The professor can just wait until the match comes up, and then double-check at that point.
You'd want to do a thorough overview of any potential instance of cheating anyway. A quick run-through would determine whether or not a paper happened to contain an identical sentence clause or three identical paragraphs.
I think the bigger problem would be the second one you described -- that students could plagiarize and then go through each paragraph, changing the wording slightly so as to avoid positive matches. Still, you could argue that this is pretty much what academics is anyway, just with footnotes and a bibliography.
Post a picture of some hillbilly with a guitar, with the caption saying "I tunes my guitar!"
One thing I wanted to try once to piss off Microsoft was to get a picture of some swarthy Latino guy with his shirt off, and post a caption saying, "This is Amil. Isn't he hot?"
That's nothing. When a new retail store of some kind opens, on opening day they'll usually have a couple of girls in skimpy cheerleader outfits dancing outside on a platform to techno music, right until closing. They'll be surrounded by balloons, and one of them will be on a microphone beckoning pedestrians to go inside. It's fucking funny.
They'll do it for coffee shops, pet stores, you name it.
I realize you can't generalize based on your own anecdotal experience... but does anyone really send one or two-line emails anymore when IM is a hundred percent easier and instantaneous?
There's no doubt that IMing (et al) is huge over here, but a lot of that has to do with the big cell phone culture amongst the youth. They've streamlined it so that it's really easy to send messages to friends and whatnot. But you can also listen to music on cellphones over here as well. Does that mean Korea's going to replace all its stereo equipment with cellphones? You can take pictures with cellphones as well. Does that mean professional studios are going to give up their equipment and start doing portraits with cellphones? Maybe it's comparing apples and oranges, I don't know, but so long as electronic documents need to be looked at, people are going to need workstations or laptops. And so long as these are around, email's going to be a viable way to communicate.
It's not so much that email is on the wane that I'm skeptical about, it's the idea that email is only for old people. For instance, while I don't know from personal experience from having worked in a Korean company, I have a hard time believing that IMing (et al) is going to usurp email for business communications anytime soon.
I love Korea a lot, but it's got some drawbacks, particularly in its journalism and media. The impetus behind this article might have a lot less to do with the actual oncoming death of email and a lot more to do with maintaining a tech-obsessed culture -- much easier to do if you're constantly promoting new toys, which Korea is.
It'd be like a Hollywood tabloid saying that indipendent film is on the way out.
The ebb of email is confirmed by a diminishing trend in pageviews, a tabulation of frequency in service used by email users. Daum Communication, the top email business in the country, saw its email service pageviews fall over 20 percent from 3.9 billion in October last year to 3 billion in October this year. By contrast, with SK Telecom, the nation's No. 1 communication firm, monthly SMS transmissions skyrocketed over 40 percent in October from 2.7 billion instances last October. Cyworld, a representative mini-homepage firm, witnessed its pageviews multiply over 26-fold from 650 million instances in October last year to 17 billion in October this year.
This paragraph, for instance, is as much about corporate branding as it is about giving email stats.
Is the idea that Hollywood is full of liberals a credible one? How much influence do liberal (or Democrat) actors have as compared to distributors/production studio owners (who are presumably more conservative)?
Contemporary realism isn't talking about how realistic something is. It means the story or film takes place in a setting recognizable by our contemporary societal surroundings. It differentiates between stories that take place in a regular, everyday setting versus those that are allowed to have supernatural or speculative elements (such as fantasy/sci-fi/superhero), have distant historical motifs (westerns/medieval), or involve larger-than-life action (spy, war, etc.).
Announcer: [whispering] He's really close now, but does he know it...? This is the third time his attention has gone to that object constructor... oh, he's getting that look in his eyes... his time's running short... can he make it eleven weeks in a row?
Geek [looks up from the computer screen]: Uh... I think, um, maybe the way IDataHandler::IDataHandler() is written right now... it, uh, might lead to an operation on a null pointer later on?
[A Siren goes off, balloons fall from the ceiling]
Announcer: And our reigning champion does it AGAIN! A special thank you to our challenger, who really kept it close this week. We'll be RIGHT BACK with the bonus round, but first, a word from our sponsors...
[cut to a noose hanging from the ceiling]
Voice-Over: Life boring? Feeling like THIS is in your future?
As taken from today's rankings at DistroWatch. Of course, that leaves out Gnoppix, the author's first choice.
Now, if only we could find a holiday that was 357 days long. Or even better, make EVERY day a new Linux distribution day, with Hannukah being the 8-day reprieve from it -- can't imagine anything that would convert people to Judaism faster...
Does anybody know of some website or source that's been tracking these kinds of linux exploits, including the date and nature of both the exploits and the fixes?
There once was a man called Blunkett. Loyalty Programs? He tried to debunk it. But his views on privacy Were pure hypocrisy, So Britons everywhere said "Man, you flunk it!"
It's getting more and more obvious that the guys at the MPAA trying to figure out how to curb piracy are either (a) idiotic, (b) draconian, or (c) draconian idiots.
