2013-01-08.log

--- Log opened Tue Jan 08 00:00:24 2013
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@kanzure"Requested requests==1.0.4, but installing version 0.14.2"00:44
@kanzurewhat why would i want it to do that00:45
@kanzurewell this should support requests==0.14.2 and requests==1.0.4 now00:51
@kanzurehttps://github.com/kanzure/careful-requests00:51
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Burn_with_intentI expect you've probably seen this, but just incase: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/bacterial-immune-system-used-to-engineer-human-dna-in-human-cells/07:58
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@kanzurehttp://www.marketwatch.com/story/elsevier-acquires-aureus-sciences-provider-of-databases-and-information-tools-for-pharmaceutical-and-biotech-companies-2013-01-0809:32
@kanzurei wonder how elsevier decided to acquire them09:33
@kanzurewas it just because they have "databases"?09:33
delinquentmebiebs smokes weed09:45
delinquentmelulz09:45
strangewarpapparently if you get a strain of weed with a cannabinol:THC ratio of <1:20, it increases concentration and suppresses appetite: http://www.centennialseeds.com/2012/08/24/equatorial-sativas-difficult-to-grow-and-low-yielding-so-why-bother/09:47
strangewarpThey're very uncommon to find, though, since they don't have "jar appeal"... which is silly09:49
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Burninatestrangewarp: My understanding was that low CBD:THC ratio produced extreme anxiety/paranoia11:02
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strangewarpBurninate: From what I know, that varies from person to person11:06
@kanzurehttp://symbolhound.com/ claims to do exact symbol web searching with special characters11:15
@kanzureit's sad that i have to call '"*/\|{}$ "special".. but it is what it is.11:15
@kanzureseems to only search stackoverflow though11:16
chris_99oh darn, otherwise that'd be really useful11:16
@kanzureoh geeze stackoverflow's search isn't exact-symbol either11:16
@kanzureso i guess that is slightly useful11:16
@kanzurenow all we need is a pdf search engine that actually respects bytes too11:19
@kanzurehow did google scholar convince everyone to let them index content?11:19
chris_99don't get you, don't they just spider all pdfs from webpages11:20
@kanzureno11:20
@kanzurepublishers used to allow the google scholar user-agent string11:20
@kanzureand then they switched to ip address verification11:20
chris_99oh intriguing11:21
@kanzuresomeone should check if there's any publishers left that are only checking the user-agent string11:21
chris_99a distributed/p2p client that could run at unis to grab papers would be sweet, it could also act as a bibliography manager or something11:23
browniesi heard the other day that microsoft's scholar search was >> google's11:23
@kanzurebrownies: it uses silverlight, it's a lie11:23
browniesi had no idea they even *had* a scholar search11:24
brownieskanzure: oh. dammit.11:24
@kanzurechris_99: well, if you have a username/password for one, i can add it to paperbot.11:24
@kanzurebrownies: this thing, right? http://academic.research.microsoft.com/11:43
browniesyeah that appears to be it11:45
brownieskanzure: not seeing any SilverLight yet ... ?11:45
@kanzureme either11:45
@kanzureseems sort of slow though?11:49
@kanzurealso they use id numbers hehe11:51
@kanzurehttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/5961833211:51
@kanzurehttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/5961833111:51
@kanzureetc..11:51
@kanzureit doesn't seem to link to the publisher's site11:53
@kanzurewait what's the point of this o_o11:54
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@kanzurea few of them have a "View publication" link or two: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/27048497/a-pvdf-receiver-for-ultrasound-monitoring-of-transcranial-focused-ultrasound-therapy11:58
@kanzurehttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=0547303511:58
@kanzuredamn you paperbot11:58
brownieskanzure: yeah the search was really quick, but clicking on a result was really slow for some reason.12:02
@kanzureignoring for a moment that this paper is by hameroff, here's a study of transcranial ultrasound applied to the human brain:12:04
@kanzurehttp://www.quantumconsciousness.org/documents/TUSinpress2.pdf12:04
@kanzurefrom 201212:04
@kanzurefenn: so that might somewhat answer your question ("has anybody actually tried it")12:04
brownieswho is Hameroff and why does that matter?12:05
@fennsomehow the url makes me immediately dubious i will enjoy reading the paper12:05
