Ubuntu's probably the right answer, but I'm very fond of SuSE. Ask around and see if you can locate a local Linux Users Group (LUG) - they're usually happy to help, can show you various flavors of Linux, and even help you with set-up of the O/S and even installing specialty apps. It is very likely you will need to know how to get around in Linux (or Unix) if you're going into a scientific research field, so my recommendation is to go ahead and learn it sooner rather than later.
I just got a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610 convertible tablet/notebook with the 6 cell battery pack, which brings the weight up to 2.5 pounds from the 2.2 pounds it weighs with the 3 cell pack. I'm getting 4 to 7 hours depending on how I'm using it - movies, books, drawing, etc. I'm very happy with the 1610 - it's actually the tablet I've been waiting for. 2.5 pounds is still too heavy, but the UMPCs that are coming in around 1 pound require so many add-ons (portable keyboard, USB-RJ45 dongle, etc.) and too tiny screens (4.5") they're less usable, less convenient, and ultimately more expensive. My second runner up was a TabletKiosk eo.
You don't have the facts. Review policies like these have been in place at research organizations like the USGS, universities, think tanks, etc. for decades. Peer reviews are done by the peers of the author's choice - the purpose of the peer review is to make sure the facts are correct, and the process leading to conclusions is sound. There is also a copy edit review for grammar, spelling, formet, etc. Major authors listed on a given paper are also asked to review the paper before publication. None of this is new - it's the scientifc process, and anyone working in such an environment is neither surprised nor alarmed that such policies exist. Far as I can tell from all the articles and information available, the worst sin is that the USGS might have added a little more red tape to the procedure.
This part of the policy (i.e., "communicate with the communications people") gives communications folks a "heads up" so they can (1) promote the publication via news releases, the press, etc. and (2) prepare for inquiries and feedback from the public, press, etc. This is what communications folks do in any organization, and they like to be prepared when the press comes knocking, for better or worse. An extreme worst-case example -- when a scientist is misquoted, quoted out of context, or otherwise impaled by the press twisting words (recall the backlash from articles like The threat from life on Mars that took an out-of-context quote and blew it out of proportion, creating a brief but intense controversy) the communications folks find it much easier to deal with the fall-out if they actually know beforehand about the publications, interviews, etc. that have the potential for high-visibility and public reaction. Spin control? More like objectivity control. The other half of the equation here is the press, which is famous for sensationalizing the unsensational... for example, turning a minor revision of an existing policy into an executive conspiracy.
I used to be both sysadm and web admin of my web server. When I moved to a different division where there is a sysadm group, I thought I'd die without root. Not only have I discovered I don't miss it (given I have some sudo privs), but I quickly learned I didn't miss sysadmining my own server - I get the great joy of focusing on being a web developer and leaving most of the fuss to someone else.
As both the primary web developer and web admin, I probably qualify as a "special case" because I'm both end user and quasi-sysadm. The sysadms take care of the O/S, standard software, primary user accounts, etc., and I handle server software configs, user support on the development system, etc. I do have sudo privs for chmod, chgrp, chown, and so forth to give users ownership of their stuff, as well necessary sudo privs to manage certain daemons. However, end users do not touch my production box, and have zero special privs on my development box. My "regular user" log-in has no sudo privs - I'm a Jane Schmuck just like the rest of them.
It's one thing for a developer to maintain his own system, but when all the developers work on the same multi-user system, you don't want them all dorkin' around with it. In our environment, sysadms manage the system, there is an area for one delegated developer (and ex-sysadm) to install and manage software for the group - no sudo privs needed. The one delegated package maintainer can coordinate upgrades with others, and because he's also one of the developers, can test and support those packages much more easily than the sysadms. Yes, all the developers would definitely benefit from having their own boxen to beat on, but only a third of them do.
Correct! Unless the girls are required to attend the demo, they won't go near it with football being displayed. The girls who may enjoy those games, aside from the ones actually into football, are in it for the social interaction with friends, brothers, cousins, etc., not the game itself. Soccer might be a bit more of a draw.
anonicon was right on track with the music, IM, web track. Blogging (what we chicks used to call "keeping a diary" except we didn't let everyone read it, thank god), "stuff" databases (i.e. music, photos), art (Photoshop, Illustrator, Bryce), would probably also be good choices. Computer games that might be less gender specific would include any Sims game (espcially The Sims), puzzles (Tetris), Neopets, etc. Girls' motivations are more complex (or at least massively different) than boys', and highly focused on social interactions, aesthetics, etc.