But it's not like they're not going to stop, and so long as they can lobby, it's not like anybody is going to be able to effectively curtail them. Assuming that it's (a) they're idiots, maybe we ought to start thinking up some ways that the MPAA gets what it wants -- no more piracy of their products -- and we get what we want -- no more of this treating-customers-like-criminals garbage.
So? Going with the idea that their solutions suck, what are good suggested solutions from the tech heads here? Surely (all "You must be new to/." jokes aside) there must be enough intelligent and creative people here to come up with some feasible copy-protection schemes, even if they aren't orthodox.
Here's one: Introduce a new media format that can't be copied easily by computer, have it decreed illegal to use the product on a computer, and market a sanctioned playing product for the media format at a low price.
Yeah, so there are a ton of flaws in that suggestion. Brainstorming is like that. Let's see if what suggestion we come up with that is the least flawed.
Heh, actually, there was (still is?) a provision in Canadian libel laws that said it didn't matter if you were reporting facts, but whether or not you were using those facts in an attempt to maliciously defame someone. Hard to prove that you're NOT doing this, and worse yet, the burden of proof that this was not the purpose of the published story relied upon the publisher. Good for curbing tabloid-style trash journalism, not so good for (eg) pointing out illegal practices by big Canadian-based companies in other countries.
Libel chill was (still is?) a big factor in Canadian media. It didn't matter if you were reporting a valid, newsworthy story. If the person being reported upon had deep pockets, and sensed that a story could hurt their image, they could lean on you to make sure that the story didn't come out. Worse yet, some smaller newspapers with intrepid reporters might have to have stories killed at the editorial level because the editor could sense what would or would not end up with a lawsuit landing on their doorstep.
IANAL, but I had to read up on this stuf in journalism classes. Couldn't the person have created one of those free anonymous web pages hosted in a foreign country with the libelous accusations, and referenced it with a hyperlink?
Slashdot Mirror
The professor can just wait until the match comes up, and then double-check at that point.
You'd want to do a thorough overview of any potential instance of cheating anyway. A quick run-through would determine whether or not a paper happened to contain an identical sentence clause or three identical paragraphs.
I think the bigger problem would be the second one you described -- that students could plagiarize and then go through each paragraph, changing the wording slightly so as to avoid positive matches. Still, you could argue that this is pretty much what academics is anyway, just with footnotes and a bibliography.
First banana
Post a picture of some hillbilly with a guitar, with the caption saying "I tunes my guitar!"
One thing I wanted to try once to piss off Microsoft was to get a picture of some swarthy Latino guy with his shirt off, and post a caption saying, "This is Amil. Isn't he hot?"
(think about it...)
Daegu. Where's Gangwondo?
Er... Are they selling source code?
I'd be satisfied watching Final Jeopardy alone, if anyone had it...
It's what came up when I googled "Narrator" in Korean. From a looks standpoint, they're identical.
http://www.chevent.co.kr/doumi/298806_2.jpg
That's nothing. When a new retail store of some kind opens, on opening day they'll usually have a couple of girls in skimpy cheerleader outfits dancing outside on a platform to techno music, right until closing. They'll be surrounded by balloons, and one of them will be on a microphone beckoning pedestrians to go inside. It's fucking funny.
They'll do it for coffee shops, pet stores, you name it.
I realize you can't generalize based on your own anecdotal experience... but does anyone really send one or two-line emails anymore when IM is a hundred percent easier and instantaneous?
There's no doubt that IMing (et al) is huge over here, but a lot of that has to do with the big cell phone culture amongst the youth. They've streamlined it so that it's really easy to send messages to friends and whatnot. But you can also listen to music on cellphones over here as well. Does that mean Korea's going to replace all its stereo equipment with cellphones? You can take pictures with cellphones as well. Does that mean professional studios are going to give up their equipment and start doing portraits with cellphones? Maybe it's comparing apples and oranges, I don't know, but so long as electronic documents need to be looked at, people are going to need workstations or laptops. And so long as these are around, email's going to be a viable way to communicate.
It's not so much that email is on the wane that I'm skeptical about, it's the idea that email is only for old people. For instance, while I don't know from personal experience from having worked in a Korean company, I have a hard time believing that IMing (et al) is going to usurp email for business communications anytime soon.
I love Korea a lot, but it's got some drawbacks, particularly in its journalism and media. The impetus behind this article might have a lot less to do with the actual oncoming death of email and a lot more to do with maintaining a tech-obsessed culture -- much easier to do if you're constantly promoting new toys, which Korea is.
It'd be like a Hollywood tabloid saying that indipendent film is on the way out.
The ebb of email is confirmed by a diminishing trend in pageviews, a tabulation of frequency in service used by email users. Daum Communication, the top email business in the country, saw its email service pageviews fall over 20 percent from 3.9 billion in October last year to 3 billion in October this year. By contrast, with SK Telecom, the nation's No. 1 communication firm, monthly SMS transmissions skyrocketed over 40 percent in October from 2.7 billion instances last October. Cyworld, a representative mini-homepage firm, witnessed its pageviews multiply over 26-fold from 650 million instances in October last year to 17 billion in October this year.
This paragraph, for instance, is as much about corporate branding as it is about giving email stats.
Is the idea that Hollywood is full of liberals a credible one? How much influence do liberal (or Democrat) actors have as compared to distributors/production studio owners (who are presumably more conservative)?
Do you find your celebrity here on Slashdot creepy at all? What are your thoughts on cults of personality in general in the geek world?
Contemporary realism isn't talking about how realistic something is. It means the story or film takes place in a setting recognizable by our contemporary societal surroundings. It differentiates between stories that take place in a regular, everyday setting versus those that are allowed to have supernatural or speculative elements (such as fantasy/sci-fi/superhero), have distant historical motifs (westerns/medieval), or involve larger-than-life action (spy, war, etc.).
Announcer: [whispering] He's really close now, but does he know it...? This is the third time his attention has gone to that object constructor... oh, he's getting that look in his eyes... his time's running short... can he make it eleven weeks in a row?
Geek [looks up from the computer screen]: Uh... I think, um, maybe the way IDataHandler::IDataHandler() is written right now... it, uh, might lead to an operation on a null pointer later on?
[A Siren goes off, balloons fall from the ceiling]
Announcer: And our reigning champion does it AGAIN! A special thank you to our challenger, who really kept it close this week. We'll be RIGHT BACK with the bonus round, but first, a word from our sponsors...
[cut to a noose hanging from the ceiling]
Voice-Over: Life boring? Feeling like THIS is in your future?
etc.
1st day: Mandrakelinux
2nd day: Fedora
3rd day: SUSE
4th day: Debian
5th day: Knoppix
6th day: MEPIS
7th day: Slackware
8th day: Gentoo
As taken from today's rankings at DistroWatch. Of course, that leaves out Gnoppix, the author's first choice.
Now, if only we could find a holiday that was 357 days long. Or even better, make EVERY day a new Linux distribution day, with Hannukah being the 8-day reprieve from it -- can't imagine anything that would convert people to Judaism faster...
Does anybody know of some website or source that's been tracking these kinds of linux exploits, including the date and nature of both the exploits and the fixes?
Just my two cents, of course, but with videogames like this, maybe the outrage at the lack of decency should be directed a little more broadly...
Hey, buddy, YOU try making a poem out of a name like "Blunkett." It isn't as easy as it looks.
There once was a man called Blunkett.
Loyalty Programs? He tried to debunk it.
But his views on privacy
Were pure hypocrisy,
So Britons everywhere said "Man, you flunk it!"
Ha ha. I guess if a slashdotter has a girlfriend, then the coldest place right now must be Hell.
Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth
Let me know when they find my girlfriend's heart.
Hear me out, I'm not talking about snitching.
/." jokes aside) there must be enough intelligent and creative people here to come up with some feasible copy-protection schemes, even if they aren't orthodox.
It's getting more and more obvious that the guys at the MPAA trying to figure out how to curb piracy are either (a) idiotic, (b) draconian, or (c) draconian idiots.
But it's not like they're not going to stop, and so long as they can lobby, it's not like anybody is going to be able to effectively curtail them. Assuming that it's (a) they're idiots, maybe we ought to start thinking up some ways that the MPAA gets what it wants -- no more piracy of their products -- and we get what we want -- no more of this treating-customers-like-criminals garbage.
So? Going with the idea that their solutions suck, what are good suggested solutions from the tech heads here? Surely (all "You must be new to
Here's one: Introduce a new media format that can't be copied easily by computer, have it decreed illegal to use the product on a computer, and market a sanctioned playing product for the media format at a low price.
Yeah, so there are a ton of flaws in that suggestion. Brainstorming is like that. Let's see if what suggestion we come up with that is the least flawed.
But he does eat babies...
Heh, actually, there was (still is?) a provision in Canadian libel laws that said it didn't matter if you were reporting facts, but whether or not you were using those facts in an attempt to maliciously defame someone. Hard to prove that you're NOT doing this, and worse yet, the burden of proof that this was not the purpose of the published story relied upon the publisher. Good for curbing tabloid-style trash journalism, not so good for (eg) pointing out illegal practices by big Canadian-based companies in other countries.
Libel chill was (still is?) a big factor in Canadian media. It didn't matter if you were reporting a valid, newsworthy story. If the person being reported upon had deep pockets, and sensed that a story could hurt their image, they could lean on you to make sure that the story didn't come out. Worse yet, some smaller newspapers with intrepid reporters might have to have stories killed at the editorial level because the editor could sense what would or would not end up with a lawsuit landing on their doorstep.
IANAL, but I had to read up on this stuf in journalism classes. Couldn't the person have created one of those free anonymous web pages hosted in a foreign country with the libelous accusations, and referenced it with a hyperlink?
"Cmdr Taco eats babies" -- libelous
"Cmdr Taco eats babies, says Scandinavian Web Page" -- fair game?