Not true,
cuiling my family name gave me several more relevant results than with google. (Including forum posts and bug reports.) So clearly there is already some slightly more relevant data available on cuil.
It's not encryption.
What you will be downloading is several random files that when combined make up whatever you want.
The cool thing is that the files really are random. They are simply numbers that can be combined to make a copyrighted file but don't have to be.
In other words: (As stated on the wiki) you will infringe on copyright the second the random files are combined. But downloading and sharing the files is not a copyright infringement.
What I don't understand is how could you possibly hand in a postgraduate dissertation which you didn't write.
Undergrad stuff, sure. There you have a few hundred students to a professor/lecturer. But postgrad?
My supervisor had exactly one student doing postgrad - me. Sure, some supervisors had up to 20 students, but still they knew exactly what those students were capable of. Someone handing in work that isn't theirs can't happen in such a situation
So maybe this isn't the result of "a competitive society where anyone will do their damndest to avoid poverty," but instead the result of an extremely bad student to supervisor ratio.
The solution? I guess either pay more money to Universities to get more lecturers, or FLAMEBAIT make courses harder so that only few students survive END FLAMEBAIT.
If you took my car to race down the local strip mall, I couldn't use it anymore, that's a bit different to you sharing my connection.
I'm not sure what kind of friends you have, but mine also tell me about their taking trains without paying for the ticket/drug usage/other crimes. After all they are my friends, and they can trust me not to rat on them anytime soon.
I have my doubts that more people 'borrow' Wi-Fi access. But as I couldn't find a link to the actual study, this is hard to confirm.
Personally I would guess that the result is much lower than in the study. None of my acquaintances have ever piggy-backed wi-fi, and that includes cosc (Computer Science) students, software engineers in the industry and of course plenty of people that know nothing about computers. At the same time only one person I know encrypts any hard-drive data (no not me).
I don't see why piggy-backing wi-fi is illegal, after all if someone leaves their gate open, they shouldn't be surprised if someone else walks through. (Note: If you misuse the network to steal data of your host, the stealing should obviously still be illegal)
Just in case anyone still believes we'll all be killed by an asteroid in 2029 or 2036, here's an article from El Reg, claiming that the boy got it all wrong.
I guess we'll have to live with the miniscule 1 in 45,000 chance.
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Not true,
cuiling my family name gave me several more relevant results than with google. (Including forum posts and bug reports.) So clearly there is already some slightly more relevant data available on cuil.
It's not encryption. What you will be downloading is several random files that when combined make up whatever you want.
The cool thing is that the files really are random. They are simply numbers that can be combined to make a copyrighted file but don't have to be.
In other words: (As stated on the wiki) you will infringe on copyright the second the random files are combined. But downloading and sharing the files is not a copyright infringement.
What I don't understand is how could you possibly hand in a postgraduate dissertation which you didn't write.
Undergrad stuff, sure. There you have a few hundred students to a professor/lecturer. But postgrad?
My supervisor had exactly one student doing postgrad - me. Sure, some supervisors had up to 20 students, but still they knew exactly what those students were capable of. Someone handing in work that isn't theirs can't happen in such a situation
So maybe this isn't the result of "a competitive society where anyone will do their damndest to avoid poverty," but instead the result of an extremely bad student to supervisor ratio.
The solution? I guess either pay more money to Universities to get more lecturers, or FLAMEBAIT make courses harder so that only few students survive END FLAMEBAIT.
If you took my car to race down the local strip mall, I couldn't use it anymore, that's a bit different to you sharing my connection.
I'm not sure what kind of friends you have, but mine also tell me about their taking trains without paying for the ticket/drug usage/other crimes. After all they are my friends, and they can trust me not to rat on them anytime soon.
I have my doubts that more people 'borrow' Wi-Fi access. But as I couldn't find a link to the actual study, this is hard to confirm.
Personally I would guess that the result is much lower than in the study. None of my acquaintances have ever piggy-backed wi-fi, and that includes cosc (Computer Science) students, software engineers in the industry and of course plenty of people that know nothing about computers. At the same time only one person I know encrypts any hard-drive data (no not me).
I don't see why piggy-backing wi-fi is illegal, after all if someone leaves their gate open, they shouldn't be surprised if someone else walks through. (Note: If you misuse the network to steal data of your host, the stealing should obviously still be illegal)
Just in case anyone still believes we'll all be killed by an asteroid in 2029 or 2036, here's an article from El Reg, claiming that the boy got it all wrong.
I guess we'll have to live with the miniscule 1 in 45,000 chance.
link to article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/esa_german_schoolboy_apophis_denial/