Or perhaps you just have an incredibly cynical view of humanity.
My parents taught me to not cheat, and I don't cheat. Granted, I had to make the choice for myself, but being taught correctly sure didn't hurt.
Clearly I can't project my own experience onto all of mankind, but I have many close friends who also were taught to not cheat and wouldn't do so even if it meant failing. And so from my perhaps somewhat limited exposure to mankind, I have observed that people CAN be taught to not cheat.
However, just teaching someone to not cheat might not even be the best approach.
The best antidote for cheating is a proper education as a youth from good teachers. Teach someone to enjoy learning and they'll learn to teach themselves. Who needs to cheat when they already know how to solve the problems?
The federal government is supposedly BY, FOR, and OF the poeple, and yet they TAKE our money, then "benevolently" "give it back" to us... oh but there's a catch....
"you have to do what we say, or you can't have your... er.... OUR money!"
Businesses only have money because people continually support their good service.
The federal government has money, but because they TOOK it from the people, and then do a terrible job in spite of (or perhaps BECAUSE of) the fact.
Why do a good job when you're guaranteed to get paid either way? Well any decent, self-respecting person would... oh wait... politicians... right)
I can see how they have a right to tell us what to do with our money - after all, they're doing a fantastic job of running the show!
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Second, and more importantly, why are we so focused on putting systems in place to prevent cheating?
Spending time and resources on a system to FORCE obedience to the rule is inherently wrong, and is DEFINITELY Orwellian.
Lets start focusing on teaching our kids to NOT CHEAT instead of expending so much time and so many resources in an effort to force them to comply.
For those who still do cheat, life will ultimately expose them for the stupid jackass they are.
And if it doesn't? Then the educational requirements were probably unnecessary for the profession they chose and perhaps the requirements should be rethought.
You can sit a person down in a chair and force them to stay, but you can't force them to learn.
Learning is a choice. Not learning is also a choice.
Gas companies will start charging $235/g to compensate.
What we need is not more efficient gas-powered vehicles.
What we need is new technology entirely. Clean, efficient, cool technology.
It's really quite sad that we've gained such vast scientific knowledge this past century and we're still using the same basic idea (albeit with more precision) that they were using roughly a century ago.
One other idea would be to make a bogus MySpace account with a picture of a hot chick/dude (depending on the thief's gender) that lives somewhere in the same area as the thief.
Then befriend the thief over a couple weeks and get all the personal info you can (phone #, maybe even address, etc..)
Then just call the cops with a physical address and tell them the person committed grand theft of company property, and that you suspect they have the stolen property at their residence.
Grand Theft is committed when the money, labor, real or personal property stolen is valued at more than $400.
What might have been MORE useful is to have an automatic password lock enabled whenever the equipment is disconnected to be relocated.
The equipment would then be completely non-functional until unlocked.
Sure, it adds a little overhead when you move things around, but it would make the equipment useless to thieves.
put some bacteria that are at least close to maybe being able to eat X substance and put it on the surface of that substance and blast them with regular, mild radiation every day until some mutate until a colony mutates and starts eating the rubber/plastic/whatever.
You mean sort of like the conditions in a landfill, under the "regular, mild radiation" of the sun, surrounded by all sorts of wonderful materials they could mutate to decompose (probably including Human tissues/bodies)?
I don't think landfills are well sealed... except by smell perhaps.
I find it funny that you rail for education worldwide as the solution, and in almost the same breath, are suggesting that the solution is to require a license to have children.
They attempted this practice during the _DARK AGES_. At that time it was known as "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.) - thus is the origin of the commonly used modern day word.
That's right, peasants needed permission (a license, if you will) to fornicate. This "wonderfully enlightened" idea has apparently come back to us in present day.
From now on, let's try to look at history, and how well our "modern" ideas worked when they were tried the first time, before making complete jackasses of ourselves.
Modded as flamebait? Who the hell is the jackass Microsoft employee that modded it so?
