NIH funded research must be put into PubMed Central, the NIH public portal, within 12 months of publishing in a journal.

I see complaints of a lot of sources of cost - high professor salaries, declining state support, etc. I work in a major State University and I see rising costs associated with bureaucracy associated with government. State funding comes with the requirement for tons of paperwork - research funds, paperwork and people to process it. Loans, paperwork and people to process it. Federal funds - more paperwork, more people. We have numerous offices of senior people who oversee reporting programs. These programs serve the government masters, not the needs of the student . . . While each additional paperwork requirement seems "useful" the weight of many sheets of paper becomes heavy fast.

This is what happens when you automate things and accept all claims as true. Sad thing is, "the industry" will say this is a small price to pay, and NASA being a government agency will not pursue it. This needs to be a wakeup call before we allow ISP's to monitor and police everything - there needs to be a human in the loop to fix these issues - and timely, not is days or weeks, but with the same SLA as the automated system. Right now, it is almost like the recording industry is calling the shots and everyone is guilty unless they prove they are not infringing. In the US, shouldn't the system be the other way around?

The article (yes, I RTFA) says very little about science other than climate change - What about alternative energy (regardless of greenhouse gases), computers, space exploration, advances in transportation, standard of living, food generation, medical care, etc. Science is everywhere, yet we either take it for granted or ignore what we don't want to confront. SOPA is correct in idea - we need to protect intellectual property, but flawed in science - the way they want to do it does not fit with how the Internet and networking was designed . . . I bet we ignore the science and pass a law because it is so important . . . Science doesn't do sound bites, so we won't find the Higgs particle in the US, nor will will solve many of the upcoming scientific grand challenges. We deserve the fate we select . . .

Trying to avoid getting off-topic and digressing into yet another diatribe on Smart-Grid technologies and focusing on the content of the book. . . This is a good introductory book on the topic. Not very deep, nor will you find the technical details on the wide range of technologies, but then again - the technical details of Smart Grid technologies would fill thousands of pages and the discussion of all the security implications, thousands more. So, this book is a good 50,000 foot view, and it fills a void as I know of no other general introductory text. I agree with some of the comments, that the actual analysis is a bit weak, that at times it seems like they just substitute "smart grid" for "network" before security and do mass replace function. And, in reality, this will not be the path to securing this technology, as it has different purposes and characteristics than a standard TCP/IP network. That said, it is still a decent book and worth the read if you want to learn about the ideas behind the new technologies coming to us like a out of control freight train. Mandatory Disclaimer: I am not, nor do I know the authors. I have read the book (cover to cover) and bought several for people on my Smart Grid team.

First, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I do believe that lawyers play an important balancing and cleansing function in the marketplace. If things get out of balance, lawyers can act as a balancing force, chewing up excesses. In a perfect world, we would not need laws, nor would we need lawyers. We don't live in a perfect world, so, hence we need these control structures. If we don't like what they do, then we need to take the appropriate actions to avoid interactions. If you think addressing risk is expensive, wait until you address outcomes when risk was ignored . . . So - back to the point - is the market functioning efficiently, or is it broken - the legal system is a part of the control mechanism for free markets, get used to it and use it wisely.

This is like watching two rich kids fight, neither has experience in kicking ass the old fashioned way, they both want to buy the solution - I say bring on the lawyers, they need the money

This is just another example of the "Hawthorne Effect" - a phenomena observed that when workers had working conditions modified, their productivity increased. We have known since the 1930's that people behave differently when they believe they are being observed or that their environment is under their control, or that there is a mechanism to improve thier work environment. And this effect results whether or not these changes are true or effective.

As one who has attended many BlackHat conferences - I take offense to the line "Unlike many presenters at Black Hat, Michael responsibly disclosed the flaw to organizers, who quickly fixed the issue" In my experience, BlackHat presenters have followed responsible disclosure - including this year's high profile ATM exploit talk, which, for instance can not be replicated by those in attendence (proof was given that it can be hacked, but the sourcecode was not released) - and the industry certainly knew it was coming for > 1 year - and the end of the presentation gave simple directions about how to mitigate the issues. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaerythritol

Or he could have had a HEAVY tan after he put on the pants?

First a shoe bomb makes me take off my shoes at the checkpoint. If this is truly a pants bomb, then they have really won, for imagine us having to take off our pants before going through the metal detector. Brilliant stategy.

Actually, what he recalls was partially true. The courier line supported HST mode, which was able to do 19.2K+ when the sportster (and everyone else) was still doing 2400. The later sportsters were able to support V.32 (9600 baud), but still weren't able to do HST mode, which for the majority of people meant only being able to run at 2400 still, as most BBS's were doing HST only.

I ran the numbers on the growth rate of a puppy. In 100 years it will be too large for the solar system and will destroy it.

That sounds more potent than this version