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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process
« Last post by IainB on August 27, 2014, 11:45 PM »Yes, I read about this and remain skeptical in the absence of solid proof, either way.
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from me.by famewolf on 20. August 2014 - 18:47 (118098)
I personally prefer Privacy Badger by the electronic frontier foundation (the name in privacy on the web in my opinion..they don't use your data for anything). https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
From their F.A.Q.:
What is Privacy Badger?
Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
How is Privacy Badger different to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking.
Although we like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products (in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!), none of them are exactly what we were looking for. In our testing, all of them required some custom configuration to block non-consensual trackers. Several of these extensions have business models that we weren't entirely comfortable with. And EFF hopes that by developing rigorous algorithmic and policy methods for detecting and preventing non-consensual tracking, we'll produce a codebase that could in fact be adopted by those other extensions, or by mainstream browsers, to give users maximal control over who does and doesn't get to know what they do online.
Had to smile at that nice diagram. One can see what you mean. Because it looked like such a potentially nifty PIM (Personal Information Manager), I downloaded/installed Tomboy - gtk-sharp-2.12.8-1.win32.msi in 2009. I was amazed at the complexity of just that installation. I was later reminded of it by this Dilbert cartoon:A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades (but negative results are increasing rapidly too).
It is known that statistically significant results are more likely to be published than results that are not statistically significant. However, it is unclear whether negative results are disappearing from papers, and whether there exists a ‘hierarchy of sciences’ with the social sciences publishing more positive results than the physical sciences. Using Scopus, we conducted a search in the abstracts of papers published between 1990 and 2014, and calculated the percentage of papers reporting marginally positive results (i.e., p-values between 0.040 and 0.049) versus the percentage of papers reporting marginally negative results (i.e., p-values between 0.051 and 0.060). The results indicate that negative results are not disappearing, but have actually become 4.3 times more prevalent since 1990. Positive results, on the other hand, have become 13.9 times more prevalent since 1990. We found no consistent support for a ‘hierarchy of sciences’. However, we did find large differences in reporting practices between disciplines, with the reporting of p-values being 60.6 times more frequent in the biological sciences than in the physical sciences. We argue that the observed longitudinal trends may be caused by negative factors, such as an increase of questionable research practices, but also by positive factors, such as an increasingly quantitative research focus. ...
Yup. Eggsaggerly. Ergonomics.Ah, yeah. Anybody that fat-fingers a paste will have that happen now.There could well be a lot of those comments happening now, ever since Firefox started to use the hotkey combo Ctrl+Shift+V to pop up that window...What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.ha!-mouser (August 16, 2014, 04:42 PM)-IainB (August 18, 2014, 01:05 AM)-app103 (August 18, 2014, 01:09 AM)
There could well be a lot of those comments happening now, ever since Firefox started to use the hotkey combo Ctrl+Shift+V to pop up that window...What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.ha!-mouser (August 16, 2014, 04:42 PM)
GERMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY CHIEFS BAN SANDCASTLES AT BEACHESAhahaha, very droll.
Pfft... cowards. Still all paranoid since D-day I suppose.
-Renegade (August 16, 2014, 04:36 AM)
...There is such a right.Well, on the basis of that, silence seems to have been judged as a reasonable basis for cause for the police to arrest someone on suspicion, however that does not seem to indicate that it contributed to the proving of their guilt in any subsequent court of law.
And it has been argued in some jurisdictions (and agreed to by certain US judges) that a refusal to speak to police officers may be construed as sufficient grounds for suspicion of wrongdoing that that (by itself) is justification for arresting someone.
On the topic of "remaining silent" look here and here.
______________________-40hz (August 16, 2014, 11:41 AM)
WATCH: The Islamic StateAt approx 40 minutes it is quite long, but it is worth a watch.
The best reporting of what has happened in Iraq and Syria over the last few months has not been in the papers or on television, but online. Vice are the only news organisation who have managed to embed a reporter with Islamic State (ISIS). Medyan Dairieh’s documentary from Raqqa is remarkable viewing and well worth a watch.
Vice crew: The Islamic State (Full Length)
Published on 14 Aug 2014
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The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during its advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.
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Not sure if media like the Telegraph should talk about that without any irony.-Tuxman (August 13, 2014, 10:38 AM)
Not sure if media like the Telegraph should talk about that without any irony.If it bleeds, it leads.-Tuxman (August 13, 2014, 10:38 AM)
_______________________________-Renegade (August 13, 2014, 11:22 AM)
...Up to that point, I had been smiling a lot at the rant, but I draw the line at cynical attempts to gain access to my agreement by invoking such things.
_______________________________-IainB (August 07, 2014, 10:51 AM)
...I don't use Picasa, IPTC is metadata (not in the file name) right? Do you have some way to first IPTC tag in Picasa and then convert those tags to filename tags?Yes, IPTC is metadata.-Nod5 (August 12, 2014, 08:10 AM)
Even without the alcohol, soft-carbonated (and preferably unsweetened) lemonade is a treat on a hot day.Have you ever tried drinking shandy? It's a mixture of beer and lemonade. Very refreshing drink, and reduced alcohol content too - e.g., if mixed 50-50.
Learned about that one from a expat French client of mine. I understand it's big on the Continent.-40hz (August 12, 2014, 12:15 PM)
