PlagiarismToday's classification of the common blogger practice of re-using large blocks of text/content from the original article or source, even when the source is attributed.
If it's attributed it ain't plagiarism. It may be unauthorized copying. And if you show something as a quote it's not plagiarism either even if it's unattributed. Deliberately passing it off as your own work is. If you forget to attribute something and it appears to be your own work it is plagiarism, but is a sin of ommision. The vast majority of plagiarism is a sin of commission. It's much easier to plagiarize today, but it's much easier to get caught. And it is the biggest literary sin you can commit.
A slightly lesser sin is to write a misleading slashdot story badly. It's OK for us commenters to be lazy and write poorly. There's less of an excuse to write a retarded headline. It should be Bloggers are the New Plagiarists or more accurately Rampant Copying in Blogs, Duh!.
Does anyone remember the Why ask why? Bud Dry commercials? My favorite of all time was "Why are foreign films so...foreign?" It made more sense that Final Fantasy, but that's not saying much. The bits of FF I watched made my head implode. Elephant's Dream was more of a huh? type film.
You can produce bio-diesel from a vast diversity of lifeforms as long as they contain lipids
Humans contain lipids.
So they'll start putting liposuction centers next to a biodiesel refinery?
This could solve the obesity crisis and energy crisis at the same time! Instead of driving around on your fat ass, you'll be driving around on your ass fat! So how much of this untapped resource is there? Let's see:
How many obese people are there in America?
What is the average weight of extra fat that people have?
Multipy the two numbers together we get the number of pounds of fat.
How many pounds of fat can we safely extract via liposuction per person per year?
Then we get the number of convertable pounds of fat per year.
How many pounds of fat does it take to produce one gallon of biodiesel?
Multiply that gallons per pound with the number of pounds available and we get the number of gallons of lipodiesel per year.
Should Middle East cut off the tap, it will become the patriotic duty of every overweight person to donate their fat for biodiesel production. We'll no longer have an obesity crisis. We'll have a Strategic Lipid Reserve.
All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others. Qwest happened to be surperlative in being a bad phone company, but this one act of refusing to turn over info to the NSA raises my opinion of them. Still, if it comes to not having a phone or going with Qwest. I'd choose no phone.
Even if Tamiflu becomes cheap and widely available, it'll probably suffer the same fate as Amantadine. It is another anti-viral medication. Thanks to the Chinese feeding it to their chickens, it's useless against bird-flu.
I'd like to know at what rate is H5N1 evolving and when it could mutate into a form transmissable by humans? I'm assuming it's a matter of time before it happens not a question of if.
First off, they should start advertising the health benefits of coffee or tea enemas while people are consuming their morning caffeine. Once you have your audience primed, that is if you can persuade people to put coffee up their ass, they'll buy anything.
Scalping has been a time honored tradition for concerts. Concert promoters decided to cut out the middleman and scalp directly. They saw that people would pay more for tickets and they decided to charge more. This trend has been going on far longer than illegal and legal P2P file sharing. Who in their right mind would pay $250 for a Madonna concert? You couldn't pay me to go to a Madonna concert. I'm not sure who I'd pay that much for. I might pay as much as $150 for a concert for someone I really wanted to see, but concert, plays and music tickets go regularly for up to $75 a pop.
Ever since employers couldn't give polygraphs anymore, they wanted some other mechanism to weed out applicants. Hence the personality tests. They want to test your narc-ness quotient (how well you snitch on fellow employees who hurt the bottom line) and test how loyal you'd be to the company to the detriment of your social life and your health. They want unquestioning employees that only show initiative when it comes to their profit.
The tests are dishonest and immoral. And should be outlawed.
Ever since they stopped posting Roland Piquepaille stories, the quality of slashdot headlines has dropped precipitously. I was never much of a fan of Roland's. And I enjoyed the bashing, but he leveraged himself into a better website. ZDNet, I think. Much like when I read rec.art.sf.written and had a huge killfile to filter out all the Robert Jordan posts. Then they got their own rec.art.sf.written.robert-jordan-sucks-er-I-mean-i s-awesome newsgroup. Half of the traffic went away overnight. I wouldn't say rarsw got worse. nor did it get better, but I missed making fun of the robert-jordanistas and the satisfaction of watching my killfile nuke hundreds upon hundreds of wheel of time posts.
But I digress. Nuclear environmentalists? Pshaw! Never! This has my vote for the worst headline ever. There is no bottom to this place. I don't know what has happened to slashdot, but it sucketh mightily of late. Misleading headlines, incoherent blurbs, and tardy story postings. I will read about what used to be a slashdot worthy posting days before slashdot posts it.
I'll go nuclear when I can have an atomic powered helicopter. So I take it the green these nuclear environmentalists will come from another source besides plants?
I somewhow doubt that you were ever a proper Randian.