It's a legitimate point. Microsoft is engaging themselves further (because they've pretty much already been engaged) in a holy war with *nix OSes. This is just a MUCH larger step in that direction.
Perhaps you modded it as flamebait because of my suggestion to sell Microsoft stock?
My mistake, you're not an employee, you must be a concerned shareholder.
Disagreeing or having a financially vested interest in something doesn't qualify as grounds to mod as flamebait.
Go ahead Mod THIS as flamebait, jackass, er, I mean Steve.
Actually according to the definition of faith in the Bible that's exactly what it is...
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
-Heb. 11: 1
By that definition (which I'd say is a reliable source for the religious definition of faith), the EFFECTS of gravity are the evidence of an unseen force.
You can't see gravity; you can only see its effects.
I have blind faith in gravity - I'm pretty sure that's safe.
Unless of course you're one of those people who stays tethered down "just in case"...
Also I have blind faith in "The Boss". He's never led me wrong... er... wait a minute...
Does Balmer actually understand the holy war he's getting the company into?
This is like Satan trying to appeal to Christians.
*nix users have already eaten the apple and realized they were duped. If the Nigerian princes are right, I'd say it's time to sell your Microsoft stock.
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Or perhaps you just have an incredibly cynical view of humanity.
My parents taught me to not cheat, and I don't cheat. Granted, I had to make the choice for myself, but being taught correctly sure didn't hurt.
Clearly I can't project my own experience onto all of mankind, but I have many close friends who also were taught to not cheat and wouldn't do so even if it meant failing. And so from my perhaps somewhat limited exposure to mankind, I have observed that people CAN be taught to not cheat.
However, just teaching someone to not cheat might not even be the best approach.
The best antidote for cheating is a proper education as a youth from good teachers. Teach someone to enjoy learning and they'll learn to teach themselves. Who needs to cheat when they already know how to solve the problems?
How about a custom app with an inexpensive biometric scanner that hashes the current date/time into the mix (or some such algorithm)?
Someone might find a way to hack it, but if they do, clearly they're smart enough to deserve a degree anyway (at least in CS).
Actually this is VERY different.
The federal government is supposedly BY, FOR, and OF the poeple, and yet they TAKE our money, then "benevolently" "give it back" to us... oh but there's a catch....
"you have to do what we say, or you can't have your... er.... OUR money!"
Businesses only have money because people continually support their good service.
The federal government has money, but because they TOOK it from the people, and then do a terrible job in spite of (or perhaps BECAUSE of) the fact.
Why do a good job when you're guaranteed to get paid either way? Well any decent, self-respecting person would... oh wait... politicians... right)
I can see how they have a right to tell us what to do with our money - after all, they're doing a fantastic job of running the show!
Nice.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Second, and more importantly, why are we so focused on putting systems in place to prevent cheating?
Spending time and resources on a system to FORCE obedience to the rule is inherently wrong, and is DEFINITELY Orwellian.
Lets start focusing on teaching our kids to NOT CHEAT instead of expending so much time and so many resources in an effort to force them to comply.
For those who still do cheat, life will ultimately expose them for the stupid jackass they are.
And if it doesn't? Then the educational requirements were probably unnecessary for the profession they chose and perhaps the requirements should be rethought.
You can sit a person down in a chair and force them to stay, but you can't force them to learn.
Learning is a choice. Not learning is also a choice.
Obligatory:
You must be new here; welcome to slashdot!
Actually, VW hired some contract Polish employees to work on this one, and that's the latest in Polish engineering:
Hand-powered accelerators. One for each wheel.
Gas companies will start charging $235/g to compensate.
What we need is not more efficient gas-powered vehicles.
What we need is new technology entirely. Clean, efficient, cool technology.
It's really quite sad that we've gained such vast scientific knowledge this past century and we're still using the same basic idea (albeit with more precision) that they were using roughly a century ago.
I posted it originally as the AC :/
C'est la vie.
Then befriend the thief over a couple weeks and get all the personal info you can (phone #, maybe even address, etc..)
