According to a large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior, 15% admit to changing a study...
I attend a large university and have worked in three labs as an undergraduate. In nearly every case I found either a grad student or advisor altering data to their benefit. In some cases they were out-right wrong and in others they needed the numbers to be more telling. I have seen everything from changing graphs, altering data sets, down to slightly modifying standard deviations. From my perspective it appears more rampid than may actually be reported and the whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth when considering graduate schools and a possible permanent career in academia. To their credit, I never saw any of these alterations appear in articles or papers they had written and most did seem in context to funding. However, competition sometimes spurs this lying and cheating and if you are even considering it, DON'T! There is nothing more shameful than cheating, and worse yet, when you are caught cheating!
I am still uncertain of my career choices, but I have definitely not had the best mentors and advisiors to look up to when shaping my ideas of graduate school and academic careers.
Can't some pipsqueak in P.R. do the job? Do they actually need someone who specializes in posting daily non-sense? If I recall correctly the blogging movement was started mostly by those who DIDN'T have jobs and were writing about their daily complaints and boring details of life.
Any schmoo who write about this controversial topic is bound to get some/. attention. I am sick of seeing Bob Nobody try and predict whether Linux will pre-dominate and/or Windows fail. Unless they have something valuable to add or some new prespective (which this article lacks) then I move on and forget the damn thing. If only a fraction of these articles had authors who actually researched the topic a little more and pulled out some numbers then maybe there would be one good article a month, MAYBE!
I have a detailed document on the upgrade procedure from Core 1 to Core 2 here that I would imagine would be very helpful in upgrading from Core 2 to Core 3. I will verify it later tonight when I get a chance to try it out, but again I cannot imagine things have changed too much.
Victoria Secret needs to consult with these scientists to start making these fabrics for all to have... I'd love to see my girlfriend running around in nano-lingerie!
One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't. Instead she had her mother pop in at regular intervals to remind her to save manually.
This has to be the lamest story I've read in a while...
I am glad to see these types of postings on slashdot as I am a biology nut who normally would not discover things of this nature until much later. I know it is not a typical slashdot posting but I am very glad to see it (as I am the many other articles related to science and biology in particular).
Think again, this is scaring everyone around me into going out and buying CD's or purchasing rights to the music (mp3's) online. I think it is worthwhile for the RIAA to bring on these lawsuits. I only think they were too late in the game that it may not have near the effect it would have had had it been a few years back and with slightly different tactics.
- The companies of the top IM clients will start making it impossible (for sure this time) to piggy back without their official client
- They will keep doing what they have been doing in smaller incriments to create a developer maintenance nightmare to support the protocol.
- Third I have listed anyway: the companies will cooperate and help provide information on how to support the protocol (yeah right, this doesn't make money and that's what they're after first and foremost)
I only hope that there is a single open source IM protocol that everyone will use and that is scalable above and beyond the current IM clients/protocols. *cough*jabber*cough*
If I were to attend this meeting I know I'd have a bucket full of tomatoes to toss at these guys. I'd also probably start a chant, "Hell no, Down with SCO!" and be promptly escorted out. *shrug*
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When you read the title of this topic "The Spider Case" were you thinking of the case study on spiders and caffeine?
I heard NPR cover this story yesterday and they had stated that he was very careful about what he said, and did not want to be taken out of context; so much so, that he would time his response to questions with a stopwatch!
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When many-a-sysadmin tout "I automate my job with scripts" I bite my lip to prevent from crying outloud "THAT IS YOUR JOB!"
The FCC is definitely not going to like the sound of this
A better question is: Do we really need columnist like Bruce Schneir telling us what a perfect world might look like?
Shouldn't this story have been posted to Ask Slashdot and then the responses posted to Interviews?
According to a large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior, 15% admit to changing a study...
