So, if these are comments as you claim, why can't I mod them? Oh... that's right. Because they're not comments.

There's no other reasonable mod for it. Either you're mocking arrogant jerks, which is funny, or you're one of those arrogant jerks and don't realize it, which is even funnier.

Shit, this guy could practically be a Slashdot commenter.

Editors don't tend to comment all that much.

Seems like the days of 1000-post articles on /. are well behind them.

Yeah. I tried that first. It's what frequently works for me with mathematical papers. But thanks. At least someone who typically needs lmgtfy might get something out of this.

My county only has 4 million residents. The county library system doesn't have *any* journals available. I have a card. And a login. And I've been to multiple branches.

Welcome to 1997, AC! How was the trip back?

You are just part of a brainwashed generation that demands to have everything you want paid for AND given to you, not only for free, but with zero effort on your part.

I'm 50. Is that the generation you're referring to? I'm also 1/2 of a two-engineer household. My yearly income taxes are significantly more than an entry level engineering salary - you know, the taxes that already helped to pay for the research. Don't tell me I'm not making any effort and don't jump to conclusions about "my generation" because you obviously know fuck all about it.

But hey. You're a smart person. You know all about me. My political views. My library status. Guess what? You're just as wrong about all of them. Absolutely every assumption you made was 100% wrong. Amazing. I would imagine you must get used to being wrong a lot though.

Instead of blathering on with your erroneous, ignorant opinions, maybe you ought to take a good long look at yourself and realize you're actually preaching to yourself. Geez. What a douchebag.

He did more than just think it.

When you say "go to a library" you are implying that everyone has access to a University library or similarly large, well-funded location. Not all libraries have access to journals. Although I don't have a reference for this, I suspect that the vast majority of libraries don't. I'm fortunate in the fact that I can spend an hour of total travel time (granted, 20 minutes of this will be spent waiting for the train) to get to a major University. I envision that one day there will be a series of tubes that give us access to this type of information from nearly anywhere and not a severely limited number of physical locations.

Looks like I can deduce Fe73.9–Ga26.1 from one of the images attached to the abstract.

According to the articles, the alloy isn't particularly exotic and the processing isn't difficult. I'd love to know what they specifically used. Sadly, they published in Nature. So I can view the paper for $5 or download as PDF for $32. Or, you know, subscribe for $200. What I don't get is why I, as one of the millions of taxpayers that funded this research, don't have free access to the paper.

Yes. I know. Preaching to the choir, OA journals, etc. That still doesn't change the fact that I find this both irritating and wrong.

This are the only real free energy bitches. Magnetism and gravity

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I have no idea why this isn't +5 funny. I truly despise /.'s antiquated moderation system.