Why not announce to your class in the early part of the course.
"Last Year I caught 20 people cheating. They got 0 for the assignment. They all appealed as is their right. They all dropped their appeal during the appeal process. Cheating will not be tolerated."
My Father was a teacher with a course that had prerequisite assignments before you were allowed to sit the exam. Legend has it one person did not hand in the assignments. He waited for student to hand in exam and tore it up in front of him. A legend was born that day. Whilst it soon became illegal to take that action (The completed exam being the students work) Everyone knew where they stood when it came to prerequisite assignments and cheating.
The org I work for shells out for MSDN subscription for me. I get Office 2010 for FREE and still use LibreOffice. My needs are simple and do not include learning a new interface.
The case goes something like this. AFACT (front group for MPAA) noticed some copyright shenanigans going on via iiNet. AFACT handed a whole bunch of information about the infringement to iiNet to "GET THEM TO DO SOMETHING!"
iiNet looked at the information and said "This looks like a job for the Australian Federal Police (Analogous to the FBI). We will hand on this information."
AFACT then said. "NO! YOU MUST STAMP PIRATES! Not just report things to the appropriate agency. We shall take you to court to make you do our will."
Judge 1 said "iiNet have a policy to deal with copyright infringement (Tell AFP). They have no obligation to seek out copyright infringement. It's not their movie."
AFACT said. "We want another judge. Get me the High Court" (similar to SCOTUS)
This is the end of act 1.
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The argument goes. (And I can't say I like it) If you have a credit card and you don't default on it, you are a good risk and are therefore entitled to a second credit card. You may be living in a cardboard box and off two minute noodles to do it, but as far as the credit agency is concerned, based on past performance you are low risk. Conversely if you live in a 14 Bedroom Mansion but default on your loans, you may find the banks want to Raise Interest Rates or Want Collateral before they will loan you more money.
If you are a country who looks at their budget and decides that 14 Trillion is all you think you can pay back without ruining your cardboard box, this is an arbitrary limit set by YOU. Not the credit agency. It's also why the RestOfWorld still has the shakes about investing in the UnitedStatesOfAmerica (for various values of investment and shakes). It is quite possible that the austerity measures built in to the current agreement will mean Credit Agencies downgrade your rating not because you think you can pay back the debit, but because they think you can't.
Not really a problem for me as I am running Linux on the Cloud\Laptop\Smartphone. The only reason it isn't on my Desktop is because that is mandated by my place of employ. Now hand me back my razor. I like to be clean shaven.
If you are writing a standard, register it so patent holders can check their patents against it. If you are a patent holder, check what standards are being penned in your patents field and inform the standards body quickly which patents this standard may affect. Failure to do either of the above should result in a nullifying of your standard/patent on principal.
I think I read a comment like this further up the list. Lemme check.
by Stregano (1285764) on Fri June 17, 9:19 (#36469364)
Yup. I did. Hello all my meat working slashdot friends. I am kind of proud of Australia's stance on animal cruelty where once a video of slaughter house cruelty was exposed, we refused to send cows to that country until they got their act together. (Dispite loosing market share etc.)
I am currently coding. I have The API information open. Three text windows open. A Browser open (True at the moment it is displaying slashdot)
That's 5 windows open where I would like to quickly shuffle information between them. I could use the Swap Pane keystroke, and the Arrange Windows to Tiles, but I find it's faster for me to "Glance"TM at the appropriate window or highlight and paste between them.
Work was nice enough to provide me with 2x 24" monitors to do this. They did offer me a third, but after 2 days, I gave that back. There is, surprisingly such a thing as too much screen real estate.)
For status information I have always found an alert dashboard that pops up with a healthy red glow when something goes wrong very useful. Especially if the whole office can see it. (There is nothing like manager walking in to Mission Control saying "I cant get my servic... Oh... What's happening?" when they see a board of all red flashy things.)
There is nothing intrinsically special about Arduino in the same way there is nothing intrinsically special about Ubuntu. The thing that makes them special is the communities that build around them helping each other.
This means that getting started with Arduino means I get to do cool stuff with microprocessors sooner. I actually implemented a link for fire panels over Ethernet using Arduino and some basic programming knowledge. I could have used a range of other systems to do the job but I selected Arduino because I could buy some of the "Shields" off the shelf and was able to make the rest using prototype boards.
Time to market 3 weeks. Experience before with Microprocessors 0 weeks.
I remain convinced that most people cannot or will not read anything present on a computer screen.
This is because of the too easy use of the modal popup. A popup is very easy for a programmer to create and deploy, but it gets in the way of what I am doing now. So the question asked by the user is not "What options should I select on this pane to achieve optimal results for me?" but "How do I get rid of this and back to what I want to be doing?"
I would love to see installers/programs in general avoid using them. Even if it means users are staring at a"broken program" that needs configuring the first time it is opened. Not with a helpful wizard, but with appropriate preference dialogs. This would mean an install would be
1. Run Executable.
2. Be informed by some scrolly that installation was successful.
How about if banks hand out tokens? Mine does. I log on with a username\Password\token number that changes once every 30 seconds. So if the hacker has managed to get the https traffic unencrypted in record time, they only get 30 seconds to play.
The other feature is the "transfer money" feature requires re entry of the token number.
And do you have a checker that runs on Linux? BSD? Android? Symbian? MacOS? Just windows is it? OK... Thanks, but your banking product is not secure enough for me to use. I'll head up the road to the other bank that supplies a token for logging on to their web site. Shame you don't get access to my savings as collateral for your loans.
