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• On the post: Fake ‘Pink Slime’ Propaganda Newspapers Surge Ahead Of Fall Election

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2024 @ 07:34am

  GOP/Trump/religion

  From an age under 10, I was amazed at the plethora of religions - all of these each felt theirs was the one true religion and the others were just fakes/frauds and I agreed then and still do. It seems to me that unintelligent people are prey to these religions, as they lack the mental ability to see the flaws (dumba$$ effect) These collective bumba$$es have a significant economic mass, the huge dumba$$ economy. In their ranks are people who are smart, see the fraud, know what it is - and how to milk it, the smarta$$es, as I describe it. So the GOP is formed of herdbeasts(dumba$$es) and priests(smarta$$es) So I conclude that religion is full of idiots (dumba$$es) and others who herd them and control them and get to keep the $$ - the smarta$$es As it was 10,000 years ago when primeval smarta$$es learned to live free and prosper on the work of dumba$$es - so it is today. Religion of all faiths/types is a monstrous parasitic fraud that exists to control and milk the herdbeasts and give milk/honey to the herders. So I say, more milk and honey for Trump, deeper and deeper, cover the nose holes, let him breathe faith, the sooner that fat old fart subsides beneath the milk/honey = the better.

• On the post: Warner Bros. Had To Have A Tasmanian Football Team Explain Where Its Taz Character Came From

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2024 @ 03:11am

  Tasmanian Devil

  10 WB lawyers in a cage - add 1 Tasmanian Devil = soon cage is empty, once the lawyers is et up, the devil buzzed off through the wall - no food - why stay?

• On the post: Canada’s Online News Act: The Fallout Continues, As Google Will Block News Links, Other Support Programs

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2023 @ 01:28pm

  Watch what you wish for - you may get it. The feds suddenly cut off Canadian news = USA/World only = there they go

• On the post: Book Publishers Won’t Stop Until Libraries Are Dead

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 04:31am

  UK library book repair binder limits

  I recall seeing in UK published books that a book could only be lent out as originally bound. You could not rebind/repair damaged books due to wear and tear. Is that interdiction still on the copyright page of UK books?

• On the post: San Francisco Legislators Greenlight Killing Of Residents By Police Robots… And Then Kill It…

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2022 @ 11:33am

  Robo-justice

  Why not Robo prosecutors, Robo public defenders, Robo juries, Robo judges and Robo executioners. That would let Ca deal with their homeless problems....

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2020 @ 05:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Hey, "Scary Devil Monastery": you are wackily pr

  Yes, We all know religion is a scam to live free and run things. Latin needed scribes so people could read/write letters. The printing press wrecked that and new religions were created from pure bullshit as the new priests decided that to live for free was good. As for religion preserving knowledge - they perpetuated their own BS and when they ran out of paper(thin animal skin) they scraped off Archimedes et all. thus a great deal of written history was eliminated to preserve their crap. (Google palimpsest)
  In a similar way the era of academic printing is threatened by the internet.
  I am not making the wave, the wave is there, wide and deep and spontaneous. Soon more and more governments will decree that publicly funded data must be open sourced. Cut off the roots and the elsevier strangler tree will die.
  Be better if all past publicly funded research is open sourced. If 10% is paid by the public then the whole thing is public

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 02:52pm

  Lol, If it were true to it's origin...

  Now it has been bastardised to serve elsevier et al, with little to nothing to the originators...

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 11:23am

  Academe was so decoupled - all they did

  was request papers, and they had no idea of the corrupt system behind the scenes. It was only the revolt of many Universities at the naked cash grab by the elseviers, who own these walled gardens, who make margins of ~~40% After paying taxes and HUGE executive salaries that prompted this revolution among the poor when they demaned further increases in journal fees.
  Like a parasite without regards to the host, it has reached the point of the death of the host. Look at all the colleges in India, Bangladesh etc., who would be beggared - were it not for Sci-Hub...

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 10:37am

  Of course, slow and on an unpaid basis.

  There needs to be an improved review pathway - possibly the librarians as well as the same reviewers on a paid basis. The huge body of past work needs to be open sourced so it can be freely accessed without undue cost. It is now in libraries of past printed journals that are indexed - but it is cumbersome. It needs to be open and online. I am open to how far back the old papers need to be scanned and onlined, but the old broken era ofthe elseviers of the world needs to draw to a close.

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 09:24am

  Sci-Hub is the solution -especially as it

  forces a review of the process. I can see the reviewers being paid the Elsevier 'tax', we now pay a lot more to support their bloated edifice.. It is true, review is needed viz;- the huge rise of fake/trash papers.
  I often suspect Elsevier feeds the trash maw to cite it in their defence.

