget ??) in their thyroid glands. I think that in this case the radionuclide it displaced was in the fallout, and not something with a long enough half-life to need to worry for too many years about plant-uptake.
When something is STOLEN, the original item no longer remains.
Fox's DMCA abuse raised their use of the clip from a simple 'piracy' (copyright infringement) to an actual theft – no single-quotes are needed around the word in this case.
Just switch to nitrogen asphyxiation if you want a humane execution which isn't dependent upon strapping the condemned down to a table, having to have a non-professional put an IV in, trouble getting drugs, etc...
Have you ever seen a mammal die of Displacement Asphyxiation (via nitrogen, argon, or anything else inert and devoid of oxygen)?
It takes a minute or two at the least. And the suffoccee will gasp ferociously while tearing at their throat during before unconsciousness ensues. It is a horror show.
Sure, a few kids have sat themselves inside downed helium-filled weather-balloons, and have died. By the time they get done laughing at the change in the pitch of their voice, they are alive, but their brains have switched off. It's all autonomic reactions from there – and they are not pretty.
No matter your view on capital punishment (pro or con), a death with such a dramatic behavior will scar those who see it – whether they are victims' relatives, or relatives of the decedent. If my child were the executed, I would ask why it is that I have to suffer for having given birth to a person who inherited genes for a sociopathic schizophrenia.
And, if you're doing research at a *publicly funded* research institution, odds are that those valuable ideas actually belong to UC, not you. If your research is federally funded, then under Bayh-Dole, UC keeps the rights (or at least has the option to do so). So those "patentable ideas" don't belong to you anyway.
Yes, yes, yes. But if a group at another University steals them, then they have stolen from the UC system.
I never claimed to have avoided signing the standard IP Declaration and Assignation. But if my group got scooped by another group, who spied on us, it could be a huge financial hit for my employing institution.
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Academic plagiarism is a huge issue and very common. I have even seen different academic departments (e.g. math vs physics) fight each other over these issues. When undergrad students and graduate students do work for a professor and are not named in the paper or the work is given to another student for use and publication, students have no recourse. It is important to understand that many grad students have no grant or employment contract which cedes IP rights to the university/professor. University in-house counsel and IP departments have no oversight of publication or assignment of credit. I would only perform work for a professor (for free without an employment contract) if I could demand a contract outlining ownership.
I would say the example of academic fraud you describe is "not uncommon." What is common is competing academic groups commonly do this. One might be on the funding-proposal review panel of a competitor's proposal. It gets rejected. Two to three years later, out comes a journal article reporting the exact same study (question & how to answer it). That's not complete evidence, but raises reasonable suspicions.
I've had it happen to me several times. Other times, a "potential collaborator or funder" has shown interest, and I have shared, then lo and behold they go propose the work as their own, or use it to get a job. I've had other times where my name appears on a journal article as co-author, although I might have never seen nor been informed of the draft.
My last example is a great one. Employer was a scumbag. My data showed, by several techniques, that "the answer was 'NO'," (essentially). He kept changing it to "YES" in each round of drafts. I did not see the final version that he sent in. This was to be "Accepted with changes" to the journal Science, one of the top two journals in the sciences. I happened upon a printout of the email stating such, as well as a printout of the final revision, just before submission. What would you have done? I called up the Editor at Science and nuked it. ("All you have to do is to ask for their data, and you will see.") It did not publish, and probably got the asshole boss blacklisted from Science.
Back on-topic: As a scientist, your reputation is incredibly important. Pulling stunts like the ones that OccamsRazorTime or I have described will earn enemies, which tend to accumulate. Soon enough, there is no one of quality that will work with such jerks.
As for the UCLA case, the story is not in. But know this: Groups advance the State of the Art in their field by building, within the group, what prior students and postdocs have done. And in any case, students are really employees – by law some places, for example Rutgers. IP law is, unfortunately, not generally taught in grad school. Even a four-week seminar series would be enough for students to learn how to protect their, their group's, and their colleagues' ideas.
My bet here is that it was mental illness, or/and a lack of understanding what 'contributing to a group focused on a topic-area' actually means. A grad/postdoc benefits from the work of his/her forebears in the group; the advisor's: guidance advice, and funding ; and of colleagues in the same group.
Sad affair.
UCLA provides the full Google suite: Apps, Drive, email, Earth Pro, and all the rest.
Heat?
They would probably burn pretty hot, but yes, the possibilities are rather startling. It will be an interesting day when SSDs overtake HDDs on practical metrics such as data density, and even more so on price.
Any predictions on when that is going to happen?
It has. DARPA. At all length scales, save for the smallest. I apologize for spawning the "thermal via" frenzy of the past few years. Sorry.
What's wrong with my current XP setup?
(running sand-boxed in VM Ware)
Maybe upping to 7 or 8 off of ebay might be wise...
