The FDA needs to approve this? That's odd, I wonder why. Too bad you didn't explain why or tell us what stage of approval its in.
Most medical apparatus is single-use, unless you can autoclave it to ensure it is totally sterile for subsequent uses. The FDA would need to approve the recycling and filtering system to ensure that future patients won't catch anything from previous ones. IANAD.
If it wasn't for the PMG inventing the telephone in 1961...
You're only off by 85 years... Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 1876.
When it comes to litigation, Telstra is like Microsoft and will quite happily keep something in the courts for as long as required, in order to maintain some sort of market advantage... this is quite a change !
Telstra probably realised pretty quickly - well, 10 months is relatively quick for a monolithic company - that they had no market advantage to maintain by dragging this through the courts.
Probably not a big deal. Time just isn't that important. For instance the iPhones have screwed up simple time shifts multiple times, and noone seems that concerned about it.
The BBC is (ideally) the people's counterbalance to the freedom of the press belonging to the owners of the presses.
The BBC speaks for nobody except the Guardian-reading leftists who work for it. They consistently monster any Conservative (or lately LibDem) who appears on their programmes while giving Labour an easy ride and packing the audiences of shows like Question Time with baying Trotskyites.
"people's counterbalance"... don't make me laugh!
Question Time audiences are designed to give a fair representation of the local population - they're not "packed" at all.
The BBC balances the private media (well, News International, since they control 90% of the UK's print and TV media that's not the BBC). When Labour was in power, The Sun newspaper fell over themselves worshipping New Labour and the BBC counterbalanced that. Now that we have a Lib Dem/Conservative coalition, BBC balances the now blatantly, staunchly Tory-loving media output. Thus the balance of the Universe is maintained...
Then there's nothing left, and Britain will have got exactly what she asked for.
I didn't ask for it, nor did the vast majority of people in the UK. Governments presume to think they know best when they clearly don't most of the time.
OT: What's really fun is taking all the extra fluff Crapital One sends you (fake credit card, terms of service, etc... that does not have your name/address of course) and stuffing it in the bulk prepaid envelop they include and send it back to them. The more you stuff in there the more it costs them in postage to have it sent back.
Any junk mail I get that includes a prepaid reply envelop gets this treatment. Just my way of saying thank you for wasting my time...
What's really, REALLY fun is attaching the prepaid reply label to a concrete breeze block, or a tub of rotting jellied eels, or a Wolverine...;)
I'm pretty sure that your using the internet to investigate an applicant would be counted as "cybercheating" the hiring process. Way to be a hypocrite.
The whole idea of penalizing people for using the internet to produce answers in today's world sounds silly now doesn't it?
The whole idea of employing someone who doesn't know their chosen academic subject because they stole 80% of the content of most of the essays they submitted from the Internet sounds silly now, doesn't it?
What does using the Internet illegally have to do with cheating? There's a huge difference between downloading the newest Ke$ha song and plagiarizing a source online for your paper (where the 61.9% figure comes from).
There's a big different between copying someone else's work wholesale and passing it off as your own (called Plagiarism) and copy, reading, understanding, rephrasing and/or selectively quoting with correct citations/references [emphasis mine] when writing an essay, which is actively encouraged. In fact, quoting relevant citations are often a way to garner an additional number of marks that will help push up the score of any essay you may write.
It's plain old plagiarism, hardly 'enabled' by the internet and certainly not worthy of it's own new word.
The actual figures, while not brilliant, are far less worrying than they seem to be trying to lead us to believe, and the word 'cybercheating' is just another one of those ploys to gain extra coverage by still implying that the internet is something new and scary, rather than a day-to-day avenue by which old behaviours, from simple conversation to bullying to cheating are carried out.
I'd say that being able to copy-and-paste a paragraph or five in a matter of second from a previous essay someone has searched for and found online or googled/torrented for on the subject a student is struggling to write an essay for makes cheating far easier than it was even 18 years ago when I first went to University.
I was going to say that Steve Jobs had better start cloning himself to take over, but then I remembered what happened the last time there was an Apple clone -- they were sued out of existence and then Apple took the clone and called it "Apple IIe" So I'm guessing a Steve Jobs clone wouldn't last long either.
Hey, I used to own an Apple IIe! It wasn't very good though - oh, wait...
This is purely an attempt to stop citizen activism from members of a group - civil engineers - that particularly dislike any challenge from anyone outside their profession,
God, what morons. He just did all that work for you, it's not like you won't review it anyway. Suck it up and do a review. It's your *job*.
Don't be so silly. Of course they won't do a review; they've already decided they can't be bothered spending any more money on this project than they already have, unless it's to line their own consultatory pockets...;p
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The FDA needs to approve this? That's odd, I wonder why. Too bad you didn't explain why or tell us what stage of approval its in.
Most medical apparatus is single-use, unless you can autoclave it to ensure it is totally sterile for subsequent uses. The FDA would need to approve the recycling and filtering system to ensure that future patients won't catch anything from previous ones. IANAD.
If it wasn't for the PMG inventing the telephone in 1961...
You're only off by 85 years... Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 1876.
When it comes to litigation, Telstra is like Microsoft and will quite happily keep something in the courts for as long as required, in order to maintain some sort of market advantage... this is quite a change !
