If your lecturers are boring, then study the material on your own.
In one case, I had to: the lecturer was a fabulous guy, and really knew his stuff, but suffered from the disadvantage of having a delightful lilting, soporific Irish accent that routinely sent me to sleep. In a couple of cases, I became aware of a distinctly "hairy eyeball" glance that made me wonder if I had been snoring very loudly. I felt bad a bit about it, and actually apologised to him, making it clear that it wasn't his fault.
The burden of proof in the case of faculty vs students is also much much lower.
Does that extend to expulsion of a student from the university on the basis of just a statistical analysis? Seems like shaky ground to me, and if it came down to a court case, such an action might be hard to defend.
I think this is symptomatic of the way Universities (especially the bigger ones) have a cattle mentality when it comes to students.
Well, I guess most universities here (Australia) would rarely muster 600+ students in a single unit of study unless it was a first-year course such as a foundation unit. But I am bothered by a niggle of suspicion when it comes to a study of business practices, since from my (admittedly comparatively limited) exposure to such studies, a lot of the concepts seem to make intuitive sense. I sort of wonder just how much actual work you would have to do to get an above-average result in those exams.
But then my university probably doesn't have much more than 20,000 active students, and my discipline (biotech) more or less dictated that I and my abilities were known to a supervisor who knew me by name and face, and who would have been competent to spot unusual discrepancies in results.
I might not have made it very clear in the previous post that these example questions I mentioned (call them a test bank if you will) never came with answers, so we all had to do the study to work out what the answers were. They were a great learning tool.
At my university, the issue of cheating in this way quite simply never arose. We (nearly) always had copious quantities of "example" questions provided weeks in advance of examinations, and in some cases the exam questions were drawn directly from them.What that meant was that we had to study the whole subject, rather than attempt to memorise a list of Qs and As.
I have heard reports of students being busted for smuggling in crib notes (e.g. programmed into a calculator), though I never encountered that in my year. But since my discipline was biotechnology (think molecular biology and biochemistry), there was always a vast amount that needed to be learned in any case, and making a good job of cheating would probably have cost at least as much effort as doing it "straight".
...and many of us have been doing so for years. I have just taken delivery of Telstra's white and yellow pages, despite the fact that I have not been a customer of theirs for over 15 years. Given that this unwanted print is about.13 m^3 in volume, that amounts to a scary statistic in terms of forests unnecessarily chopped down.
These guys take absolutely no notice of my requests to stop delivery, so the stuff just ends up filed directly in my recycle bin. Perhaps what might be more effective might be to set up an arrangement with like-minded people to re-deliver these directories at the telco's head office on a certain date so that their foyer fills up to the extent that their staff can't move...
Why exactly was my post marked as trolling? Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
You were probably modded down because you're being an insensitive prick.
There are times when the most careful people may run into financial trouble through no fault of their own. An insistence on being judgemental about this sheds a certain unflattering light on your character.
I don't really understand the whole debt collection business, but I would find it fairly odd that my phone company would send debt collectors after me having A) Never tried to contact me and B) Continue giving me service.
Well, I have experienced it at first hand about 17 years ago when I got into a bit of a hole with debt. (Fortunately, this is old history.) Back then, of course, there was no such thing as Facebook, but any avenue the bailiffs could pursue was taken up vigorously. But you're right, in the case of my phone bill the company did indeed contact me first, then discontinued the service. At the time, I was actually grateful for that much...
and the kind of audience who generally use open souce products probably don't care a damn about any official "certified" logo.
Got it in one. Microsoft's certification only means something to people who have a problem with self-esteem:
"We, Microsoft, do solemnly certify that the bearer of this piece of recycled loo paper is fan-bloody-tastic because we say so, and anyone who disagrees can just suck on a big one."
One of the most important skills that the humanities teach students is how to write properly
I used to think likewise until I read some work of the (now fortunately deceased) supervisor of some of my friends in the course of writing their PhD (history) theses. I was appalled to see such abysmal writing mannerisms ("This is Spot. See Spot run.") in formal writing, and I was even more appalled to see how she had managed to perpetuate this infection in the work of her students who then continued to unquestioningly pass it on as gospel.
...Then marriage, kids, 30-40 years of coasting, and retirement with a million and a half in your 401(k).
Heh, I wish. Or rather, I don't. OK, I'm married, but I don't have kids (never wanted them, and the future I see is not one I would wish to inflict on my offspring).
I will never get to retire, and I will die (by many people's standards) a pauper, but I will still consider my life fully (if not well) lived.
No, he isn't. Kolivas has always pushed patches designed for desktop optimisation, IIRC at least from the 2.4 days, while Linus has had to look after the big picture. Both points of view are equally valid while sometimes leading in different directions.
JAja true, we archers always have the latest features
Yes, but only the ones we want.;-)
I have always preferred (when other demands on my time are less pressing) to build my own kernels, partly because I am an inveterate tweaker, but also because I have found a perceptible difference in latency with my machines, none of which are state-of-the-art in terms of current technology.
From this perspective, Arch gives us the best of all worlds: a Slackware-like (or BSD-like, if you prefer) configuration arrangement in combination with a package system that has all the power of deb/rpm and all the simplicity of Slackware's tar/gzip.
I actually quite like the idea of Gentoo, but I find the actuality of it a bit frustrating. Back in the day, many of us learned about Linux by doing it from scratch but without the modern helpful references, or used SLS/Slackware, which gives you a world to stand on while you compile the stuff that is interesting to you without getting in the way.
LFS (and probably Gentoo) is great for a single-purpose or server system, but for a desktop system the compile-time overhead is just a total waste of time. I often hear the claim that Gentoo is a great way to learn about Linux, but my experience is that most people just follow the cookbook without taking very much in at all.
Plus, I'm happy to pay for it given all that it does.
At US$139.95 for a student licence, it's actually pretty cheap by comparison with some software products of more dubious value. But wrt the GP post, I'm guessing that having the product partially cloud-based is an efficient way of making it available for multiple platforms with a minimum amount of work on their part. Makes sense to me.
...in which case they aren't friends. What disturbed me was this line from the submission: ...the idea that conversation histories from multiple sources and different forms of communication can be integrated through Facebook, so that you no longer have to separately root through IM logs, SMS logs, old emails, etc., to see old correspondence.
...which presumably means Facebook can do just that. What could possibly go wrong?
And OS X still comes bundled with Safari. I haven't tried this for a couple of years (at least), but last time I checked, deleting Safari caused a number of apparently unrelated things to break.
Of course, neither OS stops you using another browser as the default.
Getting back to the topic... what I didn't get from the article is whether or not this exploit works if you use another browser (e.g. firefox) rather than the integrated one.
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If your lecturers are boring, then study the material on your own.
In one case, I had to: the lecturer was a fabulous guy, and really knew his stuff, but suffered from the disadvantage of having a delightful lilting, soporific Irish accent that routinely sent me to sleep. In a couple of cases, I became aware of a distinctly "hairy eyeball" glance that made me wonder if I had been snoring very loudly. I felt bad a bit about it, and actually apologised to him, making it clear that it wasn't his fault.
The burden of proof in the case of faculty vs students is also much much lower.
Does that extend to expulsion of a student from the university on the basis of just a statistical analysis? Seems like shaky ground to me, and if it came down to a court case, such an action might be hard to defend.
I think this is symptomatic of the way Universities (especially the bigger ones) have a cattle mentality when it comes to students.
Well, I guess most universities here (Australia) would rarely muster 600+ students in a single unit of study unless it was a first-year course such as a foundation unit. But I am bothered by a niggle of suspicion when it comes to a study of business practices, since from my (admittedly comparatively limited) exposure to such studies, a lot of the concepts seem to make intuitive sense. I sort of wonder just how much actual work you would have to do to get an above-average result in those exams.
But then my university probably doesn't have much more than 20,000 active students, and my discipline (biotech) more or less dictated that I and my abilities were known to a supervisor who knew me by name and face, and who would have been competent to spot unusual discrepancies in results.
I might not have made it very clear in the previous post that these example questions I mentioned (call them a test bank if you will) never came with answers, so we all had to do the study to work out what the answers were. They were a great learning tool.
At my university, the issue of cheating in this way quite simply never arose. We (nearly) always had copious quantities of "example" questions provided weeks in advance of examinations, and in some cases the exam questions were drawn directly from them.What that meant was that we had to study the whole subject, rather than attempt to memorise a list of Qs and As.
I have heard reports of students being busted for smuggling in crib notes (e.g. programmed into a calculator), though I never encountered that in my year. But since my discipline was biotechnology (think molecular biology and biochemistry), there was always a vast amount that needed to be learned in any case, and making a good job of cheating would probably have cost at least as much effort as doing it "straight".
we can just go online for this stuff now.
...and many of us have been doing so for years. I have just taken delivery of Telstra's white and yellow pages, despite the fact that I have not been a customer of theirs for over 15 years. Given that this unwanted print is about .13 m^3 in volume, that amounts to a scary statistic in terms of forests unnecessarily chopped down.
These guys take absolutely no notice of my requests to stop delivery, so the stuff just ends up filed directly in my recycle bin. Perhaps what might be more effective might be to set up an arrangement with like-minded people to re-deliver these directories at the telco's head office on a certain date so that their foyer fills up to the extent that their staff can't move...
Why exactly was my post marked as trolling? Would this persons situation NOT have been prevented by not simply paying their bills?
You were probably modded down because you're being an insensitive prick.
There are times when the most careful people may run into financial trouble through no fault of their own. An insistence on being judgemental about this sheds a certain unflattering light on your character.
