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ADP payroll systems is forcing the use of an ancient version of java and they refuse to fix their broken app.

http://www.adp.com/

Example there are plenty more.
http://ww2.valdosta.edu/helpdesk/news/042611a.shtml

Some payroll system.

For those wondering what the bill actually says - may I direct your attention to the following:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h4137enr.txt.pdf

Sec 488.P, 493.29.A|B

Valdosta (DRAFT!!) AUP
http://www.valdosta.edu/it/policies/documents/Acceptable-Use-Policy-2010-07-01-P2P-PCI-PII-DRAFT.pdf

It is quite sad universities feel it is acceptable to treat their own students with such rank disrepect.

How about just not giving credit for D's?

Then next it will be C's. How about we just jump to the end and go pass/fail.

The problem isn't that students are getting D's. The problem is grade inflation where everyone needs to get an A or they're a loser, and school districts that can't bring themselves to actually fail a student so they give them a D and move the cattle along.

Once upon a time, C didn't mean mediocre, it meant average. A's and B's were for students that went above and beyond the school's expectations. A D was a signal that parents/teachers needed to invest some time helping that child master a given subject.

When I was in public school the district used the ESMIF grading scale.

E - excellent
S - superior
M - medium or average
I - inferior
F - failure

Now suppose that any place you performed below average you were considered a failure.

This is all sleight of hand to get the public to look at a new shiny thing while districts and communities continue to fail the next generation of children.

There is some hope though. Some school districts are experimenting with going with subject master rather than grade advancement. Here is what the Kansas City Mo school district is trying to turn around a dying educational program.

And here is a little more in-depth presentation. Mastery Learning

I would take it one step further, I would say there is only 1 passing grade. You have either mastered the subject or you have not.

The approach is a simple concept. If a student quickly masters a subject they can take a test and move on. If they haven't, then the teacher provides more instruction and study material until the student masters the topic. It would lead to schools allocating resources more efficiently to students; more to those that need them and less to those that do not. While that might not seem fair to parents who have 'smart kids', you have to realize that your child is going to have subjects where they excel and subjects where they struggle.

And if you must have some my kid is smarter than yours measurement, it can be the time it takes to master all the required subjects or the number of additional subjects mastered before graduation.

P.S. get in quick - he's retiring. Honestly, what moron expels someone for talking about shooting with a camera?

I have never found a definition of "administrative withdrawal" in any University or Board of Regents document nor has anyone explained how I violated Board of Regents Policy 1902. http://www.usg.edu/regents/policymanual/1900.phtml

The University administration violated all established University and Board of Regents policies regarding disciplinary issues and policy on evaluation of potentially emotionally distressed students.

http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/AppealsProcess.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/ConductViolations.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/RightsofStudent.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/HearingProcedure.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/OtherIssues.shtml

Hayden

I have never found a definition of "administrative withdrawal" in any University or Board of Regents document nor has anyone explained how I violated Board of Regents Policy 1902. http://www.usg.edu/regents/policymanual/1900.phtml

The University administration violated all established University and Board of Regents policies regarding disciplinary issues and policy on evaluation of potentially emotionally distressed students.

http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/AppealsProcess.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/ConductViolations.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/RightsofStudent.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/HearingProcedure.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/OtherIssues.shtml

Hayden

I have never found a definition of "administrative withdrawal" in any University or Board of Regents document nor has anyone explained how I violated Board of Regents Policy 1902. http://www.usg.edu/regents/policymanual/1900.phtml

The University administration violated all established University and Board of Regents policies regarding disciplinary issues and policy on evaluation of potentially emotionally distressed students.

http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/AppealsProcess.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/ConductViolations.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/RightsofStudent.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/HearingProcedure.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/OtherIssues.shtml

Hayden

I have never found a definition of "administrative withdrawal" in any University or Board of Regents document nor has anyone explained how I violated Board of Regents Policy 1902. http://www.usg.edu/regents/policymanual/1900.phtml

The University administration violated all established University and Board of Regents policies regarding disciplinary issues and policy on evaluation of potentially emotionally distressed students.

http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/AppealsProcess.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/ConductViolations.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/RightsofStudent.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/HearingProcedure.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/OtherIssues.shtml

Hayden

I have never found a definition of "administrative withdrawal" in any University or Board of Regents document nor has anyone explained how I violated Board of Regents Policy 1902. http://www.usg.edu/regents/policymanual/1900.phtml

The University administration violated all established University and Board of Regents policies regarding disciplinary issues and policy on evaluation of potentially emotionally distressed students.

http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/AppealsProcess.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/ConductViolations.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/RightsofStudent.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/HearingProcedure.shtml
http://www.valdosta.edu/judicial/OtherIssues.shtml

Hayden

President:
president@valdosta.edu

University Relations:
jltanner@valdosta.edu

Address:
1500, N Patterson St. Valdosta, GA 31698

Telephone
+1 229-333-5800
or 800-618-1878

For your well reasoned & thought out responses.

