What actually happens to stop cheating is this: they notice far too many people getting As on exams so they keep cranking up the difficulty of the exams year-after-year until only the cheaters have a chance at getting As. The average grade falls (as honest students barely pass) so the teachers feel like they succeeded!
It depends on the class. My school tended to have official "practice" exams freely available. Actual exams were not typically available because the same (or substantially similar) questions were used each quarter, so the answers could be memorized (at least in fill-in-the-black form).
It is generally a bad idea to alienate those you work with every day, and I'm sure my protests would not have made a dent in the systemic problem.
The real solution is to make cheating infeasible by grading only work done in class and never re-using exam questions in forms that can be solved by someone who memorized a specific template for a specific question.
I suspect there are serious cultural differences regarding cheating. For example: at my university, the Indian comp-sci students all knew each other and held regular "study sessions." I was once invited to one. I was amazed to observe that it was simply a highly-organized cheating exercise. These guys had graded homework assignments and exams from all classes, and they passed them around, casually copying solutions verbatim to their homework assignments and recording exam answers. They begged me for all of my exams and homework assignments from current and previous tests so that they could add them to their collection. And they didn't see anything wrong with this.
What I found particularly amusing was how amazed they were at my abilities at coming up with solutions when we had non-trivial group projects. "How did you know that would work?" they would ask. I had to try hard to avoid saying "I don't cheat so I have to actually understand the material to pass the classes."
I can't think of anything less important than seeing phonebook-style data made public. Losing credit card numbers or bank account numbers for large groups is bad; losing email addresses is not.
I will throw out my bluetooth devices as soon as they develop stereo bluetooth headphones which don't have 1,000+ ms of lag!
Whoever designed bluetooth 2.2 must have had some strange use-cases under consideration. Next time consider the fact that people might like their sound to match their videos and games, buddy.
The mistake you are making is that you are forgetting that confidentiality is the most important property of many sorts of data. Availability and integrity are important, too, but companies routinely test to ensure their systems are reliable with a given system version.
Bugs with could allow sensitive data to be disclosed are fundamentally more important. Treating them the same is a disservice to customers.
Alerting people that there are unpatched security holes in earlier versions is exactly what he should be doing. Perhaps they don't prioritize vulnerabilities differently in their development process internally, but those of us who use their software certainly treat security problems differently!/. car analogy warning: would you rather buy a car from a company that treated a recall about the engine exploding and killing you the same way they treat a recall about the light in the trunk failing?
Since when does the kernel team practice security-through-obscurity? It is essential to know when security fixes are available. Many organizations only patch stable systems if there is a security problem.
"Providing incentive" to not get raped, scammed, robbed, vandalized, etc. via raping, scamming, robbing, vandalizing, etc. is not a service to society. It is wicked to suggest as much, and anyone who does so does not deserve the courtesy of etiquette.
People like you could reason away genocide, I imagine. You're still wrong.
Visiting "that neighborhood" is active participation. Drinking the drink someone gave you is "active participation."
Your post is absolute drivel. Scamming old people with Alzheimer's disease out of hundreds of dollars does not serve a social purpose. It is bad in any light. You are a moron.
The security industry works by reputation. Having published research (ex: "CVE 8675309 discovered by Joe Haxo of Secu-Tech Consulting") bolsters your reputation.
Security researchers want vendors to disclose and patch the vulnerabilities, recognizing the researchers by name.
If the vendors ignore the researchers, the researchers have no obligation toward the vendors. Hence, 0-day publication. If you let vendors sit on your research forever, someone may beat you to the punch and publish anyway.
Your logic is perfect. These scammers really do serve a purpose, as do rapists. If only their "victims" were acting less sexy and vulnerable! This will provide them an incentive.
Instead of chasing every new fad device, why doesn't Ubuntu focus more resources on QA of existing hardware support? Three of the four WiFi cards I have don't work with Ubuntu 10.04. And they aren't broken due to some manufacturer's folly: the drivers to make the work exist, they are just compiled with the wrong options by Ubuntu.
Ubuntu needs to spend those resources on TESTING their new software to make sure it works with common hardware before it is released.
Most methods of timely interstellar travel are prevented by the fact that fuel requirements increase exponentially with maximum speed. The only feasible means of interstellar travel according to our current understanding of physics is the Bussard Ramjet, which collects its fuel between the stars.
Nonsense. That's like saying Walgreens is competing against drug dealers.
No: Hulu is competing against other legal means of on-demand video distribution. The rights-holders may grant exclusivity to Hulu, in which case there really is no competition.
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What actually happens to stop cheating is this: they notice far too many people getting As on exams so they keep cranking up the difficulty of the exams year-after-year until only the cheaters have a chance at getting As. The average grade falls (as honest students barely pass) so the teachers feel like they succeeded!
Always ask for a percentage of revenue. It is much harder to lie about revenue than about profit.