Then just call the cops with a physical address and tell them the person committed grand theft of company property, and that you suspect they have the stolen property at their residence.
If you have monitoring software on the computer, just wait until they do some sort of financial transaction using the company machine.
Then just use the info to order a few dozen more PC's at their expense, and send them an email saying you won't tell if they won't.
What might have been MORE useful is to have an automatic password lock enabled whenever the equipment is disconnected to be relocated.
The equipment would then be completely non-functional until unlocked.
Sure, it adds a little overhead when you move things around, but it would make the equipment useless to thieves.
So do black holes sound like a 16 kbps MP3 encoding of /dev/null ?
I don't think landfills are well sealed... except by smell perhaps.
The Discovery channel had a special that relates very well to this.
It was on natural selection.
It works great for the rest of the animal kingdom... maybe we should try it more often.
No one can say Microshaft doesn't support OSS.
Their devious plan is about as open as it gets.
I find it funny that you rail for education worldwide as the solution, and in almost the same breath, are suggesting that the solution is to require a license to have children.
They attempted this practice during the _DARK AGES_. At that time it was known as "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.) - thus is the origin of the commonly used modern day word.
That's right, peasants needed permission (a license, if you will) to fornicate. This "wonderfully enlightened" idea has apparently come back to us in present day.
From now on, let's try to look at history, and how well our "modern" ideas worked when they were tried the first time, before making complete jackasses of ourselves.
In other news, the Ooga Chaka tribe brutally murdered a tourist to their village who was carrying a double-blunt-ended walking stick.
Apparently, the "spear with a lack of features" was cause for great alarm among the Ooga-Chakas.
1) Faith is a religious term, and merits a religious definition - not one provided by a secular source, such as the dictionary.
2) "Blind Faith" is a subset of "Faith".
3) Faith is "Substance of things hoped for" or "Evidence of things not seen"
4) Thus we can safely say Faith is "Evidence of things not seen"
5) Since "Blind Faith" is a subset of "Faith", then "Blind Faith" also has the property of being "Evidence of things not seen"
Q.E.D.
You focused on "substance of things hoped for" and ignored the more pertinent "evidence of things not seen".
If you believe the fundamentalist creationists, that's only 7 days from now!
WE'RE ALL DEAD IN A WEEK!! AHHHHH!!!!!!
Obligatory: I, for one, welcome our new life-consuming, flaming gas overlords.
Modded as flamebait? Who the hell is the jackass Microsoft employee that modded it so?
It's a legitimate point. Microsoft is engaging themselves further (because they've pretty much already been engaged) in a holy war with *nix OSes. This is just a MUCH larger step in that direction.
Perhaps you modded it as flamebait because of my suggestion to sell Microsoft stock?
My mistake, you're not an employee, you must be a concerned shareholder.
Disagreeing or having a financially vested interest in something doesn't qualify as grounds to mod as flamebait.
Go ahead Mod THIS as flamebait, jackass, er, I mean Steve.
Actually according to the definition of faith in the Bible that's exactly what it is...
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
-Heb. 11: 1
By that definition (which I'd say is a reliable source for the religious definition of faith), the EFFECTS of gravity are the evidence of an unseen force.
You can't see gravity; you can only see its effects.
Q.E.D.
You insensitive clod! I'm an Eskimo and I love the sweet tasty goodness of a cool, sugary sno-cone.
Also, you left one other difference out:
Satan engages in questionable business practices.
Oh wait....
I have blind faith in gravity - I'm pretty sure that's safe.
Unless of course you're one of those people who stays tethered down "just in case"...
Also I have blind faith in "The Boss". He's never led me wrong... er... wait a minute...
Does Balmer actually understand the holy war he's getting the company into?
This is like Satan trying to appeal to Christians.
*nix users have already eaten the apple and realized they were duped.
If the Nigerian princes are right, I'd say it's time to sell your Microsoft stock.
Not to be a nay-sayer, but isn't the human body made up of 60-70% water?
I'm melllltiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!