You are reading this post in my voice while experiencing the taste of nice crunchy apples in your mouth-parts!
The Professor
I don't understand how this is news. It has long been known that you hear better when your eyes are closed, or you can juggle better when someone isn't jumping in your face and screaming at you. Why should it be any surprise that taste isn't affected by noise/colour/texture?
I think it's pretty appropriate for a large tunnel expecting to get that many trains in it on a regular basis. I can see this as the basis of a KY - "Tube" advert.
Westerners often think the black belt in karate is the pinnacle, when indeed your first black belt is just the beginning of a lifelong journey. Most schools go to 9-dan (kyuudan) and have an honorary 10-dan or 11-dan ranking for the highest practitioner in the world.
Another example of how Spinal Tap had the right of it. Very insightful for a Western Band.
Because you might have to, umm, provide some assurances that the information you leaked is correct? People who give information to wikileaks are guaranteed their identity will be kept secret. Otherwise I could cook up anything and submit it anonymously. Nobody would give any credence to anything leaked via proxychain/tor anonymously to 4chan. That wikileaks protects the identity of its sources is what makes them special.
Ever since man invented the wall, first around his own house, then around the village and eventually around an entire city, they have still kept locks on their doors (where available)
If something penetrates the outer defence you need to keep yourself secure in your own dwelling, and you also need to have some security against a threat from within.
Firewalls should be on every PC capable of storing information separate from the server (so, a dumb terminal needs no security beyond logon scripts etc)
I am a Nigerian Prince and I have a URL for you, which when accessed will give you access to 10 million dollers,
Unfortunately I cannot post the link on this site, but if you visit wvw.stealyouraccountdata.c0m I can give you the direct link to near unlimited wealth!
Please to help me as if 2 thousands of people visit the site, I shall be freed from jail. I am Nigerian prince, and have lots of money, so you can be sure this no is scam. I also recently found 4,000km large diamond which I try to smuggle out from jail. I share with you when I am free.
Yes, that's the point of the class, but what is the point of the exam?
The exam should either be written so that no person/group/resource outside the exam is capable of helping you, or the exam should be a live demonstration of the applications of what you are studying, to prove you didn't just remember it or find it out from someone else.
Other posters have commented that there are certain professions where you cannot have the safety net of someone telling you what needs to be done. And in most (if not all) of those professions, aptitude is tested by demonstration, not examination. I'm referring to doctors/pilots/building technicians. So any exam that is testing whether someone can regurgitate classroom information has only one function, testing memory. But if you are going to allow open-book, or use of course notes in the exam, then you should be allowing access to all sources of information pertaining to the exam that the examinee isn't expected to remember for him or herself.
Someone who fails at the first, basic, problem solving step of the examination, who requires to be 'fed' the answer from an outside source via IM, will soon be picked up when applying for a job, or when trying to get into a position whereby demonstration of aptitude is required.
Blocking the ability to IM for an answer only does one thing to the people who are incapable of answering the question for themselves. It forces them to use another method of cheating.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I speak for all foreigners when I say that America is already very taxing.
Wait, it isn't? It said something about computer run times. Run time isn't a new name for fetch cycle?
This is why they need to launch it from a ship, which itself was built by another ship, from international waters.
If that doesn't work, I have these schematics for a giant wooden badger.
I always thought that the replicators were made of Lego. But when the 'human' replicators appears it shattered my pre-conceptions.
Who steals a 10-year-old Laptop?
For Windows, I take it the known-good state is the Off state?
Good News Everybody!
You are reading this post in my voice while experiencing the taste of nice crunchy apples in your mouth-parts!
The Professor
I don't understand how this is news. It has long been known that you hear better when your eyes are closed, or you can juggle better when someone isn't jumping in your face and screaming at you. Why should it be any surprise that taste isn't affected by noise/colour/texture?
I think it's pretty appropriate for a large tunnel expecting to get that many trains in it on a regular basis. I can see this as the basis of a KY - "Tube" advert.
"Gotthard? Get KY-Tube!"
He's Pond, James Pond.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond
Nobody? I think Google is totally trolling the RIAA by signing the response as though written by James Pond.
Westerners often think the black belt in karate is the pinnacle, when indeed your first black belt is just the beginning of a lifelong journey. Most schools go to 9-dan (kyuudan) and have an honorary 10-dan or 11-dan ranking for the highest practitioner in the world.
Another example of how Spinal Tap had the right of it. Very insightful for a Western Band.
Read "Fallen Dragon" by Peter F. Hamilton (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Dragon)
They have "Skin Suits" of artificial muscle, which is very close to what you describe.
These suits, however, are worn by humans, and are not 'cyberorganisms'.
(and 89 is to be the year of the Linux holodeck neural interface.
So there's no games for the holodeck?
Because you might have to, umm, provide some assurances that the information you leaked is correct? People who give information to wikileaks are guaranteed their identity will be kept secret. Otherwise I could cook up anything and submit it anonymously. Nobody would give any credence to anything leaked via proxychain/tor anonymously to 4chan. That wikileaks protects the identity of its sources is what makes them special.
And because the admins of 4chan might just out you for the lulz
The Tranny saw us Sex?
If curse words become a part of normally accepted speech, what in tarnation will we use for curse words then???
CTFY (Cleaned That For You)
Ever since man invented the wall, first around his own house, then around the village and eventually around an entire city, they have still kept locks on their doors (where available)
If something penetrates the outer defence you need to keep yourself secure in your own dwelling, and you also need to have some security against a threat from within.
Firewalls should be on every PC capable of storing information separate from the server (so, a dumb terminal needs no security beyond logon scripts etc)
The End.
Electrical insulation?
NoScript > Copyright Protect
Old Spice Man strikes again!
I am a Nigerian Prince and I have a URL for you, which when accessed will give you access to 10 million dollers,
Unfortunately I cannot post the link on this site, but if you visit wvw.stealyouraccountdata.c0m I can give you the direct link to near unlimited wealth!
Please to help me as if 2 thousands of people visit the site, I shall be freed from jail. I am Nigerian prince, and have lots of money, so you can be sure this no is scam. I also recently found 4,000km large diamond which I try to smuggle out from jail. I share with you when I am free.
Sincrly
Nigerian Prince
Yes, that's the point of the class, but what is the point of the exam?
The exam should either be written so that no person/group/resource outside the exam is capable of helping you, or the exam should be a live demonstration of the applications of what you are studying, to prove you didn't just remember it or find it out from someone else.
Other posters have commented that there are certain professions where you cannot have the safety net of someone telling you what needs to be done. And in most (if not all) of those professions, aptitude is tested by demonstration, not examination. I'm referring to doctors/pilots/building technicians. So any exam that is testing whether someone can regurgitate classroom information has only one function, testing memory. But if you are going to allow open-book, or use of course notes in the exam, then you should be allowing access to all sources of information pertaining to the exam that the examinee isn't expected to remember for him or herself.
Someone who fails at the first, basic, problem solving step of the examination, who requires to be 'fed' the answer from an outside source via IM, will soon be picked up when applying for a job, or when trying to get into a position whereby demonstration of aptitude is required.
Blocking the ability to IM for an answer only does one thing to the people who are incapable of answering the question for themselves. It forces them to use another method of cheating.
ABACUS 33.3 (recurring of course) % more efficient
Isn't that also reflective of the real world? If I have a problem with a piece of equipment, why shouldn't I be able to get in touch with an expert?
What exactly is wrong with having a Unique ID number?
People with lower UIDs end up with a superiority complex.