Comment An office? no way. (Score 1) 635
Ahh, the benefits of working from home. Awesome. Cars seem so antique.
Submission + - Open-access deal for particle physics (nature.com)
ananyo writes: "The entire field of particle physics is set to switch to open-access publishing, a milestone in the push to make research results freely available to readers.
Particle physics is already a paragon of openness, with most papers posted on the preprint server arXiv. But peer-reviewed versions are still published in subscription journals, and publishers and research consortia at facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider have previously had to strike piecemeal deals to free up a few hundred articles.
After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on journal websites. Upfront payments from libraries will fund the access and the contracts will be renegotiated in 2016.
The idea of all this maneuvering is to minimize the hassle for the scientists themselves and ensure that every paper is open access. The alternative is the 'author pays' model, where the researchers pay to publish. But that would require all authors to comply — a difficult rule to enforce. The new deal, however, also preserves publishers' profits — for now."
Particle physics is already a paragon of openness, with most papers posted on the preprint server arXiv. But peer-reviewed versions are still published in subscription journals, and publishers and research consortia at facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider have previously had to strike piecemeal deals to free up a few hundred articles.
After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on journal websites. Upfront payments from libraries will fund the access and the contracts will be renegotiated in 2016.
The idea of all this maneuvering is to minimize the hassle for the scientists themselves and ensure that every paper is open access. The alternative is the 'author pays' model, where the researchers pay to publish. But that would require all authors to comply — a difficult rule to enforce. The new deal, however, also preserves publishers' profits — for now."
Comment TTL ? (Score 1) 204
I didn't think TTL was yet running in 1980, but when I pinged someone, it said ttl 56.
I thought the early packets lacked TTL, and as such - are still floating around.
Comment Re:Did anyone ever actively use it? (Score 1) 327
So much for my PhD project. oops?
Submission + - Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake from Deep Sleep (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "After repeated calls from NASA to wake up Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from its low-energy coma, mission control is beginning to realize the ill-fated robot may never wake up again. After getting stuck in a sand trap in Gusev Crater and then switching into hibernation in March, rover operators were hopeful that the beached Spirit might yet be saved. Alas, this is looking more and more unlikely. In a statement, NASA said: "Based on models of Mars' weather and its effect on available power, mission managers believe that if Spirit responds, it most likely will be in the next few months. However, there is a very distinct possibility Spirit may never respond.""
Comment Finding one's self. (Score 1) 163
Fastest way to look through 2.8GB of data to find my name?
-SQL?
-Python?
-Other?
Comment Re:THIS IS A FARCE (Score 1) 510
Do you enter this once a month??
"v1sw6+9CUhw5/6ln5ck4ma2u9GBw2m2g/l9Sa20s6SMr1e1t2b 8p1en4g4C "
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