Actually G7 is when the Finance Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States of America meet to discuss economic policy.
G8 is when the heads of government of those countries plus Russia meet to talk about a wide variety of things.
I entered a program to study a Bachelor in Renewable Energy Engineering. Something a bit more tangible than wearing gas masks and running around screaming about religion.
Just because you sit on your arse and read Slashdot all day whilst sucking Anonymous' cock doesn't mean everyone else does
How the hell is this offtopic? The discussion is about the Church of Scientology and "Anonymous". I'm pointing out that Anonymous are a bored group of people with too much time on their hands and there's no reason we should take a bunch of 4chan'ers seriously.
On the other hand a post by "Anonymous Coward" making a joke gets modded interesting? Has Slashdot been infiltrated?
I would hardly call "liberal" and "conservative" the radical left and right. The radical left would encompass ideologies such as communism, whereas the radical right would include fascism. Be aware that I'm talking about these ideologies in theory not in any of their implementation.
It's also worthwhile pointing out that this liberal/conservative break-up only seems to work in the USA and not anywhere else. That seems to be the case because the USA has already "settled" the issue of economic intervention - minimal. All that leaves space for is social policies, crime policies, foreign policy etc. American liberals including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would be considered right-wing in just about any other country as would any Republican. From an external point of view "liberal" and "conservative" seem to be two smaller subsets of a general right-of-centre ideology.
I personally do not believe they are safe but I have noticed that whenever this is brought up on Slashdot dozens of posts are sent in reply claiming that nuclear has "Come so far" since Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island and "nothing like that could ever happen again". Instead of getting bogged down on whether or not a nuclear power plant is likely to go into meltdown I thought it was better to stick to the inarguable facts.
The cost of setting up a plant is hardly "cheap" and what happens when coal becomes scarce? It IS a finite resource - unlike the sun.
If you want cheap clean energy, go nuclear.
Once again the cost of setting up a nuclear power plant is in the billions. Fissile materials are also finite, when they begin to run out we'll see huge increases in price. See the case of oil now.
I also take issue with your point that nuclear energy is "green". Even if we say that plants are entirely safe (Which seems to be the Slashdot consensus) there are many other issues. First of all, what does one do with the waste? Plutonium 239, the most common material used, has a half life of 24,000 years. That's longer than civilisation has so far existed. None of our current methods of storing waste are viable and many have been proven useless.
Let's not forget the insane amounts of energy required to both commission a plant, continually mine and transport uranium and then decommission it.
I don't understand how you can argue that replacing our dependence on finite resource that pollutes the environment with another finite resource that pollutes the environment is a good thing. I suggest you read the recently commission Garnaut Review (Professor Ross Garnaut is an economist at the Australian National University) which states that nuclear is a non-viable option and the world must develop renewable sources of energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnaut_Report. Or the Stern review (also made by an economist) which reaches a similar conclusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review. I do believe these two in particular have a broader depth of knowledge surrounding economics than you do.
$14 million spread across 11 universities = $1.27 million dollars. It is definitely a start but when you compare it to the $2 billion the DOE was going to spend in developing new rural coal plants you have to ask where their priorities lie.
Just go get the cheapest Windows PC you can find (they have a sticker that says "Vista Capable" or "Vista Ready") and install Linux. It's cheaper than buying a dedicated Linux machine. Actually the cheapest PC available on Walmar is $278. Exactly the same as the Linux model but comes with Vista Home Basic.
Even if they were posting the answers that doesn't help them on the test.
Before you're so quick to abuse other members, I suggest you re-read the article. The students were not preparing for an exam, they had been given a set of questions to do as a homework assignment. The Facebook group consisted of members posting up answers for lazier members to simply copy. I don't think copy and paste comes under any definition of "studying".
So yes, he was cheating and he did break the rules. How bizarre the rules of university are is a redundant point since he would have been punished for this at just about any university in the USA. Also, he and the other students should have read them before the signed on the dotted line and agreed to adhere to them. If they had they probably would have noticed that ridiculous sentence everyone is quoting. If they had noticed it they should have asked for clarification before signing, or refused on sign on the grounds that it was extremely vague.
