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The fact that there's no statistical difference between GPA and graduation rates between students that did and did not submit standardized test scores does not mean that there's no correlation between those test scores and achievement. In fact, there is such a correlation. See:
https://www.vox.com/cards/sat/... [vox.com]
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fullt... [ed.gov]

Just a quick point, the study these articles are pointing to reference a College Board study indicating a correlation between SAT and college achievement. College Board is the publisher of the SAT test. This is like referring to a study funded by the pasta industry that concludes pasta is good for you...

Other points in those articles highlight the same point I made before: HS GPA is a better indicator than SAT and SAT hasn't been shown by many admissions studies to have a significant statistically independent prediction of college success measurements despite what the publisher's of the SAT might want people to believe. This is why many college admissions departments are slow-walking away from the SAT. It appears to add very little value into their admissions criteria, but the alternatives aren't well vetted yet...

Here's some interesting reading for those that don't know the history the SAT and its relationship with the UC system...

https://senate.universityofcal...

Similar reports about the effectiveness of the SAT have been going on since the 80's when I was in college and working with admissions. The only thing keeping the SAT alive is pretty much the UC system requirement (UC being a big "customer" of the SAT was the main driver to convince the SAT to change to be more like the ACT). I predict by the time my kids will be college aged, the UC system will finally drop the SAT and it will be a distant memory.

Spoilers don't ruin entertainment though https://www.universityofcalifo...

From the UCLA copyright information: "At UC, students generally own the copyrights in their creative works, including theses and dissertations. Any works produced by a registered student without the use of university funds (other than Student Financial Aid) is the intellectual property of the student."

But we don't (yet?) know what really went down.

State schools aren't cheap.
Annual in-state tuition only for some well-regarded public schools:
University of Washington: 12.4k
University of California: 14k
University of Michigan: 13.2k
Also interesting that out-of-state tuition at these schools is just as high as at private schools, and all are increasing their percentage of out-of-staters. A very different education market than a few decades ago.

Or we could just dump some rust into the ocean

Hereâ(TM)s what a robot has to do.

Very close solution already:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
All but picking up dirty clothes, taking them to the washer, and putting them in. Heck, it was folding mixed clean clothes from the dryer five years ago. :-)

Find the pile of dirty laundry, distinguishing it from other clutter that might be in the room.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
* But note: It IS the daily mail so grain of salt. Lol.
This is possible now. But.. an easy mitigation is to require throwing the laundry into a basket or into a laundry hole.
        Pick up each item in the pile. (Uncertainty: itâ(TM)s unclear how many objects the robot will have to pick up.)
http://www.hammacher.com/Produ...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Ro...

        Put each item in a laundry basket.
        Navigate to the washing machine. (Because of where the robot has to hold the laundry basket, it can obstruct some of the its sensors which means it receives less information and cannot adjust its movements as precisely.)
        Depending on the type of machine, pull or lift the door to open it.
        Transfer clothes into the machine.
        Add detergent and/or fabric softener.
What is this "fabric softener stuff"?
Preloaded "push button" dispenser detergent has been around for 50 years.
        Close the washing machine door.
Trivial. Especially with the internet of theme providing a clear "door is fully closed"
        Choose the appropriate wash cycle (Delicate, Permanent Press, Heavy Duty) and start the wash.
        Remove the clothes from the washing machine and transfer to the dryer. (Uncertainty: the robot doesnâ(TM)t know beforehand how many times it will need to reach in, grab the clothes, and remove them in order to get them all.)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Choose the type of drying cycle and start it.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...

        Remove clothing from the dryer. (Uncertainty: how many times will it have to grab the clothes to get them out? Is there a sock still clinging to the inside of the machine?)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Fold items depending on the type of apparel.
http://research.universityofca...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Puts garments away in a dresser or closet.
Can't find this-- but it's reasonable that everything "alike" could be put together on the table or hung so a human could finish the job easily. At a minimum- you'd probably have to tag the laundry in some way to identify it's target drawer or closet.

