However, the way to achieve that is by lobbying governments to make it a requirement that all research they fund is published in open access journals (which is now largely the case).
It is not that simple (and, at least in my field of Earth sciences, open access is not very common).
In my opinion, sharing scientific papers without permission is civil disobedience (and is okay).
This is terrible. Only free software should be used at schools.
Now I have a PC with a bios that tries to do everything, starting a bootloader that tries to do everything, running a desktop manager that tries to do everything to launch a browser that tries to do everything, to visit a site that tries to do everything.
This feels familiar. For all the meddling between the BIOS and web sites, I think that OpenBSD may solve this. Everything in OpenBSD is doing what it is supposed to do; or at least this is my experience, and it is in line with their principles.
Yes, some ATMs do run Windows. A very bad example: Around 2005 I saw an ATM (Rabobank) with an error revealing that it ran Windows 98.
What is so bad about this paper? Did you read it?
The authors of the paper don't mention Moore's law. It is one individual who compares this with Moore's law: a journalist. This is just usual bad journalism, combined with typical jumping to conclusions by Slashdotters who never seem to read the paper referred to. Come on, be happy that at least some articles here refer to peer reviewed papers that are often of a much higher quality than most other material here, so why not read it!
all of them had little in the way of protection against reverse-engineering or the insertion of malware into apps.
Finding out the underlying working or source code of an application is not the actual security problem; provided of course that the program is audited, or, preferably, free software.
Our personality may be shaped by how our brain works, [...]
Of course it is! By what else would it be "shaped"?
Except of course if you are very ugly, then you have a "good personality" because of that!
I can recommend the amusing and educational SF book Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow, where the main character experiences the effects of a reduced speed of light and an increased Planck's constant.
I agree. With the goal of feeding the global human population in the future (as stated in the article) we need to become much more efficient. Automation will happen, but its importance is very small compared to what we gain from stopping or reducing meat consumption.
I grew up on a dairy farm, I'm a vegetarian and a climatologist.
Huh? I still believe that the TPP and the like are bad ideas. Generally the posts here about TPP are still quite negative.
I'm sure that Hitler had some insightful remarks. Doesn't imply I disagree with it.
Sure, but those are exceptions. Doing mediocre things, like posting on social media, usually doesn't get you anywhere.
While a lot of automation replaces boring, dirty and dangerous tasks, there is a modern type of "automation" that does not automate or solve problems, and appears to be much more present than actual automation. It exists as a purpose of its own. Big consultancy and software corporations misuse the trust of other corporations, governments and people in order to create a world that is worse than what it would be without their bad advice.
OpenBSD is not microkernel based.
I stand corrected.
OpenBSD is secure, correct, microkernel-based and doesn't contain any parts of Linux. What is essentially different?
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
