I think your working environment is less important than the right state of mind. If I like my work, I can focus on it in the middle of an elementary school playground. I have a friend who codes from home; whenever I call him it sounds like he's working in a jungle. I ask him what the noise is and he asks me what I'm talking about. His kids are screaming and crying all over the place.
Just like great athletes, conditions don't matter. They get in the zone and it's game over. Anyone see Steve Yzerman in the Red Wings v Canucks game last night? He's hobbling around on one leg making everyone else look like grade schoolers. Amazing
The honor code used at the United States Military Academy (West Point), where people get kicked out in addition to failing for violations makes a lot more sense to me.
The deal there is that you can collaborate all you want, but you need to document all your collaboration and turn it in with your project/paper/etc. That way the professor can determine whether your collaboration was of the type that fostered learning, or the type that fostered laziness and cheating. They could then grade accordingly.
Note that you could turn in a project that you copied verbatim from someone else. As long as you were up front about this, you would/could not be charged with an honor code violation, but the teacher would most likely fail you because you clearly didn't meet the project's objectives.
The point is that the professors are the ones that can make that judgement on a case by case basis - and depending on exactly what they were trying to accomplish by assigning the project or paper.
"Many parts of the government, including the CIA and the Defense Department, operate separate classified networks. Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department computer crimes prosecutor, said those networks could be expanded and integrated to form GOVNET.
These networks can't even be "integrated" into one another because of different classifications levels etc. There isn't even a way to move data from low to high (systems of low classification to systems of higher classification), because the fact that the high network wants certain data from the low netowrk is sensitive itself.
"A better way, Rasch suggested, might be to improve the ways sensitive information is encrypted and sent over public networks such as the Internet"
It is my understanding that this is exactly how the DOD's classified networks work. I suppose I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Good point, which prompts me to surmise that this move could be aimed at using Sony's audio CDs to bolster their CD-ROM sales. Sony is in the perfect position to be the first manufacturer to release a cdrw that can actually read/copy the bogus Sony CDs (ie. applying the same tactics that stereo systems use when encountering this bogus data on a music CD). Hmmm...
You can also still make a CD backup by piping your stereo's audio-out to your sound card's audio-in and saving it to your HD. Then burning a CD out of those files. Not as convenient, but it'll work.
"If the CD is copied, however, the copier machine (a PC or disc-to-disc copier) sees the fake control data as music. So when the copied disc is played, there are bursts of distortion as the player tries in vain to decode the garbage."
What stops us from writing new CD copying algorithms that are just as smart as our CD players about ignoring this bogus data?
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I think your working environment is less important than the right state of mind. If I like my work, I can focus on it in the middle of an elementary school playground. I have a friend who codes from home; whenever I call him it sounds like he's working in a jungle. I ask him what the noise is and he asks me what I'm talking about. His kids are screaming and crying all over the place.
Just like great athletes, conditions don't matter. They get in the zone and it's game over. Anyone see Steve Yzerman in the Red Wings v Canucks game last night? He's hobbling around on one leg making everyone else look like grade schoolers. Amazing
I agree that these policies are rediculous.
The honor code used at the United States Military Academy (West Point), where people get kicked out in addition to failing for violations makes a lot more sense to me.
The deal there is that you can collaborate all you want, but you need to document all your collaboration and turn it in with your project/paper/etc. That way the professor can determine whether your collaboration was of the type that fostered learning, or the type that fostered laziness and cheating. They could then grade accordingly.
Note that you could turn in a project that you copied verbatim from someone else. As long as you were up front about this, you would/could not be charged with an honor code violation, but the teacher would most likely fail you because you clearly didn't meet the project's objectives.
The point is that the professors are the ones that can make that judgement on a case by case basis - and depending on exactly what they were trying to accomplish by assigning the project or paper.
These networks can't even be "integrated" into one another because of different classifications levels etc. There isn't even a way to move data from low to high (systems of low classification to systems of higher classification), because the fact that the high network wants certain data from the low netowrk is sensitive itself.
"A better way, Rasch suggested, might be to improve the ways sensitive information is encrypted and sent over public networks such as the Internet"
It is my understanding that this is exactly how the DOD's classified networks work. I suppose I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
Good point, which prompts me to surmise that this move could be aimed at using Sony's audio CDs to bolster their CD-ROM sales. Sony is in the perfect position to be the first manufacturer to release a cdrw that can actually read/copy the bogus Sony CDs (ie. applying the same tactics that stereo systems use when encountering this bogus data on a music CD). Hmmm...
You can also still make a CD backup by piping your stereo's audio-out to your sound card's audio-in and saving it to your HD. Then burning a CD out of those files. Not as convenient, but it'll work.
What stops us from writing new CD copying algorithms that are just as smart as our CD players about ignoring this bogus data?