It looks like the solution is a quarter million dollars now. So 10-20 years before it's down to under five grand.

Almost no colleges offer credit for taking AP tests regardless of score so high schoolers have absolutely no reason whatsoever to take those tests.

That's completely false. Here are AP credit policies for a couple top universities. The first two I checked, as a matter of fact. Both give credit for most AP exams, both in terms of class placement, and in credits for graduation.

http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73580&pageid=icb.page388448&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent1194786&view=view.do&viewParam_name=asgeninfo.html
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/exam-credit/ap-credits/index.html

For example - look at the University of California system, once considered the best public university system in the world, and one of the best bargains (not true anymore). They're estimating $30k / year for in-state students (including living expenses). Please tell me how you managed to make $30k/year working part time?

  http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/cost/

I read the page you linked to, and it's pretty interesting. Tuition/fees is about $14k. The living expenses are also about $14k. $2k is health insurance. $3k is transportation. $1500 is books.

Then you get to the part that says, if your parents make less than $80k a year, your tuition and fees are covered (i.e. cost you $0). So, I don't believe you're invalidating the OPs point--if you live at home, go to a local school, are covered by your parents insurance (required by Obamacare), your expenses are freaking minimal, and any debt you take on is your own damned fault.

I'll grant the point that NOT everyone is covered by the above (your parents make too much money, there is no local state four year school, etc) but the majority of UC students appear like they should be in good shape. Unless they live in San Diego and want to go to Berkeley...

In state schools aren't necessarily cheap. California's estimate is $30k/year.

http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/cost/

You're dating yourself with this comment. If you're paying full fair at most state universities, there's no way you can pay tuition and living expenses on a part-time job (even with full time in the summer). Perhaps this is possible at a community college if you work maximum hours (20/week), full-time in the summer, don't buy any new books/clothes/anything for 5.5 years.

For example - look at the University of California system, once considered the best public university system in the world, and one of the best bargains (not true anymore). They're estimating $30k / year for in-state students (including living expenses). Please tell me how you managed to make $30k/year working part time?

  http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/cost/

I think he was talking about recent articles like the one below that have shown connections from inflammation and major diseases. http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/29235

The same phenomena is why earth-bound telescopes don't hold a candle to space telescopes such as the Hubble.

Thanks to technological advancements, your assertion must—at the very least—be qualified.

Cf. "Adaptive optics ushers in a new era in ground-based astronomy"

Tuition at the University of California is getting steeper.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/paying-for-uc/cost/index.html

Most states have cut funding for universities, that is part of the problem. The schools I'm familiar with have all lowered per-student spending in the 20 years since I was a student as tuition has skyrocketed. You can take a look at the budget numbers for whatever school you're interested in, but an example of a troubled budget is here The largest expenditure is professor salaries, followed by staff. I presume staff includes administrative cost and support roles.

Don't forget how much health care has risen over the years. Schools have to pay for retiree and employee benefits, and those have gone through the roof.

Have you even been to collage? What idiot makes the implication that tuition is the expensive part? Thats the smallest part!

Ad hominem much? I have not been to collage [sic].

However, I went to, and graduated from, UC. And over in the fact based part of reality, tuition is indeed the most expensive part of education. Let's review the evidence...

- Stanford tuition at ~43K/year is much more than the $6K you'd pay for housing, the next highest cost.

- At UC Berkeley, versus the $13,200 resident tuition, you might pay $9,500 off campus, or ~7K/year for room AND board with the co-op.

Of course you can spend much more on housing, if you so choose.

Subsidies inflate pricing. I agree.

Because companies change what they can, rather than a fair cost. The answer to that is simple - let the government run the universities too. That's a much better fix than denying most of the young people a higher education as Ron Paul's proposal does.

