That's true. Excluding citations done by rewiever and by the authors from the citation count is a basic thing. Howver I do not argue that this idea is a good one. This is why I concluded with "And maybe something that encourages quality and not cheating will be discovered...". I really hope that some system which makes it work will be devised.
In PeerJ for example you can publish as long as you are doing reviews for PeerJ also. That seems to not conflict with your point of view, and sounds quite reasonable for me too. I feel that this is not the ultimate solution, but a step in a good direction too.
Well, it takes much more work, but would have worked a lot better if editors focused on paper quality instead. Doing a good review (a review which really helps the authors to improve the quality of their research) is a lot of hard work. I still don't understand why mostly it's unpaid. They could go as far as paying the reviewers proportionally to the number of (real) citations, obtained by the reviewed paper, in two years after the publication. That would really encourage doing good reviews, and helping the authors.
The system is broken, but few people outside university realize how badly it is broken. I did some reviews, but I prefer to not, because there is no reward, and my time is better spent on actual research. Also it happened to me once, that I recommended rejecting a paper and I worked hard to write a good review, and the paper was published nevertheless with only few things corrected. How that journal expects to have a high citation rate is beyond me. Yes I understand that the reviewers work is for free and for the sake of humanity, but the level to which it is exploited by journals is just outrageous. I feel much better developing open source software, which is also done for free and for the sake of humanity, becuase nobody exploits me doing this.
This cartel is not the only one. And more of this will happen in near future until some kind of revolution will take place. Moving toward open access is a good direction and I hope that it will take part in revolutionizing the pulication mechanisms.
Oh well, I hope that more scandalous things like this one will resurface, which will tell people that a reform is needed. And maybe something that encourages quality and not cheating will be discovered....
Hi, another question.
How is it going to work as an actual watch? You know, with a regular watch I just take a short glance at it (regardless of current lighting conditions, unless it's very dark) and I immediately know what time is it.
Will I be able to check the time without using other hand to touch the watch to light up the display? Will I be able to check time in direct sunlight?
What can you tell about battery life & daily usage & charging? 100hr is a mere 4 days.
1) How is it supposed to work on day to day: whenever I get home, I take off the watch, put it on my desk and connect to the charger?
2) What if I want to spend 2 weeks in mountains?
3) Can I charge in a car?
4) What about travelling & battery consumption - I discovered that while in my current (crappy) phone battery lasts about 3 days, it lasts only 6 to 8 hours while I am travelling by car across my country - it must be due to constant seeking&switching of phone cell towers. How does the smartwatch cope with that?
5) Is it possible to carry around some extra batteries (to spend 2 weeks in mountains, you know:)
wow, you registered on slashdot, just after these news appeared on front page.
What can you tell about battery life & daily usage & charging? 100hr is a mere 4 days.
How is it supposed to work on day to day: whenever I get home, I take off the watch, put it on my desk and connect to the charger?
What if I want to spend 2 weeks in mountains?
Can I charge in a car?
What about travelling & battery consumption - I discovered that while in my current (crappy) phone battery lasts about 3 days, it lasts only 6 to 8 hours while I am travelling by car across my country - it must be due to constant seeking&switching of phone cell towers. How does the smartwatch cope with that?
Is it possible to carry around some extra batteries (to spend 2 weeks in mountains, you know:)
Not exactly, email is wildly popular, while telnet was never so popular.
I think that it should be possible to write some kind of retroshare email gateway which would accept email from outside. But internally in order to be compatible with the rest of retroshare network people who want to receive emails from outside would need to befriend such gateway. I suppose that such retroshare gateways could have multiple identities, so that people could befriend all currently running gateways (a shared identity), without chosing a particular one. Or could jut befriend selected ones.
Now if such gateway code gets implemented into retroshare itself, so that each retroshare node can act as an email gateway we almost have what I was talking about in OP. In order to not compromise any security people will have to chose what gateways to befriend, and it doesn't even matter that their running node is such a gateway if it hasn't been befriended.
