Yes, We all know religion is a scam to live free and run things. Latin needed scribes so people could read/write letters. The printing press wrecked that and new religions were created from pure bullshit as the new priests decided that to live for free was good. As for religion preserving knowledge - they perpetuated their own BS and when they ran out of paper(thin animal skin) they scraped off Archimedes et all. thus a great deal of written history was eliminated to preserve their crap. (Google palimpsest)
In a similar way the era of academic printing is threatened by the internet.
I am not making the wave, the wave is there, wide and deep and spontaneous. Soon more and more governments will decree that publicly funded data must be open sourced. Cut off the roots and the elsevier strangler tree will die.
Be better if all past publicly funded research is open sourced. If 10% is paid by the public then the whole thing is public
was request papers, and they had no idea of the corrupt system behind the scenes. It was only the revolt of many Universities at the naked cash grab by the elseviers, who own these walled gardens, who make margins of ~~40% After paying taxes and HUGE executive salaries that prompted this revolution among the poor when they demaned further increases in journal fees.
Like a parasite without regards to the host, it has reached the point of the death of the host. Look at all the colleges in India, Bangladesh etc., who would be beggared - were it not for Sci-Hub...
There needs to be an improved review pathway - possibly the librarians as well as the same reviewers on a paid basis. The huge body of past work needs to be open sourced so it can be freely accessed without undue cost. It is now in libraries of past printed journals that are indexed - but it is cumbersome. It needs to be open and online. I am open to how far back the old papers need to be scanned and onlined, but the old broken era ofthe elseviers of the world needs to draw to a close.
forces a review of the process. I can see the reviewers being paid the Elsevier 'tax', we now pay a lot more to support their bloated edifice.. It is true, review is needed viz;- the huge rise of fake/trash papers.
I often suspect Elsevier feeds the trash maw to cite it in their defence.
By the Disney Corporation. It was originally intended to protect against unauthorised copies to allow the author and his heirs to live on it for the term. Now it has been extended to 75+++ years.
The forced abrogation of all rights in an academic work to the journal publisher who then proceed to extract fees from the poor of the world and hold back science in many places as a consequence should be blocked and all publicly paid works should be open sourced when written.
With modren hard drives there are copies of almost all papers now freely circulated to the poor countries. Elseviers of the world try to litigate in most of these countries, so it carries on as a latter day 'sneaker net'.
Let them die, let the flies have their way - their day is done.
As you know, kerning is the process whereby letters are aligned on the page to increase readibility. Google for more. There is the related process that is often used to create unique document signatures on diplomatic and other sensitive documents. This I have called 'microkerning - the addition of added small fractional spaces scattered through the document so that each document is identifiably different. 'By this means every document downloaded from any repository (by the owners of the repository) can be identified as to source. That means if I use my subsription to get a paper and give it to Sci-Hub, it can be analyzed and tracked back to me and my institution - who is then punished in some way. I suspect the academic publishers are doing this. This can be eliminated by Sci-Hub running their donated papers through a 'dekerning; engine. This be something as simple as replacing the font with a standard width font and using a word processor to impose standard spacing rules. This can be automated for a lower burden on Sci-Hub. A similar process to strip off steganographic cues from pictures can also be used. The tradeoff in clarity is negligible.
They also reduce the amount they have to pay for their feeds - which are all individually metered and the pay per view charges tallied. This balancing act has an end point.
Impedes vision of the truth. Since the jury selection process eliminate DNA competence, all it takes it a little milk in the water to obscure the truth and sow that "doubt" in a few minds that the defence tries to expand.
They actually need a jury made up of competent DNA specialists...
Prosecutors want toggle switch evidence, the light of truth is either on or off. They do not want a dimmer switch with the prosecution and the defence trying to vary the validity of the evidence. In the case of LCN, the ratio of suspected perpetrator DNA can vary from zero to 100%, and the scattered innocent DNA will be the inverse. In the case of publicly accessed items. like door-knobs, you can have mixed DNA from many people. With PCR multiplication you can see how many different people were present as trace DNA fragments, since even a single cell would be capable of differentiation via PCR. One hopes a swab from the suspect can be used to determine if he was represented in the sample. Dr. Barbara Sampson may be very competent, as is Dr Stajic also very competent. We are not assessing their competence. Samson is trying to turn this into an on-off toggle, the perp DNA is present or not. Stajic is making a middle ground, and middle ground can be exploited to reduce the certainty of the evidence. Once the evidence is less certain in the eyes of the jury - perps walk.
