In Computer Science (I can't speak for other fields), submission is in the form of a LaTex file that has what is effectively a stylesheet specific to the journal included.
So the layout of articles is negligible cost. The indexing can be automated - a LaTeX file or a bibTeX file can be parsed to extract the relevant fields for the paper itself, the references (which the uploading application can cross-reference to the existing database to get hyperlinks to the references), the abstract, the authors and so on.
Proof-reading is again generally done by the peer reviewers. Typos are caught with a spellchecker.
In short, the cost for an online journal is: bandwidth (small; PDFs created from text with an image or two are fairly cheap on the space), storage space (see previous), domain registration... and salaries, which is the only big one.
Such a strange pair of glasses you have, in which you can see approval of bin Laden or al Queda everywhere...
As for Obama... sure, he wasn't in charge when it actually happened, but he's been quite willing to conceal it. And to drone-strike people; that's not unrelated to the core concerns in question (it does raise the absurdity of getting the Nobel Peace Prize for doing... sod-all other than get elected).
And if you *are* genuinely military personnel (you sound more like a bad cliche than any soldier I've met), then I hope you never work in MI; that's the kind of shoddy thinking and poor analysis that harms our nation.
On the topic... torture is wrong. Period. No exceptions. I would rather have died in a terrorist attack then to have my country tarnished in such a fashion. As it happens, the torture didn't have a thing to do with useful information and I was never given the choice.
Which burns me - these idiots tarnished *my* country, whom my forefathers have fought for since the very beginning... and for *nothing*. So they're not just morally bankrupt but *incompetent*.
Heck, I'd like to see proposals for such clauses written in to many bills and treaties - if defenders say "oh, this legislation won't be used to go after non-terrorists", then surely they wouldn't mind some stiff penalties and the striking of the law if they're found to do so...?
Heck, combine the two - I have a drone following me with a camera and a directional mic that streams the results to a remote server.
Heh... I had a thought. A shirt with the phrase "any verbal interaction may be monitored for quality assurance" on it. It'd be rather provoking, though; not the best of ideas.
However, it might fulfill any notification requirements for one-party consent recording...
This, many times this. Any list of "people that've done/might do bad things" needs to have:
1) Clear criteria for how an individual is added to the list
This one is usually given some attention, but it mostly comes down to a lazy "someone with authority fills out this form", which is not sufficient.
2) A straightforward process to remove an individual from the list.
"Wah," some might cry, "that would mean a terrorist/meth maker/etc would be able to get themselves scott-free". So? They're going to find themselves on it again soon enough... and they've (as a possibility) sworn under penalty of perjury that one or more of the criteria is incorrect. That gives another felony charge to level at them.
3) A mechanism for someone to find out if they're on the list.
*Especially* if being on the list measurably impacts the individual's life. Making them unable to sell their home, for example, or being not permitted to fly.
4) Sufficient information attached to that entry of the list for someone to make the "on list/off list" decision again.
This is perhaps the most important, and should come with some random spot-checks on entries (if the list is large enough that one person can't periodically validate them). Having an attached report (because surely someone's life shouldn't be able to be ruined by a form with a couple of check-boxes and a signature) allows the possessing agency to respond to challenges to the list efficiently.
Each failure offers case precedents, however. You need a company with large enough coffers to fight, but hasn't goofed in the way Viacom did. And I think all of the 'big players' have made the "DMCA'ed an authorized upload" error, and I'm pretty sure they've all DMCA'ed content that wasn't theirs.
What Viacom et all doesn't want almost above all else is a court precedent that supports "making an invalid DMCA has actual penalties" suits *against* them; because if one of the latter occurs and succeeds, they've got to spend more or stop being so flagrant.
Al algorithm that works as described (identifies individuals at risk of committing a crime) is working with *extremely incomplete* information for its modeling.
Now, using it to predict future lawbreaking and then comparing to future data (ie, do they commit violent crimes) could lead (assuming the model is clean) to pinning down innocuous causal factors that can be fixed without human risk or cost, but the way they're using it is most certainly Doing It Wrong.
