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  1. Why do Profs care? on Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating · · Score: 1

    I don't see ANY reason why this should happen. It doesn't matter if student's find the solutions online, in the long run. If students don't bother to learn while in school, they will burn when they get a job. Also, if students cut'n paste the solutions they find online, fail them. There is a difference in actually cut'n paste, and using something as a reference. Nothing wrong in sitting down, reading someone else's work, and using it. Students learn a lot from that. I used to be a Lab engineer, teaching basic C(We start with "Hello World"). When 40 people handed in the same work, they got what was coming. Our Labs are the same every year, and it won't change just because the solutions are published by older students. The students are there to learn, and if they don't want to, not our problem. There is NO reason to threaten a student just because they publish what they made.

  2. I wonder on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    Being who I am, that teacher would not manage to get my notes, no matter what the teacher did, unless I got killed. So be it. (I would still have my digital notes, on my fine little backup server, in my house) What I fail to see is how this would prevent cheating at all, because the teacher would have to teach the same material the next semester/year anyway. Teacher should be fired (with a canon), towards the Bay of Pigs.

  3. Traveling on Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    I never travel with sensitive data on my laptop, just because I don't want to loose it to anybody. That be customs or some scum snatching it. All that data is on my server back home, so I can grab it from pretty much anywhere. Might cost me a few coins to go to a Internet Cafe, is I have to, but it's still OK. I also upload my stuff to the server. IF I have something I want to hide in a hurry, I just put it in a . Dir (running Ubuntu). Yeah, it's easy to find, but people don't know how to show these Dirs in a UI anyway. I don't bother to encrypt the disk, if I feel it's not safe to cary on me, I upload it first thing.

  4. No on Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format? · · Score: 1

    I do not save in .doc ever. In fact, I tell people to either get a plugin for .odt or use open office. If they refuse, I send a PDF. Yes I could save in .doc, but I don't like the closed up minds at Microsoft, so I rather not use it. For me, this works. People around me are adapting, and all my reports are in .odt, and I never get any problems from it. I like my .odt files.

  5. ehmmmm on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Ooooo what a shocker. Having paranoid security personnel in the airports, and wearing something like that. Oh yeah, great mix.

  6. Sad on PC Superstore Admits Linux Hinge Repair Mistake · · Score: 1

    This is just sad, I hope you manage to get it fixed. "You broke your computer when you installed linux. That's why the construction of the computer failed"

  7. Re:This is just Putin playing politics on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1
  8. Re:This is just Putin playing politics on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    You are wrong in what yo write. Russia informed Norway a few years back that one of the new American built radars in northern Norway had hidden capabilities. One of these was supposedly anti-missile system based. The Norwegian gov. was not informed of these hidden capabilities when the radar was built, but got it confirmed from the USA after Russia put down proofs. This means that even if the locations in Poland and CZE are "pointed" to the middle east, the radar dome in Norway (and god knows elsewhere) are pointed towards non-NATO countries, and the one in northern Norway is probabl pointing to the east.

  9. Re:Luggage? on Airport To Tag Passengers With RFID · · Score: 1

    Good point