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Who would have thought enough Europeans would get behind this initiative?
Publicly funded research must stay public according to new funding agency rules.
Disrupting business models,oneall of them at once!vulturepublisher at a time
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
Who would have thought enough Europeans would get behind this initiative?
Publicly funded research must stay public according to new funding agency rules.
Disrupting business models,oneall of them at once!vulturepublisher at a timeThis is fantastic. The whole situation was abusive and downright shameful. Die parasites!
When I left Uni and realised that I'd have to pay for journal access I was amazed by the prices. I certainly wouldn't have been able to do all my multivariable control research without sci-hub, I'd have gone bankrupt! I've bought articles before, and when you fork over 40 dollars for what turns out to be a EFL three pager that is full of vague statements and blurry diagrams you can't even get a refund.
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@Cursorkeys Agreed. This seems to be a push in the right direction.
One remaining issue will be the following:
The plan also states that funders will cap the amount they are willing to pay for open-access publishing fees, but doesnât lay out what charge would be too much.
Right now, I could get an article published open-access if I fork over some $$$ to the publisher on acceptance. Fees vary, but are typically in the few-âŹ1000 region. Perhaps not much in the grand scheme of things, but still ... there are dencent-ish journals that are completely free (financed by donations from companies/universities with transparent use of the funds) that further do a better job with reviewing and editing than some of the $$$ Elsevier et al. run ones.
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@Boner From what I read, an accident by a worker who didn't want to fess up and thus simply glued the hole shut.
If he had told someone about the hole they could've welded it shut.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Boner From what I read, an accident by a worker who didn't want to fess up and thus simply glued the hole shut.
If he had told someone about the hole they could've welded it shut.
This is Russia, not America.
Do you really expect someone to volunteer the information that they'd screwed up, rather than try and cover it up instead?
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@PJH That's why I said that it was an accident rather than deliberate sabotage.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Good thing those guys aren't in need of any freedom, unlike those other guys.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Boner From what I read, an accident by a worker who didn't want to fess up and thus simply glued the hole shut.
If he had told someone about the hole they could've welded it shut.
This is Russia, not America.
Do you really expect someone to volunteer the information that they'd screwed up, rather than try and cover it up instead?
Obviously covering up couldn't happen in America (transcript)
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Good thing those guys aren't in need of any freedom, unlike those other guys.
Let's hear it for the head of the human rights council!
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@Rhywden The funny thing is it's written like this was some horrible hack or whatever, but the module's been in orbit, what, 15-20 years and hasn't started leaking until now. So... good job random construction worker covering up his mistakes, your crappy fix worked shockingly well.
EDIT: oops, bad press misled me. It wasn't a hole IN the ISS, but a hole in one of the Soyuz ships that delivers supplies and happens to be docked on the ISS currently. Come on, news media, that's not even close to the same thing! They could have fixed this by just undocking it. It's not even part of the Soyuz they KEEP, they discard it to burn-up when done! Sheesh.
(IMO the idea that a astronaut or cosmonaut would deliberately sabotage the station to go home early is ridiculous. For the obvious reason that they just fixed the hole without evacuating shit, and anybody up there is smart enough to realize they could just fix the hole without evacuating shit. There's also the more obvious: how could you drill that hole without anybody noticing in that small a space?)
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@BrisingrAerowing Weird, normally that'd get him praised by the entire state...
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
I've bought articles before, and when you fork over 40 dollars for what turns out to be a EFL three pager that is full of vague statements and blurry diagrams you can't even get a refund.
This is the worse part. It seems these scientists work a lot on something, then write some subjective vague 4 page text.
Sometimes it isn't subjective, but it's extremely hard to hard if you're not an expert at the subject.
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@boomzilla you could say he was axing for it to happen.
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Canada has been at war with Denmark for decades
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@boomzilla
San Antonia (FL)
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Canada has been at war with Denmark for decades
I love this story.
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@Karla I've heard of it before, but the article says it's inhabited? The version I heard is that it's completely uninhabited and each country sends a destroyer (or some other Naval vessel) there once or twice a year, and each time they find their flag has been replaced with the flag from the other country and a bottle of booze left behind. Also the version I heard said that never have both of the countries happened to visit the island simultaneously.
I think whoever wrote that article is a dumbshit who doesn't know the difference between "inhabited" and "uninhabited".
Anyway here in Washington State, we had a little war with Canada too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
San Antonia (FL)San Antonio, Texas, or I would have put it in the Florida Man thread.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Anyway here in Washington State, we had a little war with Canada too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
No you didn't. Canada was created in 1867
It's like Trump saying Canada burned the White House
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Canada was created in 1867
You guys are so dumb. Even crazy Christian fundamentalists believe Canada was created at least 6,000 years ago.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I think whoever wrote that article is a dumbshit who doesn't know the difference between "inhabited" and "uninhabited".
