Lots of my peers were very mad at me for that, most of them recieved lower than 85%... The teacher was amazed and called me up to see what was going on. He didn't believe that i wasn't cheating and checked my exam against those of students seated around me. Mine checked out perfectly.
Your prof wasn't threatened - he was playing the odds. How many people do what you did without cheating?
That had you requested it, by law they must provide you with an ID number to use in lieu of an SSN
You bank and mortgage company use your SSN to report tax information. Your uni should have known better, though. Most will give you an alternate ID - how do you think they handle all the foreign students?
Like stealing someone's wallet without him noticing it? Then you can give it back to him to show him you were able to do it and I bet he will thank you with his fist in your nose.
Jim: Hey Bob, your wallet's hanging halfway out of your pocket.
Bob: really, I've always worn it like that.
J: Someone could grab it and you'd never even notice. Wanna see?
B: Sure, show me.//J grabs Bob's wallet
J: Maybe you should put it some other place...
B: Damn, I didn't feel a thing!
Yeah, I can see how that'd earn a punch in the face.
Either way you lose. It's better to go for the first option and if it fails, quit. If you're so bothered that you'd risk getting kicked out and charged, go ahead and prove it to them.
Option 3: write up a flier on how to break into whatever thing you've found the hole in and pas it around. Perfectly legal and likely to get a response;)
A few months later and I'm playing around with some harmless files I made cos I'm bored in IT class. About half a year later when I ask for more disk space, they check my files breifly, think I'm trying to hack (which I wasn't, nothing harmful was there, I was just satisfiying my curiosity). They kick me out of school for 2 weeks, don't let me anywhere near computers for another week, and threaten to call the police if they suspect me doing anything I shouldn't ever again.
Isn't this where you involve a lawyer? They really don't have the right to suspend you for coding random bits of stuff.
Get a third party to check your references (a friend will do) and tell you what they said. It's probably fine to make up a fake company name, but the fewer details, the better.
But I see lots of people here that like communism, or at least seem to advocate things that would demand it as the only practical form of economics. I mean it's actually kind of the OSS ideal:
Communism would work great if we only ever needed to make one of something, like with software.
GM is courting bankruptcy because "Ford and GM's big problem is the weight of costs left by their long history of carmaking in North America. Particularly painful are labour contracts that make them liable for the healthcare and pension costs of their retired workforces. Some estimates put GM's legacy costs per car at $1,600, with a similar number at Ford.".
Trot that out after GM and Ford stop offering $3k rebates on all new cars. To be honest, though, I like the mustang and Corvette. It's just that those aren't really volume cars like the Escort.
Anyone who pours liquids through their fingers from some random beaker found in a lab is lucky to only find sulfuric acid. There were much worse things standing around in my grad school lab, thanks to the lab pig.
My Chem professor would determine who had good lab technique by checking our hands for brown stains from the Nitric acid. Yeah, and we had 12M H2SO4 sitting around too.
Well, I don't see too many US companies importing talent from most 'developed' nations. Seems like most people are coming from India, China, other asian countries, former USSR and eastern Europe. I don't hear about many programmers being imported from Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, The Nethernlands and other countries known for their great socialist programs. I definitely don't think the added cost would make us more employable.
Well, maybe that's because most of the people in places like Germany like it there, whereas leaving India and making twice the money sounds like a really good idea.
Everyone may be created equal, but we all become unequal rather quickly in various areas
Everybody is not created equal - some are better than others. It is the opportunity that must be equally available to all. All we have to do is allow the brightest to succeed while teaching the rest at a reasonable level. Specifically, I see three strata:
The elite, who will go on to great things. These people may go to MIT, but they don't have to - they'll succeed so long as they aren't sabotaged.
The college-boys, who go to college and get a decent white-collar job. They may benefit from places like MIT if they apply themselves, or they may just coast. These people will be average engineers and middle managers.
