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  1. Re:Ethics aside... How? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    Someone acquired the question bank that was used to generate the test.

    Since he's apparently been teaching that course for twenty years, I'm disappointed that he generated his midterms (and finals) from a textbook publisher question bank, then when the cheating happened, made his lab instructors write him a new set of tests from scratch.

  2. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Yes. The charter doesn't say anything about government (except in the relevant sections). It guarantees your rights. It does not simply restrict the power of the government. If your rights are infringed, by anyone, the case can be brought before a judge or a human rights commission.

    The section on enforcement says: "24. (1) Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances."

    Except for things like voting, the charter also says, for example

    2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

    (a) freedom of conscience and religion;
    (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
    (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
    (d) freedom of association.

    The charter guarantees rights (except things like voting) to everyone, not just citizens. "The people" in the US constitution isn't exactly clear, but it could be interpreted to mean only the people of the United States. "Everyone" is pretty clear.

  3. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    Federal and state then. If your employer wants to do something, the constitution has nothing to say about it.

  4. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    The government in a democratic nation represents the people. Besides which, the words "reasonable limits prescribed by law" don't mean the government can make any old law to prescribe rights in the charter. It means those rights may be proscribed, to reasonable limits, by laws.

    That is, if the government tries to make a law that unreasonably prescribes rights, the courts are supposed to shoot it down. Just like they are in the US, except that the Canadian charter applies to everybody in the country, not just to the federal government.

    You have rights not because you're a human being, but because you live in a society that chooses to believe you have certain rights. Rights are an invention of society, not some natural state of being. If you don't believe me, break into a zoo, hop the fence around the tiger enclosure, and tell the big cats about your right to life.

  5. Re:Another form of tyranny from Canada: on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 1

    No. Australia has laws against certain kinds of pornography (not all) and Aussie customs was warning people to be careful of what they brought in.

    You're also apparently confusing Canadian customs with US customs. Considering all the factual errors and conflations, I don't think it's likely your claims about Canadian customs and pornography are accurate.

  6. Re:Just goes to show... on Canada To Mandate ISP Deep Packet Inspection · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our freedom of expression right is in some ways more far reaching, and in some ways less far reaching than the US version.

    Remember, the US bill of rights only prevents the federal government from making laws that infringe citizen's rights. The Canadian bill of rights directs the government to make sure that no one infringes those rights.

    So if your freedom of speech is infringing on someone else's right to freedom of religion, life, security, whatever, the government is obligated to stop you.

  7. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    How would you like to be around if a hundred years worth of exhaust from all those coal plants was let go, all at the same time, all in the same place?

  8. Oh definitely on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    It should be MUCH cheaper and easier to send a few people to Mars with enough equipment to build some place to live, then ship them supplies regularly for the rest of their lives.

    The alternative being shipping a bit of fuel out to Martian orbit for a return mission.

  9. Re:For what? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Slight difference in environments there.

  10. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    We generally try to avoid setting off hundreds or thousands of atomic bombs in our atmosphere these days.

  11. Re:Do we want DRM on the platform? on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 1

    It's not your choice. And there's already DRM on Android phones, according to the article, just no universal standard. So you're too late.

  12. Re:Anecdotal Evidence on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    Assuming your story is true, you weren't going directly downwind. You were reaching the whole time. If you were going directly downwind, the apparent wind would never come from the side. You would feel maximum wind (from behind) when you were stationary, then the apparent wind would decrease as you moved faster, but always remaining in the same direction.

  13. Re:elements on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I realize the sentence is a little ambiguous, but as you pointed out, one interpretation is nonsensical. The other is: gold is usually found in elemental form, as is silver, although silver is more common [than gold] to find as a compound or alloy.

    Dimwit.

  14. Re:elements on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    How is that?

  15. Re:Don't do it on Recommendations For Home Virtualization? · · Score: 1

    Except being able to use another OS without rebooting.

    Unfortunately even the best VMs just don't have the graphics support. Photoshop and Lightroom currently don't use GPU acceleration very extensively so they'll probably work okay, but in the future it's unlikely.

  16. Re:A Perfect Slashdot Article on Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mathematicians like it that way.

    One of the math professors at Berkeley tells his students that math is messy - when you're working on a proof you start from one place, wander around for a while, then get to your destination.

    Then you clean everything up and present it to the world as obvious.

  17. Re:elements on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I think gold is usually found in elemental form, as is silver, although silver is more common to find as a compound or alloy.

  18. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Er, I've got my own plane....

  19. Re:Uhhhhh. on Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh, a bank of modems would have to exist in someone's country. It would also depend on the phone lines, which, as you pointed out, are a weak link.

    The only difference between a BBS and an Internet web site is someone providing a gateway to the Internet. If they did put up a satellite, you could have a LOT of those gateways. If one got killed you'd just fail over to another. TPB does something similar now, except they have to maintain separate mirrors in different countries.

  20. Re:This is why we can't have nice things, children on Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    How is that any of your business?

    Well, you are here posting comments on a site that features a nice threading model so that other people can easily reply. Maybe if you don't like that, you need to ignore it.

    You think what appears in a Google search is all the information they have about you? And you're calling all social networking users idiots? Seriously?

  21. Re:Cost on Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    I'd be registering my boat, plane, etc. in Bermuda.

  23. Re:Not a netbook? What? on Early Review of 11" Macbook Air · · Score: 1

    Because it has a full size keyboard.

  24. Re:I dunno man on Early Review of 11" Macbook Air · · Score: 1

    Except it's made out of a solid piece of aluminum, not plastic.

  25. Re:No one cares on Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Telling Facebook your address falls under one of those not very smart things that you shouldn't do. Posting your vacation pictures before you get back possibly isn't very smart.

    On the other hand, you're referring to a VERY small set of incidents. A lot of people are using Facebook and not getting robbed.