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  1. Test Bank on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    Hmm. This isn't so cut and dry. It seems that the midterm was using questions over again from previous tests, and some students had access to the previous tests. At my school, PSU, in the engineering department, this was fair game. In fact, the Engineering Library even had some old tests on file. Old tests and previous course notes were valuable study tools. That being said since it was engineering, we didn't generally have multiple choice style test.

    If the teacher was lazy enough to use the same questions over and over, well then I guess he got what he deserved.

  2. Re:Odds of dying in terrorist attack on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    "essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety"

    Not having some one touch my balls I would say is an essential liberty.

    Not having a police department has more then the effect of "a little temporary safety."

    Try to read a tad better.

  3. Re:Odds of dying in terrorist attack on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    PETN has not brought down any airplane. It has burned some dudes balls, and blew out an Saudi's asshole while standing next to a prince.

  4. Re:Wow that didn't take long. on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Thats irrelevant. If John is stating the policy its his job to make sure its followed. And if its against policy, can't the agent then be charge with sexual assault of a minor?

  5. Wow that didn't take long. on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    In the hearings today in the senate, John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, children under 12 would not be pat down.

  6. Oh Noes on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 1

    A useless PR website to a government agency was hacked! This is like when the RIAA home page gets hacked. No operations were actually effected, because no one goes there anyway. No shut down the email servers, thats something else.

  7. Re:Nuclear Paranoia on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 2, Informative

    While beta radiation out side the skin is not that bad, a beta or even alpha source inside the body is very very bad. This is how Alexander Litvinenko was killed. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium

  8. Re:Nobody gives a fuck. Really. on How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV · · Score: 1

    Actually they do. I've had alot of people asking about google TV, as a replacement for cable. I've told them all so far don't bother yet. These restrictions create a consumer behavior, i.e. not buying shit.

  9. Must be the lack of death panels. on Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits · · Score: 1

    The Brits are just better at offing people by committee.

  10. Finally! on Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something R's and D's can come together and not support. UFO research!

  11. Re:Would these be illegal aliens? on Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens · · Score: 1

    Well they probably cross national borders too, so its clearly the UN's job.

  12. Re:Need does not equal capacity on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    I'll take that bet. I'm a racing driver, and since I race, I happen to know other racing drivers. Even at the amateur level, the drivers have a firm understanding of the physics. Could they crank out the equations? Probably not, but they could certainly explain the underpinnings.

    Now NASCAR drivers.. thats a different story.

  13. Looks like the firings didn't work on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSWAT00960720080606

    The Air Force has been long criticized over its handling of the nuclear stock pile. Missleers used to be a sought after job, but over the last few decades, its been a career dead end in the Air Force.

  14. Amazing! on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Next step? Lego C&C machine.

  15. Re:So what about the OS? on Blizzard Suing Creators of StarCraft II Hacks · · Score: 1

    What if I run it from a RAM disk? Am I breaking the ULA?

  16. CIA break the law? on Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones · · Score: -1, Redundant

    By continuing to use the drones with unlicensed software? No why they would do that! Not a chance!

  17. All it proves.... on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 1

    Is that their networks are very poorly designed. As its costs a lot of capitol to build a network, and these companies are more worried about wall-street then their customers. Their networks are built on the cheap, and are way oversubscribed.

  18. Easy on Finding Lost IT With RFID · · Score: 1

    Every year I find the 5 oldest systems in the data center and turn them off.. No outages so far, Hehe.

  19. This is what the teabag future looks like. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the teabaggers had their way, this is what government would run like.. A government by the people, for the people that can afford it.

    Now, what happens when there is a paperwork mistake and the fee had been paid? What if it were a case of arson, and stopping the building from burning would have preserved evidence? What does the insurance company do? Raise rates for every one in that town?

  20. Re:Wait a minute.. on Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple · · Score: 1

    Well just because all the phones have problems, doesn't mean that apple wants to strive to be better. What if the head of the OSX group put out a product as bad as Windows Vista? Should he not get fired because hey, Vista has problems too.

    Now, if you take Apple at its word that its antenna performance is as good (or bad) as every one else, isn't it still possible, that they wanted it to be better, but it didn't turn out that way?

  21. Color Coded? on Irish Gov't Invests In Color-Coded Fiber Optics · · Score: 1

    You mean DWDM and CWDM? Thats been around for a decade. I was deploying it in DC in 2003.

  22. Wha? on TSA Internally Blocking Websites With 'Controversial Opinions' · · Score: 1

    TSA agents can read?

  23. How to understand the public. on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    Think of the stupidest person you know. Then add more stupid.

  24. The Brain. on Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond · · Score: 1

    Well, when you start thinking about 10^6 or more cores, is pretty obvious that they cannot all be connected to each other and cannot all share memory. At that point your in the realm of neural networking, and are looking at many many serial (and parallel) tasks running in parallel.

    When you look at the brain, it has evolved so that different areas have different purposes and techniques for processing data. There are some very highly specialized systems in there for very specific problems.

  25. Re:Reminds me of Hillis on Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond · · Score: 2, Informative

    The CM-1 has 65,536 one bit processors. The CM-5 was in Jurassic Park, and some phone companies.