I'm sure they would concur, because they would say if I were a true Randian I'd still be one. I got the term Objectionist from a friend of mine who was a philosophy major and didn't think too highly of them. Objectivist is about as accurate a description of them as is the name of the Moral Majority. Their worldview is logical and consistent, but like Zeno's Paradox we do not observe it in the real world.
I read one telling post that described the Wikipedia founder as an Ayn Randian acolyte. Ayn Rand's views are very compelling if you don't have knowledge of the wider world. So I went and read his profile and indeed he thinks very highly of Ayn Rand. As a recovering Randite, I'd recommend that you stop criticizing him and start your own Wiki-type site. Why? Because you are playing his game. Objectionists thrive on confrontation.
This will be marked troll or flamebait if an Ayn Randian with moderation points reads this.
There is no such thing as a stupid question. Only stupid people. Well, "Should companies delay products for more features?" is a stupid question. The only reason a company should delay is if it will make them more money in doing so. Like waiting till Christmas season to roll out a new game. Best to roll out WTF I early and incomplete while working on WTF II which will have cooler graphics but only be marginally better so people will have to buy the newer version. Delays happen for a variety of reasons, like poor planning or a fire destroys the factory. They don't have to be deliberate. Unless you are trying to build up the hype to grab more market share.
Somehow the new AT&T doesn't seem a whole lot different than the old AT&T. They are like the T1000 from T2. It gets chopped up but re-forms. I remember an old cartoon, a Bloom County, I think, that showed the AT&T symbol and they screamed "Death Star!"
"Look, Livingstone! We've found the secret holy Amiga burial ground."
"By Jove! You have. Who knew it would be buried deep within this box canyon with no outlet. There's an Amiga 2000, and a 3000. Wait...What's this? Do you see it, Didsdale? Do you see it?"
"My God, Livingstone! It's a fabled Video Toaster."
"Wait, Didsdale. Do you remember what the acolyte said at the Ruby on Rails Temple?"
"No, Livingstone. Refresh my memory."
"Th Amigians swore that any man who trespassed on the secret holy Amiga burial ground would never leave it alive!"
**schunk** **whoomp**
"Didsdale? Great Scott! There's a spear through Didsdales head!"
"You! you were the acolyte we met at the Ruby on Rails Temple."
"Very perceptive of you, Dr. Livingston."
"You'll not get away with this. I'll tell the whole world where the secret holy Amiga Burial Ground is."
"You do that, Dr. Livingston. No one will believe you or care. Bwa ha ha ha ha!"
"You... you mean you aren't going to kill me!"
"No, but before you go we must place this special brain control device on you."
"What? That iPod."
"Yes. Grab him fellow acolytes."
"Unhand me you fanatics. Get that thing away from me. Nooooooooooo.........."
Throwing GOD out IS throwing the baby out with the bath water which is what I interpret what your saying to be.
The bathwater is Creationism. The baby is God. Do you know what a metaphor is?
Since when is it deceptive to ask someone to think critically or logically? There was no worldwide flood. How did Noah get to Australia? How did God feed the Koalas that only eat fresh Eucalyptus leaves? The difference in ocean life on both sides of the Panama isthmus is greater than 80%. If there had been a great flood their would be a transfer of species and there would be more species in the Atlantic and Pacific.
You are probably one of those evangelical types who thinks the Catholic Pope eats a Protestant baby for breakfast every morning. It's not true. He only eats them on Fridays during Lent.
The blurb was poorly worded, so I went and read the story. And it didn't make much sense either. Intelligent Design is just Creationism dressed up in scientific clothing. Lots of pseudoscience proponets try to dress up their ideas under the guise of science. As the late great Richard Feynman so aptly called it Cargo Cult Science. They talk the talk, but when they attempt to walk the walk, they can't.
For years Johannes Kepler tried to make his observations fit his theory that the planetory orbits corresponded to the five perfect solids. He took the courageous step to reject his pet theory because it was wrong and came up with his three laws of planetary motion. They fit his observations better and made actual predictions. It was, it is testable.
The fundamentalists are trying to make their observations fit their 'theory'. Except they have no observations and a theory that is mere window dressing. The problem is most Christians forgot God was a metaphor and are trying to interpret their flavors of the Bible as absolute fact and history. You can still be a devout Christian and understand evolution and accept it happened (I'm not a Christian). By rejecting Creationism they don't have to reject their entire faith. That is to say they don't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
This good news for most slashdotters. Sitting in front of a computer, surfing for porn all day, and jackin' it is the leading cause of blindness in slashdotters. Because as their mother always tells them jerkin' off will make them go blind. Please give the Algae Fund today.
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PlagiarismToday's classification of the common blogger practice of re-using large blocks of text/content from the original article or source, even when the source is attributed.