I attend a large university and have worked in three labs as an undergraduate. In nearly every case I found either a grad student or advisor altering data to their benefit. In some cases they were out-right wrong and in others they needed the numbers to be more telling. I have seen everything from changing graphs, altering data sets, down to slightly modifying standard deviations. From my perspective it appears more rampid than may actually be reported and the whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth when considering graduate schools and a possible permanent career in academia. To their credit, I never saw any of these alterations appear in articles or papers they had written and most did seem in context to funding. However, competition sometimes spurs this lying and cheating and if you are even considering it, DON'T! There is nothing more shameful than cheating, and worse yet, when you are caught cheating!
I am still uncertain of my career choices, but I have definitely not had the best mentors and advisiors to look up to when shaping my ideas of graduate school and academic careers.
Can't some pipsqueak in P.R. do the job? Do they actually need someone who specializes in posting daily non-sense? If I recall correctly the blogging movement was started mostly by those who DIDN'T have jobs and were writing about their daily complaints and boring details of life.
Any schmoo who write about this controversial topic is bound to get some /. attention. I am sick of seeing Bob Nobody try and predict whether Linux will pre-dominate and/or Windows fail. Unless they have something valuable to add or some new prespective (which this article lacks) then I move on and forget the damn thing. If only a fraction of these articles had authors who actually researched the topic a little more and pulled out some numbers then maybe there would be one good article a month, MAYBE!
Chalk this one up!
I have a detailed document on the upgrade procedure from Core 1 to Core 2 here that I would imagine would be very helpful in upgrading from Core 2 to Core 3. I will verify it later tonight when I get a chance to try it out, but again I cannot imagine things have changed too much.
Victoria Secret needs to consult with these scientists to start making these fabrics for all to have... I'd love to see my girlfriend running around in nano-lingerie!
One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't. Instead she had her mother pop in at regular intervals to remind her to save manually. This has to be the lamest story I've read in a while...
I am glad to see these types of postings on slashdot as I am a biology nut who normally would not discover things of this nature until much later. I know it is not a typical slashdot posting but I am very glad to see it (as I am the many other articles related to science and biology in particular).
It didn't work then, and it won't work today.
Think again, this is scaring everyone around me into going out and buying CD's or purchasing rights to the music (mp3's) online. I think it is worthwhile for the RIAA to bring on these lawsuits. I only think they were too late in the game that it may not have near the effect it would have had had it been a few years back and with slightly different tactics.
I see one of two things happening:
- The companies of the top IM clients will start making it impossible (for sure this time) to piggy back without their official client
- They will keep doing what they have been doing in smaller incriments to create a developer maintenance nightmare to support the protocol.
- Third I have listed anyway: the companies will cooperate and help provide information on how to support the protocol (yeah right, this doesn't make money and that's what they're after first and foremost)
I only hope that there is a single open source IM protocol that everyone will use and that is scalable above and beyond the current IM clients/protocols. *cough*jabber*cough*
VERY FUNNY INDEED!!! HAHA! I instantly thought of this when reading the story but you beat me to it!
If I were to attend this meeting I know I'd have a bucket full of tomatoes to toss at these guys. I'd also probably start a chant, "Hell no, Down with SCO!" and be promptly escorted out. *shrug*
When you read the title of this topic "The Spider Case" were you thinking of the case study on spiders and caffeine?
Find it here: http://www.missblackwidow.com/drugs.html.
Don't you hate replies like this?
Geez it's been at least 3 times... It's about time somebody sued these idiots...
So that's where all the old O'reilly Nutshell books go when people are done with them...
So now I have to worry about two kind's of bugs on my cell phone... The diseased bug and the FBI...
Shower, Coffee, Slashdot, Sendmail bugs... some things we can rely on daily...
...if someone sues IBM? Do we get a free copy of SCO?
I heard NPR cover this story yesterday and they had stated that he was very careful about what he said, and did not want to be taken out of context; so much so, that he would time his response to questions with a stopwatch!
As if there wasn't already too much blogging going on...