I'd stay away from FPS, mainly because it could seriously ruffle the feathers of parents and teachers. Way too many of "those" people are anti-gun, anti-violence, and so forth, and simply will not understand what you're trying to convey. Out of a school setting, I'd go with Lara Croft for both genders - despite the big tits, girls seem to be able to relate to a female heroine, and enjoy solving the puzzles.
Another tip for getting the girls' attention is to do this activity as a team with a female software engineer (or any other computer geek chick you can round up). Personally, I feel very strongly that kids should see that, yes, there are women in these fields and, yes, some of us are total geeks who enjoy sitting up 'til 4AM fraggin' our buddies just as much as we like shoe shopping.
:-) Well believe me, there are a few of us out here who went into the field because it's more than a Job, it's a Lifestyle... but I wouldn't be surprised if even amongst those, you'd find most (not all!) of us more impressed with the pretty case mods you did with the purple sound reactive cathode lighting and triple bay LCD that displays just how fast and cool your box is running when you installed the liquid cooling, than with the statistics themselves (even though we do appreciate the stats!)
But, yes, of all the IT/CS women I know, for a horrifying majority, it's just a job.
In my experience, girls/women just don't see IT and CS as "fun". Part of the focus needs to be on figuring out what young people find interesting about computers and guide them in that direction. Systems administration? Probably not. Maintaining their own Linux box so they can use free software like inkscape and the Gimp, or have their own website they have total control over? Now you're talkin' our language.
I remember 9th grade - that 8086 my parents set up so mom could dial into the mainframe and work from home. Icky black screen with white text. I ran through all the text-based "games" and got bored of it. Fortran in college didn't do much to help matters. Computers didn't get fun until much later when I figured out I could do pretty stuff.
A young woman I know decided to take a Basic class in high school, thinking it was an easy A for some credit she needed. It wasn't easy. And, mostly, it wasn't fun. We spent a lot of time helping her figure out her assignments without actually doing them for her. One night, she was polishing up an assignment early, so I did a quick hunt and gave her some hints on how to tweak her interface with color and ascii art (animated even). All of a sudden, the whole thing was kinda fun. The next day in class, all the geeks were around her monitor, oohing and ahhing. Not only did she have fun decorating her program with faerie dust and roses (or something like that), but the social aspect of the situation improved drastically - she had been an outsider in the class. The class of 20 or so kids were all guys, except her, and part of the math-geek clique surrounding the instructor. The instructor's reaction was disappointing - he didn't understand why she'd decorated her program, and wasn't impressed... bad move dude.
Part of the key to getting kids interested is exposure on several levels - to folks they can identify with, to activities that tweak their interests and are applicable to other aspects of their lives, and actually using and maintaining their own computers. Kids who could become "geeks" often don't because they're intimidated, bored, perceive it's a clique they can't fit into, or simply never given a chance.
I think the point was that the Lockean proviso can be called up as a justification for wiping out an existing civilization in order to "improve" a resource. The European "improvements" to the Americas is cited as an example. It's not about "political correctness" - it's about learning from history. If the Lockean proviso is a valid justification, then we could have Japan improve the U.S., Germany improve Europe, Israel improve Palestine, the Brits improve Africa, India improve IT, and the Chinese improve what's left...
Yeah, I was disappointed to find the headline does not match the reality here - I was expecting to read about an eyepoppingly large CCD array. The "biggest digital photo" here is not by any stretch of the imagination the biggest, nor is it a "photo": it's a mosaic. And as digital image mosaics go, we're hosting bigger ones on our sites as a matter of everyday business practice. Want one huge single image? Try HiRISE collecting 20Kx40K (red band) in a short swipe (one image, longer swaths will be 70K lines long). A mosaic will break the farm - At 1.1+ billion pixels every 3 seconds (including blue-green and NIR), in 70 minutes, we're talkin' a pedabyte-and-a-half image mosaic... and more importantly, the subject will be far more interesting.
I'm really fuzzy on the details, but M$ did the digital music thing before (three or four years back?)... I think the original site had been their Active Desktop page, then it morphed into some kind of media site. Just out of curiousity, I bought a couple songs. The service disappeared, and the songs became unplayable because the player wanted to go to the site and check my license... and the license server no longer exists.