I don't really understand the whole debt collection business, but I would find it fairly odd that my phone company would send debt collectors after me having A) Never tried to contact me and B) Continue giving me service.
Well, I have experienced it at first hand about 17 years ago when I got into a bit of a hole with debt. (Fortunately, this is old history.) Back then, of course, there was no such thing as Facebook, but any avenue the bailiffs could pursue was taken up vigorously. But you're right, in the case of my phone bill the company did indeed contact me first, then discontinued the service. At the time, I was actually grateful for that much...
and the kind of audience who generally use open souce products probably don't care a damn about any official "certified" logo.
Got it in one. Microsoft's certification only means something to people who have a problem with self-esteem:
"We, Microsoft, do solemnly certify that the bearer of this piece of recycled loo paper is fan-bloody-tastic because we say so, and anyone who disagrees can just suck on a big one."
No I didn't.
Fully/well lived? By now or by then? Or is this a continued project?
Obviously it's still a work in progress, so the answer is yes, yes and yes.
Why throw a tantrum like a child if something suggests you might need to think for fifteen seconds to figure something out?
I hope your question is rhetorical, since what you say in no way contradicts my post.
One of the most important skills that the humanities teach students is how to write properly
I used to think likewise until I read some work of the (now fortunately deceased) supervisor of some of my friends in the course of writing their PhD (history) theses. I was appalled to see such abysmal writing mannerisms ("This is Spot. See Spot run.") in formal writing, and I was even more appalled to see how she had managed to perpetuate this infection in the work of her students who then continued to unquestioningly pass it on as gospel.
...Then marriage, kids, 30-40 years of coasting, and retirement with a million and a half in your 401(k).
Heh, I wish. Or rather, I don't. OK, I'm married, but I don't have kids (never wanted them, and the future I see is not one I would wish to inflict on my offspring).
I will never get to retire, and I will die (by many people's standards) a pauper, but I will still consider my life fully (if not well) lived.
why?
So is Linus a dick?
No, he isn't. Kolivas has always pushed patches designed for desktop optimisation, IIRC at least from the 2.4 days, while Linus has had to look after the big picture. Both points of view are equally valid while sometimes leading in different directions.
JAja true, we archers always have the latest features
;-)
Yes, but only the ones we want.
I have always preferred (when other demands on my time are less pressing) to build my own kernels, partly because I am an inveterate tweaker, but also because I have found a perceptible difference in latency with my machines, none of which are state-of-the-art in terms of current technology.
From this perspective, Arch gives us the best of all worlds: a Slackware-like (or BSD-like, if you prefer) configuration arrangement in combination with a package system that has all the power of deb/rpm and all the simplicity of Slackware's tar/gzip.
Heh. Now that is pretty nearly the fugliest windowing system I have ever used. But it's still useful from time to time, if only for debuggery...
...except you do it more often. ;-)
I actually quite like the idea of Gentoo, but I find the actuality of it a bit frustrating. Back in the day, many of us learned about Linux by doing it from scratch but without the modern helpful references, or used SLS/Slackware, which gives you a world to stand on while you compile the stuff that is interesting to you without getting in the way.
LFS (and probably Gentoo) is great for a single-purpose or server system, but for a desktop system the compile-time overhead is just a total waste of time. I often hear the claim that Gentoo is a great way to learn about Linux, but my experience is that most people just follow the cookbook without taking very much in at all.
Plus, I'm happy to pay for it given all that it does.
At US$139.95 for a student licence, it's actually pretty cheap by comparison with some software products of more dubious value. But wrt the GP post, I'm guessing that having the product partially cloud-based is an efficient way of making it available for multiple platforms with a minimum amount of work on their part. Makes sense to me.
Your friends can also harass you...
...in which case they aren't friends. What disturbed me was this line from the submission:
...the idea that conversation histories from multiple sources and different forms of communication can be integrated through Facebook, so that you no longer have to separately root through IM logs, SMS logs, old emails, etc., to see old correspondence.
...which presumably means Facebook can do just that. What could possibly go wrong?
The only way to combat monopolies...
Well, who says we need to combat them? We can just ignore them. Sure, that won't make them go away, but who cares?
And OS X still comes bundled with Safari. I haven't tried this for a couple of years (at least), but last time I checked, deleting Safari caused a number of apparently unrelated things to break.
Of course, neither OS stops you using another browser as the default.
Getting back to the topic... what I didn't get from the article is whether or not this exploit works if you use another browser (e.g. firefox) rather than the integrated one.
I was briefly tempted to make an aside along the same lines, but of course the inquisition went far beyond the Spanish...
Westerners did "defend" their values (such as they were) several hundred years ago, like this and it wasn't any prettier than Hamas' attempt.
So let's not claim that Islam has a monopoly on repression.