The original poster was not criticizing reuse of ideas. What's with the tone?
OK. My tone was harsh – the opposite of what it should have been.
This was actually a textbook case of not fixing what isn't broken, despite SpaceX modding so much other stuff. They did not throw the baby out with the bath-water, so I should have been supportive of the "For interest's sake..." comment.
The original poster was not criticizing reuse of ideas. What's with the tone?
At the sound of the tone, the time will be 11:40 am GMT.
Brewster Kahle has a reasonable, albeit obvious, solution.
But will DVD drives be around in 1000 years?
I solved this problem about 10 years ago. All a future civilization needs is computer technology and an x-y scanner at, say, half the optical resolution of silver (or platinum) emulsion photographic film.
It is patented.
For interest's sake, the idea of a crushable hhoneycomb landing leg arrangement was used for the Apollo Lumar Modules. It was very light as it only needed to be used once, unlike a hydraulic or spring system.
Have a look at page 6 of the LM Structures document at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
So? If a technology works, you keep using it.
Don't fix what isn't broken.
At any rate, these are not the spot-welded honeycombs of the Apollo days. I would wager that that they are extruded aluminum honeycombs.
Congratulations to everyone at Space X who contributed to this awesome achievement! You have made space flight exciting again!
I agree with you. Completely.
And the fact that is being met with by a yawn from the popular press is a signal that the incredible achievements of SpaceX are "the new normal."
Now that is yet another Grand Accomplishment!
Rolling back is no possible because it would collapse the international payment system. The bank that received the funds would not be very happy if the transaction was rolled back while the criminals ...
Fuck the SWIFT System. They take over a week for me to get a few thousand over from the US to the UK (allies).
PayPal will let me do it instantaneously. I do it all the time.
Seriously, you expect me to believe there are still over 400 million Myspace accounts left?
I mean really. Next you will be telling me there are unpaid women on Ashley Madison.
It's because we all forgot to delete them. We simply forgot about their existence, and moved on.
So, 400 Million MySpace accounts? You betcha! Active MySpace accounts? Near zero.
Hey, self-driving Uber (or Lyft, etc.) cars would probably reduce the number of rapes and robberies by Uber drivers.
OTOH, Self-driving cars are known to cause traffic accidents – because they obey the speed limits, etc. very exactly.
So, you view generating electricity as 'make work'. I think users of electricity would disagree that it has no value.
You fail reading comprehension completely – Mr. Troll.
Google's 'Science Journal' App Turns Your Android Device Into Another Way To Provide Self-Tracking Data For Google To Monetize
Do you think Google isn't already doing this? They wrote the OS, after all.
This is just an app that lets the user access the sensors more directly.
And buy a myDAQ from sparkfun.com. It comes with a free student version of LabView (only diff. is a watermark). The myDAQ is an entry-level A/D converter, power supply, signal generator, etc. The specs are pretty sweet for the price.
And LabView is not hard to debug if you know how to use it. It actually has lots of great debugging features like step-through, step-over, and incremental operations (hitting space to advance) so you can find the bug. Many things that people think are bugs are actually the result of the 'power-save mode' that your CPU goes into when under low load.
Digital implementations are not like analog ones. In analog, a function might occur at exactly the same time after signal, every time. With a modern CPU, which does all sorts of load-balancing, that function will occur within a distribution of times, centered around an average response time. So... Just set your nodes so they don't execute until everything required has arrived (which is built-in), or put in a 5 ms wait-function.
Another economic impact that gets brushed aside in national content supply and jobs. ... There are some US manufacturers but they are not the biggest players. Installation jobs are low paying, and there are few ongoing maintenance jobs. Wind requires a bit more from a maintenance and on-going supply standpoint, and has pretty good local parts content.
Coal, gas, and nuclear all have high local construction content, and employ more people with higher paying jobs on an ongoing basis. In a changing world where automation is taking over and good jobs are harder to find, employment factors into the overall economic benefit.
You mean that Make-work is a good thing?
It has a negative economic impact.
... Its bunker, not bumper fuel, and its the sulfur thats removed from refined oil products, not sodium. There is no compound known as sodium dioxide, but i'm thinking you mean sulfur dioxide.
A much more intelligent response. Thanks.
Disodium monoxide can exist, but not in an atmosphere with any water vapor. And in any case, what does everyone think it is that the ocean "salt-water"?
Back to the Commenter who corrected it to "bunker fuel" and noted that it was its sulfur content that made it bottom-of-the-barrell fuel (pun intended). I ask the following question:
Although there are national laws on sulfur emissions, are there any international regulations, standards, or even recommendations on sulfur emissions by petroleum-fueled engines that sail in international waters?
The plant manager heard it would give you super powers. Sadly, it only gave them lymphoma.
Which is probably why he is coming out with it now. (That is, if it is true.)