This, and a couple other similar experiences, is why I am adamantly against DRM. I am not willing to buy any product that depends on the existence of the company/service I bought it from, is tied to a particular computer/harddrive/etc., or puts drastic limits on my use of the product (such as limiting the number of burns, requiring me to be connected to the 'net, etc.)
That's an excellent point - I certainly didn't picture a narrow shouldered highway (as the Europeans seem to have). The vision I had of myself in this scenario was out on the highway at night, in the middle of BFE where I could pull not only over to the nice wide shoulder, but even into the dirt where I'd be several feet from the road. If I worried about getting clipped while sitting in my vehicle in this situation, I'd never leave the basement because frankly, I'd also have to believe a car might come through my living room window at any moment.
What action to take is most likely totally dependent on where you are, who you are, what time of day it is, etc. Daytime, nice weather, I'll find a comfy rock to sit on and have a smoke... night time/bad weather (or near the U.S./Mex border), I'm in my locked truck waiting patiently. Narrow shoulder, busy highway, I'm probably standing off the highway... etc. ad nauseum.
Putting the hood up is more than just a distress signal - it makes the stranded car more visible to other drivers on the highway and lets them know there may be a person wandering around the stranded vehicle (replacing a blow-out for example). Drivers know to pay attention and steer clear if possible and give the stranded car a safety buffer. It also gives the highway patrol a strong signal something is wrong and assistance is needed.
Why would I stand by my car waiting patiently for who-hell-knows-who? I wouldn't - if I'm not actually doing something to fix my car, I'd be inside it with the doors locked, on my cell if I can get a signal, waiting for the tow truck, my husband, a trooper, or whomever I'm expecting to show up and give me a hand.
Having my hood up is not what makes me a target - creeps are going to stop either way.
I think you've hit on the real point - New Mexico car dealerships (and autotrader publications) will all go bankrupt because folks will go to neighboring states to buy their cars. I forsee the state border ringed with car dealerships so folks can just hop across the stateline to do their car shopping. eBay Auto will be wildly popular. Unfortunately, regular folks won't be able to sell their cars once they've bought them unless they ship them out of state.
There was a bit of discussion about this earlier which I believe had a resolution to the effect "forgive the old guy, no-one's perfect." I agree - it seems like an pretty easy mistake almost anyone could make. We should all hope to still be so productive as Clarke in our 80's - in reality I think we'll all be happy just to be able to keep our kids' names straight (let alone the official names of various space science organizations).
The taxpayers paid for the original work, and that's what they indeed have access to - what gives them the right to someone else's enhancements for free? Same goes for the company who was paid for their original work - they received compensation, and still may use their original package as they see fit, including enhancing and selling it. And remember, the companies who take advantage of public domain software to generate derivative products are also taxpayers - government developed public domain software belongs to everyone, individuals and businesses.
I am free to share my work with the world without expecting anything in return. You are not free to demand it of me.
In the case of government developed software, GPL and the like are deterrents to evolution and use. By putting code in the public domain, anyone can do anything they wish with it. For example:
You turn it into an Open Source project,
A software house picks it up creates a derivative product to sell without releasing the code and being forced to share their work with the world (e.g. Global Mapper derived from USGS dlgv32), and
Another company packages it "as is" (maybe with a nice installer, or ported to another platform), and the price of a license buys you tech support, training, and/or printed documentation.
Freedom of choice is good, including the freedom to choose to share or not share the work you derived from public domain software.
This is probably the package you are looking for:
Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers. It's been distributed freely for many years, and is, indeed, public domain.
It's funded by NASA for use by NASA-funded researchers and the planetary science community in general.
Note, Isis 3.0 has not been released yet, look for the beta in coming months - look at Isis 2.1 for the stable release. Download/Install instructions are on this page:
Isis 2.1 Installation Guide.
Automatic mosaicking is generally done using the spacecraft positioning information. Automatic registration? It doesn't exist (yet). Registration involves varying levels of human intervention, and when some level of automation is achieved, it's mission-specific and under special circumstances. Isis is primarily a cartographic package - IDL is generally used for statistical work.
Another image processing package that's public domain is USGS MIPS. It's a (non-NASA) terrestrial image processing package that evolved from the same roots as Isis, so you'll find it has many of the same capabilities.