President:
president@valdosta.edu

University Relations:
jltanner@valdosta.edu

Address:
1500, N Patterson St. Valdosta, GA 31698

Telephone
+1 229-333-5800
or 800-618-1878

For your well reasoned & thought out responses.

http://www.valdosta.edu/pres/images/zaccari_181x245.jpg

I'm sure this is what he thought when he saw the printout of the facebook page.

National Park? Yes.

http://www.valdosta.edu/~dlscott/national_parks/fe es.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade_Battlefield_Hist oric_State_Park This is a park where I grew up and has charged an entrance fee for as long as I remember.

I think I should be clear that the 'fees' are usually 'parking fees' at the beaches I've been to, and if you walk up, you can avoid the fee. The fees are not just for fixing the parking lot, but all of the beach's needs.

Though, why an ornithologist is wasting time playing WoW, I'll never know.

The Amish have been living right for hundreds of years, do you think they'll really give much of a crap when the world runs out of fossil fuel? Maybe we got a little off track with that whole industrial revolution thing. I think it would be great to get back to nature, work for survival. Operating at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslo w.html

And I'm actually going to perform a form of "civil obedience" -- No More Downloads. I have a ReplayTV and a TiVo, so I can get all the video I care to watch from them. Yeah, the new movies will take longer, but there are so many, many old movies to watch that it's not really an issue.

So I can't be thrown into jail, or be fined. (Of course, since they weren't required to show me the evidence against me (I'm still appalled at that!), then I suppose they could convict me with the same "level" of evidence, in which case I could easily end up in jail or with heavy fines...)

But regardless of what the authorities have in mind for me, I will be spending perhaps 20% of both my free time and my disposable income in supporting this position, which is that there is no stop to the spiraling Copyright Cartel. Works produced now, even 50 years ago, will never see the Public Domain. The software I add value to will be able to be used to violate current copyrights, but that's not my goal: I should be able to freely download TV shows, movies and music from the 70s and early 80s. That was how copyright was originally intended, as a way to increase the wealth in the public domain, not as a way to make some people rich for doing a small amount of work.

I will promote only valid uses of the projects I support, where "valid" means "the original definition." Yes, I agree that for some small subset of issues, technology can drastically change the meaning and it should be reinterpreted. But with technology turning a traditionally scarce economy into an economy in which there is no scarcity, and then having the law turn it back into a scarcity economy for no other reason that to enrichen some corporations (not even individuals!), that's just wrong and I will fight against it until they come to take me away (haha).

And soon, we'll have nanotechnology and we will be free from a world in which there is scarcity in physical items as well as audio and video. At that point (if they let me live...), I'll start helping open source nanotech projects working towards building factories to duplicate any physical good based on a blueprint. Some of the first blueprints we share (over the internet, of course, and likely using ANts/Freenet/Frost/other project I will be working on shortly) will be those items that can help out the lower levels of Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs -- like food and shelter. Perhaps McDonald's will be upset that someone "uploads" a Big Mac, so that everyone can download and eat as many as they want. And moving forward the higher-value items like Playstations, computers, and Corvettes will ruffle a few feathers. But those feathers should be calmed knowing that these wonders are available to everyone on the planet.

Yeah, I'm waxing a little philosophical/utopian, and I know the future won't be exactly the way I see it, but then one of the steps is to distribute blueprints for advanced spaceflight, and then all bets are off because no government will be able to keep all of its citizens within its sphere of influence (without crippling or killing said citizens, and then those governments which don't do that will expand far faster).

It hurts having my internet access removed, and I'm still reacting. But I like to think that I'm reacting in a productive manner; rather than burning down Hollywood, I'll just help create technologies that make them less profitable.

I think they should spend their money on their own people before spending it on the moon.

Spending money on the 'people' will not lead to useful change, even if it's spent on the 'right' things (food, housing, education, etc).

They can't feed their own people without educating them.

They can't educate their people and expect to remain in power.