There's a difference between people posting answers up for people to copy and paste verbatim, and people providing help for others to solve problems themselves.
Unfortunately you didn't get to a critical point in the article.
But Neale admitted the invitation to the Facebook group may have been what landed them in trouble. It read: "If you request to join, please use the forms to discuss/post solutions to the chemistry assignments. Please input your solutions if they are not already posted."
So they weren't seeking "Peer assistance" so much as seeking answers to their assignments and posting their own.
Expulsion might seem like overkill, but it is the punishment in cases of plagiarism and copying for an assessment. It's up the school's discretion whether or not to reprimand, suspend or expel. If they student wants to make an appeal he can do so with the Dean or the head of school.
However I don't know how far that will get him. As far as the school is concerned he collected and disseminated answers to an assignment to 146 people. If he had printed out answers and shared them around the school would probably expel him in that case. Plus, I'm not sure a discussion with students would make that big a difference. I don't know the specifics of that particular school but that mine (UNSW in Sydney, Australia) and at every other school I know, the rules (Specifically plagiarism and cheating) are explained quite in-depth at various occasions. Interviews, faculty welcomes, school welcomes and all throughout the lectures and tutorials. In addition the student has to read the rules and sign - confirming that they will abide by them. Assuming that the school in the story has a similar way of doing things (Most likely) and the student STILL broke them shows he's a bit of an idiot and deserves it.
That's all there is too it. They weren't talking about Chemistry in general, but they were answering questions and sharing the answers on an assignment worth 10% of their final grade. It was against the school's rules (Which they accepted when they joined the school) and they broke them, Facebook or no Facebook.
I don't quite understand why the media goes into a frenzy every time Facebook or YouTube is mentioned. Kids at my old highschool swapped answers on a free forum they quickly registered and ended up getting caught and punished. Is this any different? No, yet the media and non-techie readers get into a frenzy every time social networking is mentioned.
This is slightly off topic but what the hell is with that info box in the article? "OTHER CASES: Expulsions for internet misuse". It implies that students were expelled simply because they accessed the internet or social networking websites. But that's not the case. They were expelled because the school either has the right to expel at their own discretion (eg. The gay guy who was expelled John Brown Christian College) or they broke other school rules such as harassing and physically abusing school officials. The fact that it happened on the internet is redundant, the outcome would have been the same if polaroid pictures of the incidents were found or if someone was dobbed in.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ IS run by Ray Beckerman. I'm a big fan of his, and his contributions to Slashdot. That post my subtle way of directing people to another source of information.
Firefox 3 is going to include support for the new Java SE 6 runtime environment.
This is a new implementation of the Java Plug-In that features increased reliability, ability to specify large heap sizes, ability to select a specific JRE version to execute a particular applet, and support for signed applets on Windows Vista.
The New Plug-in is designed to work with:
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows XP and Windows Vista
- Firefox 3 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Solaris and Linux
Personally, I've been wanting to use the Firefox 3 beta for some time, primarily because of the performance and speed boosts over Firefox 2, but my favourite add-ons still aren't compatible.
Note: The new Plug-in does not work with Firefox 2, and no support is planned for this browser with the New Plug-in.
There's a pretty in-depth discussion up on Whirlpool about this issue. Whirlpool is an Australian forum based around the idea of helping out internet consumers and discussing problems and concerns with the industry.
Link is here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=910501/
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Actually G7 is when the Finance Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States of America meet to discuss economic policy.
G8 is when the heads of government of those countries plus Russia meet to talk about a wide variety of things.
ROFL.
I wasn't bragging, you asked a question and you got an answer you didn't expect. Grow up.
I entered a program to study a Bachelor in Renewable Energy Engineering. Something a bit more tangible than wearing gas masks and running around screaming about religion.
Just because you sit on your arse and read Slashdot all day whilst sucking Anonymous' cock doesn't mean everyone else does
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How the hell is this offtopic? The discussion is about the Church of Scientology and "Anonymous". I'm pointing out that Anonymous are a bored group of people with too much time on their hands and there's no reason we should take a bunch of 4chan'ers seriously.
On the other hand a post by "Anonymous Coward" making a joke gets modded interesting? Has Slashdot been infiltrated?
Eurgh, grow up. They aren't some secret organisation but bored teenagers from 4chan.
When did a bunch of adolescents with too much time on their hands get to be in the news every few days and on the front page of Slashdot.
I'm no fan of Scientology but is no one else a bit bored with "Anonymous" and their self-indulgent attention seeking?
I would hardly call "liberal" and "conservative" the radical left and right. The radical left would encompass ideologies such as communism, whereas the radical right would include fascism. Be aware that I'm talking about these ideologies in theory not in any of their implementation.
It's also worthwhile pointing out that this liberal/conservative break-up only seems to work in the USA and not anywhere else. That seems to be the case because the USA has already "settled" the issue of economic intervention - minimal. All that leaves space for is social policies, crime policies, foreign policy etc. American liberals including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would be considered right-wing in just about any other country as would any Republican. From an external point of view "liberal" and "conservative" seem to be two smaller subsets of a general right-of-centre ideology.
I think you'll find that I did
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=485720&cid=22737198
Please provide evidence that nuclear is "clean" and "renewable".
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear.
I personally do not believe they are safe but I have noticed that whenever this is brought up on Slashdot dozens of posts are sent in reply claiming that nuclear has "Come so far" since Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island and "nothing like that could ever happen again". Instead of getting bogged down on whether or not a nuclear power plant is likely to go into meltdown I thought it was better to stick to the inarguable facts.
The cost of setting up a plant is hardly "cheap" and what happens when coal becomes scarce? It IS a finite resource - unlike the sun.
If you want cheap clean energy, go nuclear.Once again the cost of setting up a nuclear power plant is in the billions. Fissile materials are also finite, when they begin to run out we'll see huge increases in price. See the case of oil now.
I also take issue with your point that nuclear energy is "green". Even if we say that plants are entirely safe (Which seems to be the Slashdot consensus) there are many other issues. First of all, what does one do with the waste? Plutonium 239, the most common material used, has a half life of 24,000 years. That's longer than civilisation has so far existed. None of our current methods of storing waste are viable and many have been proven useless.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0606/S00198.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4589321.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7068041.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/18/japan.justinmccurry1
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003816157_webhanfordleak01.html?syndication=rss
Let's not forget the insane amounts of energy required to both commission a plant, continually mine and transport uranium and then decommission it.
I don't understand how you can argue that replacing our dependence on finite resource that pollutes the environment with another finite resource that pollutes the environment is a good thing. I suggest you read the recently commission Garnaut Review (Professor Ross Garnaut is an economist at the Australian National University) which states that nuclear is a non-viable option and the world must develop renewable sources of energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnaut_Report. Or the Stern review (also made by an economist) which reaches a similar conclusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review. I do believe these two in particular have a broader depth of knowledge surrounding economics than you do.
$14 million spread across 11 universities = $1.27 million dollars. It is definitely a start but when you compare it to the $2 billion the DOE was going to spend in developing new rural coal plants you have to ask where their priorities lie.
Except those are words and this is real...
Heh, at least you guys had fun with my typo.
I did mean on the website, but the parent post was stating that low end Windows machines are cheaper than the gPC. Which is not the case.
Before you're so quick to abuse other members, I suggest you re-read the article. The students were not preparing for an exam, they had been given a set of questions to do as a homework assignment. The Facebook group consisted of members posting up answers for lazier members to simply copy. I don't think copy and paste comes under any definition of "studying".
So yes, he was cheating and he did break the rules. How bizarre the rules of university are is a redundant point since he would have been punished for this at just about any university in the USA. Also, he and the other students should have read them before the signed on the dotted line and agreed to adhere to them. If they had they probably would have noticed that ridiculous sentence everyone is quoting. If they had noticed it they should have asked for clarification before signing, or refused on sign on the grounds that it was extremely vague.
Unfortunately you didn't get to a critical point in the article.
But Neale admitted the invitation to the Facebook group may have been what landed them in trouble. It read: "If you request to join, please use the forms to discuss/post solutions to the chemistry assignments. Please input your solutions if they are not already posted."So they weren't seeking "Peer assistance" so much as seeking answers to their assignments and posting their own.
Expulsion might seem like overkill, but it is the punishment in cases of plagiarism and copying for an assessment. It's up the school's discretion whether or not to reprimand, suspend or expel. If they student wants to make an appeal he can do so with the Dean or the head of school.
However I don't know how far that will get him. As far as the school is concerned he collected and disseminated answers to an assignment to 146 people. If he had printed out answers and shared them around the school would probably expel him in that case. Plus, I'm not sure a discussion with students would make that big a difference. I don't know the specifics of that particular school but that mine (UNSW in Sydney, Australia) and at every other school I know, the rules (Specifically plagiarism and cheating) are explained quite in-depth at various occasions. Interviews, faculty welcomes, school welcomes and all throughout the lectures and tutorials. In addition the student has to read the rules and sign - confirming that they will abide by them. Assuming that the school in the story has a similar way of doing things (Most likely) and the student STILL broke them shows he's a bit of an idiot and deserves it.
That's all there is too it. They weren't talking about Chemistry in general, but they were answering questions and sharing the answers on an assignment worth 10% of their final grade. It was against the school's rules (Which they accepted when they joined the school) and they broke them, Facebook or no Facebook.
I don't quite understand why the media goes into a frenzy every time Facebook or YouTube is mentioned. Kids at my old highschool swapped answers on a free forum they quickly registered and ended up getting caught and punished. Is this any different? No, yet the media and non-techie readers get into a frenzy every time social networking is mentioned.
This is slightly off topic but what the hell is with that info box in the article? "OTHER CASES: Expulsions for internet misuse". It implies that students were expelled simply because they accessed the internet or social networking websites. But that's not the case. They were expelled because the school either has the right to expel at their own discretion (eg. The gay guy who was expelled John Brown Christian College) or they broke other school rules such as harassing and physically abusing school officials. The fact that it happened on the internet is redundant, the outcome would have been the same if polaroid pictures of the incidents were found or if someone was dobbed in.
Wow you missed the sarcasm and the joke.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ IS run by Ray Beckerman. I'm a big fan of his, and his contributions to Slashdot. That post my subtle way of directing people to another source of information.
Come on, NewYorkCountryLawyer, Slashdot isn't your personal outlet! Get your own blog.
Maybe something like http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/?
Plutonium 239 which is used in nuclear weapons has a half-life of 24,360 years.
So quite a bit more than "the next couple of centuries"
Firefox 3 is going to include support for the new Java SE 6 runtime environment.
This is a new implementation of the Java Plug-In that features increased reliability, ability to specify large heap sizes, ability to select a specific JRE version to execute a particular applet, and support for signed applets on Windows Vista.
The New Plug-in is designed to work with: - Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows XP and Windows Vista - Firefox 3 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Solaris and Linux
Personally, I've been wanting to use the Firefox 3 beta for some time, primarily because of the performance and speed boosts over Firefox 2, but my favourite add-ons still aren't compatible.Note: The new Plug-in does not work with Firefox 2, and no support is planned for this browser with the New Plug-in.
http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/02/24/firefox_3_gets_a_new_java_plugin/?from=rss-category/There's a pretty in-depth discussion up on Whirlpool about this issue. Whirlpool is an Australian forum based around the idea of helping out internet consumers and discussing problems and concerns with the industry. Link is here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=910501/