The losing part probably had to file for bankruptcy, so that the corporation itself would die along with its debts (that’s more or less much how an LLC works). The owner(s) could then re-incorporate as a new LLC and keep right on filing frivolous lawsuits like this one.
FTFY. If Jagex got any significant money out of a patent troll, I’d be surprised.
So if a doctor was touching his own genitals in an attempt to gain excitement when examining a 3 year old's genitals, it wouldn't be molestation because you would have no way of knowing what the doc was thinking?
That would be lewd behavior in the presence of the child. Easily described as a crime based on what he was DOING, not based on what he was THINKING. But thanks for playing.
And yes, there are valid reasons to examine the genitals of a 3 year old.
I know reasons exist. I said they are rare.
Actually, no I'm not trying to argue that.
Actually, yes you are trying to argue that precisely – when said genital exam is done by a TSA security monkey in an airport.
there are legitimate reasons to examine the genitalia of a 3 year old or anyone else for that matter
The farce that is airport screening is not one of them.
Why would he have to explain to the parents why they didn't graduate?
Because they would call him, e-mail him, or even have the audacity to actually come to his office to berate him for their kid getting kicked out for cheating?
This is supposed to be a university not a high school.
(Prequel: Harv buys lawnmower – a great deal for only $20.) Troy: Hey, that’s a pretty nice lawnmower, you interested in selling it? Harv: Dunno. How much you willing to give me for it? Troy: Oh, how ’bout $250. Harv: Hell... in that case, it’s yours. (Troy leaves with his lawnmower. Camera pans, following Troy as he merrily pushes his lawnmower down the sidewalk, whistling a little ditty. Enter JimBob stage right.) JimBob: Aft’rnoon, Troy. Troy: Hey. JimBob: Say... that sure looks like my old lawnmower. (JimBob walks around it, puzzled expression on his face.) Troy: Your old mower? Why, what’d you do with it? JimBob: Oh, sold it to Harv for $20, I bought me a new John Dee— Troy: Why that no-good *#%&*%...
I know of no decent university in which a syllabus is actually required for each class, let alone given any binding status. When one is given, it's always been a guideline.
If one is given, it should be reasonably well adhered to, and if it isn’t entirely set in stone, any deviations should be agreed upon before, not after, the fact.
When I enrolled, I had to pay tuition, I had to sign certain stuff, and along with all of that came the implication that certain other terms would apply to the relationship between us. I’d do my coursework, I’d be graded fairly, etc. One of those implied agreements is that if an employee or representative of the university gives me something in writing, I can hold him or her to it. This should come as no surprise.
imho this is nothing but FUD. you cant possibly get the cheaters from statistics only.
Sure you can.
If you get a question from a test bank and it asks to find how many samples you must take to give you a 95% confidence interval, and you change it to be how many samples you must take to give you a 98% confidence interval, and 1/3 of the class comes up with the answer for a 95% confidence interval, it is statistically probable that they cheated. If you modify most or all of the questions and this happens on all of the modified questions, it’s almost a statistical certainty.
Why not use a test bank? Just change all the problems slightly. Any cheaters who memorized the test bank will think they recognize the questions and write all the wrong answers. They’ll be easy to spot.
For that matter, how do we know this isn’t what he did?
He used a question bank that was from the textbook publisher. If he had the sense to modify all of the questions slightly, he could easily have told which students were memorizing answers instead of working the problems. They’d be the ones who had written the answers to all of the questions as they’d been before he modified them for the exam.
If the prof has any sense at all, he’ll change something subtly (without making the question implausible or impossible, obviously). That way, students actually have to work the problem.
Then if a student writes the answer that goes to the original question, it shows that the student cheated.
It’s exactly the same concept as the IE / SunSpider fiasco that showed up on here yesterday. Sure, it aces that test, but change virtually anything, even ever-so-slightly, and it suddenly does much more poorly.
Well, what do you think? Obviously it wasn’t the first time someone had thought of changing their answer.
Plus all you really need to do is scan them all to PDF. It wastes no paper, it’s easier to organize, and you can delete them eventually.
However, to GP: Why get angry? Just get even. Take the modified paper, write a big fat ZERO at the top of the changed paper with a very short description of why, staple it to the original, file copies as always, and then send it in triplicate: one to the student, one to the prof, and one to the dean. See how the student likes that grade.
I'm not aware of any contract between a student and the university guaranteeing that they will only be tested on material once or that every test taken will count towards your final grade.
You’re obviously being sarcastic to test our knowledge. The correct answer here is the syllabus, right?
So then a doctor giving a child a physical examination would be molesting them right?
If the exam was necessary and useful, no. If the exam was unnecessary (and I really can’t fathom very many instances where you’d need to have a genital exam done on a 3-year-old), yes. It has nothing to do with what the doctor is thinking. Neither I nor anyone else can read the doctor’s mind anyway.
Are you really trying to argue that a doctor who routinely did completely unnecessary full genital exams on 3-year-old patients would not be guilty of sexual molestation? I don’t care why he’s doing them – whether to get his rocks off later or to be an arrogant ass who does invasive procedures just because he thinks it’s his privilege – it matters not in the least.
Electric and magnetic fields are just different ways to experience the same phenomenon. If you are moving relative to the charge (or if the quantity of charge is changing), you see both an electric field and a magnetic field. If you are not, you see only an electric field.
It also means that you get to start from scratch, since the study of genetics, heredity, and the eventual discovery of DNA started in a catholic monk’s pea patch.
If you read the article, “powerful” explosions yield about 10% of the energy required to create the anti-matter in the first place. So for the energy cost of about ten atomic bombs, you could feasibly make an anti-matter bomb with the energy output of one atomic bomb.
After you run "n += i" 92682 times, n can no longer fit in 32 bits, whereas all the bitwise operations fit comfortably within that range for all values of i
Personally I’d pin that on the fact that if you’re using bitwise operations it drops everything down to a 32-bit integer whereas all mathematical functions will be performed using Javascript’s implementation of binary floating-point.
However that still doesn’t explain all of the oddities about GP’s post.
Your anecdotal evidence does not prove anything; numerous people have posted their own experiences which have contradicted it. But as if more was needed, here it is.
The former occupants of my own house had unpaid debt. I have been living there for years now and I still get letters from debt collectors trying to reach them*. If I had a home phone number listed in the phone book under my address, I have no doubt they’d be calling me too. As it really doesn’t bother me to drop a few letters in the trash occasionally, I don’t care to even try to get them to stop.
In other words, you can go fuck yourself, you presumptive ass.
*Completely unrelated to the debt collection attempt due to the hospital bill, which I had overlooked, was legitimately mine, and paid as soon as I realised it. I will fully own my debts. Currently I owe none (and that includes my house and car) but a few bills and my outstanding balance on my credit cards, all of which I will pay before their due date.
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Whoosh on them, then.
The losing part probably had to file for bankruptcy, so that the corporation itself would die along with its debts (that’s more or less much how an LLC works). The owner(s) could then re-incorporate as a new LLC and keep right on filing frivolous lawsuits like this one.
FTFY. If Jagex got any significant money out of a patent troll, I’d be surprised.
So if a doctor was touching his own genitals in an attempt to gain excitement when examining a 3 year old's genitals, it wouldn't be molestation because you would have no way of knowing what the doc was thinking?
That would be lewd behavior in the presence of the child. Easily described as a crime based on what he was DOING, not based on what he was THINKING. But thanks for playing.
And yes, there are valid reasons to examine the genitals of a 3 year old.
I know reasons exist. I said they are rare.
Actually, no I'm not trying to argue that.
Actually, yes you are trying to argue that precisely – when said genital exam is done by a TSA security monkey in an airport.
there are legitimate reasons to examine the genitalia of a 3 year old or anyone else for that matter
The farce that is airport screening is not one of them.
Know what kind of test you can't cheat on?
A test that requires you to answer the question and explain how you came about the answer.
That is a laughably naive statement.
It is about the energy that goes into its creation.
There was a rather obvious mistake in in of the recommended books
Did you do do that on purpose?
Why would he have to explain to the parents why they didn't graduate?
Because they would call him, e-mail him, or even have the audacity to actually come to his office to berate him for their kid getting kicked out for cheating?
This is supposed to be a university not a high school.
Key word: “supposed”.
What if the student doesn't believe in God, then does he have absolutely no way of getting out of the make up exam?
If the student doesn’t believe God exists, he has exactly the same chance of getting out of the exam as he believes anyone else has.
I think it went more like this...
(Prequel: Harv buys lawnmower – a great deal for only $20.)
Troy: Hey, that’s a pretty nice lawnmower, you interested in selling it?
Harv: Dunno. How much you willing to give me for it?
Troy: Oh, how ’bout $250.
Harv: Hell... in that case, it’s yours.
(Troy leaves with his lawnmower. Camera pans, following Troy as he merrily pushes his lawnmower down the sidewalk, whistling a little ditty. Enter JimBob stage right.)
JimBob: Aft’rnoon, Troy.
Troy: Hey.
JimBob: Say... that sure looks like my old lawnmower.
(JimBob walks around it, puzzled expression on his face.)
Troy: Your old mower? Why, what’d you do with it?
JimBob: Oh, sold it to Harv for $20, I bought me a new John Dee—
Troy: Why that no-good *#%&*%...
I think you can take it from here.
I know of no decent university in which a syllabus is actually required for each class, let alone given any binding status. When one is given, it's always been a guideline.
If one is given, it should be reasonably well adhered to, and if it isn’t entirely set in stone, any deviations should be agreed upon before, not after, the fact.
