Really? How much is it costing you to maintain that secure hosting site? How much are you paying the administrator(s)? What are you doing about archival? Providing access to individuals and libraries? You seem to think of it as just a cost of storage on a hard drive. Its not.
That was a pretty balanced article and I agree with your filtering comments. Imagine an open access journal of quantum physics taking submissions at $250 a piece. Every quack in the world will be submitting to the extent of their bank account. Unless you are going to blacklist by name, the journal has an obligation to peer review all submissions. Good luck finding reviewers with the time or patience to deal with all the bunk.
I think there is another take on this too - there are many things which we can do for ourselves but chose not to because the use of our time, money, or other resources results in a "savings" that is illusory and rarely will we do a better job
Sometimes it really is worth paying a little bit more to have someone else do the work competently for you. I think the same applies here. The actual dollar cost savings are not all that clear but appear to be on a scale of "is this really worth the trouble to do ourself." People act as if these publishing companies are gold mines. They really aren't. And if you must whine about margins, go whine about MSFT, AAPL, ADI, LLTC, etc.
One minor point from the article, I think it is a poor metric to speak of "average" article cost. Median would be a better yard stick.
why is the FBI, etc mucking about. Just demand that all internet traffic be routed through government owned and operated IXPs and get it over with. This death of liberty and privacy by bits and bytes is needless torture when we all know what the end result will be.
Well it is most certainly not a congress critter as they are way to stupid to think and write anything 'legal' themselves. So the bigger question is, who has lobbied for the terms in the proposed law?
go ahead.. triple the number if you want. Then divide by how many people have lived since 1983. More people have probably doing home depot repair projects.
you are not backing up your data. Let me make it easy for you. What happens when a file becomes corrupted? What happens to your "mirror" copy? Does it too become corrupted? If so, you might want to reconsider and start making real backups.
Consider that some may come out more likely to commit another crime. And again, that alone is not a reason not to incarcerate. And there are any number of nonviolent crimes which society should reconsider if they are crimes at all and if still so, make the punishment more in line with the offense.
I do find many of the mandatory minimums to be far to long, while it does seem that some very violent offenders get far too short a stay. But again, we can't as a society just give what amount to free passes when laws are broken, egregiously in this case. The jail time is not just a punishment but also a deterent to others.
The problem I have here is that this was a person who really knew better than to do what they did. This wasn't some 15 year old without the exposure to or full understanding of the possible ramifcations of the act. Instead, he did it because a) he wanted to and b) he decided that his view that the 'research' was valuable was to take precedent over society saying unauthorized access is a nono.
A military hacker, or any other who is in the employ and under the direction of another state, should be considered fair game for any retaliation. Of course, that retaliation may trigger a far larger event. The government sanctioned hacker is acting in the same manner as a diver placing a bomb in a harbor. Or troops removing rail tracks. It is sabotage. [queue Beastie Boys]
An independent, not govt recruited or sanctioned hacker should be treated criminally.
Well I picked up the gun and pointed it at you and pull the trigger. But damn it, I missed. Guess I should go scott free because well, zero damage was caused? No? Ok, suppose I knew there were no bullets in the gun and nothing would happen to you? Now can I go free?
Yes he should face jail time. To not give any just encourages (or perhaps, fails to discourage) future similar behavior. And what happens the day that someone thinks 'oh I'll do this it will be cool and won't fuck anything up' and well.. it does?
Mind you I'm not saying put the guy away for 25 years but I think 2 years and an equal amount of post jail community service would be appropriate. That it costs something to put him in jail is not reason enough to not put him there.
As a snowboarder, please accept this bit of advice: don't get one, they are no longer cool. I have seen everything from 4 year olds to 80 year olds with those fucking horribly ugly GoPro cams on their helmets this winter. Every now and then you'll see a Contour which are at least a little less obvious and dorky.
But honestly, unless you are at least well advanced in your sport, spare your friends the home videos.