If it's attributed it ain't plagiarism. It may be unauthorized copying. And if you show something as a quote it's not plagiarism either even if it's unattributed. Deliberately passing it off as your own work is. If you forget to attribute something and it appears to be your own work it is plagiarism, but is a sin of ommision. The vast majority of plagiarism is a sin of commission. It's much easier to plagiarize today, but it's much easier to get caught. And it is the biggest literary sin you can commit.
A slightly lesser sin is to write a misleading slashdot story badly. It's OK for us commenters to be lazy and write poorly. There's less of an excuse to write a retarded headline. It should be Bloggers are the New Plagiarists or more accurately Rampant Copying in Blogs, Duh!.
Does anyone remember the Why ask why? Bud Dry commercials? My favorite of all time was "Why are foreign films so...foreign?" It made more sense that Final Fantasy, but that's not saying much. The bits of FF I watched made my head implode. Elephant's Dream was more of a huh? type film.
It just goes to show our ancestors would screw just about anything.
So it really was planet of the apes back then.
This could solve the obesity crisis and energy crisis at the same time! Instead of driving around on your fat ass, you'll be driving around on your ass fat! So how much of this untapped resource is there? Let's see:
Should Middle East cut off the tap, it will become the patriotic duty of every overweight person to donate their fat for biodiesel production. We'll no longer have an obesity crisis. We'll have a Strategic Lipid Reserve.
"Of course, the study did not look at what men were able to tell about women by looking at photographs of their female body parts."
...mmm beer... ...football game on... ..oh man look at the hooters on her..."
Manthought, "Boy! I'd like to stick my...
Slashdotmanthought, "I better get some Kleenex."
All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others. Qwest happened to be surperlative in being a bad phone company, but this one act of refusing to turn over info to the NSA raises my opinion of them. Still, if it comes to not having a phone or going with Qwest. I'd choose no phone.
Even if Tamiflu becomes cheap and widely available, it'll probably suffer the same fate as Amantadine. It is another anti-viral medication. Thanks to the Chinese feeding it to their chickens, it's useless against bird-flu.
I'd like to know at what rate is H5N1 evolving and when it could mutate into a form transmissable by humans? I'm assuming it's a matter of time before it happens not a question of if.
<expletive deleted> Microsoft! I hope they eat <expletive deleted> and die. What a bunch of <expletive deleted>suckers. Mother<expletive deleted>s.
First off, they should start advertising the health benefits of coffee or tea enemas while people are consuming their morning caffeine. Once you have your audience primed, that is if you can persuade people to put coffee up their ass, they'll buy anything.
Scalping has been a time honored tradition for concerts. Concert promoters decided to cut out the middleman and scalp directly. They saw that people would pay more for tickets and they decided to charge more. This trend has been going on far longer than illegal and legal P2P file sharing. Who in their right mind would pay $250 for a Madonna concert? You couldn't pay me to go to a Madonna concert. I'm not sure who I'd pay that much for. I might pay as much as $150 for a concert for someone I really wanted to see, but concert, plays and music tickets go regularly for up to $75 a pop.
It's my understanding it's going to be based on Star Trek The Lost Gay Episode.
Ever since employers couldn't give polygraphs anymore, they wanted some other mechanism to weed out applicants. Hence the personality tests. They want to test your narc-ness quotient (how well you snitch on fellow employees who hurt the bottom line) and test how loyal you'd be to the company to the detriment of your social life and your health. They want unquestioning employees that only show initiative when it comes to their profit.
The tests are dishonest and immoral. And should be outlawed.
Ever since they stopped posting Roland Piquepaille stories, the quality of slashdot headlines has dropped precipitously. I was never much of a fan of Roland's. And I enjoyed the bashing, but he leveraged himself into a better website. ZDNet, I think. Much like when I read rec.art.sf.written and had a huge killfile to filter out all the Robert Jordan posts. Then they got their own rec.art.sf.written.robert-jordan-sucks-er-I-mean-i s-awesome newsgroup. Half of the traffic went away overnight. I wouldn't say rarsw got worse. nor did it get better, but I missed making fun of the robert-jordanistas and the satisfaction of watching my killfile nuke hundreds upon hundreds of wheel of time posts.
But I digress. Nuclear environmentalists? Pshaw! Never! This has my vote for the worst headline ever. There is no bottom to this place. I don't know what has happened to slashdot, but it sucketh mightily of late. Misleading headlines, incoherent blurbs, and tardy story postings. I will read about what used to be a slashdot worthy posting days before slashdot posts it.
I'll go nuclear when I can have an atomic powered helicopter. So I take it the green these nuclear environmentalists will come from another source besides plants?
I somewhow doubt that you were ever a proper Randian.
I'm sure they would concur, because they would say if I were a true Randian I'd still be one. I got the term Objectionist from a friend of mine who was a philosophy major and didn't think too highly of them. Objectivist is about as accurate a description of them as is the name of the Moral Majority. Their worldview is logical and consistent, but like Zeno's Paradox we do not observe it in the real world.