Well - yes - email can be snooped and read before they reach the trusted & encrypted retroshare network. But in fact the same problem would happen in what I described in OP. Before email reaches p2pemail node is not proteced by any kind of security, especially if it travels in plaintext. But in order to get people to switch we need this backward compatibility.
Inside retroshare network people could have two identities - one trusted which cannot befriend email gateways, and another which would be used for contacts with the outside world. Once one of your friends joins retroshare, you give him your trusted identity, so that he will not have to send email to the untrusted one anymore. Only the untrusted one will be the one that receives spam, unless we use some kind of "pay-to-deliver" e.g. with bitcoins + whitelisting.
But if I make a retroshare account, can people from outside send email to my retroshare account? This is the kind of integration that is needed for breakthrough. Because this will allow more and more people to switch seamlessly to retroshare, without cutting out people who didn't switch yet.
Running p2pemail node behind TOR would simply add an extra (and welcome) layer of security.
Running classical email server (like squirrelmail or something that gmail/hotmail/yahoo uses) behind TOR would make it complicated (if not outright impossible) for users to access.
Lavabit and silent circle inspired me to think about some kind of peer to peer distributed email system.
Although currently everyone can install an email server (e.g. there are several available in debian). It is not what would solve the problem. Not just because it requires technical expertise, but also because it requires too much dedication on your side to maintain your freshly installed server. Also to make sure it has outside access with SMTP port, and so on. Not mentioning that it needs about 100% uptime. Such solution is too much centralized.
I was thinking about p2p email more like this one which I googled right after I had this initial idea. This is a proof of concept so it can work.
Key features would be:
1) uses p2p distributed encrypted file system, like tahoe
2) each p2p node can act as email receiver/sender
3) to send email to someone you use nick@1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is any IP that is running p2pemail. Simplest would be 127.0.0.1 if you just run a p2pemail node yourself.
4) everyone can have p2pemail account, just connect via https to nearest p2pemail node. It can be running on your computer or anywhere else. Doesn't matter. This just requires setting up an account name on your side, and a lenghty password, which is also used as a sha256 seed for private key for encryption of your emails and also as a PGP signature for you emails.
5) PGP signing emails would be so easy, that it would be a new standard.
6) all encryption and decryption is done locally on your computer either in javascript or in your email client. Just make sure that your browser and computer are not compromised.
7) if any of p2pemail nodes are running compromised code (eg. like compromised tor nodes) they still cannot read your email, because they have no acces to your private key. The only hope they can have is to monitor when you are accessing your data, but only if a request to the compromised node is made.
8) even if huge NSA datacenter decided to store all p2pemail data, they still cannot read it, and have nobody to file a warrant to.
If we combined that with bitcoins we would get additional (optional) features:
9) buy storage with bitcoins, while buying decide how many copies of your data you want to have (can change this anytime later). Offer any price you want, lower bids might not be taken.
10) provide encrypted storage space and get paid. If you store multiple copies of same data (might be possible before p2pemail gets popular) ensure that at least it is on different physical locations, otherwise you might be compromising security
11) create whitelists with people from whom you want to receive email, add mandatory bitcoin fees if anyone not on the whitelist wants to send you email.
12) You can create various stages if whitelisting, depending on domains you can define different prices to receive email. Or you can say that first email is free for everyone, and each next will be paid or not depending on if you received spam. Or configure spamassasin to decide for you.
PROBLEM: where do my friends send email to?
ANSWER: your_nick@p2pemail.org/net/com/info (we need to register many domains, and use many IPs to resolve those dns-es)
PROBLEM: Will my address still be the same after long time?