Let's do an actual comparison: UC versus Stanford.... Undergrad tuition UC $13,200 for residents, $36,078 out of state, vs $13,350 quarterly for Stanford = $42,270 yearly. So the out-of-state tuition for UC is fairly comparable to Stanford. I don't see how Stanford is profiting heavily... although they are charging 9% more, we'd have to compare whether they provide a better education for the money, etc. However this does not demonstrate that government subsidies for student loans/pell grants inflate Stanford's pricing, nor that government is more efficient at providing a university education. You might then argue that state subsidy of the resident tuition causes out-of-state tuition to inflate, but you'd be hard pressed to actually prove that.

The unfortunate actual issue is that UC tuition has risen quickly over recent years as the state has been unwilling to fully fund it.

Perhaps they should touch base with these guys - http://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/19914.html

$30K per year -- in state -- for non-commuter students

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/paying-for-uc/cost/index.html

$13,000 of that is room & board. You do not need to live on campus to attend UC, and you (or your family) likely would spend $10-15k per year on living expenses regardless of whether or not you're in college, so that 13k is kind of a wash - it's not like you won't have to pay rent & food & electric if you're not in college.

To clarify my point: while I was a student there, Jack Baskin Engineering 2 was built for $61 million. Two years later construction was finished on a new five-story Physical Sciences building, and just last year ground was broken on a $65 million biomedical sciences facility. You can be sure the liberal arts may have got a few million to renovate over the past decade but the sciences get orders of magnitude more funding; admittedly, there have been large alumni donations helping to fund those (a few million dollars) but it mostly comes from the state budget (you're subsidizing STEM majors as well) and tuition fees. And the literature department was the largest one at the school, with (when I was there) something 970 students out of 11,000.

"Entirety" is only one of four factors used in deciding whether a use of a copyrighted work is fair use. Some other biggies are whether it is transformative (yes! You've turned a pro-x argument into an anti-x argument, and added plenty of original material), "purpose and character" of your use (whether the goal of your use is to serve a societal purpose or just make money), the nature of the original work (in general, the more 'creative' rather than functional/factual the work is, the stronger its protection), and whether the other party directly loses profit from the use.

Under U.S. law, these commissioned works won't be in the public domain. There is no way to "create" a work into the public domain. Work only enters the public domain upon expiration of the copyright term. (The one way to create a work into the public domain, is that governmental works are not subject to copyright.)

What the project can do is create a contractual license that says that all-comers are granted a perpetual, non-exclusive license. Even then, presumably the resulting works would be works of joint authorship, with copyright residing in all of the authors. And under the reversion provisions of US copyright law, those orchestra members, or their families, could have the licenses terminated after about 30 years.

http://www.wisconsin.edu/campuses/

When a state university has campuses in more than one city, they tend to differentiate between them all by appending the city name to the name of the university.

That's why there's UCLA, UC-Berkeley, etc. ( http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/ ).

Why, even Minnesota does it ( http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/campuses.php ); imagine that!

Of course, if you have a better system, by all means, let's hear it.

Frankly, I prefer living in an industrialized country

So do I, I especially wouldn't want to spend thousands never mind millions of dollars to research something only to be slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit.

Every industrialized nation in the world has implemented a public-disclosure-in-exchange for-a-time-limited-monopoly system to specifically encourage innovation which trade secrets otherwise stifle.

Which copyrights do, no need for patents. As it is now a number of economic studies have concluded patents may stifle innovation. Study finds patent systems may discourage innovation. Patent systems may discourage innovation. Patents Don't Promote Innovation: Study.

Falcon

Read Galbraith's book, "The Great Crash", where he analyises the 1929 stock market crash.

Read how UCLA professors Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian's study concluded "FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years. Others believe protectionism like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act made the Great Depression worse. After the US raised tariffs on imports other nations retaliated by raising their own tariffs against US goods. With US employers not able to sell goods internationally they could not pay employees.

Falcon

Is it a rapid increase in the actual condition in industrialized nations, or a rapid increase in the ability to identify the condition?