I don't know what other NASA packages there might be out there like this, if there are any. I'll ask around.
The Sims Online was the first game I thought of when I saw this article. It really seems to appeal to chicks. Even though I'm one of the few chicks that gets into first person shooters (I love UT), I really dig The Sims in all its incarnations.
What other games might allow chatting and interaction without the game requiring too much attention? Any other strategy/building games make chatting easy? Another idea is Yahoo! IM with IMvironments - there's games and drawing boards to give you something to do while chatting.
Here's NAU's copyright policy - note that if the university makes money off of an author's work that it has rights to, it's supposed to split the royalties. I'm sure turnItIn isn't paying out royalties to Universities for student work, but maybe it should be. Student's are right to demand a copyright agreement with the University using turnItIn - if work is contributing to the profit of any entity because the school or student provided that entity with the material, students should have the right to claim royalties. I don't believe distributing/publishing materials through turnItIn and similar companies should fall under the University's right to exercise its "irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to reproduce and use such material for its purposes including public distribution".
I'm not sure about all the missions of that era, but Lunar Orbiter did indeed expose film, scan it, and send it back. Full images were hand-mosaicked photographic film. For info see:
Online Photographic Atlas of the Moon contains scans of the hand-mosaicked frames originally published in the original NASA Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Bowker and Hughes
Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project is a project to scan the films and digitally mosaic the frames to get rid of striping and other blemishes and create a global lunar mosaic
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Ubuntu's probably the right answer, but I'm very fond of SuSE. Ask around and see if you can locate a local Linux Users Group (LUG) - they're usually happy to help, can show you various flavors of Linux, and even help you with set-up of the O/S and even installing specialty apps. It is very likely you will need to know how to get around in Linux (or Unix) if you're going into a scientific research field, so my recommendation is to go ahead and learn it sooner rather than later.
I just got a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610 convertible tablet/notebook with the 6 cell battery pack, which brings the weight up to 2.5 pounds from the 2.2 pounds it weighs with the 3 cell pack. I'm getting 4 to 7 hours depending on how I'm using it - movies, books, drawing, etc. I'm very happy with the 1610 - it's actually the tablet I've been waiting for. 2.5 pounds is still too heavy, but the UMPCs that are coming in around 1 pound require so many add-ons (portable keyboard, USB-RJ45 dongle, etc.) and too tiny screens (4.5") they're less usable, less convenient, and ultimately more expensive. My second runner up was a TabletKiosk eo.
You don't have the facts. Review policies like these have been in place at research organizations like the USGS, universities, think tanks, etc. for decades. Peer reviews are done by the peers of the author's choice - the purpose of the peer review is to make sure the facts are correct, and the process leading to conclusions is sound. There is also a copy edit review for grammar, spelling, formet, etc. Major authors listed on a given paper are also asked to review the paper before publication. None of this is new - it's the scientifc process, and anyone working in such an environment is neither surprised nor alarmed that such policies exist. Far as I can tell from all the articles and information available, the worst sin is that the USGS might have added a little more red tape to the procedure.
This part of the policy (i.e., "communicate with the communications people") gives communications folks a "heads up" so they can (1) promote the publication via news releases, the press, etc. and (2) prepare for inquiries and feedback from the public, press, etc. This is what communications folks do in any organization, and they like to be prepared when the press comes knocking, for better or worse. An extreme worst-case example -- when a scientist is misquoted, quoted out of context, or otherwise impaled by the press twisting words (recall the backlash from articles like The threat from life on Mars that took an out-of-context quote and blew it out of proportion, creating a brief but intense controversy) the communications folks find it much easier to deal with the fall-out if they actually know beforehand about the publications, interviews, etc. that have the potential for high-visibility and public reaction. Spin control? More like objectivity control. The other half of the equation here is the press, which is famous for sensationalizing the unsensational... for example, turning a minor revision of an existing policy into an executive conspiracy.
As both the primary web developer and web admin, I probably qualify as a "special case" because I'm both end user and quasi-sysadm. The sysadms take care of the O/S, standard software, primary user accounts, etc., and I handle server software configs, user support on the development system, etc. I do have sudo privs for chmod, chgrp, chown, and so forth to give users ownership of their stuff, as well necessary sudo privs to manage certain daemons. However, end users do not touch my production box, and have zero special privs on my development box. My "regular user" log-in has no sudo privs - I'm a Jane Schmuck just like the rest of them.
