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Historically, whenever a journalist has been jailed for not ratting out a source, the cops have pulled all their stuff right off their desks

I remember that movie! Where the cop break's the reporter's fingers one-by-one, til he tells him the source? "I make the laws in this town, mister." Friggin' awesome! 1938, right? Caught it on UHF when I was a teen.

There is no legal exemption just because you happen to work for a media outlet.

I know! Stupid reporters ain't got no rights, and it serves 'em right - who do they think they are, challenging the all-powerful gubbermint?!

disclaimer: sitting in a newspaper office right now

Me too! Just for fun, let's burn the printing presses! Then we'll set fire to the Reichstag! (Psst! Pass me the bourbon)

Here is a bunch of links about Computer Ethics from when I was researching about it. The google video link (last one on this list) is particularly interesting. Computer ethics is actually a university research topic! http://www.brook.edu/its/cei/cei_hp.htm http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/ http://www.southernct.edu/organizations/rccs/resources/teaching/teaching_mono/moor/moor_definition.html http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-computer/ http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/ProfessionalEthics.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=4279094 http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/ http://www.oekonux.org/texts/copykillsmusic.html http://www.progilibre.com/Open-Source-Alternative-ou-fausse-route-_a350.html http://www.osalt.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License http://creativecommons.org/ http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html http://www.itc.virginia.edu/policy/ethics.html http://www.brook.edu/its/cei/overview/Ten_Commanments_of_Computer_Ethics.htm http://www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm http://www.ieee.org/portal/site http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-3088012854941915784&q=computer+ethics

There is nothing wrong with Coca-Cola buying Pepsi.com and redirecting it. Its a market...

No, that's not a market. A market is competition. Using domain names in the manner you describe is combative, not competive.

You link to RMS's "Right to Read"; you ought to read this:

Constructive competition is enough competition to motivate people to great efforts. A number of people are competing to be the first to have visited all the countries on Earth; some even spend fortunes trying to do this. But they do not bribe ship captains to strand their rivals on desert islands. They are content to let the best person win.

Competition becomes combat when the competitors begin trying to impede each other instead of advancing themselves - when "Let the best person win" gives way to "Let me win, best or not."

Messing with domain names the way you suggest isn't going to motivate either Coke or Pepsi to make their carbonated sugar water any less revolting, and could only cause customer confusion. ("Wait - did Pepsi buy out Coke? WTF?")

Hit MATH

Hit 1

It will convert the current (decimal) answer into a fraction.

Consequently, it can also go the other way.

When you perform an operation on the TI-83 (or most of the other TI-8x) without specifying the input, it assumes the contents of the variable "Ans", which is stored. You can actually see this at work here, in interactive flash:

http://oit.southernct.edu/acc/miscellanea/ti83demo/ti83/fraction.swf

(I love my TI-85. All the other kids didn't get why my 85 was so much better than their 81's)

~Wx

Fist, in regards to projectors, if you have one with enough power (recommend around 2000 lumens) you can use your projector in a normal classroom with lights on, and you can still see the screen. You can scale back on the projector if the lighting in the room is designed around having a projector, however this involves rewiring light fixtures, and unless the school board is willing to renovate for your teaching style, it's not easy to do.

besides, kids will try to do the same antics whenever you're not looking, not just when the lights are out. Thats my experience as a student as well as a teacher! Real teachers know how to deal with these things.:-)

Now one notion I've toyed with is using a VNC box hooked up the the projector, and having a couple of tablets in the classroom to get students involved, it may be worth a shot. obliviously, this is costly, and the students probably won't have the same respect for the computers you had to go out and buy as you or your colleagues would.

For software, in math check out Geometers Skeptchpad! this is great for any topic involving geometry and modeling. Well worth the price. Also check out Math Type (plugin for MSWord). Might not be tablet ready yet but is much much easier to use than the Microsoft Equation editor. I used it to make the formulas on all my test. Plenty has already been said about power point, but you can really step up the level of what you're doing if you get into using Flash or any other animation based software. You can show models in fluid motion, or create something interactive, which you should be able to pull right into power point. Lastly, this may not be as useful as the other ones that you posted, but i created an online graphing calculator tutorial back when i was in school. Here, it nay be useful. http://oit.southernct.edu/acc/miscellanea/ti83demo /ti83/index.html

Hope i was able to help!

did taxpayers pay to get you through school? Any loans backed by government? Any scholarships? Or maybe went to a state school? maybe military academy?

That tax that you are complaining about paying will be absorbed by the extra tax revenue it creates. College graduates make more money than non college graduates, even when the job market is shitty. I'm going to pay someone who's got a college degree more to flip burgers than someone without. (at McD's they're called "chefs" or management material" because they exercise common sense. The typical college kids who don't have common sense drop out or are super geniuses.

You know i wrote a paper once, and i showed that individuals with a higher education are more likely to support making funds available for education. It might not have been a groundbreaking paper, but the results should be repeatable....

at scsu, im pretty sure that computer ethics was a required part of the computer science curriculum.

at scsu, im pretty sure that computer ethics was a required part of the computer science curriculum.

First off, this is NOT a new robot. The robot pictured is a commercially available mobile robot called Khepera II. These robots are fairly stupid, but are easily tethered to more capable machines via a 19200 baud serial link. Mostly, they're used in research (usually undergraduate) because there are whole hosts of Matlab libraries available to interface to these buggers.

bot=kopen([0,19200,1]); % open a connection to tethered robot on /dev/ttyS0 at 19200 baud with one second timeout

And so on and so forth. The Khepera robots have been available for many years, along with the k-team matlab resources. That aside, what the robot in question seems to be doing is using the Matlab Neural Network Toolbox to recognize and classify behavior by observation. Sorry folks, but kids at underfunded state schools do this as undergraduate work in AI. This is nothing new.

on the subject. Personally I think that politics will stifle growth of computer related technology is many countries, disagreeing with the Gorniak Hypotheses.

Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute.