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  1. Re:Plagiarism? or Ghost writing? Outsourcing? on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    No, it does not. Read the FIRST TWO WORDS:
    to steal

    It isn't theft if you paid.

  2. Re:Plagiarism? or Ghost writing? Outsourcing? on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    Because they don't rely on knowing, they look up the definitions of things?

    It's clearly, clearly, not citation. Otherwise, ghostwriting would be plagiarism, and no one (conventional) thinks that is the case.

    Plagiarism is use of someone else's work without citation OR permission. The OR clause is absolutely essential to the definition.

  3. Re:Plagiarism? or Ghost writing? Outsourcing? on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not plagiarizing if you have permission, which having purchased the paper, you have.

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarizing

  4. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Men who have both husbands and wives and leave their wives behind when they take their husbands to the stripclubs are the worst sort of immoral douchebags in the world.

  5. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 1

    That's why those are illegal in a growing number of states.

  6. Re:define lobbyist... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1

    Only in public.

  7. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the implication is that the situation doesn't change for you. If your employer switches health plans under the previous system, you were screwed too. Nothing got worse.

  8. Re:define lobbyist... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I would consider it an acceptable hurdle to say that entry into public service means severing all personal ties to lobbyists.

  9. Re:Everybody does it... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which leaves me facing the next election to choose between the candidate who says he'll do things I care about, but won't, and the candidate who says he'll do things I hate, and will.

    Sigh.

  10. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Interesting that both you and the gp apparently read that campaign promise as an employer. I always assumed he meant it for the employees, for which it is, generally, quite true.

  11. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 1

    So, he's supposed to be stupid, and take the $150K rather than the $350K? 200K is a lot of financial incentive to file the lawsuit.

  12. Re:Are You Taking Notes, Ghyslain Raza? on "David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family · · Score: 1

    It's not just that we disapprove of what they do. There are public health consequences that cost us tax dollars. What you do behind closed doors often leaks out into public financing, and when it does, it is no longer just 'your business'.

  13. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    However, unlicensed over-powered operation in the wifi band is still a no-no that the fcc will investigate.

  14. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Intentional transmitters are subject to power limitations, unintentional transmitters are subject to fines.

  15. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    It's not true. Wireless can be interfered with by microwaves. I can demonstrate it with your choice of two microwaves, on separate power circuits from the router, and can show you that a 1500 watt heater does not interfere, even 20 feet closer to the router.

  16. report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let them track it down for you, it's their job. Have your neighbors report the problem also. For 3 reports they'll be there next day with triangulation equipment.

  17. Re:OBAMA MY *SS on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    It's a nice notion, but think about the spinup time for the industry Obama would have to build to tackle this problem. The fact is that only the oil companies have the technology in place to do this, he must rely on at least one of them to fix this in any sort of reasonable time frame (and time is of the essence ... we can't wait a year or two for a federal effort, and we'd be lucky if the feds could do anything that quickly). He could pick a different oil company, though, and have BP pay one of its competitors to clean up the mess, which would be fitting, if only there was a deserving competitor.

  18. Re:the empty set on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Right, but why get a tattoo of the symbol when you can get a tattoo of the realization so much cheaper?

  19. just assume you will fail on Security For Open Source Web Projects? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Assume your server will be rooted. Minimize the damage that can be caused, and maximize the information you can get to defeat the next attack. So:

    Have everything backed up to something physically separated from the target.
    Have lots of logging to analyze in the event of an attack.
    If you have other more conventional stuff you want to keep up, have a spare server with everything minus the game ready to switch in after an attack.

  20. Re:Ah My on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Apparently, we're both wrong:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions#Blast_damage

    There is apparently an optimal height for maximum surface damage, and it depends on the yield.

    So getting into the helicopter may or may not be the right decision, depending on how high you can get it vs the yield.

  21. Re:Backwards on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Ah My on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Based on the relatively low damage that occurs when you detonate a nuclear bomb at altitude vs at ground level, could you explain why that is a bad idea in the antimatter case?

  23. Re:Imagine the uproar if it was the other way roun on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    If you've reached the point where you have a regime, you've got oppression.

    And I'll even narrow that further. Any violation of:
    http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

    makes you oppressive. There is your thin red line, with a robust legal ground standing beneath it.

  24. Re:Only one way this can end on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    How about 'I like big butts'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug
    The irony of course being that Mohammad was a pedophile, and would have hated big butts.

  25. Re:8==D O: Muhammad sucking a big cock on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    That doesn't seem very hard ... just filter out that short segment of the html.