It's one thing for a developer to maintain his own system, but when all the developers work on the same multi-user system, you don't want them all dorkin' around with it. In our environment, sysadms manage the system, there is an area for one delegated developer (and ex-sysadm) to install and manage software for the group - no sudo privs needed. The one delegated package maintainer can coordinate upgrades with others, and because he's also one of the developers, can test and support those packages much more easily than the sysadms. Yes, all the developers would definitely benefit from having their own boxen to beat on, but only a third of them do.
anonicon was right on track with the music, IM, web track. Blogging (what we chicks used to call "keeping a diary" except we didn't let everyone read it, thank god), "stuff" databases (i.e. music, photos), art (Photoshop, Illustrator, Bryce), would probably also be good choices. Computer games that might be less gender specific would include any Sims game (espcially The Sims), puzzles (Tetris), Neopets, etc. Girls' motivations are more complex (or at least massively different) than boys', and highly focused on social interactions, aesthetics, etc.
I'd stay away from FPS, mainly because it could seriously ruffle the feathers of parents and teachers. Way too many of "those" people are anti-gun, anti-violence, and so forth, and simply will not understand what you're trying to convey. Out of a school setting, I'd go with Lara Croft for both genders - despite the big tits, girls seem to be able to relate to a female heroine, and enjoy solving the puzzles.
Another tip for getting the girls' attention is to do this activity as a team with a female software engineer (or any other computer geek chick you can round up). Personally, I feel very strongly that kids should see that, yes, there are women in these fields and, yes, some of us are total geeks who enjoy sitting up 'til 4AM fraggin' our buddies just as much as we like shoe shopping.
But, yes, of all the IT/CS women I know, for a horrifying majority, it's just a job.
In my experience, girls/women just don't see IT and CS as "fun". Part of the focus needs to be on figuring out what young people find interesting about computers and guide them in that direction. Systems administration? Probably not. Maintaining their own Linux box so they can use free software like inkscape and the Gimp, or have their own website they have total control over? Now you're talkin' our language.
I remember 9th grade - that 8086 my parents set up so mom could dial into the mainframe and work from home. Icky black screen with white text. I ran through all the text-based "games" and got bored of it. Fortran in college didn't do much to help matters. Computers didn't get fun until much later when I figured out I could do pretty stuff.
A young woman I know decided to take a Basic class in high school, thinking it was an easy A for some credit she needed. It wasn't easy. And, mostly, it wasn't fun. We spent a lot of time helping her figure out her assignments without actually doing them for her. One night, she was polishing up an assignment early, so I did a quick hunt and gave her some hints on how to tweak her interface with color and ascii art (animated even). All of a sudden, the whole thing was kinda fun. The next day in class, all the geeks were around her monitor, oohing and ahhing. Not only did she have fun decorating her program with faerie dust and roses (or something like that), but the social aspect of the situation improved drastically - she had been an outsider in the class. The class of 20 or so kids were all guys, except her, and part of the math-geek clique surrounding the instructor. The instructor's reaction was disappointing - he didn't understand why she'd decorated her program, and wasn't impressed... bad move dude.
Part of the key to getting kids interested is exposure on several levels - to folks they can identify with, to activities that tweak their interests and are applicable to other aspects of their lives, and actually using and maintaining their own computers. Kids who could become "geeks" often don't because they're intimidated, bored, perceive it's a clique they can't fit into, or simply never given a chance.
BofA isn't any worse or better than any other large bank, and frankly, we've only had good experiences with them.
I think the point was that the Lockean proviso can be called up as a justification for wiping out an existing civilization in order to "improve" a resource. The European "improvements" to the Americas is cited as an example. It's not about "political correctness" - it's about learning from history. If the Lockean proviso is a valid justification, then we could have Japan improve the U.S., Germany improve Europe, Israel improve Palestine, the Brits improve Africa, India improve IT, and the Chinese improve what's left...
