Question their motives? So what if their motive is that they want to draw fictional naked children? As long as no real children are portrayed or in any way harmed in the making of those drawings, why should anyone care? The original point of child porn laws was to protect the children in the pornography. In this case, there are none.

That doesn't really help the case in question, where the chargebacks were legitimate and the result of stolen credit cards. You'd just be punishing the people whose cards were stolen even more, if you could even hold them to it since they're not the one who agreed to the ToS.

Did you not even read my comment? Or maybe you just haven't seen Cambridge - it's not like there's tons of open, empty space to throw up more dorms. I suppose there's an argument to be made for getting rid of the football field.... but really. They have about 1000 people per class. Say there are 2500 applicants who would do great there (about an accurate estimate, from the people I've seen). They would need to increase their total housing capacity from 4000 students to 10,000 students - that's not just one or two new dorms! They'd have to buy out half of East Cambridge to do that. And then you get to all the professors required to teach that many more courses, no small investment. Plus smaller things - like the fact that right now 75-80% of MIT students have a research job at some point, and 2.5 times as many students would mean more competition for those jobs, which leads to a worse educational experience for the average MIT student and a loss of a big selling point.

You can shout "elitism" all you want, but until you can address these simple logistical problems there will be far more people taking MIT seriously as an educational institution than taking you seriously in this argument.

The bad thing is that journals may selectively not publish papers they would have previously accepted from a researcher if they require open access.

This is precisely why this sort of thing HAS to start at schools like MIT (and Harvard and Stanford). If Podunk State U tried this, their faculty would suffer - but any journal in a field where MIT is dominant will be hard-pressed to stop accepting any and all publications from their faculty. And when you get a few other big names in there together, the journal would be putting their own reputation in serious peril if, say, they published nothing by professors in the top 10 schools in their field. Journals cherish their impact scores (which are exactly what are used when deciding whether you've published in good enough journals to get tenure), and if they are suddenly not being cited they will feel it.

I don't see how any of this means that the peer-review process, or the prestige associated with certain journals over others, has to end. Could you explain how you got from point A to point B?

The main reason it limits the size of each class is simply space. Since passing the (idiotic) "Freshmen on campus" rule several years ago, MIT has to have room for every member of its freshman class in its 11 dormitories. This caused it to cut the size of each class from about 1100 to 1000. Though, even before that, housing of some sort (dorm, frat/sorority, or independent living group) was guaranteed for four years (as it still is), so there were still limits. And trust me, in a housing market like boston/cambridge, guaranteed housing is important - if you think $45K/ year is expensive, try multiplying your housing costs by 4 or 5.

Though they also have very generous financial aid, which is getting more generous every year, so only the wealthiest students are actually paying the full $45K. I had a yearly required family contribution of near $0, and I have more loans from my two-year master's program (at a public school) than from my 5 years of undergrad at MIT.

You're clearly a guy, and are vastly underestimating the biological drive to have a baby in one's uterus shared by most women.

That, and the fact that I'm not sure whether it's more likely that we'll go extinct/move to another planet first, or that such technology will first become cheap enough that it will be the main way of having babies even in underdeveloped areas. (Meaning that I don't believe we will reach a point where there is no poverty anywhere on the entire earth, or anyone living without state-of-the-art technology.)

One prescription-strength ibuprofen = 4 normal (OTC) ibuprofen. It's the same drug, you can get the same dosage by just taking more pills of the OTC stuff.

It just makes the whole thing even more insane - it's bad that the policy couldn't differentiate between an illegal substance and a legitimate prescription, it's completely ridiculous that it can differentiate between pot and an extra-large OTC pill.

Doubly annoying because we keep getting told that the reason no one will do a la carte cable services is because companies bundle their niche channels in with their popular ones, and the niche channels would die out if you bought channels individually b/c there wouldn't be enough people in the niche to support it. So... if the current structure of cable subscriptions is partially meant to support the niche channels, why does every channel need to un-niche itself?

More importantly, between the internet and Netflix, why would anyone "tech-savvy" enough to be included in their focus group still be paying $50+/month for cable?

In many developing countries, internet cafes are very popular. Maybe that's where this will be installed.

If there's any deception involved, as in that case, you're usually required to let the participant know after the fact, when it would no longer affect the results. There are ways to get exemptions, but you need a pretty darn good reason. Most studies can't tell you *exactly* what they're looking for beforehand, because it could always mess with results, but they either give you a general overview with just enough info or else debrief you afterward.

Yes - as is pointed out below, LaTeX is only the standard in technical fields. I'm in education/psychology, and Word is definitely the standard, and Track Changes is used constantly. It is completely expected that you will pass a document around and it will accumulate a variety of colored edits and little comments to the side. This is even how many profs and TAs prefer to grade papers (I don't really prefer it, but was expected to do it this way by the prof I TAd for).

Considering the IRB hoops I have to jump through to ask a few people some questions, I am pretty darn sure that this guy was fully informed of what was going on and of all potential risks, but just ignored it, has since forgotten it, or is exaggerating for effect. It's possible that the PI risked his job and a huge lawsuit to get around a little paperwork, but not likely.

We'd been warned to skip season 1, so we started at the start of season 2 but couldn't stomach more than 4 or 5 episodes. We'll probably give it another chance at some point. The overarching storyline did seem interesting, but the acting and episode-level writing were both so bad.