Same thing here. I got my degree in Compsci, and started a few courses on Sociology. There's a lot of stuff to read, and If I buy all the books from a single course, I'd end with 20 of them by the end of the year, a no-go. Fortunately, in Argentina, copying at universities is more legitimated, teachers even encourage their students to copy the books they wrote if they can't buy the real thing. Somehow, book publishers still exist and don't try to install a police state. Go figure.:-/
Often times, our professors would hand out maybe one or 2 chapters of a book in printed form, to keep students from having to pay for the whole book.
if that is what's considered acceptable practice at GSU, then yes: it sound sound like copyright violations. From my perspective, "fair use" means quoting a soundbite-sized portion - maybe a conclusion or a few sentences that support a proposition. It definitely should NOT cover giving students enough material that they don't have to buy textbooks.
I do think the monitoring proposals sound a little extreme, but if large-scale copying is rampant at that university, then something needs to be done to stop it - and to ensure it IS stopped.
Let's put it this way: if I had to buy all the books of which I read only a single chapter or two for a single Sociology course, I'd be bankrupt by now. Indeed, this single course would cost me more than my entire Engineering degree (I'm not joking). Some books are worth the buy; most aren't, not for a single chapter at least. Libraries have only so many copies, and budget for them is always at a minimum. Let's add to this stew that they earn less than a STEM graduate, and you may have at least some empathy instead of plain and pompous stupidity. Large scale copying isn't solved with laws or injunctions: we have them and don't do squat.
It's not that they don't know better, it's that they don't care. My sis fell for that fake AV pop up, even though she had an antivirus installed with a different UI and is reasonably technology-trained.
Personally I think the argument can be made that the loudest protestors against the TSA are overly neurotic and likely sexually repressed. So a TSA touched you, big deal. What are you, a Victorian schoolmarm, any physical contact is a crime against humanity?
That's not the point: the point is that it's an unnecessary procedure and, in the case of groping a baby or a 3-year-old girl and prohibiting someone of carrying water into the airplane, hyperbolically stupid. Some people are more sensitive to this kind of stuff, some people less, but they both agree that it's stupid and expensive!
Yeah, I agree with you: I was looking at the PBS page when I wrote that comment, not Drudge Report.:P
And you my friend, like me, correctly guessed that the page has been the same since the 90' (they broke the Lewinsky scandal): it's the bold letters, isn't it? Maybe they lost the admin password and they are stuck with the original html... and it's ugly.
I see the issue here. It shouldn't be studied as a sensible hypotesis, but as part of biology's history, much like Lamarckism.
On a personal note, a teacher talked about Creationism on a Biology class while I was in high school (back in 98). Guess what? It lasted no more than thirty minutes. Then, we went on to the real stuff, you know, the one that took 3 years to explain completely.
For every improperly classified document they release, they're releasing thousands of things that should be kept secret.
They aren't competent to do what they are doing, and we're not safe as long as they are making these mistakes.
Are you crazy?! Thanks to Wikileaks, the operation to capture one of America's most wanted criminals, which had lagged for more than two years, happened in a couple of days. If only my projects were the same...
In Argentina, it's handled that way, with symbolic fees for undergrad courses. Once you get to grad's it's assumed you can pay for it, unless Conicet gives you another free ride.
Wow, if you don't understand that "providing education to people who could otherwise not afford it" will create a "better educated population and workforce", you're too fucking stupid to argue with. You are disagreeing with a god damn tautology.
'Microsoft intends to utilize its patents to control the activities of and extract fees from the designers, developers, and manufacturers of devices, including tablets, eReaders, and other mobile devices, that employ the Android Operating System.'
It would be a strange system where a patent holder couldn't do these things. What precisely does B&N think patents are for?
You raise an interesting point. If you weren't allowed to charge patent fees, then patent trolls and this kind of things wouldn't exist. That's a cool notion!
Well, they did banned search results for Judge "Barú Budu Budía" and Diego Maradona. They are easily and legally hopped, so even though Argentina is far from perfect, I agree with you.
That would be a cool idea for an Adidas or Nike ad.
Einstein relativity theory: when you are moving, the time of the world around you goes faster and your time is slower. The faster you go, the longer you think, the longer you live. The world turns into a blaze of events, unimportant things are even more insignificant... and everyone else sees you resilient and stoic.
So the article went straight from that wonderfully enlightened bill and went for creationism? Not partner preference, abortion, unsafe health conditions, or stem cells?
Finally! I thought I was the only one in/. thinking "Great! Now, biology teachers can talk freely about marijuana, clonation, stem cell research and the rest of stuff with substance...".
Slashdot Mirror
Same thing here. I got my degree in Compsci, and started a few courses on Sociology. There's a lot of stuff to read, and If I buy all the books from a single course, I'd end with 20 of them by the end of the year, a no-go. Fortunately, in Argentina, copying at universities is more legitimated, teachers even encourage their students to copy the books they wrote if they can't buy the real thing. Somehow, book publishers still exist and don't try to install a police state. Go figure. :-/
Often times, our professors would hand out maybe one or 2 chapters of a book in printed form, to keep students from having to pay for the whole book.
if that is what's considered acceptable practice at GSU, then yes: it sound sound like copyright violations. From my perspective, "fair use" means quoting a soundbite-sized portion - maybe a conclusion or a few sentences that support a proposition. It definitely should NOT cover giving students enough material that they don't have to buy textbooks. I do think the monitoring proposals sound a little extreme, but if large-scale copying is rampant at that university, then something needs to be done to stop it - and to ensure it IS stopped.
