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Can such a system be gamed? Certainly, as can -any- system given enough time and effort, but it i s still better than nothing at all.
To be more specific, it is better than the system we have, which is easier to game. With the current system, everyone must trust the well-established venues. With the web of trust, everyone chooses their own trusted pointes to seed their web. This is very difficult to game unless you know your target's seed points in advance.
As soon as he's finished it's a never ending grind...
Right. People enjoy what they're good at. He's going for a Ph.D. Those are the kind of people that are good at making an impact. If we were good at "enjoying life", we would have pursued the path of greatest pleasure instead of the path of greatest impact. If he's not happier grinding, he's on the wrong path.
Popular vote is the only method to accurately capture the desire of the entire population.
Nope. No method exists that accurately captures the desire of the entire population. Plurality voting is especially biased by the choices, whether done with electoral colleges, popularity, or any other system of tallying.
It does not matter if you are not retaining that data, you are still copying stuff illegally.
By that logic, the owner of every router through which the data passed is responsible for the activities of the end users. I am not a lawyer, but I suspect intent may actually be relevant sometimes.
If you don't like the fee, tell the credit card company "no, thank you", they're the ones charging it.
Mod parent up. Visa has a near monopoly in taking a cut of all transactions, and you want us to get upset at all the retailers who don't want to submit cheerfully? Think about what you're trying to do for a second. As long as the Visa tax is hidden, no one can ever try to do it for less. Customers will always choose the bigger more-convenient card that works everywhere.
How reasonable is this concern?
Very reasonable, if your employer is a CA. Not at all reasonable if your employer sells hubcaps. Need more info.
How can this sort of malware be prevented?
Educate employees. (But your next question shows that you already know this.)
Is there a way to educate employees...?
Yes. Employees are not algorithms. That's why we employ them instead of just computers.
This current reality is that people have started to rely on having their smartphones...
Yes, if you want effective employees, you should allow them to use their brains, as well as extensions that make them more effective.
Do you have any questions that lack obvious answers--perhaps something worth discussing in a forum?
The way to kill religion is to laugh and ridicule it to death.
Why do you suppose there is only one way, and what makes you think that one is the most effective? How about acknowledge the points your opponent has right so the debate becomes about the remainder that your opponent cannot defend? All this screaming at each other with neither side listening is why it is taking so darn long. This debate should have been over a century ago.
Why can't the people in charge of making the career decisions for academics take the few days a year to read and judge papers themselves rather the relying on the peer review system to do it for them.
Most places that hire people with PhDs want to cover lots of topics. Hence, none of the doctors are qualified to evaluate each other, and all of them are too busy to take the time to become qualified in each others' areas.
That covers just about everything we object to.
Could you be a little more specific with your plural pronouns? I object to many things this does not cover.
... Apple finds a loophole and sues this developer into oblivion?
...if only there was a similar situation we could use to predict how it might go.
...radical a suggestion as granting copyright protection for the limited times needed to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
...radical a suggestion as doing what the Constitution says.
*I shake my head slowly.
I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers