Comment Atlas Shrugged (Score 1) 283
Time to start The John Galt Motor Company.
U.C. System and Springer Agree To CC-Licensed Journal Articles 54
NeoSkink writes "The University of California and Springer Science+Business Media have reached an agreement to provide open access for articles submitted by UC-affiliated authors. In a press release, the UC writes: 'Under the terms of the agreement, articles by UC-affiliated authors accepted for publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored into the overall license. Articles will be released under a license compatible with the Creative Commons (by-nc: Attribution, Non-commercial) license. In addition to access via the Springer platform, final published articles will also be deposited in the California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository.'"
Comment Re:Our fault (Score 1) 1067
Israel, whether the Jewish people or the nation, has been at war for thousands of years with various Arab peoples. While the current conflict may be somewhat the West's fault, this is just a continuation of a very, very long war. If there was a Palestinian state made, they'd probably be fighting anyways.
This is an old fight with modern war.
Comment People are Dumb (Score 1) 314
Is anyone else totally disillusioned with consumers for things like this? The worldwide economy is crumbling because people didn't know how much was too much. And now, after people know that, they *keep* *buying*. Big screen TVs, _thousands_ in gift cards, other expensive purchases, when they should be starting to save up, conserve. When will people learn?
Comment Firefox vs. Chrome? (Score 2) 190
The battle for supremacy between Mozilla's Firefox ("JavaScript, I am your father") and Google's Chrome ("Come live in thread harmony, Luke") is good for everyone.
With the story on Chrome having a 1.5% share earlier today, and Firefox having a 32% share, I don't see how there's a "battle for supremacy"...
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping 222
ma11achy was one of several readers to write about claims made by two former military intercept operators who worked for the NSA that "Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home." Ars Technica has a brief report as well, and reader net_shaman adds a link to Glenn Greenwald's opinion piece on the eavesdropping at Salon.
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