ANSWER: your nick in p2pemail will be the same, tell your friends that if they cant send email (eg. govt seized all p2pemail domain names), then they have to find some p2pemail node. Google it, or install one themselves. If they can't do that, you can solve this by installing a node yourself, and making sure it has the same domain name all the time. Services like dyndns can help you with that.
well maybe that's just a pipe dream. But the proof of concept implementation that I linked above gives some hope. What do you think?
These news are already outdated. Ubuntu edge is now selling for $695.
With 14 days to go, it’s time for our biggest announcement yet. From now until the end of the campaign, we’re fixing the price of the Ubuntu Edge at $695! No limited quantities, no more price changes. You wanted a more affordable Edge, and now you’ve got it.
So of course we’re passing those savings on to you. There’s now a single unlimited $695 Ubuntu Edge perk, which comes with a year’s subscription to LastPass Premium and a place on the Founders page. At the end of the campaign, anyone who’s already pledged more than $695 for the phone will be offered a refund of the difference.
Bitcoins won't be stored on cellphones (I mean the private key), but centrally in the service that provides the ability to trade them. This is a single point of failure, and I really don't like this.
Look, wrist watches were replaced by cellphones. There is no reason to introduce a watch again, unless it will replace the cellphone. Then, tell me - how the battery life problems were solved?
Oh, you might say that carrying both a watch AND a phone will be so great, because it will be a smart-watch. This is stupid reasoning, why carry more, if you can carry less?
oh, and of course the cost of Opening Post would directly go to the website earnings. While of course the OP would recap his initial payment from replies posted by other people.
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If it's also a phone and doesn't need another phone to work, I want one.
Well, this one works like you want: slahdot story, kickstarter
That's true. Excluding citations done by rewiever and by the authors from the citation count is a basic thing. Howver I do not argue that this idea is a good one. This is why I concluded with "And maybe something that encourages quality and not cheating will be discovered...". I really hope that some system which makes it work will be devised.
In PeerJ for example you can publish as long as you are doing reviews for PeerJ also. That seems to not conflict with your point of view, and sounds quite reasonable for me too. I feel that this is not the ultimate solution, but a step in a good direction too.
Well, it takes much more work, but would have worked a lot better if editors focused on paper quality instead. Doing a good review (a review which really helps the authors to improve the quality of their research) is a lot of hard work. I still don't understand why mostly it's unpaid. They could go as far as paying the reviewers proportionally to the number of (real) citations, obtained by the reviewed paper, in two years after the publication. That would really encourage doing good reviews, and helping the authors.
The system is broken, but few people outside university realize how badly it is broken. I did some reviews, but I prefer to not, because there is no reward, and my time is better spent on actual research. Also it happened to me once, that I recommended rejecting a paper and I worked hard to write a good review, and the paper was published nevertheless with only few things corrected. How that journal expects to have a high citation rate is beyond me. Yes I understand that the reviewers work is for free and for the sake of humanity, but the level to which it is exploited by journals is just outrageous. I feel much better developing open source software, which is also done for free and for the sake of humanity, becuase nobody exploits me doing this.
This cartel is not the only one. And more of this will happen in near future until some kind of revolution will take place. Moving toward open access is a good direction and I hope that it will take part in revolutionizing the pulication mechanisms.
Oh well, I hope that more scandalous things like this one will resurface, which will tell people that a reform is needed. And maybe something that encourages quality and not cheating will be discovered....
Hi, another question. How is it going to work as an actual watch? You know, with a regular watch I just take a short glance at it (regardless of current lighting conditions, unless it's very dark) and I immediately know what time is it. Will I be able to check the time without using other hand to touch the watch to light up the display? Will I be able to check time in direct sunlight?
What can you tell about battery life & daily usage & charging? 100hr is a mere 4 days.
:)
1) How is it supposed to work on day to day: whenever I get home, I take off the watch, put it on my desk and connect to the charger?
2) What if I want to spend 2 weeks in mountains?
3) Can I charge in a car?