I read one telling post that described the Wikipedia founder as an Ayn Randian acolyte. Ayn Rand's views are very compelling if you don't have knowledge of the wider world. So I went and read his profile and indeed he thinks very highly of Ayn Rand. As a recovering Randite, I'd recommend that you stop criticizing him and start your own Wiki-type site. Why? Because you are playing his game. Objectionists thrive on confrontation.
This will be marked troll or flamebait if an Ayn Randian with moderation points reads this.
Add one shot of any cheap Scotch blend (Johnny Walker or Sheep Dip) and add a cup of Mountain Dew over ice. Enjoy!
There is no such thing as a stupid question. Only stupid people. Well, "Should companies delay products for more features?" is a stupid question . The only reason a company should delay is if it will make them more money in doing so. Like waiting till Christmas season to roll out a new game. Best to roll out WTF I early and incomplete while working on WTF II which will have cooler graphics but only be marginally better so people will have to buy the newer version. Delays happen for a variety of reasons, like poor planning or a fire destroys the factory. They don't have to be deliberate. Unless you are trying to build up the hype to grab more market share.
Somehow the new AT&T doesn't seem a whole lot different than the old AT&T. They are like the T1000 from T2. It gets chopped up but re-forms. I remember an old cartoon, a Bloom County, I think, that showed the AT&T symbol and they screamed "Death Star!"
"Look, Livingstone! We've found the secret holy Amiga burial ground."
"By Jove! You have. Who knew it would be buried deep within this box canyon with no outlet. There's an Amiga 2000, and a 3000. Wait...What's this? Do you see it, Didsdale? Do you see it?"
"My God, Livingstone! It's a fabled Video Toaster."
"Wait, Didsdale. Do you remember what the acolyte said at the Ruby on Rails Temple?"
"No, Livingstone. Refresh my memory."
"Th Amigians swore that any man who trespassed on the secret holy Amiga burial ground would never leave it alive!"
**schunk** **whoomp**
"Didsdale? Great Scott! There's a spear through Didsdales head!"
"You! you were the acolyte we met at the Ruby on Rails Temple."
"Very perceptive of you, Dr. Livingston."
"You'll not get away with this. I'll tell the whole world where the secret holy Amiga Burial Ground is."
"You do that, Dr. Livingston. No one will believe you or care. Bwa ha ha ha ha!"
"You... you mean you aren't going to kill me!"
"No, but before you go we must place this special brain control device on you."
"What? That iPod."
"Yes. Grab him fellow acolytes."
"Unhand me you fanatics. Get that thing away from me. Nooooooooooo.........."
doh. my bad. I meant to say there would be more species in common in the Atlantic and Pacific than there is had there been a great worldwide flood.
Throwing GOD out IS throwing the baby out with the bath water which is what I interpret what your saying to be. The bathwater is Creationism. The baby is God. Do you know what a metaphor is?
Since when is it deceptive to ask someone to think critically or logically? There was no worldwide flood. How did Noah get to Australia? How did God feed the Koalas that only eat fresh Eucalyptus leaves? The difference in ocean life on both sides of the Panama isthmus is greater than 80%. If there had been a great flood their would be a transfer of species and there would be more species in the Atlantic and Pacific.
You are probably one of those evangelical types who thinks the Catholic Pope eats a Protestant baby for breakfast every morning. It's not true. He only eats them on Fridays during Lent.
The blurb was poorly worded, so I went and read the story. And it didn't make much sense either. Intelligent Design is just Creationism dressed up in scientific clothing. Lots of pseudoscience proponets try to dress up their ideas under the guise of science. As the late great Richard Feynman so aptly called it Cargo Cult Science. They talk the talk, but when they attempt to walk the walk, they can't.
For years Johannes Kepler tried to make his observations fit his theory that the planetory orbits corresponded to the five perfect solids. He took the courageous step to reject his pet theory because it was wrong and came up with his three laws of planetary motion. They fit his observations better and made actual predictions. It was, it is testable.
The fundamentalists are trying to make their observations fit their 'theory'. Except they have no observations and a theory that is mere window dressing. The problem is most Christians forgot God was a metaphor and are trying to interpret their flavors of the Bible as absolute fact and history. You can still be a devout Christian and understand evolution and accept it happened (I'm not a Christian). By rejecting Creationism they don't have to reject their entire faith. That is to say they don't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Flaimbait, eh? I was expecting Troll at worst and Funny at best. I musta hit a nerve.
This good news for most slashdotters. Sitting in front of a computer, surfing for porn all day, and jackin' it is the leading cause of blindness in slashdotters. Because as their mother always tells them jerkin' off will make them go blind. Please give the Algae Fund today.