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It's kind of ironic twist of fate and disgrace that something like SciHub needs to be hosted/served from Russia in order to avoid getting squished and destroyed by rent seekers greedy hands.
Alexandra Elbakyan, who created SciHub, was born is Kazakhstan (exUSSR) and later studied in Russia where she lives now. I'm proud that Russia is one of the few countries on the planet where American exterritorial law doesn't apply.
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It seems to me that this type of tracking, under the guise of guarding rights is against the GDPR = unlawful tracking that they are harassing Google and FB with? Is not justice's sword 2 edged?
(Note that this is all written from a European perspective, applies European Economic Area law and human rights as defined by the Council of Europe (which includes Russia, to everyone's surprise). I know that in the USA everyone is much more pro frontier justice, for example when it comes to pervasive and continual monitoring of employees while at work.) I think it's very arguable that they have a legitimate interest…
The publishers now encode their papers with individual identifiers, that generationP calls UUIDs on all pdf's. That means they can trace it back to the institution(and perhaps the actual prof?) They have then sent nastygrams to threaten them with fees or loss of access to the institution - potentially serious punishment. What is needed is a way to run the papers through an OCR recognition program to create renewed te…
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It didn't seem to actually work though. https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/ibm-watson-health-failu...
Did Watson fail because they where bad at their job or because the problem is much harder than people assumed?
It's kind of ironic twist of fate and disgrace that something like SciHub needs to be hosted/served from Russia in order to avoid getting squished and destroyed by rent seekers greedy hands.
If anything is a disgrace it's your russophobic comment. Alexandra Elbakyan, who created SciHub, was born is Kazakhstan (exUSSR) and later studied in Russia where she lives now. I'm proud that Russia is one of the few countries on the planet where American exterritorial law doesn't apply.
That we have to rely on single person effort that's risking their freedom to do so is fucking insane.
The publishers now encode their papers with individual identifiers, that generationP calls UUIDs on all pdf's. That means they can trace it back to the institution(and perhaps the actual prof?) They have then sent nastygrams to threaten them with fees or loss of access to the institution - potentially serious punishment. What is needed is a way to run the papers through an OCR recognition program to create renewed te…
Does this mean it is trivially easy for any student or employee to make their institution stop paying publishers by getting it banned?
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If anything is a disgrace it's your russophobic comment. Alexandra Elbakyan, who created SciHub, was born is Kazakhstan (exUSSR) and later studied in Russia where she lives now. I'm proud that Russia is one of the few countries on the planet where American exterritorial law doesn't apply.
I'm not sure the preceding comment was actually rusophobic. To me it seems you're mostly in agreement in that this content needs to be hosted somewhere safe from the US. It's just that you are proud - because it's hosted in your country - and the previous person is annoyed, because it cannot be hosted in theirs.
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A typical PhD dissertation these days is 3 publications in high-quality journals. It is explicitly required at most schools.
so there is "prestige" in getting in a reputed journal and not the fact that the paper is peer reviewed by good scientists. the reputation of the journal matters. cool. isnt there a need of change in the "social ideology" of such schools and this whole elitism would go away?