Let's put it this way: if I had to buy all the books of which I read only a single chapter or two for a single Sociology course, I'd be bankrupt by now. Indeed, this single course would cost me more than my entire Engineering degree (I'm not joking). Some books are worth the buy; most aren't, not for a single chapter at least. Libraries have only so many copies, and budget for them is always at a minimum. Let's add to this stew that they earn less than a STEM graduate, and you may have at least some empathy instead of plain and pompous stupidity. Large scale copying isn't solved with laws or injunctions: we have them and don't do squat.
It's not that they don't know better, it's that they don't care. My sis fell for that fake AV pop up, even though she had an antivirus installed with a different UI and is reasonably technology-trained.
Ha! After reading this comment of yours, I'm marking you as "Friend".
The US is preserving /* the last remaining known */ strains of smallpox in case they are needed to develop bio-warfare 'countermeasures'
Same as Anthrax, it wasn't for weapons. Even though a U.S. scientist used it and caused mayhem, is just an unfortunate episode.
There's no way it's going to be used on weapons or for terrorism, or end in the wrong hands altogether. Nope, there isn't.
</sarcasm>
Slashdotted already... man, the article has been up like what, thirty minutes?
They are Wikipedia and National Statistics centers.
So that's the piece of news? I remember hearing about HP's memristors since 2007/8, and was intrigued by this reporting...
Personally I think the argument can be made that the loudest protestors against the TSA are overly neurotic and likely sexually repressed. So a TSA touched you, big deal. What are you, a Victorian schoolmarm, any physical contact is a crime against humanity?
That's not the point: the point is that it's an unnecessary procedure and, in the case of groping a baby or a 3-year-old girl and prohibiting someone of carrying water into the airplane, hyperbolically stupid. Some people are more sensitive to this kind of stuff, some people less, but they both agree that it's stupid and expensive!
Yeah, I agree with you: I was looking at the PBS page when I wrote that comment, not Drudge Report. :P
And you my friend, like me, correctly guessed that the page has been the same since the 90' (they broke the Lewinsky scandal): it's the bold letters, isn't it? Maybe they lost the admin password and they are stuck with the original html... and it's ugly.
Changed my mind, see below. :P
I was reading the PBS site.
Wow. Drudge Report is ugly: maybe it's the bold letters, so 90'. Although I am aesthetically retarded, I can tell I don't like the page design. :P
It might just be my connection, but for being such an important site, DrudgeReport.com is one uuuuugly site.
Really? I liked it! :) Perhaps it can be cleaner, but it's not ugly.
I see the issue here. It shouldn't be studied as a sensible hypotesis, but as part of biology's history, much like Lamarckism.
On a personal note, a teacher talked about Creationism on a Biology class while I was in high school (back in 98). Guess what? It lasted no more than thirty minutes. Then, we went on to the real stuff, you know, the one that took 3 years to explain completely.
For every improperly classified document they release, they're releasing thousands of things that should be kept secret.
They aren't competent to do what they are doing, and we're not safe as long as they are making these mistakes.
Are you crazy?! Thanks to Wikileaks, the operation to capture one of America's most wanted criminals, which had lagged for more than two years, happened in a couple of days. If only my projects were the same...
In Argentina, it's handled that way, with symbolic fees for undergrad courses. Once you get to grad's it's assumed you can pay for it, unless Conicet gives you another free ride.
Sure, it's expensive, but I pay happily for it.
Wow, if you don't understand that "providing education to people who could otherwise not afford it" will create a "better educated population and workforce", you're too fucking stupid to argue with. You are disagreeing with a god damn tautology.
Mod you up.
'Microsoft intends to utilize its patents to control the activities of and extract fees from the designers, developers, and manufacturers of devices, including tablets, eReaders, and other mobile devices, that employ the Android Operating System.'
It would be a strange system where a patent holder couldn't do these things. What precisely does B&N think patents are for?
You raise an interesting point. If you weren't allowed to charge patent fees, then patent trolls and this kind of things wouldn't exist. That's a cool notion!
"Heavy BSM"?
I guess my mind is corrupt...
Well, they did banned search results for Judge "Barú Budu Budía" and Diego Maradona. They are easily and legally hopped, so even though Argentina is far from perfect, I agree with you.
That would be a cool idea for an Adidas or Nike ad.
Einstein relativity theory: when you are moving, the time of the world around you goes faster and your time is slower. The faster you go, the longer you think, the longer you live. The world turns into a blaze of events, unimportant things are even more insignificant... and everyone else sees you resilient and stoic.
Or some crap like that...
What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane?
You die, unless you are Vesna Vulovi
So the article went straight from that wonderfully enlightened bill and went for creationism? Not partner preference, abortion, unsafe health conditions, or stem cells?
Finally! I thought I was the only one in /. thinking "Great! Now, biology teachers can talk freely about marijuana, clonation, stem cell research and the rest of stuff with substance...".
GP is confusing Salvia with LHC
FTFY
They should have said "This ride is about 20% cooler"