Ok.. Gulf of Tonkin anyone? Hmmm??? M'Ok. If you want to put blood on someone's hands for Vietnam, LBJ wins hands down. Kennedy was the idiot that got the US involved in the first place but LBJ could have stopped or curtailed that. That Nixon attempted to get political gain out of it is dispicable but the South was under no obligation to latch onto any promises implied by his lackies.
This is blatant unauthorized access and he went further than just "checking the door knob". He went into the house and left a gift behind too. Seriously, this guy should face charges. I'm pretty libertarian when it comes to most things but this is just over the top.
I rarely comment on/. innner workings but honestly, samzenpus needs some retraining. Last night it was the 'microsoft killing windows phone' fantasy headline.. now an obvious dupe.. among quite a few others of recent vintage.
What is interesting is that they won't just come out and say it is a standard model Higgs eventhough they know it has 0 spin. Seems like nobody wants to hurt the feelings of the SUSY people
Let me correct your statement: "Given NASA's constant funding problems for the last few decades," In fact you meant to write, "Given NASA's constant spending problems for the last few decades..."
They have an $18B budget yet can't find a way to get by. Really? Maybe it is time to re-examine what NASA should and should not be about and fit that into the $18B instead of crying about not getting more to fund extravagant missisions of dubious value. ISS? $100B for what great scientific achievments that only could be made there? What other things could NASA have done with that money which would have been more productive?
NASA is just one small microcosm of government largess and waste. The era of throwing money at shit just because you have it is over.
or simple. For the better part of 50 years, there have been two real nuclear powers - the US and USSR/Russia. Not only the number of warheads, but the variety and quantity of systems to deliver those warheads served as a deterrent, not against each other, but against others in the world trying to compete. The most notable, China, has maintained a good sized force but did not see it in their interests in trying to catch up, let alone surpass, the US/USSR totals (and they could only rely upon ground based missiles for delivery). As the US/Russia totals plummet, it becomes strategically more advantageous for a country like China, and perhaps others down the road, to catch up.
Second, and equally important, is that with cuts in warheads come decisions about how to deploy the remaining warheads. Will there be enough left to justify bombers? Ground based ICBMs? Or will all (or most) of the force be at sea? This has signifcant ramifications on stability. The less visible the force, the more likely the adversary (Russia, China, whomever) are to see the warheads as offensive, first strike weapons. Bomber bases and even silo sites provide a degree of early warning that is now lost. The use 'em or lose 'em scenario will now gain far more attention in a time of increasing tensions.
Nuclear weapons are here to stay - the genie is out of the bottle for good and it is fantasy to consider a world without them. Rather than spending an inordinate amount of time and effort on debates (in and out of governemnt) on the number and composition of nuclear forces, efforts should instead be focused on securing the supply chains and warheads from theft, abuse, or misuse. In particular, countries like Pakistan and India need to have the best PAL's (the "lock" on the weapon) possible and I fear it is those countries that present the biggest risks of a nuclear event, not the US, Russia or even China.
it comes within 200 feet according to the FBI who has a very vested interest in making sure nobody else has toys to play with. From yesterday: "“The pilot did not take evasive action. The flight landed safely," according to the FAA.". 200 feet=60yards.. Either it was a tiny toy (unlikely at that elevation) or it was far enough away the pilot felt no need to take action. Birds are bad enough around NYC, no pilot wants a 'drone' sucked into his engine on approach.
they use 19 micron square pixels. A "35mm" format is actually 24mmx36mm (or 24,000x36,000 microns). This works out to be 2.3 megapixels assuming no gap between the pixels. (ie, 1263x1895)
I've lost track of where things stand in the astrophotography world but this sounds like it could be very useful.
The direct measurement technique employs a "trick" to measure the first property in such a way that the system is not disturbed significantly and information about the second property can still be obtained.
So... they system is disturbed. And
The downside of this type of measurement is that a single measurement only provides a small amount of information, and to get an accurate readout, the process has to be repeated multiple times and the average taken.
This is therefore a statistical experiment and thus subject to all the normal caveats involved with statistics, including estimates of error.
