When will NASA admit to the public that their advanced, super-sophisticated, collision-detection-system (that's been working so well for them in recent months)has been foiled again by a NASA employee eating chips carelessly over their satellite maps?
Someone I used to know with access to a document feeder was issuing PDF versions of textbooks to computer science students at my University: That is, until he was caught selling them by an undercover cop, charged, and fined several hundred thousand dollars.
I am in a third year program at McMaster University -- one of the many Universities that have adopted TurnItIn.com to offset the rampant plagiarism that takes place everyday.
I naturally do not see any harm in using means to catch blatant, sneaky students who intentionally plagiarize the work of others. The article claims that McGill professors were marking the papers themselves, pending a positive report from TurnItIn.com
The service costs upwards of $14,000 to take advantage of. On top of that, original work that is submitted by students is kept on file at TurnItIn.com. This means that TurnItIn.com improves their service with each original paper turned in, via draconian threats of failure by faculty who don't want to waste the 14K.
Is this ethical? -- To impose systems on students which benefit the profits of an organization outside of the country? Will a negative report from TurnItIn.com affect students long after they've graduated?
Granted. Feynman theorized that it could be done. He made a $1000 bet to his students that they could not construct a working motor 1/64 of an inch square -- He lost this months later when a student was able to produce it. Feynman was disappointed because he figured that the technology needed to get construction down to the molecular level would have sprung forth from his little grassroots project. This is where Drexler and Feynman differ.
The main difference between Feynman and Drexler, (and why Drexler deserves to have an equal share of the limelight) is Drexler is a more responsible scientist.
I highly recommend you stop on over to the Foresight Institute website [foresight.org] and see what Eric Drexler has been responsibly been working on for the past 20 years. There's an online version of Engines of Creation [foresight.org] available in which Drexler examines the hopes and dreams of Nanotech, minus the onesided utopia/distopian slant. Drexler has always been an advocate for technology to be developed by responsible hands (whoever that is) and asks Should We? as well as Could We?
I think this novel humanitarian approach to groundbreaking scientific development is a bit refreshing, don't you?
Thanks for clarifying your ignorance. Your statement, not based in fact, but in fact HATE, is clearly recognizable and identifies the quality of your character immediately.
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When will NASA admit to the public that their advanced, super-sophisticated, collision-detection-system (that's been working so well for them in recent months)has been foiled again by a NASA employee eating chips carelessly over their satellite maps?
Someone I used to know with access to a document feeder was issuing PDF versions of textbooks to computer science students at my University: That is, until he was caught selling them by an undercover cop, charged, and fined several hundred thousand dollars.
With that attitude, I look forward to seeing your smiling face through the drive-thru window as you hand me my french-fries.
It's not always about the content of what you need to write about -- It's the fact that do what you're told: you know, like in the real world?
Higher education is a privilege, not a right.
I am in a third year program at McMaster University -- one of the many Universities that have adopted TurnItIn.com to offset the rampant plagiarism that takes place everyday.
I naturally do not see any harm in using means to catch blatant, sneaky students who intentionally plagiarize the work of others. The article claims that McGill professors were marking the papers themselves, pending a positive report from TurnItIn.com
The service costs upwards of $14,000 to take advantage of. On top of that, original work that is submitted by students is kept on file at TurnItIn.com. This means that TurnItIn.com improves their service with each original paper turned in, via draconian threats of failure by faculty who don't want to waste the 14K.
Is this ethical? -- To impose systems on students which benefit the profits of an organization outside of the country? Will a negative report from TurnItIn.com affect students long after they've graduated?
Granted. Feynman theorized that it could be done. He made a $1000 bet to his students that they could not construct a working motor 1/64 of an inch square -- He lost this months later when a student was able to produce it. Feynman was disappointed because he figured that the technology needed to get construction down to the molecular level would have sprung forth from his little grassroots project. This is where Drexler and Feynman differ.
The main difference between Feynman and Drexler, (and why Drexler deserves to have an equal share of the limelight) is Drexler is a more responsible scientist.
I highly recommend you stop on over to the Foresight Institute website [foresight.org] and see what Eric Drexler has been responsibly been working on for the past 20 years. There's an online version of Engines of Creation [foresight.org] available in which Drexler examines the hopes and dreams of Nanotech, minus the onesided utopia/distopian slant. Drexler has always been an advocate for technology to be developed by responsible hands (whoever that is) and asks Should We? as well as Could We?
I think this novel humanitarian approach to groundbreaking scientific development is a bit refreshing, don't you?
Chris McAllisterThanks for clarifying your ignorance.
Your statement, not based in fact, but in fact HATE, is clearly recognizable and identifies the quality of your character immediately.
Where's your manners?
"Well, Make an OS that any idiot can use, and only idiots will use it, I guess..."
I can't tell. Is this more hoity, shit-don't-stink conversion rhetoric? Doesn't OSX pride itself on being simple to use too?