@fennoh they're using it for anesthesia?12:06
nmz787Burninate: strangewarp I've heard pure THC is pretty nasty, but I only heard that from some BBC special where some doc injected it into this reporter12:07
* Burninate is referencing same12:07
@kanzurebrownies: hameroff is the wacko who believes in quantum consciousness and tubules-many-world-theory12:07
@kanzurei think he's a wacko for believing in consciousness in the first place, but the broader scientific community dislikes him for his spurious claims of quantum theory and neuroscience12:08
Burninateconsidering it's semi-legal now in two states, I hope *some* dedicated amateur does some real research on it12:08
@fennthere has been a lot of research on THC in israel12:08
@fennand various cannabinoids12:08
@kanzurefenn: they are using it to treat chronic pain in that paper12:08
* Burninate wonders if gwern would move to Colorado12:08
@fenni'm not sure how THC came up as a topic in the first place; did i say something? i was reading about endocannabinoids last night12:09
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@kanzurejrochkind: hi12:10
jrochkindhowdy12:10
chris_99Penrose believes in quantum conciousness doesn't he,  though he's more of a physicist12:10
jrochkindi got a few minutes.12:10
Burninate<delinquentme> biebs smokes weed12:11
Burninate<delinquentme> lulz12:11
Burninate<strangewarp> apparently if you get a strain of weed with a cannabinol:THC ratio of <1:20, it increases concentration and suppresses appetite: http://www.centennialseeds.com/2012/08/24/equatorial-sativas-difficult-to-grow-and-low-yielding-so-why-bother/12:11
@kanzurejrochkind: i appreciated your insights on the HN thread12:11
@kanzurechris_99: penrose is also nuts12:11
jrochkindkanzure: cool.12:11
chris_99hehe, i read a little of the Emporers new mind, didn't finish it though12:12
jrochkindkanzure: it's also possible i have no idea what i'm talking about. doing too many things at once, as usual.12:12
jrochkindkanzure: you guys are at georgia tech?  is that where rsinger used to be back in the day, yeah?12:12
@kanzurei am not affiliated with an institution12:12
jrochkindah12:12
@kanzurejrochkind: i was wondering what you know about ezproxy. it seems they wrote their own http server in c.12:12
jrochkindthus your interest in pirating PDFs (just kidding!)12:12
jrochkindkanzure: i am not familiar with the internal implementation of ezproxy, but that seems possible. EZProxy was not originally an OCLC product, it's company was purchased by OCLC.12:13
jrochkindkanzure: why would any of us care about the internal implementation of exproxy?12:13
@kanzureright, i think that acquisition happened in 200812:13
@kanzurebecause i have been reverse engineering it and finding some buffer overflows12:13
jrochkindokay... why?12:13
@kanzurethere's at least 2000 schools that use it12:13
@kanzurebecause i want access?12:13
@kanzurei don't see how all these schools collectively decided to be using it anyway12:14
@kanzureit's not a great piece of software.. wtf happened?12:14
jrochkindMaybe if I were logged into an account without my real name attached, then, maybe, I could give you advice for hacking other schools EZProxy's to pirate scholarly content. Maybe. But I probably still wouldn't.12:14
jrochkindIf that's really what you're asking me?12:14
@kanzurehaha no that's not what i'm asking you, jeeze12:14
@kanzurei'm asking you more about the social context that allowed oclc to happen and why things like ezproxy are popular in the first place12:14
jrochkindTwo seperate questions, which do you want? :)12:15
jrochkindOr short answer to both.12:15
@kanzurehow about short :)12:15
jrochkindSo back in the day (we're talking 100 years ago), every library had to catalog (write metadata) for it's own materials.12:15
jrochkindThen, even pre-computer, they started sharing cataloging on punchcards.12:15
@kanzuresure, they wanted to share their data input via oclc12:16
jrochkindThey originally had regional cooperatives, like cooperatively member-owned organizations, they created to share cataloging, and also to share "who holds what", for inter-library loan in regional areas.12:16
@kanzurebut i hear that ILL costs $0.30/query and other crap.. who would agree to this?12:16
jrochkindThese cooperatively owned organizations were called 'bibliographic utiltiies'. They started merging. OCLC is what's left, it ate all of them. (It was originally Ohio).12:17
jrochkindThat's the short answer to "the social context that allowed oclc to happen"12:17
jrochkindYou want to know why OCLC _still_ exists, taht's a different question. :)12:17
@kanzurei assume licensing requirements or something12:18
