Well, I think the anonymous professor's blog is a stealth promotion for Student of Fortune. Expressing indignation like that is a way to get us to go check out the site (which is clearly just getting started - I could Make Money Fast(er) with the Mechanical Turk...and may just be a prank anyway).
There are an unacceptable number of spelling mistakes in the "professor"'s blog. Unless "s/he" was really tired!
My most recent uni (in Australia - as of 2005) paid for the plagiarism check sites AND USED THEM and that seemed to (1) somewhat deter people from copying large chunks of text from Wikipedia and (2) force people who really wanted to cheat (or "had" to, for language/visa reasons) to pay for papers to be custom-written for them. If you're GOING to cheat it is much safer to contract locally with someone who knows the school, faculty standards, local standards, etc.
Mills brags too loudly about his academic credentials.
The context for statements by any scientist/academic person X is: (1) where does X work now, or what team does X currently represent? & (2) what has X achieved lately? People whose work is sharable, marketable, explicable or repeatable don't have to make a big deal out of their academic credentials. Mills' doing so suggests he lacks substance.
Speaking of "goofballs who went to Harvard," the big H still has the Unabomber to live down...
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Well, I think the anonymous professor's blog is a stealth promotion for Student of Fortune. Expressing indignation like that is a way to get us to go check out the site (which is clearly just getting started - I could Make Money Fast(er) with the Mechanical Turk...and may just be a prank anyway).
There are an unacceptable number of spelling mistakes in the "professor"'s blog. Unless "s/he" was really tired!
My most recent uni (in Australia - as of 2005) paid for the plagiarism check sites AND USED THEM and that seemed to (1) somewhat deter people from copying large chunks of text from Wikipedia and (2) force people who really wanted to cheat (or "had" to, for language/visa reasons) to pay for papers to be custom-written for them. If you're GOING to cheat it is much safer to contract locally with someone who knows the school, faculty standards, local standards, etc.
Mills brags too loudly about his academic credentials.
The context for statements by any scientist/academic person X is: (1) where does X work now, or what team does X currently represent? & (2) what has X achieved lately? People whose work is sharable, marketable, explicable or repeatable don't have to make a big deal out of their academic credentials. Mills' doing so suggests he lacks substance.
Speaking of "goofballs who went to Harvard," the big H still has the Unabomber to live down...