Maybe they thought it's like the flammable / inflammable thing.
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@boomzilla
Really? I thought there must be an other SA in FL
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Azure is the best cloud
In other news, Office365 will be renamed Office363
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
Really? I thought there must be an other SA in FLBut there's no Florida west of the Mississippi.
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@boomzilla
Yet ...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla you could say he was axing for it to happen.
You could, but then I'd have to kill you.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
Yet ...I think they've long missed their shot at being west of the Mississippi.
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@mott555 Even West Florida was east of the Mississippi. I think the west side was MexicoâŚ
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Meanwhile in B*****m...
The
skyceiling is falling...No idea why this is particularly newsworthy. I found it funny that it hit the news at all
EDIT: Censoring
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Also, looks like B******s need more exercise. Maybe the ceiling fell because the floor above was overloaded:
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@Karla I've heard of it before, but the article says it's inhabited? The version I heard is that it's completely uninhabited and each country sends a destroyer (or some other Naval vessel) there once or twice a year, and each time they find their flag has been replaced with the flag from the other country and a bottle of booze left behind. Also the version I heard said that never have both of the countries happened to visit the island simultaneously.
I think whoever wrote that article is a dumbshit who doesn't know the difference between "inhabited" and "uninhabited".
Anyway here in Washington State, we had a little war with Canada too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
I didn't RTFA. I've just read it elsewhere.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Azure is the best cloud
In other news, Office365 will be renamed Office363
Funny, I implemented the "Talk less please" message last week (I think).
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@JBert
The Brussels courthouse is famous in Belgium for falling apart. It since t has been under renovation since forever with no end in sight.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Canada has been at war with Denmark for decades
I love this story.
Yet the dispute may be over after 30 years because of Canada and Denmark's plans to settle three boundary disputes, which includes Hans Island. They've decided that a task force will look at the island, which is basically a rock that spans half a square mile, to figure out whose territory it truly is.
I hope they just get wasted instead of settling the dispute.
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@TimeBandit May I suggest drawing the border like on this small island between Sweden and Finland?
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Wow.
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As Ben Carrington and Jules Boykoff noted in The Guardian, there is an inherent tension between supporting Nikeâs capitalist ideals, and advocating for the eradication of racist, oppressive systems.
Of course there is, because capitalism must be inherently racist and oppressive.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Of course there is, because capitalism must be inherently racist and oppressive.
Capitalism in general isn't, but Nike specifically has been in the past if not currently.
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@blakeyrat Approximate rendition of Kaepernick's logical process:
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"While the notion of using a blockchain as an immutable ballot box may seem promising, blockchain technology does little to solve the fundamental security issues of elections, and indeed, blockchains introduce additional security vulnerabilities," the report states. "In particular, if malware on a voter's device alters a vote before it ever reaches a blockchain, the immutability of the blockchain fails to provide the desired integrity, and the voter may never know of the alteration."
The report goes on to say that "Blockchains do not provide the anonymity often ascribed to them." It continues: "In the particular context of elections, voters need to be authorized as eligible to vote and as not having cast more than one ballot in the particular election. Blockchains do not offer means for providing the necessary authorization. [...] If a blockchain is used, then cast ballots must be encrypted or otherwise anonymized to prevent coercion and vote-selling."
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
"While the notion of using a blockchain as an immutable ballot box may seem promising, blockchain technology does little to solve the fundamental security issues of elections, and indeed, blockchains introduce additional security vulnerabilities," the report states. "In particular, if malware on a voter's device alters a vote before it ever reaches a blockchain, the immutability of the blockchain fails to provide the desired integrity, and the voter may never know of the alteration."
The report goes on to say that "Blockchains do not provide the anonymity often ascribed to them." It continues: "In the particular context of elections, voters need to be authorized as eligible to vote and as not having cast more than one ballot in the particular election. Blockchains do not offer means for providing the necessary authorization. [...] If a blockchain is used, then cast ballots must be encrypted or otherwise anonymized to prevent coercion and vote-selling."
[Imma gonna reuse this one!]
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat Approximate rendition of Kaepernick's logical process:
Considering his chosen industry is run by a cabal of jackasses who have all banded together and refused to hire him, who can blame him? His lawsuit about that is going to succeed, too.
I was hoping the Seahawks would pick him up since they seem to be the one team in the league that isn't run by jackasses, but it didn't happen.
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Ouch. I own some Tesla stock.
They're now running their factory at capacity and still can't seem to break even on the Model 3. Despite years of Musk saying "as soon as our new factory's up and running, you'll see!" Well. We're seeing, I guess.
Or maybe the conspiracy theory of short-sellers "got to them".
EDIT: That's a Bloomberg article, I'm not sure why the link reads "terms of service violation", but I can only assume it's because all web apps are shitty garbage that are always broken.