he was basically just going about his job, doing the right thing, but forgot they weren't HIS computers.
Isn't that the most unprofessional thing a sysadmin can do? Doesn't everyone in the business know that that is precisely the behavior that gets you in trouble?
Yup. You could rephrase the conclusion as: "there are an awful lot of crappy open access journals out there". It doesn't say anything about a difference in that respect between OA and non-OA journals.
Except those paid journals have also had serious hoaxes foisted on them. You have to go to really really really really big journals like science or nature before there's enough credibility to protect against fraud.
Actually, no journal is fully immune, no matter how prestigious. Worse than that, top-notch journals like Science and Nature require sensational stories, which makes them more likely to publish skillfully hyped-up reports than honest ones that acknowledge their own limitations. The best science is often found in mid-range journals that accept longish and seemingly boring manuscripts, with nothing swept under the rug.
Wait, if you don't care people adopt it on the desktop, why do you even care that Ubuntu exists? In what way does its existence harm your Linux experience?
It harms my Linux experience because nowadays some software developers support Ubuntu and then claim they support Linux.
I, for one, hope that the US is spying on Israel and that the information gathered has prevented them from pulling us into a war with Iran.
Interesting point, but don't you think there are ways to achieve that without spying on Israel? Intelligence on Iran, added to shared knowledge with Israel, should be enough. Really, one could figure out that it would be silly to go to war with Iran, based on publicly available information alone.
What do you think tells us more about the Tea Party: this (rather short and generic) party platform, or the everyday discourse and actions of party members in the political life of the country?
I know a lot of political parties, in several countries, who can put forward a lovely one-page platform that I largely subscribe to. It doesn't mean I actually support any of those parties.
The notion of human rights seems quite foreign to Russia's leaders today. This follows the incredible state-sponsored persecution of LGBT people, which taps into (and caters to) the already fairly widespread homophobia in large parts of the population. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-crackdown.html?_r=0
Remember when it was normal to move files around with standard protocols, which worked reliably and didn't require any bizarre shit?
Ooh, that does ring a bell. There was this protocol for transfering files, what was it called again? Started with F... something something. Would be completely useless today, I'm sure, now that we have Google Drive...
Good idea; I wish there were a way to implement it.
As pointed out by others, you can't intercept an email on its way to tax it, but you can always catch it at its final destination. Here is an idea that doesn't involve a government tax.
As you rightfully point out, I bear some cost for each message I receive, so I could pass on this cost to the sender by demanding a fee for reading the message. Essentially this would need a credit system where my incoming mail server can silently drop any message that doesn't come with a small electronic payment of some form.
For any person with whom I have a normal, symmetric communication, this just cancels out, but those who want to spam me would have to pay for that priviledge.
Obviously, implementing such a credit system to be both reliable and inexpensive is a major technical challenge, but certainly something that I'd like to see explored.
Sorry, the "correct" use of the phrase "begs the question" is one of my pet peeves, because it makes no logical sense.
It makes some sense to me, if you just cut it a little slack for being an old phrase. I can hear a difference between asking a question and begging it, in that just asking it leaves the answer open. There is something more insistent and less honorable in "begging", it doesn't leave people much of a choice. As in: "Would you rather help me feed my hungry child or be a heartless bastard?", which is definitely begging, and not exactly begging the question, but close enough.
That's correct. First, about half of it is exported, and 80% of the rest is animal feed. What remains is used mostly for starch (not all of it for eating). The sweet corn eaten in corn form is a tiny fraction.
The arguments for a very short copyright were all out there in 1841, in a powerful speech to the British House of Commons by Thomas Babington Macaulay: http://www.baen.com/library/palaver4.htm
Private philantropy is basically only a factor in the medical sector, where patient organizations may fund research into specific diseases
Good point about medical research: that is a sizable exception. The difference with the model prevalent in the US is that those organizations typically collect many small donations, as opposed to large single endowments by wealthy donors.
Here, I think "Western institutions" should be understood as "mainly in the US, and to some extent the UK and the English-speaking world". To the best of my knowledge, in all other countries the situation is closer to that in Japan than in the US: the bulk of academic research is performed by public institutions using public funds.
You might want to try Mageia 2 when it comes out. They (Mandrake - Mandriva - Mageia) have had consistently good KDE support since the dawn of time (1998).
It's an interesting occasion on which to bash evangelicals, since no candidate with even a remote chance at the Republican nomination can be described as one.
Which tells you that people who most dislike evangelicals don't know much about them. It's a very common pattern, to be honest.
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he was basically just going about his job, doing the right thing, but forgot they weren't HIS computers.
Isn't that the most unprofessional thing a sysadmin can do? Doesn't everyone in the business know that that is precisely the behavior that gets you in trouble?
Yup. You could rephrase the conclusion as: "there are an awful lot of crappy open access journals out there". It doesn't say anything about a difference in that respect between OA and non-OA journals.
Good point. And it wouldn't even have cost money, because for the journals I know of, you don't pay anything until the paper is accepted.