4) What about travelling & battery consumption - I discovered that while in my current (crappy) phone battery lasts about 3 days, it lasts only 6 to 8 hours while I am travelling by car across my country - it must be due to constant seeking&switching of phone cell towers. How does the smartwatch cope with that?
5) Is it possible to carry around some extra batteries (to spend 2 weeks in mountains, you know
Some other points you want to make about battery?
PS: reposting this question in a battery thread
wow, you registered on slashdot, just after these news appeared on front page.
:)
What can you tell about battery life & daily usage & charging? 100hr is a mere 4 days.
How is it supposed to work on day to day: whenever I get home, I take off the watch, put it on my desk and connect to the charger?
What if I want to spend 2 weeks in mountains?
Can I charge in a car?
What about travelling & battery consumption - I discovered that while in my current (crappy) phone battery lasts about 3 days, it lasts only 6 to 8 hours while I am travelling by car across my country - it must be due to constant seeking&switching of phone cell towers. How does the smartwatch cope with that?
Is it possible to carry around some extra batteries (to spend 2 weeks in mountains, you know
Some other points you want to make about battery?
how do I talk over this thing?
Is it James Bond or Dick Tracy like, with my left arm riased & talking to watch & looking as if in some sort of conspiration?
Well, I still might like it. Pondering whether to order one or not...
Fine, do beta testing on pop-stars. And when technology is proven and tested then clone Einstein.
http://abstrusegoose.com/527
OMG, I want to live in Estonia.
Good, even smaller chances that someone will buy it.
I just found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P this one and the email system I2P-Bote look quite promising.
Not exactly, email is wildly popular, while telnet was never so popular.
I think that it should be possible to write some kind of retroshare email gateway which would accept email from outside. But internally in order to be compatible with the rest of retroshare network people who want to receive emails from outside would need to befriend such gateway. I suppose that such retroshare gateways could have multiple identities, so that people could befriend all currently running gateways (a shared identity), without chosing a particular one. Or could jut befriend selected ones.
Now if such gateway code gets implemented into retroshare itself, so that each retroshare node can act as an email gateway we almost have what I was talking about in OP. In order to not compromise any security people will have to chose what gateways to befriend, and it doesn't even matter that their running node is such a gateway if it hasn't been befriended.
Well - yes - email can be snooped and read before they reach the trusted & encrypted retroshare network. But in fact the same problem would happen in what I described in OP. Before email reaches p2pemail node is not proteced by any kind of security, especially if it travels in plaintext. But in order to get people to switch we need this backward compatibility.
Inside retroshare network people could have two identities - one trusted which cannot befriend email gateways, and another which would be used for contacts with the outside world. Once one of your friends joins retroshare, you give him your trusted identity, so that he will not have to send email to the untrusted one anymore. Only the untrusted one will be the one that receives spam, unless we use some kind of "pay-to-deliver" e.g. with bitcoins + whitelisting.
I looked briefly at retroshare. One thing I couldn't find (quickly) and maybe you know the answer.
Since it has internal email (and forum) system - how those emails (and forums) are stored? Is that a distributed p2p filesystem?
best regards
But if I make a retroshare account, can people from outside send email to my retroshare account? This is the kind of integration that is needed for breakthrough. Because this will allow more and more people to switch seamlessly to retroshare, without cutting out people who didn't switch yet.
Running p2pemail node behind TOR would simply add an extra (and welcome) layer of security.
Running classical email server (like squirrelmail or something that gmail/hotmail/yahoo uses) behind TOR would make it complicated (if not outright impossible) for users to access.
Lavabit and silent circle inspired me to think about some kind of peer to peer distributed email system.
Although currently everyone can install an email server (e.g. there are several available in debian). It is not what would solve the problem. Not just because it requires technical expertise, but also because it requires too much dedication on your side to maintain your freshly installed server. Also to make sure it has outside access with SMTP port, and so on. Not mentioning that it needs about 100% uptime. Such solution is too much centralized.