Sadly, LCN is quite valid, as it can show or deny the perps cell(s) is(are) presence, even with 50 others in the mix. The question is:- Is the perp an innocent railroaded in?
If there are 300 cells of a stranger and one cell of the perp - did the stranger do it?
That said, there should be an internal dialog to validate the LCN method, because it can show that the perps DNA is there, and with other evidence to buttress it, might well be correct.
It is true that mitochondrial DNA is strongly conserved, but it does suffer mutation. If the mutation does not interfere with the function, it is inherited. If the mutation interferes with mitochondrial function, function is impaired, and even prevented, which can lead to cellular death or death of the organism if it occurred at a primal stage in replication(egg = one cell). https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=active&q=mutational+variance+in+mitochondria
If there is fear of contamination where the sample can hold cells of two people, it should be possible to screen the sample for variations of mitochondrial components, which should reveal the presence of 2 individuals. It is also possible the same is totally from an innocent person
The USA is under great pressure to earn non manufacturing income. One of the ways they do this is to strengthen and EXTEND the duration of IP protection laws. Look to the USA to lengthen copyrights and patents and trademarks so that they can keep sucking money from offshore wallets. We already know that big pharma might charge $10 per pill for Viagra in the USA, and charge $1 for that same pill in India, even as the pill has a cost of less than one cent. Pfizer tries to bamboozle us with innuendo saying only genuine Viagra by Pfizer works in their ads - other stuff will make your dick go black and fall off(just kidding). They try to block genuine Pfizer Viagra from being shipped to Canada/USA by their IP.
Pfizer and other pharmacos do this all the time.
And as for Disney, in 10,000 years, the Disney Corporation will be lobbying to extend their copyright on Micky Mouse to 10,200 years....
There are a number of ways Embassies, NSA typs organizations, political parties and organizations like Elsevier can use to create a uniquely coded pdf downloaded that links the subscriber's identity and the date of the download to an individual downloaded document. Bear in mind, all these documents will look superficially identical, same words, same images etc. A single line of text can probably encode 2-3 bits per 5 letter word by microkerning. This form of docu,ent control is used to trap leakers of data, as Elesvier desires. Afterwards the document can be scanned and the same software that created it can inspect the text spacings to identify who sent it. Steganography can also be used with photos.
To combat this, documents need to be OCR recognised and all words re-word processed to standard kerning. Images can also be stripped of steganographic data via projection and re-photographing with a slightly different resolution.
As to the precise ways used, it is hard to say, but if a number of different subscribers downloaded the same document at different locations as discrete subscribers that used the Elsevier API, which causes the system to create the uniquely coded document. With a few of these, they can be analyzed from the various methods used to create them, to see what means is used to encode them
Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily pr
Yes, We all know religion is a scam to live free and run things. Latin needed scribes so people could read/write letters. The printing press wrecked that and new religions were created from pure bullshit as the new priests decided that to live for free was good. As for religion preserving knowledge - they perpetuated their own BS and when they ran out of paper(thin animal skin) they scraped off Archimedes et all. thus a great deal of written history was eliminated to preserve their crap. (Google palimpsest)
In a similar way the era of academic printing is threatened by the internet.
I am not making the wave, the wave is there, wide and deep and spontaneous. Soon more and more governments will decree that publicly funded data must be open sourced. Cut off the roots and the elsevier strangler tree will die.
Be better if all past publicly funded research is open sourced. If 10% is paid by the public then the whole thing is public
Lol, If it were true to it's origin...
Now it has been bastardised to serve elsevier et al, with little to nothing to the originators...
Academe was so decoupled - all they did
was request papers, and they had no idea of the corrupt system behind the scenes. It was only the revolt of many Universities at the naked cash grab by the elseviers, who own these walled gardens, who make margins of ~~40% After paying taxes and HUGE executive salaries that prompted this revolution among the poor when they demaned further increases in journal fees.
Like a parasite without regards to the host, it has reached the point of the death of the host. Look at all the colleges in India, Bangladesh etc., who would be beggared - were it not for Sci-Hub...
Of course, slow and on an unpaid basis.
There needs to be an improved review pathway - possibly the librarians as well as the same reviewers on a paid basis. The huge body of past work needs to be open sourced so it can be freely accessed without undue cost. It is now in libraries of past printed journals that are indexed - but it is cumbersome. It needs to be open and online. I am open to how far back the old papers need to be scanned and onlined, but the old broken era ofthe elseviers of the world needs to draw to a close.