Speaking as someone who works with cognitive models of human thinking and is quite familiar with the benefits and detriments of computer-run algorithms...
Whoever is championing the code should be taken out back and given some wall-to-wall therapy before being tied to a chair at the university's "Programmer Ethics" equivalent. And probably a basic class on algorithms, heuristics and the like.
And if their university doesn't cover such material... then that explains the problems, I suppose.
Computer decision-making should only be an *adjunct* to human decision-making in non-trivial circumstances. An algorithm is only as good as the worst of the people who created it AND the people who implemented it.
And while human decision-making, with on-the-fly application and development of new heuristics as needed, can generally adapt to situations with incomplete or incorrect information at least reasonably well (all things considered), computer decision-making just sits there and craps itself.
Fairly sure such terms don't work like that - that is, a company can't change the terms on someone willy-nilly.
I'm thinking of that... was it a jewelry seller? Suing over negative reviews.
Any changes are also limited by a court's interpretation of "reasonable". For example, declaring six months after signing a two-year cellphone contract (with really nasty penalties for breaking it) that the monthly price has increased by an order of magnitude is not kosher.
Which is why generally contract changes only take effect on 'turnover' (ie, a renewal for the old contract isn't offered, only the new one). Companies tend to put "free to change at any time" in terms and conditions, but it actually standing up in court if they try to enforce the 'new' terms (unless, of course, the user has been prompted to agree to the new contract and has done so) is uncertain.
It goes back to the (groundless, surprise surprise) "Broken Window Theory" - that because you see petty crime occurring at increased rates when serious crime does, then by stomping hard on vandalism and the like you can drop serious crime rates.
Needless to say, it's a nice hearty mixture of confusing correlation and causation and "magic thinking" (ie, the voodoo approach) and has generally been debunked every time there's a serious look at it.
But yet it endures in the form of Zero Tolerance; a fact with irritates me about as much as the "War on Drugs" and "War on Terror" does.
Amusingly, the seller's financial contacts are known by Amazon (so they know where payment goes)... which gives a nice trail for the authorities if they were inclined to consider this an actionable threat if/when the reviewer makes a complaint about it. And oh man, if there's *any* appearance of maliciousness that targets the reviewer... well, we've got threats, we've got action; that's enough to start an investigation.
So the seller is kinda risking *their* life, in a manner of speaking.
A nice bit of reversed appeal to authority there to go with your appeal to ignorance?
I'm thinking they don't need one to state their opinion on the matter.
And while I don't have a degree relating to religion or philosophy, I *do* have a solid understanding of both the scientific method and proper validation, and Scientology is full of bullshit pretending to be scientific.
On the whole, I wouldn't mind some portion of the money gotten from selling military-themed stuff headed to the Pentagon... if it resulted in lower amounts in the federal budget.
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So the layout of articles is negligible cost. The indexing can be automated - a LaTeX file or a bibTeX file can be parsed to extract the relevant fields for the paper itself, the references (which the uploading application can cross-reference to the existing database to get hyperlinks to the references), the abstract, the authors and so on.
Proof-reading is again generally done by the peer reviewers. Typos are caught with a spellchecker.
In short, the cost for an online journal is: bandwidth (small; PDFs created from text with an image or two are fairly cheap on the space), storage space (see previous), domain registration... and salaries, which is the only big one.
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As for Obama... sure, he wasn't in charge when it actually happened, but he's been quite willing to conceal it. And to drone-strike people; that's not unrelated to the core concerns in question (it does raise the absurdity of getting the Nobel Peace Prize for doing... sod-all other than get elected).
And if you *are* genuinely military personnel (you sound more like a bad cliche than any soldier I've met), then I hope you never work in MI; that's the kind of shoddy thinking and poor analysis that harms our nation.
On the topic... torture is wrong. Period. No exceptions. I would rather have died in a terrorist attack then to have my country tarnished in such a fashion. As it happens, the torture didn't have a thing to do with useful information and I was never given the choice.
Which burns me - these idiots tarnished *my* country, whom my forefathers have fought for since the very beginning... and for *nothing*. So they're not just morally bankrupt but *incompetent*.
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Heck, combine the two - I have a drone following me with a camera and a directional mic that streams the results to a remote server.
Heh... I had a thought. A shirt with the phrase "any verbal interaction may be monitored for quality assurance" on it. It'd be rather provoking, though; not the best of ideas.
However, it might fulfill any notification requirements for one-party consent recording...
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1) Clear criteria for how an individual is added to the list
This one is usually given some attention, but it mostly comes down to a lazy "someone with authority fills out this form", which is not sufficient.
2) A straightforward process to remove an individual from the list.
"Wah," some might cry, "that would mean a terrorist/meth maker/etc would be able to get themselves scott-free". So? They're going to find themselves on it again soon enough... and they've (as a possibility) sworn under penalty of perjury that one or more of the criteria is incorrect. That gives another felony charge to level at them.
3) A mechanism for someone to find out if they're on the list.
*Especially* if being on the list measurably impacts the individual's life. Making them unable to sell their home, for example, or being not permitted to fly.
4) Sufficient information attached to that entry of the list for someone to make the "on list/off list" decision again.
This is perhaps the most important, and should come with some random spot-checks on entries (if the list is large enough that one person can't periodically validate them). Having an attached report (because surely someone's life shouldn't be able to be ruined by a form with a couple of check-boxes and a signature) allows the possessing agency to respond to challenges to the list efficiently.
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What Viacom et all doesn't want almost above all else is a court precedent that supports "making an invalid DMCA has actual penalties" suits *against* them; because if one of the latter occurs and succeeds, they've got to spend more or stop being so flagrant.
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Now, using it to predict future lawbreaking and then comparing to future data (ie, do they commit violent crimes) could lead (assuming the model is clean) to pinning down innocuous causal factors that can be fixed without human risk or cost, but the way they're using it is most certainly Doing It Wrong.
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Whoever is championing the code should be taken out back and given some wall-to-wall therapy before being tied to a chair at the university's "Programmer Ethics" equivalent. And probably a basic class on algorithms, heuristics and the like.
And if their university doesn't cover such material... then that explains the problems, I suppose.
Computer decision-making should only be an *adjunct* to human decision-making in non-trivial circumstances. An algorithm is only as good as the worst of the people who created it AND the people who implemented it.
And while human decision-making, with on-the-fly application and development of new heuristics as needed, can generally adapt to situations with incomplete or incorrect information at least reasonably well (all things considered), computer decision-making just sits there and craps itself.
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I'm thinking of that... was it a jewelry seller? Suing over negative reviews.
Any changes are also limited by a court's interpretation of "reasonable". For example, declaring six months after signing a two-year cellphone contract (with really nasty penalties for breaking it) that the monthly price has increased by an order of magnitude is not kosher.
Which is why generally contract changes only take effect on 'turnover' (ie, a renewal for the old contract isn't offered, only the new one). Companies tend to put "free to change at any time" in terms and conditions, but it actually standing up in court if they try to enforce the 'new' terms (unless, of course, the user has been prompted to agree to the new contract and has done so) is uncertain.
At least, that's my understanding.
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Needless to say, it's a nice hearty mixture of confusing correlation and causation and "magic thinking" (ie, the voodoo approach) and has generally been debunked every time there's a serious look at it.
But yet it endures in the form of Zero Tolerance; a fact with irritates me about as much as the "War on Drugs" and "War on Terror" does.
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So the seller is kinda risking *their* life, in a manner of speaking.
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I'm thinking they don't need one to state their opinion on the matter.
And while I don't have a degree relating to religion or philosophy, I *do* have a solid understanding of both the scientific method and proper validation, and Scientology is full of bullshit pretending to be scientific.
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Yeah, no. You do not threaten violence in response to someone's harmless (even if hysterical or absurd) speech.
How is a silly review evil? Particularly in comparison to an implied threat of bodily or financial 'destruction'.
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... in our mutual loathing and/or mocking.
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Although there isn't a mechanism for legally doing so (ie, claim "national security" and be done with it).
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But there's no way that's happening.
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