It has the ring of a death-bed confession, but I won't pay it any mind until a source other than the "known click-bait source" reports on it.
"Wolf!"
I'm not saying it isn't true. Actually, it rings very true in comparison to what I have seen those in the board-room decide to do (or not do).
I worked at Kohler Company, a maker of cast-iron bathtubs, among other fixtures. It was well-known among the guys working the floor that, if you worked 3rd-shift (roughly 1:00 am –9:00 am), you would find your car blotted with crispy particles that would not buff-out without the use of muriatic acid (== HCl == hydrochloric acid). It was also know among the management and engineers (of which I was a part), that the CEO of the family-owned business absolutely hated the EPA controls that were placed on their foundry.
Yah, srsly. I was on both sides, so got to put the pieces together. It was rumored that the "filters" that the EPA made Kohler install were "blown-out" in the middle of the night (that is, blasted with gas in a reverse-fashion, to blow-off the pollutants that the filters were designed to capture). Well, I can tell you that when I ran experiments that required me to go in during 3rd-shift – sure enough – my car's paint was totally fucked-up with these pollutants. I am a PhD materials scientist and engineer, and DO KNOW what I am talking about in this domain.
The point of the long-winded story is that, yes indeedy, industrial companies will sometimes try to circumvent regulatory requirements. In the Poster's article, a "blow-out" of the 'radioactive dust filters' or similar was per5formed, meaning only that this is within the realm of known possibilities.
That said: [TRUSTWORTHY CITATION NEEDED!]
There's no evidence of this. Despite the wiki source.
Your Comment is an oxymoron. Much like you, albeit with the added oxy.
Score: 0/10
One of the crappiest trolls evar.
It’s interesting how some plants like to suck up certain minerals. Rice and arsenic. Tobacco and polonium. What others do you know about?
Mushrooms and strontium.
Many Eastern Europeans have a tradition of going into the forest to pick (some specific variety) of mushrooms. You know – food for free – a product of the Communist food-coupon days.
Oh, also, anything in the ocean near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which is still leaking 90-Sr (Strontium 90) into the sea, as it dissolves into the water used to keep the melted-down cores cool (preventing them from drilling through the center of the Earth all the way to China. LOL. Not.). The thousands of single-wall 'temporary' surface containers for surface water, and the underground 'ice wall' are both quite leaky.
Millions of civilians, mostly children, near Chernobyl received huge-dose iodine pills to prevent accumulation of (?? I forget ??) in their thyroid glands. I think that in this case the radionuclide it displaced was in the fallout, and not something with a long enough half-life to need to worry for too many years about plant-uptake.
When something is STOLEN, the original item no longer remains.
Fox's DMCA abuse raised their use of the clip from a simple 'piracy' (copyright infringement) to an actual theft – no single-quotes are needed around the word in this case.
The original is gone. Stolen.
Just switch to nitrogen asphyxiation if you want a humane execution which isn't dependent upon strapping the condemned down to a table, having to have a non-professional put an IV in, trouble getting drugs, etc...
Have you ever seen a mammal die of Displacement Asphyxiation (via nitrogen, argon, or anything else inert and devoid of oxygen)?
It takes a minute or two at the least. And the suffoccee will gasp ferociously while tearing at their throat during before unconsciousness ensues. It is a horror show.
Sure, a few kids have sat themselves inside downed helium-filled weather-balloons, and have died. By the time they get done laughing at the change in the pitch of their voice, they are alive, but their brains have switched off. It's all autonomic reactions from there – and they are not pretty.
No matter your view on capital punishment (pro or con), a death with such a dramatic behavior will scar those who see it – whether they are victims' relatives, or relatives of the decedent. If my child were the executed, I would ask why it is that I have to suffer for having given birth to a person who inherited genes for a sociopathic schizophrenia.
Only people intending to pirate these works would need that kind of resolution. I expect Getty to file suit by Monday.
Great Artists of today study the details of the brushwork of past masters in excruciating detail.
This is not for painting clones of famous pieces—That can already be done.
This is for world-class artists top study, up-way-close and in-detail, the many layers of paint, or whatever, used to create classic works.
You don't think Reubens got that realistic, translucent-looking skin by just swabbing on one layer of paint, do you?
Can we extend the definition of "astro-turfing" to this kind of thing?
It rings true on several levels.
And, if you're doing research at a *publicly funded* research institution, odds are that those valuable ideas actually belong to UC, not you. If your research is federally funded, then under Bayh-Dole, UC keeps the rights (or at least has the option to do so). So those "patentable ideas" don't belong to you anyway.
Yes, yes, yes. But if a group at another University steals them, then they have stolen from the UC system.
I never claimed to have avoided signing the standard IP Declaration and Assignation. But if my group got scooped by another group, who spied on us, it could be a huge financial hit for my employing institution.