Sci-Hub is the solution -especially as it
forces a review of the process. I can see the reviewers being paid the Elsevier 'tax', we now pay a lot more to support their bloated edifice.. It is true, review is needed viz;- the huge rise of fake/trash papers.
I often suspect Elsevier feeds the trash maw to cite it in their defence.
Copyright, and it's many extensions, as bought and paid for
By the Disney Corporation. It was originally intended to protect against unauthorised copies to allow the author and his heirs to live on it for the term. Now it has been extended to 75+++ years.
The forced abrogation of all rights in an academic work to the journal publisher who then proceed to extract fees from the poor of the world and hold back science in many places as a consequence should be blocked and all publicly paid works should be open sourced when written.
With modren hard drives there are copies of almost all papers now freely circulated to the poor countries. Elseviers of the world try to litigate in most of these countries, so it carries on as a latter day 'sneaker net'.
Let them die, let the flies have their way - their day is done.
Parasite - yes, kill them and their eggs....
Microkerning
As they lose subscribers
They also reduce the amount they have to pay for their feeds - which are all individually metered and the pay per view charges tallied. This balancing act has an end point.
Trump and Ajit
= Toast in 2020
prisoner food
The food program needs to be administered by the prisoners, with oversight.
Milk in the water
Since the jury selection process eliminate DNA competence, all it takes it a little milk in the water to obscure the truth and sow that "doubt" in a few minds that the defence tries to expand.
They actually need a jury made up of competent DNA specialists...
Competence and evidence, Dr. Barbara Sampson etc.
In the case of LCN, the ratio of suspected perpetrator DNA can vary from zero to 100%, and the scattered innocent DNA will be the inverse. In the case of publicly accessed items. like door-knobs, you can have mixed DNA from many people. With PCR multiplication you can see how many different people were present as trace DNA fragments, since even a single cell would be capable of differentiation via PCR.
One hopes a swab from the suspect can be used to determine if he was represented in the sample.
Dr. Barbara Sampson may be very competent, as is Dr Stajic also very competent. We are not assessing their competence. Samson is trying to turn this into an on-off toggle, the perp DNA is present or not. Stajic is making a middle ground, and middle ground can be exploited to reduce the certainty of the evidence. Once the evidence is less certain in the eyes of the jury - perps walk.
Sadly, LCN is quite valid, as it can show or deny the perps cell(s) is(are) presence, even with 50 others in the mix.
The question is:- Is the perp an innocent railroaded in?
If there are 300 cells of a stranger and one cell of the perp - did the stranger do it?
That said, there should be an internal dialog to validate the LCN method, because it can show that the perps DNA is there, and with other evidence to buttress it, might well be correct.
Mitochondrial variance
https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=active&q=mutational+variance+in+mitochondria
A screen of spontaneous abortions reveals this does occur. In addition, there are a number of mitochondrial diseases with variable outcomes, some fatal, some chronic.
https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=active&q=mitochondrial+disease
The net result is that there is enough variation to screen people, but possibly not in relatives/siblings/twins.
Mitochondrial variance
It is also possible the same is totally from an innocent person
US Balance of trade
Look to the USA to lengthen copyrights and patents and trademarks so that they can keep sucking money from offshore wallets.
We already know that big pharma might charge $10 per pill for Viagra in the USA, and charge $1 for that same pill in India, even as the pill has a cost of less than one cent. Pfizer tries to bamboozle us with innuendo saying only genuine Viagra by Pfizer works in their ads - other stuff will make your dick go black and fall off(just kidding).
They try to block genuine Pfizer Viagra from being shipped to Canada/USA by their IP.
Pfizer and other pharmacos do this all the time.
And as for Disney, in 10,000 years, the Disney Corporation will be lobbying to extend their copyright on Micky Mouse to 10,200 years....
Re: Re: Re: Re: Snake Bit and going to die = Elsevier
To combat this, documents need to be OCR recognised and all words re-word processed to standard kerning. Images can also be stripped of steganographic data via projection and re-photographing with a slightly different resolution.
As to the precise ways used, it is hard to say, but if a number of different subscribers downloaded the same document at different locations as discrete subscribers that used the Elsevier API, which causes the system to create the uniquely coded document. With a few of these, they can be analyzed from the various methods used to create them, to see what means is used to encode them
More marks possible
Re: Translation:
Estate of George Washington and Jackson
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