Slashdot Mirror

Livius is partly right -- most credentials *from organizations generally* can be taken away for not paying fees. Pseudonym is right -- university credentials are not generally in the category of things that can be taken for not paying fees. And gweihir is right -- there are conditions under which the university no longer credentials someone for the field... An entire research paper on the law surrounding these situations: http://www.stetson.edu/law/con... Yes, there is case law to allow a degree to be withheld, rescinded, or revoked for behavior after graduation, including failure to pay fees. How far it can go appears to be up to the university in question.

If you look at whats special about this number, you'll clearly see that the number 20 is the number of rooted trees with 6 vertices, while 21 is the number of squares needed to tile a square, which isn't necessary within the kernel. Now back to those rooted trees, endor has trees and chewbacca is a wookie...

Yep, it is a cool number. But isn't that strange? That some combinations of characters and numbers are cooler than others?

And it is not because they have a specific mathematical meaning or any thing? Most people are blissfully unaware of that anyway.
We all just seem to agree that M33 X-7 is cool. In an eighties kind of way? Like Mazda RX7, BMW M3 or the likes.

Do anyone know anything about this?

If it's entirely true...

I bet the professors have alot to do with this. From Williams' website you can see that he is knee deep in Islamic terrorism research. He doesn't seem to be a radical at all, but people with that knowledge will, of course, be on the DHS radar.

Unfortunaley, the DHS probably monitors the students of these professors to catch those 'confused' kids like John Walker Lindh, who get too deep and may jump to the dark side.

http://www.law.stetson.edu/excellence/litethics/fl bar.htm

The Florida Bar
Ideals and Goals of Professionalism
These aspirational guidelines for lawyers were
adopted by the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar on May 16, 1990.

"A lawyer's word should be his or her bond. The lawyer should not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and should not improperly permit the lawyer's silence or inaction to mislead anyone."

http://www.jud10.org/WillsonInn/Florida%20Bar%20an d%20Inn%20of%20Court%20Creeds.pdf

Florida Bar Creed Of Professionalism

"I will not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and will not improperly permit my silence or inaction to mislead anyone."

Ok, first of all, as I stated, it wasn't me that did this. My friend Saagar, who is now a Junior at Carnegie-Mellon University did.

His AIM screen name is saagar734, feel free to IM him and ask him if this story is true, he's the one who told me about it.

He told me this story, ask him about it. It might be bullshit for all I know, maybe he told me as a joke or something, but I have heard it from more people than just him at my school.

Also, who said he was writing device drivers? Who said he was using a proper OS, and not one that one of the very talented programming teachers at our school wrote?

As further proof that he exists and that he is also a very talented programmer, here's a website listing winners of a programming competition that he competed in during his attendance at my high school: link. Check out spring and fall of 2002 and look for Saagar Patel.

There is the Montessori method for young-uns, and the Moore method for aspiring mathematicians. I didn't have the option of the former, but the latter has been quite beneficial for me and many others.

Anyway, learning linux is not at all like making academic progress. It's a dynamic field with requisite information which (gasp) does not follow from natural laws (or even, sorry to say it, logical assumptions) but is rather human engineered.

Yeah, everyone knows what a Stetson is.

By adulthood, Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements is firmly planted in a typical mind either as a tool for study or proof of mystical forces at work in nature. There are alternative structures: some clever and others using alternate media, extensions to the table providing nuclear structure, fermi surfaces, and line spectra.

Still others are extraordinarily cross-thematic, merging chemistry with comic books, poetry or haiku. But only the grouping-nature of the columns is retained in rejected elements, condiments and beer. Eventually the elements and the periodic qualities have been lost entirely, reducing the periodic table to a design template for topical lists of funk and rock music, comedy and TV shows, famous mathematicians and presidents, even SGI products. Soon a complete breakdown of the scientific aspect yields no similarity to the original, becoming a glorified table, a marketing tool, or hype itself. There is mounting evidence of a conspiracy.

, Taco.
(-1 off-topic.)