That’s not unreasonable in the least.
When I enrolled, I had to pay tuition, I had to sign certain stuff, and along with all of that came the implication that certain other terms would apply to the relationship between us. I’d do my coursework, I’d be graded fairly, etc. One of those implied agreements is that if an employee or representative of the university gives me something in writing, I can hold him or her to it. This should come as no surprise.
imho this is nothing but FUD. you cant possibly get the cheaters from statistics only.
Sure you can.
If you get a question from a test bank and it asks to find how many samples you must take to give you a 95% confidence interval, and you change it to be how many samples you must take to give you a 98% confidence interval, and 1/3 of the class comes up with the answer for a 95% confidence interval, it is statistically probable that they cheated. If you modify most or all of the questions and this happens on all of the modified questions, it’s almost a statistical certainty.
Why not use a test bank? Just change all the problems slightly. Any cheaters who memorized the test bank will think they recognize the questions and write all the wrong answers. They’ll be easy to spot.
For that matter, how do we know this isn’t what he did?
He used a question bank that was from the textbook publisher. If he had the sense to modify all of the questions slightly, he could easily have told which students were memorizing answers instead of working the problems. They’d be the ones who had written the answers to all of the questions as they’d been before he modified them for the exam.
If the prof has any sense at all, he’ll change something subtly (without making the question implausible or impossible, obviously). That way, students actually have to work the problem.
Then if a student writes the answer that goes to the original question, it shows that the student cheated.
It’s exactly the same concept as the IE / SunSpider fiasco that showed up on here yesterday. Sure, it aces that test, but change virtually anything, even ever-so-slightly, and it suddenly does much more poorly.
You photocopied all of the tests you graded?
Well, what do you think? Obviously it wasn’t the first time someone had thought of changing their answer.
Plus all you really need to do is scan them all to PDF. It wastes no paper, it’s easier to organize, and you can delete them eventually.
However, to GP: Why get angry? Just get even. Take the modified paper, write a big fat ZERO at the top of the changed paper with a very short description of why, staple it to the original, file copies as always, and then send it in triplicate: one to the student, one to the prof, and one to the dean. See how the student likes that grade.
I'm not aware of any contract between a student and the university guaranteeing that they will only be tested on material once or that every test taken will count towards your final grade.
You’re obviously being sarcastic to test our knowledge. The correct answer here is the syllabus, right?
So then a doctor giving a child a physical examination would be molesting them right?
If the exam was necessary and useful, no. If the exam was unnecessary (and I really can’t fathom very many instances where you’d need to have a genital exam done on a 3-year-old), yes. It has nothing to do with what the doctor is thinking. Neither I nor anyone else can read the doctor’s mind anyway.
Are you really trying to argue that a doctor who routinely did completely unnecessary full genital exams on 3-year-old patients would not be guilty of sexual molestation? I don’t care why he’s doing them – whether to get his rocks off later or to be an arrogant ass who does invasive procedures just because he thinks it’s his privilege – it matters not in the least.
Yeah, and how on earth did all those natives catch fish before the white people introduced fishing poles?
Electric and magnetic fields are just different ways to experience the same phenomenon. If you are moving relative to the charge (or if the quantity of charge is changing), you see both an electric field and a magnetic field. If you are not, you see only an electric field.
It also means that you get to start from scratch, since the study of genetics, heredity, and the eventual discovery of DNA started in a catholic monk’s pea patch.
matter + antimatter = energy
FTFY.
If you read the article, “powerful” explosions yield about 10% of the energy required to create the anti-matter in the first place. So for the energy cost of about ten atomic bombs, you could feasibly make an anti-matter bomb with the energy output of one atomic bomb.
In other words, it isn’t practical.
After you run "n += i" 92682 times, n can no longer fit in 32 bits, whereas all the bitwise operations fit comfortably within that range for all values of i
Personally I’d pin that on the fact that if you’re using bitwise operations it drops everything down to a 32-bit integer whereas all mathematical functions will be performed using Javascript’s implementation of binary floating-point.
However that still doesn’t explain all of the oddities about GP’s post.
Your anecdotal evidence does not prove anything; numerous people have posted their own experiences which have contradicted it. But as if more was needed, here it is.
The former occupants of my own house had unpaid debt. I have been living there for years now and I still get letters from debt collectors trying to reach them*. If I had a home phone number listed in the phone book under my address, I have no doubt they’d be calling me too. As it really doesn’t bother me to drop a few letters in the trash occasionally, I don’t care to even try to get them to stop.
In other words, you can go fuck yourself, you presumptive ass.
*Completely unrelated to the debt collection attempt due to the hospital bill, which I had overlooked, was legitimately mine, and paid as soon as I realised it. I will fully own my debts. Currently I owe none (and that includes my house and car) but a few bills and my outstanding balance on my credit cards, all of which I will pay before their due date.