Reading some work on Complex systems and complexity theory in general today. I am still considering why simple things get so complicated especially in software, aha, emergence is apparently the newly evolving answer. In tooling around in investigation mode, I have found the "authoritative" version of Wikipedia or an attempt to be one, called Scholarpedia.org. Looks interesting although limited in coverage but growing as far as I can tell.
If the length of or number of syllables in the words are any measure, then this site clearly beats its closest rival. For example, the article entitled Complex Systems http://www.schloarpedia.org/article/Complex_systems has some killer sentences in it. One of my favorites is "The very origin of irreversibility is related to the intrinsic complexity of the dynamics of the atoms constituting a macroscopic system under the effect of their mutual interactions" (revision 37312). At first read, it is a bit tough, okay maybe at second and third read but after awhile it makes sense although some of the article reads more like it is written by a reasonably good english as a second language speaker.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Content Subscription Fraud - is it on the rise?
As more valuable (and not so valuable) is digitized, is there an increasing financial risk to content creators and owners from subscription fraud? Articles like the one below although old might be the beginning of a new media issue, not just the current telecommunications industry issue. Traditionally telecommunications providers have lost millions annually to subscription fraud where fraudsters are using stolen identities to gain access to services.
Subscriptions and subscription packages are susceptible to the same fraudulent credential problem and as more information brokers are involved, they too could be a source of revenue loss to the content owners.
Friday July 21, 2006, 7:26 AM
Seven Leading Publishers Sue on Subscription Fraud Conspiracy
Seven leading scientific, technical and medical publishers -- American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell Publishing, Inc., Elsevier, Inc., Taylor & Francis (a subsidiary of Informa Plc.), Springer Science and Business Media LLC (part of Springer Science + Business Media Group), and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and Wiley-Liss, Inc. (subsidiaries of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) -- today announced they have filed suit against Commax Worldwide, a California-based subscription agency, its subsidiary Commax Technologies, Inc., and nine individuals including the president of Commax Technologies, Henry Chen. The publishers allege that the defendants are engaged in a massive scheme of subscription fraud.
The principal defendant, Commax Worldwide, operates a subscription agency serving libraries and other institutions by acting as an intermediary in handling their subscriptions to scholarly journals. Its customers are primarily in Taiwan and elsewhere in East Asia. As an agency, it is obligated to identify the subscriptions it orders as institutional subscriptions bearing the normal institutional price. The publishers' complaint, however, accuses Commax of obtaining subscriptions to plaintiffs' scientific, technical, and medical journals at deeply discounted individual subscriber rates under false pretenses, and reselling them to institutional clients at the institutional rate. The individual defendants, including Henry Chen, participated in this by subscribing to journals, often using false names and addresses, and turning over the journals upon receipt to Commax. The publishers estimate their damages from this conspiracy in the millions of dollars over the last few years.
From http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060720/16/428ar.html
Subscriptions and subscription packages are susceptible to the same fraudulent credential problem and as more information brokers are involved, they too could be a source of revenue loss to the content owners.
Friday July 21, 2006, 7:26 AM
Seven Leading Publishers Sue on Subscription Fraud Conspiracy
Seven leading scientific, technical and medical publishers -- American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell Publishing, Inc., Elsevier, Inc., Taylor & Francis (a subsidiary of Informa Plc.), Springer Science and Business Media LLC (part of Springer Science + Business Media Group), and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and Wiley-Liss, Inc. (subsidiaries of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) -- today announced they have filed suit against Commax Worldwide, a California-based subscription agency, its subsidiary Commax Technologies, Inc., and nine individuals including the president of Commax Technologies, Henry Chen. The publishers allege that the defendants are engaged in a massive scheme of subscription fraud.
The principal defendant, Commax Worldwide, operates a subscription agency serving libraries and other institutions by acting as an intermediary in handling their subscriptions to scholarly journals. Its customers are primarily in Taiwan and elsewhere in East Asia. As an agency, it is obligated to identify the subscriptions it orders as institutional subscriptions bearing the normal institutional price. The publishers' complaint, however, accuses Commax of obtaining subscriptions to plaintiffs' scientific, technical, and medical journals at deeply discounted individual subscriber rates under false pretenses, and reselling them to institutional clients at the institutional rate. The individual defendants, including Henry Chen, participated in this by subscribing to journals, often using false names and addresses, and turning over the journals upon receipt to Commax. The publishers estimate their damages from this conspiracy in the millions of dollars over the last few years.
From http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060720/16/428ar.html
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Dreary Day
Its pretty dreary both the weather and the schedule for the day, so today I will consider fraud and fraud analysis
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Its a been awhile...
Finally, through the many email accounts (current count is now 8), web hosts, domains, blogs, collaborative portals, blogs, wikis, I have found my own blog. Apparently, this was initiated last year in some out of body experience, but nonetheless here it is, so I should do someting with it.
I just spent about three weeks having a geeky, yet fantastic time with DSpace, an open source digital asset management system from MIT and HP and many, many others. Looks like a good community, very responseful and helpful.
Running on ubuntu, my first experience with this variant of Linux and with the able support of about a million people, I was finally able to bring up the 1.5 new version and submit some content. Pretty nice and it really just feels good to build out something like that from a set of source files.
I just spent about three weeks having a geeky, yet fantastic time with DSpace, an open source digital asset management system from MIT and HP and many, many others. Looks like a good community, very responseful and helpful.
Running on ubuntu, my first experience with this variant of Linux and with the able support of about a million people, I was finally able to bring up the 1.5 new version and submit some content. Pretty nice and it really just feels good to build out something like that from a set of source files.
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