The Tradespeople, who don't want to go to college, or can't hack it. They will be plumbers, electricians, and mechanics. They may also be non-technical managers, given the aptitude.
Note that these people are divided by educational aptitude - a good plumber can make as much as a good or even great programmer and someone who owns a junkyard may be a millionaire by 40.
I am old enough to remember how the Japanese were going to make all US auto makers obsolete, and how we could not compete in the 70s and 80s, yet we have done more than fine, even improving BECAUSE of the competition.
That must be why GM is courting bankruptcy and has yet to make cars that people demand. Meanwhile, Toyota and Honda make better cars in the US using the same labor pool.
It pisses me the fuck off, having to deal with it. The greatest shortcoming by far of OSS is this insistency on reimplemtning proven, robust, existing solutions in favor of a trivial fix. This is a particularly egregious example, one the OSS world would be served well by acknowledging.
If you're adminning apps that use log4j, know that a syslog appender exists and can be used with a configuration change.
For "big" applications you really can't do this because of bind variables. (You can, but it would add another level of complexity to your logging)
I've done it in Java, and it's no big deal. You simply implement PreparedStatement with a logging feature, then dump the parameters + sql in the event of an exception. If you don't want to do that, you can usually get the pre-bind query in the event of an exception.
The corrected version is: Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^2). The square Cf dominates at highway speeds for cars, while the cubic Cf usually only matters if you're supersonic.
If your RPMs were high with little fuel input, your engine would run very lean. This is a very bad thing for engines. It leads to bad things like holes in your piston heads.
No it doesn't - that only happens if you lean out under load. running lean is actually expected behavior for highway cruising.
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Not sure Western State College of Colorado appreciates that post so much.
Half the students know each others' SSN, name, and probably birthdate. Fuck 'em.
Lots of my peers were very mad at me for that, most of them recieved lower than 85%... The teacher was amazed and called me up to see what was going on. He didn't believe that i wasn't cheating and checked my exam against those of students seated around me. Mine checked out perfectly.
Your prof wasn't threatened - he was playing the odds. How many people do what you did without cheating?
That had you requested it, by law they must provide you with an ID number to use in lieu of an SSN
You bank and mortgage company use your SSN to report tax information. Your uni should have known better, though. Most will give you an alternate ID - how do you think they handle all the foreign students?
Like stealing someone's wallet without him noticing it? Then you can give it back to him to show him you were able to do it and I bet he will thank you with his fist in your nose.
Yeah, I can see how that'd earn a punch in the face.
Either way you lose. It's better to go for the first option and if it fails, quit. If you're so bothered that you'd risk getting kicked out and charged, go ahead and prove it to them.
Option 3: write up a flier on how to break into whatever thing you've found the hole in and pas it around. Perfectly legal and likely to get a response ;)
A few months later and I'm playing around with some harmless files I made cos I'm bored in IT class. About half a year later when I ask for more disk space, they check my files breifly, think I'm trying to hack (which I wasn't, nothing harmful was there, I was just satisfiying my curiosity). They kick me out of school for 2 weeks, don't let me anywhere near computers for another week, and threaten to call the police if they suspect me doing anything I shouldn't ever again.
Isn't this where you involve a lawyer? They really don't have the right to suspend you for coding random bits of stuff.
Sorry, I just keep getting this mental image of BillG wearing a tinfoil beanie while screaming "Stop stealing my thoughts!!one"
Well, if it was visible at the end of class it wasn't AgNO3. That takes a few hours to show up
By finish the class, I mean finish the class, not the specific lab session.
Is there a difference? ;-)
I don't know about you, but when I mod slashdot, I'm almost always drunk or stoned. Really, it's the only way to fit in.
How does a person find out these things?
Get a third party to check your references (a friend will do) and tell you what they said. It's probably fine to make up a fake company name, but the fewer details, the better.