@fennthe short short answer is "network effect"12:18
@kanzurehow did Useful Utilities get market domination?12:18
jrochkindThe short answer to "why things like ezproxy are popular in the first place" -- universities spend millions of dollars each on licensing electronic scholarly content, hosted on third party platforms.  These things are licensed for affiliated users.  But most of these platforms are technologically craptastic (and most library/university IT infrastructures are too), so the only way they can authetnicate "who is an affiliated user" is by IP address.12:19
jrochkindYet it's obviously important for libraries to let their users access these resources when they aren't on-campus.  But the third party platform can only authenticate by IP address. So you need a VPN and/or proxy of some kind.  Thus EZProxy.  Which gives you a way to proxy, without the user having to log into a VPN (which sucks), and without the user having to configure their browser to send ALL traffic through a generic http proxy (which also sucks12:20
@kanzureyeah but why ezproxy? were they the only ones selling software that did what they needed?12:20
jrochkindEZProxy was actually really good at doing what it does.12:20
jrochkindBack when it was an independent operation, it was basically a one-man shop, and that one man was really clever, AND if you filed a support ticket, he'd fix the problem or even develop a new feature to meet your need very quickly.12:21
jrochkindEZProxy won by being better than the competition, legit.12:21
jrochkindCertainly there's a bunch of crappy things about EZProxy too.12:21
jrochkindI mean, the whole fucking _design_ is a nightmare, it's a bad way to do things, proxying traffic for the purpose of IP-based auth. But EZProxy did it better than any of the competitors.12:21
@kanzurehow much was it acquired for?12:22
@kanzureand do you know how much a license costs?12:22
jrochkindi have no idea how much it was aquired for, probably not public info.12:23
jrochkinda license is relatively cheap, although it's probably gotten more expensive since the acquisition.12:23
@kanzureah wait it is public, neat12:23
brownieswhat about OCLC? why does that continue to stick around when it costs such a price-gouging amount of money?12:23
@kanzure$600,000 in 2008. lame.12:23
jrochkindBut it used to be REALLY cheap for enterprise software. Like $300 a year or something? Which is really cheap for the library market.12:23
@kanzure$600k for 2000 users?12:23
jrochkindMaybe $800 a year. Still cheap for the market. $800 is nothing when you're paying $20 million a year on the licenses for the content EZProxy is giving you access to.12:23
jrochkindI have no idea what justifies the companies purchase price.12:24
@kanzureyep that's about $300/customer, neat.12:24
jrochkindMaybe it's not $300/year*2000, so much as locking users into the OCLC platform and providing a complete wall-to-wall library IT solution, which is what OCLC wants/needs to do, you know?12:24
jrochkindBut shit, you know how many companies Google has purchased for many multiples of their yearly revenue?  Maybe OCLC just thought Google knew something it didn't. :)12:25
@kanzuregoogle scholar striked deals with publishers to get full text12:25
jrochkindyeah, a lot of that is secret. My impression is that at first they had to pay publishers, but eventually they had publishers who would have paid google for the privilege of being indexed on scholar!12:26
@kanzureyeah, it used to be by user agent12:26
jrochkindAs with everything internet, people are confused about what is valuable for whom how.12:26
@kanzurepeople were spoofing the google scholar user agent string12:26
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jrochkindinteresting. easy enough for them to do it by IP instead, and it's harder (although not impossible) to spoof a google IP. But have they largely given up and realized that if they're letting google scholar index a page, it might as well be public?12:27
@kanzureit's too bad that google doesn't go after oclc. i figure there's not enough profit in the business of making books and knowledge free.12:27
browniesthe "free" part probably throws a wrench into that12:28
@kanzurebrownies: they can sell ads on android devices to read the books :P12:28
jrochkindI'm not sure the public would benefit from such a thing. And yeah, I think Google would be making a huge mistake in buying OCLC, it's not actually a very profitable business OCLC is in.12:28
browniesi would not mind advertisements next to my scholarly reading12:28
browniesread a paper on nootropics => "click here to purchase on Amazon.com!"12:29