Most experts agree that it is not an increase in ability to diagnose: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/19273

I'm a San Diegan, though I don't know much about UCSD. However all the University of California schools are affiliated. I don't think it's wrong to refer to the University of California, but it's not that common. Probably since UCSD is quicker to say by 1/3 and is also more specific.

Errr you might not know, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I like to think of the University of California as a sort of Oxford/Cambridge college system on steroids. So yes its at UCSD, also writers of a very fine version of Pascal, but its still UC.

They're just using it to mean "university that I could never afford".

Except, of course, they added UC Berkeley to the list. UC Berkeley is a public institution, whose mission is partly making post-secondary education accessible to everyone (... everyone in California, that is), regardless of their social status (of course, you still have to be good enough to get in, unlike Ivy League schools, where you can simply donate enough, if you aren't good enough).

In my mind, UC Berkeley shouldn't be roped together with Ivy League schools---because regardless of what rankings may say, UC Berkeley (and, to be fair, other leading public universities) is fundamentally better than Ivy League schools, in terms of how it contributes to the society at large.

Isn't Cal Berkeley the University of California? That's how it's commonly referenced outside of CA.

No. It's called "UC Berkeley". The "University of California" is a system of Universities handled by one accrediting body.

Referring to any individual UC campus as "The University of California" is simply inaccurate, regardless of what others might say, unless you are explicitly talking about the UC system.

Of course, slashdot "editors" don't actually edit, even if they knew things like this, which I don't think they do (based on their own story submissions.)

So we the people have to notice things like this - but of course I got modded offtopic, even though my comment is about the story (well, actually the story submission.)

Further proof that the slashdot moderation system does not work.

As if we needed any.

Now, if you are in a given town, one colloquially refers to the local college as "the UC" or "UC". I grew up in Santa Cruz, so UC Santa Cruz was simply abbreviated to "UC". But that's not a proper usage, it's shorthand. If I was speaking for the benefit of an audience, I would always refer to it at least as "UCSC".

"He" is not a "she".

The University of California has ten campuses (of which Berkeley is one but you may have also heard of UCLA - Los Angeles or UCSF - San Francisco or one of the other campuses).

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/

MediaMosaic explicitly discloses: "users can switch media modes by selecting 'Full-View Editing' or 'Embedded-View Editing' from the pull-down menu." Likewise, Toye teaches that interactive processing is enabled only after a user manually clicks on the "static snapshot" image to launch an external editor program, as discussed supra.

Unfortunately, he cannot write anything new: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmem oriam/KennethRossMacKenzie.htm but he is well published in scientific circles. Atmopsheric hydrogen ignition is a sustained chained reaction in theory. It does not work due to the lack of control over the initial energy release. Yeah - I guess no one *really* knew until they pushed the button but since then it has been discredited.http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Smyt hReport/smyth_appendix_4.shtml

ActiveX controls are provided through DLLs. As noted in the court of appeals footnote 3: "An example of a DLL is spell check; a DLL is a component that can run only within another application." My interpretation, given the above notes, is that the DLL would become an integral component of the browser and in such case, the browser and the executable application would merge into one program, and therefore cannot meet the requirements for a discrete browser application and a discrete executable application as claimed by the instant 906 patent.

The regents don't "own" the rights per se, they simply over see them. Since BSD wasn't developed by anyone person, the copyright was assigned to the University of California as a whole. The University of California itself is governed by the Regents, as mandated by the California constitution:

The University of California is governed by The Regents, a 26-member board, as established under Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution. The board appoints the President of the University and the principal officers of The Regents: the General Counsel, the Treasurer, and the Secretary. The current Chairman is Gerald Parsky and the Vice Chairman is Richard Blum.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/

So basically since the copyright is assigned to the school, they are in charge of managing it, and therefore their name appears in the text. You can check out the original 4.4 BSD copyright here:

http://www.au.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html

Seven are ex officio members -- the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the Assembly, Superintendent of Public Instruction, president and vice president of the Alumni Associations of UC and the UC president.