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Really? How much is it costing you to maintain that secure hosting site? How much are you paying the administrator(s)? What are you doing about archival? Providing access to individuals and libraries? You seem to think of it as just a cost of storage on a hard drive. Its not.
That was a pretty balanced article and I agree with your filtering comments. Imagine an open access journal of quantum physics taking submissions at $250 a piece. Every quack in the world will be submitting to the extent of their bank account. Unless you are going to blacklist by name, the journal has an obligation to peer review all submissions. Good luck finding reviewers with the time or patience to deal with all the bunk.
I think there is another take on this too - there are many things which we can do for ourselves but chose not to because the use of our time, money, or other resources results in a "savings" that is illusory and rarely will we do a better job
Sometimes it really is worth paying a little bit more to have someone else do the work competently for you. I think the same applies here. The actual dollar cost savings are not all that clear but appear to be on a scale of "is this really worth the trouble to do ourself." People act as if these publishing companies are gold mines. They really aren't. And if you must whine about margins, go whine about MSFT, AAPL, ADI, LLTC, etc.
One minor point from the article, I think it is a poor metric to speak of "average" article cost. Median would be a better yard stick.
I think Linus would agree, C++ is best used nowhere.
as all it seems to be doing now is playing catchup to something like Scala which has at least thought out the functional stuff maybe a bit more
we are still in an ice age. Skiiers, snowboarders and global warming enthusiasts would prefer we remain in the ice age.
why is the FBI, etc mucking about. Just demand that all internet traffic be routed through government owned and operated IXPs and get it over with. This death of liberty and privacy by bits and bytes is needless torture when we all know what the end result will be.
Well it is most certainly not a congress critter as they are way to stupid to think and write anything 'legal' themselves. So the bigger question is, who has lobbied for the terms in the proposed law?
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2013/03/mass_shootings.html
go ahead.. triple the number if you want. Then divide by how many people have lived since 1983. More people have probably doing home depot repair projects.
you are not backing up your data. Let me make it easy for you. What happens when a file becomes corrupted? What happens to your "mirror" copy? Does it too become corrupted? If so, you might want to reconsider and start making real backups.
Consider that some may come out more likely to commit another crime. And again, that alone is not a reason not to incarcerate. And there are any number of nonviolent crimes which society should reconsider if they are crimes at all and if still so, make the punishment more in line with the offense.
I do find many of the mandatory minimums to be far to long, while it does seem that some very violent offenders get far too short a stay. But again, we can't as a society just give what amount to free passes when laws are broken, egregiously in this case. The jail time is not just a punishment but also a deterent to others.
The problem I have here is that this was a person who really knew better than to do what they did. This wasn't some 15 year old without the exposure to or full understanding of the possible ramifcations of the act. Instead, he did it because a) he wanted to and b) he decided that his view that the 'research' was valuable was to take precedent over society saying unauthorized access is a nono.
A military hacker, or any other who is in the employ and under the direction of another state, should be considered fair game for any retaliation. Of course, that retaliation may trigger a far larger event. The government sanctioned hacker is acting in the same manner as a diver placing a bomb in a harbor. Or troops removing rail tracks. It is sabotage. [queue Beastie Boys]
An independent, not govt recruited or sanctioned hacker should be treated criminally.
Well I picked up the gun and pointed it at you and pull the trigger. But damn it, I missed. Guess I should go scott free because well, zero damage was caused? No? Ok, suppose I knew there were no bullets in the gun and nothing would happen to you? Now can I go free?
Yes he should face jail time. To not give any just encourages (or perhaps, fails to discourage) future similar behavior. And what happens the day that someone thinks 'oh I'll do this it will be cool and won't fuck anything up' and well.. it does?
Mind you I'm not saying put the guy away for 25 years but I think 2 years and an equal amount of post jail community service would be appropriate. That it costs something to put him in jail is not reason enough to not put him there.
As a snowboarder, please accept this bit of advice: don't get one, they are no longer cool. I have seen everything from 4 year olds to 80 year olds with those fucking horribly ugly GoPro cams on their helmets this winter. Every now and then you'll see a Contour which are at least a little less obvious and dorky.