@kanzure[B[A12:29
@kanzuredeepdyve is awful, i hate it12:29
@kanzurethey do rent per page and i think they might do some advertising12:29
jrochkindOCLC is also a member-owned cooperative, the customer members would have to agree by vote to sell to Google. Or maybe you just mean Google competing with OCLC, not Google buying OCLC. Yeah, I don't think it's nearly profitable enough for Google.12:29
browniesjrochkind: we were looking at OCLC's pricing ... surely they make good money, given how much they price-gouge their customers?12:29
nmz787so i really need a PDF organizer with search12:29
@kanzurenmz787: mendeley12:30
browniesthey have the most obscene fees for the most ridiculous things... basically multiple cents per API call12:30
jrochkindSo a couple things.12:30
nmz787kanzure: mendeley isn't local12:30
@kanzurenmz787: yes it is12:30
@kanzurethe mendeley client is local.12:30
jrochkindOne, it's VERY hard to get accurate info on OCLC pricing, it's quite possible what you were looking at is outdated and not OCLC's current pricing model.12:30
@kanzurenmz787: also, zotero has local search12:30
jrochkindTwo, OCLC is, again, actually a member-owned cooperative, it's customer-owned. There are no profits going to investors. Believe it or not, all of OCLC's income goes to operating expenses. including salaries for executives, of course. And executives are i'm sure paid well, but not as well as Google's. :)12:31
@kanzurenmz787: zotero can be used outside of firefox (because of xulrunner) if you happen to not like firefox12:31
nmz787hmm12:31
nmz787i can't find this stupid paper and it's not in the directory i thought it should be12:31
nmz787:/12:31
@kanzureactually yeah, use zotero. it's open source. mendeley is evil.12:31
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@kanzuremendeley seems to be trying to do a play to eat ISI's lunch.12:32
@kanzurejrochkind: "profits going to investors" isn't exactly how a venture-backed operation works12:32
jrochkindi dunno man, i'm no entrepeneur.  All I'm saying is when you say "surely they make good money", i'm not sure what you mean but it's probably not so. The only way anyone's making money from OCLC is from their salaries.12:33
@kanzurewell at $0.30 per api call, it adds up to lots of dollars12:34
@kanzureis it paying for bandwidth? no, that can't be it. is it paying for data entry? no, the libraries pay for that..12:34
jrochkindperhaps their financial statements are public and you can see their revenue and expenses and where it goes, i dunno.12:34
nmz787does OCLC also negotiate the content tho12:34
nmz787is some % of that .30 going to Nature group?12:34
@kanzureno12:34
jrochkindIt is to some extent mysterious to me too, honestly. Except I know there's nobody secretly making millions off it, it's not possible.12:34
@kanzureoclc is primarily for books and cataloging12:35
@kanzureinstitutions make individual subscription deals to academic publishers12:35
@kanzure*deals with12:35
jrochkindI think a large part of the explanation lies in "legacy".  When you've been doing something for 80 years, you've got a lot of legacy to support, and it gets expensive in annoying ways. Perhaps someone starting from scratch could do it with less expenses, but then someone starting from scratch would have trouble competing with OCLC naturally. :)12:35
jrochkindWhy are you guys so obsessed with OCLC, anyhow?12:36
@kanzurei want my content :312:36
jrochkindBut OCLC isn't the one guarding your content, is it?  That's what I'm curious about, why you've focused on OCLC, they don't have much to do with electronic scholarly content, honestly.12:36
jrochkindOCLC _used_ to be an electronic content aggregation vendor themselves, but they've been mostly trying to get out of that business.12:36
@kanzurethey have a giant index of all books and holdings of books that i can't access12:36
@kanzurethey have a shitty search interface that makes it impossible to copy the database12:37
@kanzurenearly impossible12:37
@kanzureand claiming copyright on it is annoying12:37
jrochkindall that stuff is in flux, but, yeah, they don't really wnat you to copy their db.12:37
jrochkindI'm not sure why you are so fixated on wanting to though, it won't give you access to _the content_, just to an index of books, what so excites you about a database of books?12:38
jrochkindIf you're annoyed you can't get scholarly article PDFs, you should focus your ire more on Elsevier et al.12:38
@kanzureknowing which books and papers exist is the first step to getting them all12:38
