You hit the nail on the head and I think what you wrote applies just as much to any researcher as it does graduate students. Journals are for the most part filled with papers of academics because institutions incentivize academics for the publication of papers through degrees and tenure and what-not. These institutions generally fail to incentivize the publication of a more complete set of data, code, and other useful things, so they are a low priority.

But being that they are able to use media to get their message across concurrently with performing the DDOS, doesn't that have the same effect as holding signs and chanting? I am not familiar with any situation in which their was not an abundance of information on why people were protesting. I would even argue that the DDOS attacks were usually accompanied by much more specific and clear reasons for protest than the Occupy Wall Street movement in which everyone seemed to be protesting something different.

I think to clarify the position of Anonymous in this case, it is important to recognize that the DDOS attacks were not performed with botnets, or comprimised machines. Instead, they were performed by individuals volunteering their own time and resources. Not the time and resources of unsuspecting innocents. Does that change your opinion?

I believe that in the case of the previous Anonymous protests, the botnets were voluntary. Not "compromised" machines. That is a pretty important distinction. One could argue that DDOS gets a bad rap because it is often done with compromised machines, usually by a single person. In the case of anonymous, organizing a large DDOS required the cooperation of a lot of people who were willing to put their time and resources into carrying out the DDOS.

I pretty much agree, with exception to the word severe. One has to account for the fact that cops are just average joes complete with all of the emotions and ignorance that we all possess. Add to that fact that their jobs can put them in quite stressful situations and you can get what appears to be quite unsatisfactory performance at time. You would probably find that 99.9% of these video confiscation problems would be solved with the application of very mild penalties like losing a little vacation time or being forced to attend some very boring training.

My thoughts exactly. If you know my arrival and departure information and you know you competitors prices, then knowing my favorite color is probably not going to do you much good as the airline. Although, I do think that they can use this information to gouge business travellers, because I have seen a lot of people stay loyal to a certain airline in order to get more frequent flier rewards. Since they are not flying on their own dime, they often do not care it it costs more. These are the targets for this type of pricing, the "loyal" customers.

I find typical journal papers with tiny font are hard to read even on the best 10 inch tablet. Reading the tiny print can be done, but it is really hard to do for more than 10 to 15 minutes without giving your self a headache. I don't think it is so much a function of pixel density at this point as much as it is just overall character size. However, it is not the tablet makers that need to change so much as it is the journal publishers. Maintaining tiny fonts may have been useful in the day when everything was printed, but it gains us nothing in the world of electronic publishing.

How does anybody read that gibberish and come to the conclusion that the commentor is a juror? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense?

People are not motivated entirely by self interest. People do not reason through every decision and categorize things as things that will make them happy or not happy. A lot is going on in the subconscious mind that we are not even aware of and the primary function is not to increase happiness but to increase the likelihood of survival and procreation.

He does help others. That is what makes him happy and it is actually what makes a lot of people happy. Humans are wired to release happy brain chemicals and energy release when we help others. That is why they have him meditate on compassion during the measurements. They already know that compassion to other human beings will increase the happiness that he feels.

If I had made an important contribution to Linux that was used in Android phone, then I would very proudly let people know about it. Why shouldn't people be recognized when their work is making a small difference in millions of lives?

Nokia was suing in response to Apple suing for some scrolling patents first.

Not sure about the GP, but I would consider Android systems to be closed... with the exception of a few that may not try to lock the sytems down.

I see where your coming from. I am an engineer who has learned to program because I find it critical to doing my job. Lets face it. Nothing is built these days with just simple levers, pulleys, capacitors, and resistors. If you want to do something interesting, you better know how to make a digital computer do what you want it to do. One thing about programming is that you are always having to learn new things... learn new libraries, new platforms (8 years ago, everyone wanted .NET programmers, now everyone wants Android and IOS), and that takes a lot of self discipline and desire to improve one's self. Based on my observations in the work place, that is something special.

I do the same thing and would like to add that outlining a larger block of code in comments before writing any code also helps me to stay focused on the overall design. If you just start hammering away at coding then it is easy to forget about what the code in its entirety is going to accomplish. Its like making a drawing of what you are about to construct before you rush in and just start hammering in nails.