Yeah, I was disappointed to find the headline does not match the reality here - I was expecting to read about an eyepoppingly large CCD array. The "biggest digital photo" here is not by any stretch of the imagination the biggest, nor is it a "photo": it's a mosaic. And as digital image mosaics go, we're hosting bigger ones on our sites as a matter of everyday business practice. Want one huge single image? Try HiRISE collecting 20Kx40K (red band) in a short swipe (one image, longer swaths will be 70K lines long). A mosaic will break the farm - At 1.1+ billion pixels every 3 seconds (including blue-green and NIR), in 70 minutes, we're talkin' a pedabyte-and-a-half image mosaic... and more importantly, the subject will be far more interesting.
This, and a couple other similar experiences, is why I am adamantly against DRM. I am not willing to buy any product that depends on the existence of the company/service I bought it from, is tied to a particular computer/harddrive/etc., or puts drastic limits on my use of the product (such as limiting the number of burns, requiring me to be connected to the 'net, etc.)
What action to take is most likely totally dependent on where you are, who you are, what time of day it is, etc. Daytime, nice weather, I'll find a comfy rock to sit on and have a smoke... night time/bad weather (or near the U.S./Mex border), I'm in my locked truck waiting patiently. Narrow shoulder, busy highway, I'm probably standing off the highway... etc. ad nauseum.
That's fine... unless of course my alternator/battery went bad and there's no juice.
Why would I stand by my car waiting patiently for who-hell-knows-who? I wouldn't - if I'm not actually doing something to fix my car, I'd be inside it with the doors locked, on my cell if I can get a signal, waiting for the tow truck, my husband, a trooper, or whomever I'm expecting to show up and give me a hand.
Having my hood up is not what makes me a target - creeps are going to stop either way.
I think you've hit on the real point - New Mexico car dealerships (and autotrader publications) will all go bankrupt because folks will go to neighboring states to buy their cars. I forsee the state border ringed with car dealerships so folks can just hop across the stateline to do their car shopping. eBay Auto will be wildly popular. Unfortunately, regular folks won't be able to sell their cars once they've bought them unless they ship them out of state.
Either Clarke or the reporter probably got their brain twisted around the International Astronautical Federation.
I am free to share my work with the world without expecting anything in return. You are not free to demand it of me.
- You turn it into an Open Source project,
- A software house picks it up creates a derivative product to sell without releasing the code and being forced to share their work with the world (e.g. Global Mapper derived from USGS dlgv32), and
- Another company packages it "as is" (maybe with a nice installer, or ported to another platform), and the price of a license buys you tech support, training, and/or printed documentation.
Freedom of choice is good, including the freedom to choose to share or not share the work you derived from public domain software.This is probably the package you are looking for: Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers. It's been distributed freely for many years, and is, indeed, public domain. It's funded by NASA for use by NASA-funded researchers and the planetary science community in general.
Note, Isis 3.0 has not been released yet, look for the beta in coming months - look at Isis 2.1 for the stable release. Download/Install instructions are on this page: Isis 2.1 Installation Guide.
Automatic mosaicking is generally done using the spacecraft positioning information. Automatic registration? It doesn't exist (yet). Registration involves varying levels of human intervention, and when some level of automation is achieved, it's mission-specific and under special circumstances. Isis is primarily a cartographic package - IDL is generally used for statistical work.
Another image processing package that's public domain is USGS MIPS. It's a (non-NASA) terrestrial image processing package that evolved from the same roots as Isis, so you'll find it has many of the same capabilities.
I don't know what other NASA packages there might be out there like this, if there are any. I'll ask around.
What other games might allow chatting and interaction without the game requiring too much attention? Any other strategy/building games make chatting easy? Another idea is Yahoo! IM with IMvironments - there's games and drawing boards to give you something to do while chatting.
Actually Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey have found water ice near the southern polar cap, I'll have to check on the ice situation regarding the northern cap. I'm not sure what specific thing the Mars Express orbiter folks are looking for, but one of the goals of the MER rovers is evidence that there was liquid water.
Here's NAU's copyright policy - note that if the university makes money off of an author's work that it has rights to, it's supposed to split the royalties. I'm sure turnItIn isn't paying out royalties to Universities for student work, but maybe it should be. Student's are right to demand a copyright agreement with the University using turnItIn - if work is contributing to the profit of any entity because the school or student provided that entity with the material, students should have the right to claim royalties. I don't believe distributing/publishing materials through turnItIn and similar companies should fall under the University's right to exercise its "irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to reproduce and use such material for its purposes including public distribution".