browniesjrochkind: yes, i think they stick around because of legacy and possibly some network effects from having all libraries on their system12:38
jrochkindthey don't really have a very good database of papers, and what they do have they've largely licensed from others, it's not uinque to them.12:38
jrochkindAnd books, Amazon and Google Books both probably have better databases of books even.12:38
@kanzurei think isi, mendeley, google scholar and microsoft academic research search have fairly good index of all papers12:39
jrochkindAnd both Amazon and Google Books have better free APIs. Amazon's ToS are weird, Google Books aren't even that.12:39
@kanzuretheir free APIs are just throwaways though, they don't really want you to have the data.12:39
@kanzureif they cared that much, they would give archive.org the data12:39
jrochkindYeah, a good idnex of all papers is hard to come by for free. But OCLC doesn't have it either.12:39
jrochkindWhat OCLC does have, they've licensed from others on terms that prevent them from sharing it with you.12:40
@kanzureyes, i just enumerated the sources of where you would find that, you would note oclc was not in that list -_-12:40
@kanzurewhat's the point though of all this non-sharing12:40
@kanzurethat's not what a library is12:40
jrochkindIn fact, OCLC's _papers_ index isn't available via API _even to OCLC member/customers_, becuase of their own licensing.12:40
jrochkindwhich pisses OCLC off too, heh.12:40
@kanzurefascinating. is there a story?12:40
jrochkindnot really. OCLC didn't have an index of papers. They knew they needed one. They assembled one by licensing metadata from people like ISI, and publishers. They licensed it on terms that don't let them redistribute it in bulk or via API, either because they didn't realize they needed to or because those they got it from weren't willing to give it away.12:41
jrochkindthe whole scholarly market is a mess.12:41
jrochkindand everyone knows it.12:41
@kanzurewhat are publishers going to be doing about the open access requirements that the UK setup a year-ish ago?12:42
jrochkindI agree OCLC is making some mistakes, and ought to be a lot more open with their data. They're motivated by trying to stay in business; I think they're still doing things wrong. But I don't think OCLC is at the heart of the disfunction that is pissing you off.12:42
jrochkindand now i'll do a bit of work at work before I go home. Good luck!12:43
@kanzureseeya. thanks for tolerating our questions.12:44
jrochkind(and for better or worse, I predict that libraries as a whole and OCLC in particular will all no longer exist in 10 years. :) )12:44
@kanzuredidn't we predict that 10 years ago?12:44
jrochkindSome people did. I didn't, heh.12:45
@kanzureoops i mean, didn't we say 10 years from now as of 10 years ago?12:45
@kanzureerm.. i mean. it's past due.12:45
jrochkind10 years ago, I still personally didn't really believe ebooks were going to happen. Ebooks are going to be final nail in the coffin. Becuase publishers largely will not allow libraries to lend ebooks.12:45
@kanzurelibraries are far older than publishers, it's hilarious how much more leverage publishers have over libraries12:45
jrochkindwith print books, there are certain legal provisions in the US at least that give the libraries power vis a vis the publishers, that they don't have with ebooks.12:46
jrochkind@google first sale doctrine12:46
jrochkindoops, no bot in here.12:46
@kanzurewe just have paperbot. also some suspect that i might be a bot.12:46
jrochkindyou know about #code4lib, that's the channel where the library software geeks hang out.12:46
jrochkindyou can ask them all questions too, and start interesting argumetns there. :)12:46
@kanzureis aaronsw hanging out there anymore?12:46
jrochkindi don't actually know him.12:46
nmz787kanzure: what is umb's exproxy URL?12:46
@kanzurenmz787: http://ezproxy.lib.umb.edu/login12:47
@kanzurejrochkind: he was the kid that got caught at mit12:47
jrochkindbut yeah, legally a library (or anyone else) in the US can buy any old copy of a print book anywhere, and have the legal right to lend it out (or even rent it out for $) without copyright owners permission. not so with ebooks.12:47
jrochkindi dont' remember that story, kid that got caught at mit. Oh wait, vaguely.12:48
jrochkindwhat was he doing?12:48
jrochkind(allegedly)12:48
@kanzurehe was allegedly copying jstor things12:48
jrochkindaha.12:48
@kanzurefederal governmen is prosecuting at the moment.12:48
@kanzure*government12:48
jrochkindinteresting.12:48
@kanzurearchive.org has the court documents12:48
jrochkindwhat's his full name? I'd like to google it more, maybe publisize it a bit on my blog.12:48