I was thinking about p2p email more like this one which I googled right after I had this initial idea. This is a proof of concept so it can work.
Key features would be:
1) uses p2p distributed encrypted file system, like tahoe
2) each p2p node can act as email receiver/sender
3) to send email to someone you use nick@1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is any IP that is running p2pemail. Simplest would be 127.0.0.1 if you just run a p2pemail node yourself.
4) everyone can have p2pemail account, just connect via https to nearest p2pemail node. It can be running on your computer or anywhere else. Doesn't matter. This just requires setting up an account name on your side, and a lenghty password, which is also used as a sha256 seed for private key for encryption of your emails and also as a PGP signature for you emails.
5) PGP signing emails would be so easy, that it would be a new standard.
6) all encryption and decryption is done locally on your computer either in javascript or in your email client. Just make sure that your browser and computer are not compromised.
7) if any of p2pemail nodes are running compromised code (eg. like compromised tor nodes) they still cannot read your email, because they have no acces to your private key. The only hope they can have is to monitor when you are accessing your data, but only if a request to the compromised node is made.
8) even if huge NSA datacenter decided to store all p2pemail data, they still cannot read it, and have nobody to file a warrant to.
If we combined that with bitcoins we would get additional (optional) features:
9) buy storage with bitcoins, while buying decide how many copies of your data you want to have (can change this anytime later). Offer any price you want, lower bids might not be taken.
10) provide encrypted storage space and get paid. If you store multiple copies of same data (might be possible before p2pemail gets popular) ensure that at least it is on different physical locations, otherwise you might be compromising security
11) create whitelists with people from whom you want to receive email, add mandatory bitcoin fees if anyone not on the whitelist wants to send you email.
12) You can create various stages if whitelisting, depending on domains you can define different prices to receive email. Or you can say that first email is free for everyone, and each next will be paid or not depending on if you received spam. Or configure spamassasin to decide for you.
PROBLEM: where do my friends send email to?
ANSWER: your_nick@p2pemail.org/net/com/info (we need to register many domains, and use many IPs to resolve those dns-es)
PROBLEM: Will my address still be the same after long time?
ANSWER: your nick in p2pemail will be the same, tell your friends that if they cant send email (eg. govt seized all p2pemail domain names), then they have to find some p2pemail node. Google it, or install one themselves. If they can't do that, you can solve this by installing a node yourself, and making sure it has the same domain name all the time. Services like dyndns can help you with that.
well maybe that's just a pipe dream. But the proof of concept implementation that I linked above gives some hope. What do you think?
With 14 days to go, it’s time for our biggest announcement yet. From now until the end of the campaign, we’re fixing the price of the Ubuntu Edge at $695! No limited quantities, no more price changes. You wanted a more affordable Edge, and now you’ve got it.
So of course we’re passing those savings on to you. There’s now a single unlimited $695 Ubuntu Edge perk, which comes with a year’s subscription to LastPass Premium and a place on the Founders page. At the end of the campaign, anyone who’s already pledged more than $695 for the phone will be offered a refund of the difference.
Bitcoins won't be stored on cellphones (I mean the private key), but centrally in the service that provides the ability to trade them. This is a single point of failure, and I really don't like this.
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Look, wrist watches were replaced by cellphones. There is no reason to introduce a watch again, unless it will replace the cellphone. Then, tell me - how the battery life problems were solved?
Oh, you might say that carrying both a watch AND a phone will be so great, because it will be a smart-watch. This is stupid reasoning, why carry more, if you can carry less?
I'm not watching TV since 2005. Such a waste of time.
Unlike slashdot
hey, it took me only 30 minutes to finish slashdot this morning. Now I'm off to work and see you at night.
I'm not watching TV since 2005. Such a waste of time.
oh, and of course the cost of Opening Post would directly go to the website earnings. While of course the OP would recap his initial payment from replies posted by other people.