Slippery slope. Today it's light bulbs, tomorrow it's thoughts.
I'd like the freedom to make bad decisions, please. Let me use inefficient light bulbs, drive around without a seat belt, and smoke cigarettes outside the office.
I think that by "cyber cheating," which is really an unnecessary phrase, since it's really just "cheating," what's meant is stuff like downloading solution manuals and using Cramster.
I'm a physics major, and my experience has been seeing a lot of engineering majors using Cramster incessantly, after maybe trying to work the problem for a couple of minutes. You can say they're only "cheating themselves," but really this sort of academic dishonesty is going to tarnish our university's reputation as well, as someone at some point will recognize the pattern of "engineers from school X are often crappy."
Usually exams are a way of detecting this sort of cheating, but a couple of my professors give take-home exams occasionally.
Hell, I've used a solution manual a couple of times, but I have the foresight required to realize that in order to excel at my profession, I need to know my stuff, and that requires working through problem sets diligently and determinedly.
There are others who are in the same boat as I -- guilty of "cybercheating," but not to a significant extent. I'd be more interested in seeing the percentage of undergrads who do "cybercheat" significantly, which I'm sure is much lower than 61.9%.
First of all, he's not going to get sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Do you have any idea how big of a shit-storm would result from the US trying to press charges? It's common knowledge that the man didn't even commit a crime (minus whatever might have happened with those two women). He's just realized that due process doesn't apply to celebrities, and in this case it's not to his advantage.
From TFA: Rosenau said House Bill 302 will probably never see the light of day...
However, the fact that it's even being considered is worrying.
It's another signpost on a road that seems to be heading for a generation of credulous morons. I don't see any significant barricades.
I'm fairly sure that most/. readers recognize the story as complete crap.
Every once in a while a story will be posted that makes me question whether I need to find a new news site.
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Slippery slope. Today it's light bulbs, tomorrow it's thoughts.
I'd like the freedom to make bad decisions, please. Let me use inefficient light bulbs, drive around without a seat belt, and smoke cigarettes outside the office.
(... hard enough.)
I think that by "cyber cheating," which is really an unnecessary phrase, since it's really just "cheating," what's meant is stuff like downloading solution manuals and using Cramster.
I'm a physics major, and my experience has been seeing a lot of engineering majors using Cramster incessantly, after maybe trying to work the problem for a couple of minutes. You can say they're only "cheating themselves," but really this sort of academic dishonesty is going to tarnish our university's reputation as well, as someone at some point will recognize the pattern of "engineers from school X are often crappy."
Usually exams are a way of detecting this sort of cheating, but a couple of my professors give take-home exams occasionally.
Hell, I've used a solution manual a couple of times, but I have the foresight required to realize that in order to excel at my profession, I need to know my stuff, and that requires working through problem sets diligently and determinedly.
There are others who are in the same boat as I -- guilty of "cybercheating," but not to a significant extent. I'd be more interested in seeing the percentage of undergrads who do "cybercheat" significantly, which I'm sure is much lower than 61.9%.
First of all, he's not going to get sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Do you have any idea how big of a shit-storm would result from the US trying to press charges? It's common knowledge that the man didn't even commit a crime (minus whatever might have happened with those two women). He's just realized that due process doesn't apply to celebrities, and in this case it's not to his advantage.
From TFA:
Rosenau said House Bill 302 will probably never see the light of day...
However, the fact that it's even being considered is worrying. It's another signpost on a road that seems to be heading for a generation of credulous morons. I don't see any significant barricades.
I'm fairly sure that most /. readers recognize the story as complete crap.
Every once in a while a story will be posted that makes me question whether I need to find a new news site.