@kanzureaaron swartz12:48
jrochkindthanks12:48
@kanzurehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR12:49
@kanzure"JSTOR put out a statement saying it would not pursue civil litigation against Swartz."12:49
@kanzuregovernment still going after him anyway12:49
jrochkindso you guys are, like, the hackers that care about scholarly information? heh12:49
jrochkindthat's fucked up.12:49
jrochkindJSTOR not pursuing litigation but gvmt doing it anyway, is.12:49
@kanzureif science is so important, why the fuck don't i have a backup?12:49
nmz787we are knownledge junkies12:50
nmz787need more info!!!12:50
* nmz787 beams crazy eyes around the room12:50
jrochkindif there is a _particular_ paper you want and can't get, you can probably ask in #code4lib, and someone will probably email you a PDF. From time to time. if you do it every day, people will prob get tired of it, heh.12:50
@kanzureno i have my own methods of access12:51
@kanzurepaperbot: hiii12:51
jrochkindJStor of course doesn't own the copyright for any of that stuff. They just license it themselves.12:51
@kanzurenature.com/nmat/journal/v11/n9/full/nmat3357.html12:51
@kanzureoops12:51
@kanzurehttp://nature.com/nmat/journal/v11/n9/full/nmat3357.html12:51
nmz787when paperbot fails it just pings #code4lib :P12:51
jrochkindElsevier etc. are the real public enemies number 1 here.12:51
paperbothttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Rapid%20casting%20of%20patterned%20vascular%20networks%20for%20perfusable%20engineered%20three-dimensional%20tissues.pdf12:51
jrochkindWoah.12:51
jrochkindYou want to write a paper on how paperbot works? :)12:51
jrochkindI'm awfully curious.12:51
@kanzuresure, i'd be happy to.12:52
nmz787it just downloads the paper and pastes a link i thought12:52
@kanzureit uses zotero12:52
jrochkindoh, it just uses zotero, hmm.12:52
@kanzureso under the hood it's https://github.com/zotero/translators12:52
jrochkindWait, I still don't get it.12:52
@kanzurebut before that it's a layer of proxies12:52
jrochkindHow can a zotero translator get access to something you don't have access to?12:52
@kanzurei do have access12:52
jrochkindah.12:53
jrochkindhow THAT is so is the interesting part. :)12:53
@kanzurepdx.edu gives you a user id when you signup to register for classes12:53
@kanzurei just don't take classes12:53
jrochkindinteresting.12:53
jrochkindYou might not want to admit THAT in a public article, or at least don't mention PDX by name, heh.12:54
@kanzurewell it's sort of obvious, check the /whois on paperbot12:54
jrochkindyeah, but if you start publisizing it, they might have to change their practices.12:54
@kanzureyes :(12:54
jrochkindbut i'd be interested in reading a piece by you on all this stuff, the ways you manage to get access to this stuff grey area-ly.12:55
jrochkindpaperbot, etc.12:55
@kanzurehaha but they would just use it to stop me :(12:55
@kanzurei just want to read my papers, you know12:55
jrochkindyeah, you could do it without mentioning PDX by name etc. But yeah, understood, indeed.12:55
jrochkindIf you wanted to though, you could send an article proposal to Code4Lib Journal.12:55
@kanzurebut really, zotero/translators.git is a pretty accurate answer12:55
@kanzurehaha let me guess, $2000/page to publish?12:56
jrochkindnah, free and free.12:56
jrochkindcompletely open access journal, nobody gets paid nobody pays.12:56
jrochkindi'm on the editorial committee. it's the journal for hackers who work for libraries. :)12:56
@kanzurehmm.12:56
@kanzurethese librarian hackers seem to be slacking? :p12:57
jrochkind'hacker' in maybe the other sense.12:57
@kanzureah yes the conformist we-cant-do-anything sense..12:57
@kanzuresorry, i'm just bitter.12:57
jrochkindhttp://journal.code4lib.org.  You might find it interesting, although much of it is not going to be irrelevant to you.12:57
nmz787kanzure: my name best show up in that article12:57
nmz787:D12:57
@kanzurenmz787: you want to be identified as the individual that exposed all this? wouldn't you prefer to be anonymous.12:57
nmz787:D12:58
nmz787I need publications for super college12:58
nmz787:D :D12:58
jrochkindIf you're expecting people who work for libraries to break the law and/or their employers licenses and get fired and no longer work for libraries, indeed you will be dissapointed. shrug.12:58
@kanzurejrochkind: also, there's at least one android app in the wild that is serving as a reverse proxy for paper access. college students install the app unknowingly.12:58
jrochkindinteresting!12:58
nmz787huh12:58
nmz787like its a trojan sorta?12:58
nmz787i.e. in some other stupid game or something?12:59
@kanzureyes12:59