Except those paid journals have also had serious hoaxes foisted on them. You have to go to really really really really big journals like science or nature before there's enough credibility to protect against fraud.
Actually, no journal is fully immune, no matter how prestigious. Worse than that, top-notch journals like Science and Nature require sensational stories, which makes them more likely to publish skillfully hyped-up reports than honest ones that acknowledge their own limitations. The best science is often found in mid-range journals that accept longish and seemingly boring manuscripts, with nothing swept under the rug.
Thank you for setting this straight. I wish I had mod points...
Wait, if you don't care people adopt it on the desktop, why do you even care that Ubuntu exists? In what way does its existence harm your Linux experience?
It harms my Linux experience because nowadays some software developers support Ubuntu and then claim they support Linux.
I, for one, hope that the US is spying on Israel and that the information gathered has prevented them from pulling us into a war with Iran.
Interesting point, but don't you think there are ways to achieve that without spying on Israel? Intelligence on Iran, added to shared knowledge with Israel, should be enough. Really, one could figure out that it would be silly to go to war with Iran, based on publicly available information alone.
What do you think tells us more about the Tea Party: this (rather short and generic) party platform, or the everyday discourse and actions of party members in the political life of the country?
I know a lot of political parties, in several countries, who can put forward a lovely one-page platform that I largely subscribe to. It doesn't mean I actually support any of those parties.
You comment is indeed a flamebait.
On the other hand, I just love your username, it's a fairly uncommon reference that's always nice to see mentioned.
You did a fair amount of C? Just refresh your knowledge of C, and you'll be back to business in a few days.
The notion of human rights seems quite foreign to Russia's leaders today. This follows the incredible state-sponsored persecution of LGBT people, which taps into (and caters to) the already fairly widespread homophobia in large parts of the population.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-crackdown.html?_r=0
What if you were banned from entering the EU for saying that? Maybe you don't care about the EU and don't want to travel there. Or maybe you do.
At any rate, you might like to hear an explanation.
At least a programming language stays relatively the same over longer time periods.
Obviously you don't use python.
Remember when it was normal to move files around with standard protocols, which worked reliably and didn't require any bizarre shit?
Ooh, that does ring a bell. There was this protocol for transfering files, what was it called again? Started with F... something something. Would be completely useless today, I'm sure, now that we have Google Drive...
Good idea; I wish there were a way to implement it.
As pointed out by others, you can't intercept an email on its way to tax it, but you can always catch it at its final destination. Here is an idea that doesn't involve a government tax.
As you rightfully point out, I bear some cost for each message I receive, so I could pass on this cost to the sender by demanding a fee for reading the message. Essentially this would need a credit system where my incoming mail server can silently drop any message that doesn't come with a small electronic payment of some form.
For any person with whom I have a normal, symmetric communication, this just cancels out, but those who want to spam me would have to pay for that priviledge.
Obviously, implementing such a credit system to be both reliable and inexpensive is a major technical challenge, but certainly something that I'd like to see explored.
Sorry, the "correct" use of the phrase "begs the question" is one of my pet peeves, because it makes no logical sense.
It makes some sense to me, if you just cut it a little slack for being an old phrase. I can hear a difference between asking a question and begging it, in that just asking it leaves the answer open. There is something more insistent and less honorable in "begging", it doesn't leave people much of a choice. As in: "Would you rather help me feed my hungry child or be a heartless bastard?", which is definitely begging, and not exactly begging the question, but close enough.
* It's more cutting edge than Reiser's knife.
I think the classic phrase is, Reiser's razor.
That's correct. First, about half of it is exported, and 80% of the rest is animal feed. What remains is used mostly for starch (not all of it for eating). The sweet corn eaten in corn form is a tiny fraction.
The arguments for a very short copyright were all out there in 1841, in a powerful speech to the British House of Commons by Thomas Babington Macaulay:
http://www.baen.com/library/palaver4.htm
Every single argument is still valid today.
Private philantropy is basically only a factor in the medical sector, where patient organizations may fund research into specific diseases
Good point about medical research: that is a sizable exception. The difference with the model prevalent in the US is that those organizations typically collect many small donations, as opposed to large single endowments by wealthy donors.
Here, I think "Western institutions" should be understood as "mainly in the US, and to some extent the UK and the English-speaking world". To the best of my knowledge, in all other countries the situation is closer to that in Japan than in the US: the bulk of academic research is performed by public institutions using public funds.
You might want to try Mageia 2 when it comes out. They (Mandrake - Mandriva - Mageia) have had consistently good KDE support since the dawn of time (1998).
It's an interesting occasion on which to bash evangelicals, since no candidate with even a remote chance at the Republican nomination can be described as one.
Which tells you that people who most dislike evangelicals don't know much about them. It's a very common pattern, to be honest.
Why is Qatar/Kuwait/Jordan not getting its ass kicked?
Easy: because they are client states of the US.
Next time you go to the store try and restrict your purchases to products not made in China. Also buy a globe and a few text books
That won't work: most textbooks are printed in China these days. And of course you can just forget about the globe.