But honestly, unless you are at least well advanced in your sport, spare your friends the home videos.
Ok.. Gulf of Tonkin anyone? Hmmm??? M'Ok. If you want to put blood on someone's hands for Vietnam, LBJ wins hands down. Kennedy was the idiot that got the US involved in the first place but LBJ could have stopped or curtailed that. That Nixon attempted to get political gain out of it is dispicable but the South was under no obligation to latch onto any promises implied by his lackies.
This is blatant unauthorized access and he went further than just "checking the door knob". He went into the house and left a gift behind too. Seriously, this guy should face charges. I'm pretty libertarian when it comes to most things but this is just over the top.
Apparently you are the ghost of iSteve's guilty concious
I rarely comment on /. innner workings but honestly, samzenpus needs some retraining. Last night it was the 'microsoft killing windows phone' fantasy headline.. now an obvious dupe.. among quite a few others of recent vintage.
I mean come on.. how hard is it to find a quiet place deep in the fucking stacks?
What is interesting is that they won't just come out and say it is a standard model Higgs eventhough they know it has 0 spin. Seems like nobody wants to hurt the feelings of the SUSY people
Let me correct your statement: "Given NASA's constant funding problems for the last few decades," In fact you meant to write, "Given NASA's constant spending problems for the last few decades..."
They have an $18B budget yet can't find a way to get by. Really? Maybe it is time to re-examine what NASA should and should not be about and fit that into the $18B instead of crying about not getting more to fund extravagant missisions of dubious value. ISS? $100B for what great scientific achievments that only could be made there? What other things could NASA have done with that money which would have been more productive?
NASA is just one small microcosm of government largess and waste. The era of throwing money at shit just because you have it is over.
or simple. For the better part of 50 years, there have been two real nuclear powers - the US and USSR/Russia. Not only the number of warheads, but the variety and quantity of systems to deliver those warheads served as a deterrent, not against each other, but against others in the world trying to compete. The most notable, China, has maintained a good sized force but did not see it in their interests in trying to catch up, let alone surpass, the US/USSR totals (and they could only rely upon ground based missiles for delivery). As the US/Russia totals plummet, it becomes strategically more advantageous for a country like China, and perhaps others down the road, to catch up.
Second, and equally important, is that with cuts in warheads come decisions about how to deploy the remaining warheads. Will there be enough left to justify bombers? Ground based ICBMs? Or will all (or most) of the force be at sea? This has signifcant ramifications on stability. The less visible the force, the more likely the adversary (Russia, China, whomever) are to see the warheads as offensive, first strike weapons. Bomber bases and even silo sites provide a degree of early warning that is now lost. The use 'em or lose 'em scenario will now gain far more attention in a time of increasing tensions.
Nuclear weapons are here to stay - the genie is out of the bottle for good and it is fantasy to consider a world without them. Rather than spending an inordinate amount of time and effort on debates (in and out of governemnt) on the number and composition of nuclear forces, efforts should instead be focused on securing the supply chains and warheads from theft, abuse, or misuse. In particular, countries like Pakistan and India need to have the best PAL's (the "lock" on the weapon) possible and I fear it is those countries that present the biggest risks of a nuclear event, not the US, Russia or even China.
it comes within 200 feet according to the FBI who has a very vested interest in making sure nobody else has toys to play with. From yesterday: "“The pilot did not take evasive action. The flight landed safely," according to the FAA.". 200 feet=60yards.. Either it was a tiny toy (unlikely at that elevation) or it was far enough away the pilot felt no need to take action. Birds are bad enough around NYC, no pilot wants a 'drone' sucked into his engine on approach.
they use 19 micron square pixels. A "35mm" format is actually 24mmx36mm (or 24,000x36,000 microns). This works out to be 2.3 megapixels assuming no gap between the pixels. (ie, 1263x1895)
I've lost track of where things stand in the astrophotography world but this sounds like it could be very useful.
So... they system is disturbed. And
This is therefore a statistical experiment and thus subject to all the normal caveats involved with statistics, including estimates of error.