nmz787is that what Angry Birds really is!12:59
@kanzurei wish12:59
nmz787genius12:59
@kanzureactually, someone made a fake angry birds version that did a root exploit12:59
@kanzureso yes it's possible there might be an angry birds version floating around acting as a reverse proxy for paper access... heh12:59
nmz787nice12:59
nmz787sooo, I have an account with UMB now13:00
nmz787no $ down13:00
nmz787i just requested lib access13:00
@kanzurebut you had to email them13:00
nmz787via email from my new umb.edu email :D13:00
@kanzureand you don't have access yet?13:00
@kanzurelet me know when you have paper access13:00
nmz787I have computer access to their course registration13:00
browniesuniversity of massachuseetts?13:00
nmz787yes13:00
nmz787bostoin13:00
jrochkindthe ironic thing, as I'm sure you guys know, is how many papers (including JStor hosted papers) are available on the public internet, and findable with google scholar, and were put on the net by _professors_, who either didn't realize they were 'pirating' or didn't care.13:01
@kanzuresure13:02
jrochkindAnd how many of those are the _authors_ of the papers putting them up. Teh authors don't make any money from those papers, they don't care if they're on the internet.13:02
@kanzurea lot of the papers i look for end up in google scholar showing up as hosted by... me13:02
jrochkindheheh13:02
@kanzurebecause i forgot that i archived them13:02
nmz787can't an author release their own pubs to direct other individuals legally?13:02
@kanzureno in most cases that is not legal13:02
jrochkindnmz787: not usually. it depends on the nature of their agreement with their publisher.13:02
@kanzurethey usually sign over the copyrights13:02
@kanzurewhen you publish a paper, there's a huge amount of cocksucking13:03
nmz787oh i thought they had the right to give it person to person13:03
jrochkindBut "release their own pubs to direct other individuals " is different than 'put on the internet' anyway. The former, legal or not, nobody's going to notice.13:03
nmz787but not post a URL13:03
nmz787hmm13:03
nmz787sure13:03
@kanzurejrochkind: iirc someone had a pdf phone home function once. it was evil.13:03
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jrochkindWhether you are the author or not, in the US anyway, you may be able to make a copy of a paper for a specific individual at a time, for academic/research purposes, under fair use.13:03
jrochkindkanzure: i didn't even know pdf could do that.13:03
jrochkindyou MAY be able to, it's all pretty unclear legally.13:04
nmz787pdf phone home?13:04
@kanzurei think it was possibly through a pdf malware thing13:04
nmz787soo the viewer recognized desired titles if that PDF was open it got sent to a remote server?13:05
@kanzureno, it was a vulnerability in acrobat reader or something13:05
@kanzureCVE-2010-018813:06
@kanzurehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38195/discuss13:06
@kanzure"Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition."13:06
@kanzurehttp://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/38195.py13:06
@kanzureCVE-2010-0188.13:07
@kanzure"Adobe PDF LibTiff Integer Overflow Code Execution" ah it was font related.. neat13:07
@kanzureoops, didn't mean to send the CVE a second time13:07
@kanzurei blame irssi13:07
@kanzurei assume the intention was to see how many times a pdf/paper was opened, and ping a remote url to register the view.13:12
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@kanzurefenn: well that study was mostly useless. pain is an interesting to look at, but "global affect".. meh.13:18
@kanzurealso the targeting in that study was really poor. "uh we held it up to their head and blasted them with ultrasound".. yeah great targeting guys.13:21
@kanzurealso, it looks like tyler received funding from khosla ventures to do transcranial ultrasound via neurotrek, inc13:24
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strangewarpHmm.13:46
strangewarpI told someone I supported radical abundance, and they told me I should get away from Zeitgeist for a while.13:47
strangewarpI am getting kind of pissed off at Zeitgeist.13:47
strangewarpI was never a Zeitgeist person, but they seem to have co-opted some of the terms I talk about, and twisted them around this new-agey populism...13:48
chris_99http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/competition-details/overview13:51
nmz787kanzure: umb lib access is mine14:04
nmz787no $ down14:04
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nmz787i registered using my normal home address14:04
nmz787grr what's that journal yashgaroth was asking about14:06