But I see lots of people here that like communism, or at least seem to advocate things that would demand it as the only practical form of economics. I mean it's actually kind of the OSS ideal:
Communism would work great if we only ever needed to make one of something, like with software.
Therefore, there should be one big huge company that always employs everybody in the labor force
I thought we didn't like communism...
GM is courting bankruptcy because "Ford and GM's big problem is the weight of costs left by their long history of carmaking in North America. Particularly painful are labour contracts that make them liable for the healthcare and pension costs of their retired workforces. Some estimates put GM's legacy costs per car at $1,600, with a similar number at Ford.".
Trot that out after GM and Ford stop offering $3k rebates on all new cars. To be honest, though, I like the mustang and Corvette. It's just that those aren't really volume cars like the Escort.
Are you perhaps thinking of AgNO3?
I'm pretty sure it was Nitric acid. Either way, sloppy people finished that class with bornw stains on their hands.
Anyone who pours liquids through their fingers from some random beaker found in a lab is lucky to only find sulfuric acid. There were much worse things standing around in my grad school lab, thanks to the lab pig.
My Chem professor would determine who had good lab technique by checking our hands for brown stains from the Nitric acid. Yeah, and we had 12M H2SO4 sitting around too.
Have you've seen a graduating enginerring class recently? East Asians (Chinese, Korean etc) are the majority graduating.
I've been in Graduate classes and the east asians were often incomprehensible or insular. They may have been briliant, but I'll never know.
Well, I don't see too many US companies importing talent from most 'developed' nations. Seems like most people are coming from India, China, other asian countries, former USSR and eastern Europe. I don't hear about many programmers being imported from Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, The Nethernlands and other countries known for their great socialist programs. I definitely don't think the added cost would make us more employable.
Well, maybe that's because most of the people in places like Germany like it there, whereas leaving India and making twice the money sounds like a really good idea.
Everyone may be created equal, but we all become unequal rather quickly in various areas
Everybody is not created equal - some are better than others. It is the opportunity that must be equally available to all. All we have to do is allow the brightest to succeed while teaching the rest at a reasonable level. Specifically, I see three strata:
Note that these people are divided by educational aptitude - a good plumber can make as much as a good or even great programmer and someone who owns a junkyard may be a millionaire by 40.
I am old enough to remember how the Japanese were going to make all US auto makers obsolete, and how we could not compete in the 70s and 80s, yet we have done more than fine, even improving BECAUSE of the competition.
That must be why GM is courting bankruptcy and has yet to make cars that people demand. Meanwhile, Toyota and Honda make better cars in the US using the same labor pool.
It pisses me the fuck off, having to deal with it. The greatest shortcoming by far of OSS is this insistency on reimplemtning proven, robust, existing solutions in favor of a trivial fix. This is a particularly egregious example, one the OSS world would be served well by acknowledging.
If you're adminning apps that use log4j, know that a syslog appender exists and can be used with a configuration change.
For "big" applications you really can't do this because of bind variables. (You can, but it would add another level of complexity to your logging)
I've done it in Java, and it's no big deal. You simply implement PreparedStatement with a logging feature, then dump the parameters + sql in the event of an exception. If you don't want to do that, you can usually get the pre-bind query in the event of an exception.
Did you mean to write Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^3) ?
Yeah, woops.
Ra = (rho/2) Cd Aj V^2
The corrected version is: Ra = (rho/2) * Aj * (Cd0 V + Cd1 V^2 + Cd2 V^2). The square Cf dominates at highway speeds for cars, while the cubic Cf usually only matters if you're supersonic.
I'll be waiting for your check.
It's cash and, in order to claim it, you have to survive a car ride with me.
If your RPMs were high with little fuel input, your engine would run very lean. This is a very bad thing for engines. It leads to bad things like holes in your piston heads.
No it doesn't - that only happens if you lean out under load. running lean is actually expected behavior for highway cruising.
Squared
Cubed, but you have to go really fast. That, and you'll be needing solid aluminium wheels.