Telstra probably realised pretty quickly - well, 10 months is relatively quick for a monolithic company - that they had no market advantage to maintain by dragging this through the courts.
It just seems silly to me that it's dark by 4pm.
Then fly south for the Winter. ;p
Probably not a big deal. Time just isn't that important. For instance the iPhones have screwed up simple time shifts multiple times, and noone seems that concerned about it.
Time is relative. Lunchtime doubly so. :)
Sometimes human beings have to die, just a little, for something really spectacular to happen.
...as a warning to the others, perchance? :)
Shares down 8% today and I'm sure will fall further.
I can foresee Microsoft buying Nokia as the share price continues to crumble...
The BBC speaks for nobody except the Guardian-reading leftists who work for it. They consistently monster any Conservative (or lately LibDem) who appears on their programmes while giving Labour an easy ride and packing the audiences of shows like Question Time with baying Trotskyites. "people's counterbalance"... don't make me laugh!
Question Time audiences are designed to give a fair representation of the local population - they're not "packed" at all. The BBC balances the private media (well, News International, since they control 90% of the UK's print and TV media that's not the BBC). When Labour was in power, The Sun newspaper fell over themselves worshipping New Labour and the BBC counterbalanced that. Now that we have a Lib Dem/Conservative coalition, BBC balances the now blatantly, staunchly Tory-loving media output. Thus the balance of the Universe is maintained...
Then there's nothing left, and Britain will have got exactly what she asked for.
I didn't ask for it, nor did the vast majority of people in the UK. Governments presume to think they know best when they clearly don't most of the time.
Shutup Troll.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
I'm not sure how to convert Libraries of Congress to pounds.
How much does the Library of Congress weigh in pounds..?
In other markets the iPhone is sold unlocked.
No they're not; not if you buy through official suppliers (i.e. MNOs like Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, etc)
Isn't that roughly the same amount that spam has dropped by recently..?
OT: What's really fun is taking all the extra fluff Crapital One sends you (fake credit card, terms of service, etc... that does not have your name/address of course) and stuffing it in the bulk prepaid envelop they include and send it back to them. The more you stuff in there the more it costs them in postage to have it sent back.
Any junk mail I get that includes a prepaid reply envelop gets this treatment. Just my way of saying thank you for wasting my time...
What's really, REALLY fun is attaching the prepaid reply label to a concrete breeze block, or a tub of rotting jellied eels, or a Wolverine... ;)
If you are not cheating, you are only cheating yourself.
If you never get the degree or the grades to get the interview, what does it matter.
There's an easy workaround for that; lie on your CV and at interviews... ;p
61.9% have cybersex with someone other than their girl/boyfriends?
Are these girl/boyfriends real ones or igirlfriends/iboyfriends..?
I'm pretty sure that your using the internet to investigate an applicant would be counted as "cybercheating" the hiring process. Way to be a hypocrite.
The whole idea of penalizing people for using the internet to produce answers in today's world sounds silly now doesn't it?
The whole idea of employing someone who doesn't know their chosen academic subject because they stole 80% of the content of most of the essays they submitted from the Internet sounds silly now, doesn't it?
What does using the Internet illegally have to do with cheating? There's a huge difference between downloading the newest Ke$ha song and plagiarizing a source online for your paper (where the 61.9% figure comes from).
There's a big different between copying someone else's work wholesale and passing it off as your own (called Plagiarism) and copy, reading, understanding, rephrasing and/or selectively quoting with correct citations/references [emphasis mine] when writing an essay, which is actively encouraged. In fact, quoting relevant citations are often a way to garner an additional number of marks that will help push up the score of any essay you may write.
It's plain old plagiarism, hardly 'enabled' by the internet and certainly not worthy of it's own new word.
The actual figures, while not brilliant, are far less worrying than they seem to be trying to lead us to believe, and the word 'cybercheating' is just another one of those ploys to gain extra coverage by still implying that the internet is something new and scary, rather than a day-to-day avenue by which old behaviours, from simple conversation to bullying to cheating are carried out.
I'd say that being able to copy-and-paste a paragraph or five in a matter of second from a previous essay someone has searched for and found online or googled/torrented for on the subject a student is struggling to write an essay for makes cheating far easier than it was even 18 years ago when I first went to University.
I think that the OP is fishing for advice and/or sympathy - sounds like it should have been posted in Ask Slashdot after all...
Just be careful that Google doesn't data mine your WiFi details in the meantime...
I was going to say that Steve Jobs had better start cloning himself to take over, but then I remembered what happened the last time there was an Apple clone -- they were sued out of existence and then Apple took the clone and called it "Apple IIe" So I'm guessing a Steve Jobs clone wouldn't last long either.
Hey, I used to own an Apple IIe! It wasn't very good though - oh, wait...
This is purely an attempt to stop citizen activism from members of a group - civil engineers - that particularly dislike any challenge from anyone outside their profession,
That's because Civil Engineers aren't.
God, what morons. He just did all that work for you, it's not like you won't review it anyway. Suck it up and do a review. It's your *job*.
Don't be so silly. Of course they won't do a review; they've already decided they can't be bothered spending any more money on this project than they already have, unless it's to line their own consultatory pockets... ;p
If you do ANYTHING that embarrasses most people they will retaliate. Public officials just have more tools to retaliate with.
Public officials more often are tools...