nmz787human gene therapy?14:06
nmz787i can't tell if  this is the right journal, as this PDF works with no login http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hum.2011.15314:06
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nmz787weird14:07
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nmz787kanzure: can you access the first article but not the rest http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/hum/23/1214:07
nmz787oo14:08
nmz787there is a green dot that means its free14:08
nmz787well trying them with ezprxy gives a 40414:09
nmz787umb has access to nature protocols, which pdx doesnt14:11
nmz787nice, even my RIT ezproxy doesnt have nature protocols!14:11
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@kanzurehaha who has nature protocols then14:33
nmz787UMB14:33
@kanzureoh oh i see14:33
@kanzurethat's great14:33
@kanzureget them all14:33
nmz787:D I am too innefficient to do that14:34
juri_win 2415:02
juri_er. ;)15:02
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@kanzure"OCLC sells NetLibrary to EBSCO Publishing for $7,867,200."16:37
@kanzure"OCLC acquires EZproxy from Useful Utilities for $600,000."16:38
@kanzurehttp://www.librarytechnology.org/oclc.pl16:39
browniesonly 600K? wild.16:42
@kanzureit was "one guy" and i guess he let himself get bought out early16:43
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jrayhawkhttps://mobile.twitter.com/zagar well, he technically exists on twitter16:52
@kanzurehm?16:52
jrayhawkthe one guy16:53
@kanzure"At first, EZproxy would change the authority information by assigning a unique port number for each host:port combination and rewriting the URL based on this port"16:54
@kanzure"such as changing http://www.somedb.com/ to http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2050/. Through this remapping, each remote web server was represented by a different port."16:54
@kanzurei think there's a buffer overflow exploit in ezproxy but it's not completely working yet16:59
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yashgarothnmz787: the journal was current gene therapy17:22
jrayhawk'we didn't read half of the papers we cite because they are behind a paywall #overlyhonestmethods'17:30
jrayhawk'Before measurement, samples were kept free from contamination & if we dropped any we totally followed the 5 second rule #overlyhonestmethods'17:30
jrayhawk'the eppendorf tubes were "shaken like a polaroid picture" until that part of the song ended #overlyhonestmethods'17:31
@kanzuresigh17:35
@kanzurecould someone make those updates to paperbot for me? the http link detection issue is a really easy contribution to make and i'm really busy doing other things.17:36
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Undinei wonder if there's somekind of buy out of equipment in DIYbio/stem cell research area18:25
Undinelike 300k worth of it18:25
Undinebut really, it's like 3 million worth18:25
Undinecompany foreclosure.18:25
@kanzurehuh?18:26
@kanzurewait a sec i know you18:27
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@kanzure"He has since been surpassed by Steve Woodmore, who achieved a rate of 637 wpm"19:58
@kanzure"According to Woodmore, he first discovered his talent at 7, when tasked with reciting long texts as punishment for being too talkative in school."19:58
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jrayhawkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbngwUgSW020:06
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@kanzurejrayhawk: what si it?20:20
@kanzureis.20:20
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nmz787kanzure: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/overly-honest-methods-twitter_n_2435364.html20:46
@kanzureyes jrayhawk posted some20:47
nmz787yes20:54
nmz787and you asked him "what is it"20:55
@kanzureah okay20:55
@kanzureno i think i said 'sigh'20:55
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nmz787ahh he also posted a youtube link21:07
yashgarothnmz787: any luck with current gene therapy via UMB?21:07
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yashgarothand human gene therapy as well actually, since pdx doesn't seem to let me access it21:12
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delinquentmedoes anyone happen to have a usenet membership in here?21:58
delinquentmeModels: Attract Women Through Honesty mark manson21:58
delinquentme^ looking for this21:58
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@kanzureso i'm confused23:48
@kanzureyashgaroth: can you just link him to the things, so that he can check?23:48
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