It depends on the class. My school tended to have official "practice" exams freely available. Actual exams were not typically available because the same (or substantially similar) questions were used each quarter, so the answers could be memorized (at least in fill-in-the-black form).
It is generally a bad idea to alienate those you work with every day, and I'm sure my protests would not have made a dent in the systemic problem.
The real solution is to make cheating infeasible by grading only work done in class and never re-using exam questions in forms that can be solved by someone who memorized a specific template for a specific question.
I suspect there are serious cultural differences regarding cheating. For example: at my university, the Indian comp-sci students all knew each other and held regular "study sessions." I was once invited to one. I was amazed to observe that it was simply a highly-organized cheating exercise. These guys had graded homework assignments and exams from all classes, and they passed them around, casually copying solutions verbatim to their homework assignments and recording exam answers. They begged me for all of my exams and homework assignments from current and previous tests so that they could add them to their collection. And they didn't see anything wrong with this.
What I found particularly amusing was how amazed they were at my abilities at coming up with solutions when we had non-trivial group projects. "How did you know that would work?" they would ask. I had to try hard to avoid saying "I don't cheat so I have to actually understand the material to pass the classes."
I can't think of anything less important than seeing phonebook-style data made public. Losing credit card numbers or bank account numbers for large groups is bad; losing email addresses is not.
Isn't Groovy just Java-style Ruby? Ruby is about as dynamic as you can get...
I will throw out my bluetooth devices as soon as they develop stereo bluetooth headphones which don't have 1,000+ ms of lag!
Whoever designed bluetooth 2.2 must have had some strange use-cases under consideration. Next time consider the fact that people might like their sound to match their videos and games, buddy.
The mistake you are making is that you are forgetting that confidentiality is the most important property of many sorts of data. Availability and integrity are important, too, but companies routinely test to ensure their systems are reliable with a given system version.
Bugs with could allow sensitive data to be disclosed are fundamentally more important. Treating them the same is a disservice to customers.
In my city this isn't a problem at all. Perhaps your city has insufficient public trashcan coverage?
Alerting people that there are unpatched security holes in earlier versions is exactly what he should be doing. Perhaps they don't prioritize vulnerabilities differently in their development process internally, but those of us who use their software certainly treat security problems differently! /. car analogy warning: would you rather buy a car from a company that treated a recall about the engine exploding and killing you the same way they treat a recall about the light in the trunk failing?
Since when does the kernel team practice security-through-obscurity? It is essential to know when security fixes are available. Many organizations only patch stable systems if there is a security problem.
Yeah, but hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good lawyer at your side.
"Providing incentive" to not get raped, scammed, robbed, vandalized, etc. via raping, scamming, robbing, vandalizing, etc. is not a service to society. It is wicked to suggest as much, and anyone who does so does not deserve the courtesy of etiquette.
People like you could reason away genocide, I imagine. You're still wrong.
Visiting "that neighborhood" is active participation. Drinking the drink someone gave you is "active participation."
Your post is absolute drivel. Scamming old people with Alzheimer's disease out of hundreds of dollars does not serve a social purpose. It is bad in any light. You are a moron.
The security industry works by reputation. Having published research (ex: "CVE 8675309 discovered by Joe Haxo of Secu-Tech Consulting") bolsters your reputation.
Security researchers want vendors to disclose and patch the vulnerabilities, recognizing the researchers by name.
If the vendors ignore the researchers, the researchers have no obligation toward the vendors. Hence, 0-day publication. If you let vendors sit on your research forever, someone may beat you to the punch and publish anyway.
Your logic is perfect. These scammers really do serve a purpose, as do rapists. If only their "victims" were acting less sexy and vulnerable! This will provide them an incentive.
Their bottom line is not helped by having a reputation for poor hardware support.
Instead of chasing every new fad device, why doesn't Ubuntu focus more resources on QA of existing hardware support? Three of the four WiFi cards I have don't work with Ubuntu 10.04. And they aren't broken due to some manufacturer's folly: the drivers to make the work exist, they are just compiled with the wrong options by Ubuntu.
Ubuntu needs to spend those resources on TESTING their new software to make sure it works with common hardware before it is released.
Most methods of timely interstellar travel are prevented by the fact that fuel requirements increase exponentially with maximum speed. The only feasible means of interstellar travel according to our current understanding of physics is the Bussard Ramjet, which collects its fuel between the stars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
Of course, "science" is only a few hundred years old, and 'when an elder scientist says something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong'...
I love slashdot's bad car analogy tradition. Thanks for keeping it alive. That one was really bad.
"Most" is not "all." Steam's DRM stops people from playing games they own. It's as simple as that.
Nonsense. That's like saying Walgreens is competing against drug dealers.
No: Hulu is competing against other legal means of on-demand video distribution. The rights-holders may grant exclusivity to Hulu, in which case there really is no competition.
Your only legal alternative is to buy DVD sets for hundreds of dollars.
A divining rod can detect water, too. What matters is the false positive and false negative rate.