So they spend it in PR stunts so the uneducated can, if they want, take national pride in a nation which does not treat them well.

And they spend it in military/police funding to keep the powerful in power.

And they limit the flow of information, again, to limit education and to keep the powerful in power.

Until there is a radical change in societal structure/governmental structure, nothing is going to change, regardless of where they put their money.

IMO.

-Adam

Ideally, yes.

Realistically, no.

***WARNING! PIPE DREAM ALERT!***
One way (as I see it) to successfully cast off all IP laws is to guarantee levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs up to the level of knowledge, thus eliminating the need for money altogether. That way, there won't be any need for greed, theft, etc...

In other words, until we can feed, house, support, and encourage everyone, someone will want money. And as long as someone wants money, there will be IP laws, and what a great source of money they are!

Wow, I actually said all that without vehemently ranting (almost)! Party on my box tonight!

I thought I'd be seeing this after my first post. Someone references measured data in the field of social sciences and another person calls them a name. (Imagine if physicists had to endure name calling whenever they used conservation of momentum!)

What I find interesting is that the person doing the name calling is in the group, whose real income is shrinking (I'm assuming that few people in the top quintile read /.) and stands no long-term personal benefit to supporting a system with such an extreme and growing (i.e. getting worse for you) disparity in wealth. If left unchecked, wealth will accumulate without bound in the top quintile.

So, before we degenerate to name calling again, follow the link, verify the data, and ask, if you are comfortable knowing that as your real wage (income adjusted for inflation) declines, a select few will soon be able to afford their own space agency. Personally, I think it's antithetical to the class-invariant prosperity that capitalism purports.

That's just my 1.72 cents (2 cents down 14% since 1973).

Michael.

This story is disturbing on so many levels.

The first is spending wealth and resources on an endeavour with no contribution to mankind other than giving us the satisfaction that yet another person has been in space. Wealth does not correlate strongly with the skills necessary to perform meaningful science in space.

Even more disturbing is, that the separation between the rich and poor in our society is so great that individuals are on the threshold of being able to afford space flight, while at the same time the real hourly wage of the average American worker fell 14% since 1973. The richest Americans are now able to do for leisure, what once only an entire nation could afford!

(Here's hoping that my moderator is not a billionaire who dreams of space flight). ;P

Michael.

Tons of skills which used to be part of everyday life have fallen into disuse, simply because most people don't need to do them any more. And tons of new skills are aquired to fit the new needs. It's called progress.

Early American charters were created literally by the people, for the people as a legal convenience. Corporations were "artificial, invisible, intangible," mere financial tools. They were chartered by individual states, not the federal government, which meant they could be kept under close local scrutiny. They were automatically dissolved if they engaged in activities that violated their charter. Limits were placed on how big and powerful companies could become. Even railroad magnate J. P. Morgan, the consummate capitalist, understood that corporations must never become so big that they "inhibit freedom to the point where efficiency [is] endangered."

The two hundred or so corporations operating in the US by the year 1800 were each kept on fairly short leashes. They weren't allowed to participate in the political process. They couldn't buy stock in other corporations. And if one of them acted improperly, the consequences were severe. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoed a motion to extend the charter of the corrupt and tyrannical Second Bank of the United States, and was widely applauded for doing so. That same year the state of Pennsylvania revoked the charters of ten banks for operating contrary to the public interest. Even the enormous industry trusts, formed to protect member corporations from external competitors and provide barriers to entry, eventually proved no match for the state. By the mid-1800s, antitrust legislation was widely in place.

Athens isn't the only place starting things like this. Valdosta State University has a wireless network spread out over most of the campus. Supposedly there is Wi-Fi being setup in Valdosta itself, nothing known whether or not it is a free service venture.

GA Tech also has a couple of projects going on here and here.
Georgia Southwestern State University also has an endeavour. As does the Medical College of Georgia.

Athens isn't the only place starting things like this. Valdosta State University has a wireless network spread out over most of the campus. Supposedly there is Wi-Fi being setup in Valdosta itself, nothing known whether or not it is a free service venture.

GA Tech also has a couple of projects going on here and here.
Georgia Southwestern State University also has an endeavour. As does the Medical College of Georgia.

No. You are wrong.
And I am giving a link proving I am right:
Here it is
You can see that oxygen + energy becomes ozone
so ozone in athmosphere really can be a byproduct of cosmic rays bombarding oxygen.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This is his theory of human growth based on needs being met. If you keep on with your theory, you may have your own triangle one day.