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 07:40am

  Copyright, and it's many extensions, as bought and paid for

  By the Disney Corporation. It was originally intended to protect against unauthorised copies to allow the author and his heirs to live on it for the term. Now it has been extended to 75+++ years.
  The forced abrogation of all rights in an academic work to the journal publisher who then proceed to extract fees from the poor of the world and hold back science in many places as a consequence should be blocked and all publicly paid works should be open sourced when written.
  With modren hard drives there are copies of almost all papers now freely circulated to the poor countries. Elseviers of the world try to litigate in most of these countries, so it carries on as a latter day 'sneaker net'.
  Let them die, let the flies have their way - their day is done.

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 05:33am

  Parasite - yes, kill them and their eggs....

• On the post: To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2020 @ 03:23am

  Microkerning

  As you know, kerning is the process whereby letters are aligned on the page to increase readibility. Google for more. There is the related process that is often used to create unique document signatures on diplomatic and other sensitive documents. This I have called 'microkerning - the addition of added small fractional spaces scattered through the document so that each document is identifiably different. 'By this means every document downloaded from any repository (by the owners of the repository) can be identified as to source. That means if I use my subsription to get a paper and give it to Sci-Hub, it can be analyzed and tracked back to me and my institution - who is then punished in some way. I suspect the academic publishers are doing this. This can be eliminated by Sci-Hub running their donated papers through a 'dekerning; engine. This be something as simple as replacing the font with a standard width font and using a word processor to impose standard spacing rules. This can be automated for a lower burden on Sci-Hub. A similar process to strip off steganographic cues from pictures can also be used. The tradeoff in clarity is negligible.

• On the post: AT&T Loses Another 1.36 Million Pay TV Subscribers Thanks To Relentless Price Hikes

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2019 @ 12:49am

  As they lose subscribers

  They also reduce the amount they have to pay for their feeds - which are all individually metered and the pay per view charges tallied. This balancing act has an end point.

• On the post: Study Says Broadband Caps Are A Big Problem For Google's Game Streaming Ambitions

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2019 @ 03:22pm

  Trump and Ajit

  = Toast in 2020

• On the post: Study Shows Asset Forfeiture Doesn't Fight Crime Or Reduce Drug Use

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2019 @ 12:09pm

  It's all in how you count the cash, cops need to be weighed before and after their shifts...
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13X9VYxiIw

• On the post: Alabama Voters Say At Least One Sheriff Won't Be Enriching Himself With Federal Inmate Food Funds

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 05:21am

  prisoner food

  No change here, they just use the funds for police purposes, nice TV etc.
  The food program needs to be administered by the prisoners, with oversight.

• On the post: Self Driving Taxis Are Going To Be A Nightmare To Secure, Warns Ex-Uber Security Researcher

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2017 @ 06:05am

  What about Mr Big(Robot)

  There will soon come to be fleets of free roaming cabs, all racibg to pick up the next client. For a while - until Mr Big steps in. Mr Big is a Robot cloud mind, who will bring order to this chaos - it will work, but prices will rise, but that's what we have now isn't it?

• On the post: Medical Examiner Sues City Of New York After Being Forced Out Of Her Job For Questioning DNA Testing Techniques

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2016 @ 04:09pm

  Milk in the water

  Impedes vision of the truth.
  Since the jury selection process eliminate DNA competence, all it takes it a little milk in the water to obscure the truth and sow that "doubt" in a few minds that the defence tries to expand.
  
  They actually need a jury made up of competent DNA specialists...

• On the post: Medical Examiner Sues City Of New York After Being Forced Out Of Her Job For Questioning DNA Testing Techniques

  

  Bill Jackson ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2016 @ 01:16pm

  Competence and evidence, Dr. Barbara Sampson etc.

  Prosecutors want toggle switch evidence, the light of truth is either on or off. They do not want a dimmer switch with the prosecution and the defence trying to vary the validity of the evidence.
  In the case of LCN, the ratio of suspected perpetrator DNA can vary from zero to 100%, and the scattered innocent DNA will be the inverse. In the case of publicly accessed items. like door-knobs, you can have mixed DNA from many people. With PCR multiplication you can see how many different people were present as trace DNA fragments, since even a single cell would be capable of differentiation via PCR.
  One hopes a swab from the suspect can be used to determine if he was represented in the sample.
  Dr. Barbara Sampson may be very competent, as is Dr Stajic also very competent. We are not assessing their competence. Samson is trying to turn this into an on-off toggle, the perp DNA is present or not. Stajic is making a middle ground, and middle ground can be exploited to reduce the certainty of the evidence. Once the evidence is less certain in the eyes of the jury - perps walk.
  
  Sadly, LCN is quite valid, as it can show or deny the perps cell(s) is(are) presence, even with 50 others in the mix.
  The question is:- Is the perp an innocent railroaded in?
  
  If there are 300 cells of a stranger and one cell of the perp - did the stranger do it?
  
  That said, there should be an internal dialog to validate the LCN method, because it can show that the perps DNA is there, and with other evidence to buttress it, might well be correct.

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