The professor, Brian Glyn Williams, said he went to his former student's house and asked about inconsistencies in his story. The 22-year-old student admitted it was a hoax, Williams said.
''I made it up," the professor recalled him saying. ''I'm sorry. . . . I'm so relieved that it's over."
The student was not identified in any reports. The Globe interviewed him Thursday but decided not to write a story about his assertion, because of doubts about its veracity. The student could not be reached yesterday.
Williams said the student gave no explanation. But Williams, who praised the student as hard-working and likeable, said he was shaken by the deception."
During the 80's and 90's, I observed 3 causes of product upgrades.
- FUD upgrades at everything new the vendor offered. - Curmudgeon upgrades only when performance or functionality required. - A compromise: Upgrade on every other version.
Some product lines tended to reinforce this: Never use an even-numbered version of this OS or an odd-numbered version of that application.
The problem in the 2K vs XP debate is that Longhorn has taken much longer than previous versions.
GoogleCal, Sunbird or any other calendar must syncronize with PDAs, cellphones, iPods,... to be more than yet another groupware programming exercise. Would not going below the desktop be new ambitiously new territory for Google? The time to enter that wild territory is ripe.
Hmm, a power supply that repels flying insects. Or, attracts 'em.
With other piezo devices I sometimes hear an irritating mosquito-like whine. I've wondered if this is due to interaction with casing, or resonance with other components. Two piezo components could set up beat frequencies. Gaaah. Jbecause we can't hear its dominant frequency doesn't mean a sound-generating device is Goodness on a Bun.
Suppose the speed of light was faster In the Beginning. This would make the Universe younger, if I correctly understand a couple of the macro methods used to estimate our U's age.
For grins, what kind of delta v--or delta a--do we need to accord with creation in 6 days per the book of Genesis? There were stabs at this 21 years ago:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/c-decay.html
It would be nice to make the clocks at work run faster so I could get relatively more rest on the Sabbath...
I handle DMCA copyright infringement claims for a university. A counter-claim is most justified if you're quite certain that the claimant is NOT the copyright holder. The form-letter counter-claim might encourage people who really have a legitimate case, for example a journalist or academic quotation.
But beware! Sending a counter-claim to your ISP releases the ISP from confidentiality policies to the extent that the ISP must turn over info identifying you so that the claimant can take you to court. The claimant can then formally tell the ISP that they are proceeding to take this to court, and the ISP is then obliged to take down the disputed materials anyway, until a timeout.
If you are really infringing copyright, you don't want to go to court. Mainly, the claimant will require your lawyer (you do have a lawyer, don't you?) to come to their court (often in NYC or LA for record companies and publishers) at times of their choosing.
You don't want to go to court, period. If you feel you had a Fair Use or other case, try frank negotiation with the copyright holder. Do a cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment before you file a counter-claim. Bluff and bluster could be expensive.
I'm a techie, not a lawyer. I like this part of the DMCA, because it basically safeguards rights on both sides while keeping the ISP out of court, so long as we follow DMCA procedure.
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By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff, December 24, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/artic
During the 80's and 90's, I observed 3 causes of product upgrades.
- FUD upgrades at everything new the vendor offered.
- Curmudgeon upgrades only when performance or functionality required.
- A compromise: Upgrade on every other version.
Some product lines tended to reinforce this: Never use an even-numbered version of this OS or an odd-numbered version of that application.
The problem in the 2K vs XP debate is that Longhorn has taken much longer than previous versions.
One can spend some minutes learning a language. I strongly recommend the Pimsleur CD's. No books, everything you need to learn is audio.
Just because something is useful does not mean it can not be fun too.
GoogleCal, Sunbird or any other calendar must syncronize with PDAs, cellphones, iPods, ... to be more than yet another groupware programming exercise. Would not going below the desktop be new ambitiously new territory for Google? The time to enter that wild territory is ripe.
Hmm, a power supply that repels flying insects. Or, attracts 'em.
With other piezo devices I sometimes hear an irritating mosquito-like whine. I've wondered if this is due to interaction with casing, or resonance with other components. Two piezo components could set up beat frequencies. Gaaah. Jbecause we can't hear its dominant frequency doesn't mean a sound-generating device is Goodness on a Bun.
For grins, what kind of delta v--or delta a--do we need to accord with creation in 6 days per the book of Genesis? There were stabs at this 21 years ago:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/c-decay.html
It would be nice to make the clocks at work run faster so I could get relatively more rest on the Sabbath...
But beware! Sending a counter-claim to your ISP releases the ISP from confidentiality policies to the extent that the ISP must turn over info identifying you so that the claimant can take you to court. The claimant can then formally tell the ISP that they are proceeding to take this to court, and the ISP is then obliged to take down the disputed materials anyway, until a timeout.
If you are really infringing copyright, you don't want to go to court. Mainly, the claimant will require your lawyer (you do have a lawyer, don't you?) to come to their court (often in NYC or LA for record companies and publishers) at times of their choosing.
You don't want to go to court, period. If you feel you had a Fair Use or other case, try frank negotiation with the copyright holder. Do a cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment before you file a counter-claim. Bluff and bluster could be expensive.
I'm a techie, not a lawyer. I like this part of the DMCA, because it basically safeguards rights on both sides while keeping the ISP out of court, so long as we follow DMCA procedure.