At a minimum they should add a "provided by google" after the link
No. at very least there should be a Google ad banner on the page. In all truth if I was google, I would be using the results to encourage Bing users to end up at Goatse sites. This may play with the "Don't be Evil" thing, and is probably why I don't work for Google. (that and not being clever enough)
If I were Geohotz, I wouldn't even be doing that. I might do some research on the PS3 in my spare time, but nothing would be published until the court case is over. Then, once the cheque comes form Sony paying his legal bills, release that research. His lawyer is probably telling him (for his own good) to STFU for a bit.
Having had a read through the court docs that have come to light thus far, I'd say Geohotz has this case in the bag if his legal representation can stand up.
i remember the time when GIF was used as THE standard graphic format on the web. It had alpha channels, multi frame and was lossless. The only down side was you only got 256 colours. Everybody was happy with the situation. Right up to the point where the owner of the GIF patents started suing people. Within 6 months, there was very little GIF left on the internet and everybody was using PNG.
I can foresee a future similar to this for H.264. The holders of the standard will need to capitalise due to angry shareholders (Possibly for releasing a dud of an operating system for mobile phones). They will start suing people who are not using the standard the way the licence allows. In 6 months, everybody will be using another standard. Probably WebM or Ogg Theora.
The DMCA protects not only copyrighted works, but the technological means used to prevent their copying. This includes passwords and encryption keys which can be represented by numbers. The number is not copyrighted. It may not even be a secret. But if it breaks the mechanism, then it will fall foul of the DMCA.
If Geohot is a citizen of the USA and does not fall into one of the safe harbour categories, then he is stuffed.
What the Faceless Google rep said was that this test cannot be peer reviewed because they did not release all the data (specifically the URLs visited). Now releasing a report that does not allow for independent review does not make for good science.
The tests may be valid. But until there is enough information to confirm this, I can only be skeptical of the faceless Microsoft rep.
The elephant in the room for Microsoft is MSOffice. If it can't run that, then Microsoft's cash cow becomes less relevant. Microsoft is more interested in getting MSOffice everywhere. So MS thinks that if the screen is big enough to squeeze a version of the full blown MSOffice product on it then it should run an OS that will allow it to do that. Anything less does not feed the cash cow. Rewriting MSOffice to use a touch interface properly is another problem that needs dealing with.
This is why the phone and MS will not bother with each other too much. MSOffice for the phone would be dumb. Who needs to do a mail merge of a document with accompanying slide show from a phone? Ms will puddle about with the phone, but until they work out how you put the MSOffice suite on the phone, it will be half hearted. Let's face it. WINCE7 is the fourth player in the Apple/Google/RIM game. and it is NOT a game changer.
Lemme see. A written question where the answer contains more than 5 words in a row that are identical. A calculation question where the majority of people made either the same mistake, or, failed to include any notes. A series of multiple choice questions where the "less right" answer was picked more than the "more right" answer (assuming that there are two wrong, a less right and a more right).
Cheaters who do not expect to be caught will copy religiously from a crib sheet (be it memorized or handed around) This leads to patterns where it is highly unlikely to occur in the real world. And once I say that, then I can prove "beyond reasonable doubt" (say... 1000 to 1).
Their whole business model is designed around selling advertisements next to things you have found.
The RIAA and friends will not be purchasing things from the ads. Google need to recoup the losses of using the system somehow. Google choose to do this with a flat fee. There are some days when I'd pay for Google without the ads. I say bring on GoogleSubscriber. All the results, none of the ads.
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Why not announce to your class in the early part of the course.
"Last Year I caught 20 people cheating. They got 0 for the assignment. They all appealed as is their right. They all dropped their appeal during the appeal process. Cheating will not be tolerated."
My Father was a teacher with a course that had prerequisite assignments before you were allowed to sit the exam. Legend has it one person did not hand in the assignments. He waited for student to hand in exam and tore it up in front of him. A legend was born that day. Whilst it soon became illegal to take that action (The completed exam being the students work) Everyone knew where they stood when it came to prerequisite assignments and cheating.
The org I work for shells out for MSDN subscription for me. I get Office 2010 for FREE and still use LibreOffice. My needs are simple and do not include learning a new interface.
The case goes something like this. AFACT (front group for MPAA) noticed some copyright shenanigans going on via iiNet. AFACT handed a whole bunch of information about the infringement to iiNet to "GET THEM TO DO SOMETHING!"
iiNet looked at the information and said "This looks like a job for the Australian Federal Police (Analogous to the FBI). We will hand on this information."
AFACT then said. "NO! YOU MUST STAMP PIRATES! Not just report things to the appropriate agency. We shall take you to court to make you do our will."
Judge 1 said "iiNet have a policy to deal with copyright infringement (Tell AFP). They have no obligation to seek out copyright infringement. It's not their movie."
AFACT said. "We want another judge. Get me the High Court" (similar to SCOTUS)
This is the end of act 1.
The argument goes. (And I can't say I like it) If you have a credit card and you don't default on it, you are a good risk and are therefore entitled to a second credit card. You may be living in a cardboard box and off two minute noodles to do it, but as far as the credit agency is concerned, based on past performance you are low risk. Conversely if you live in a 14 Bedroom Mansion but default on your loans, you may find the banks want to Raise Interest Rates or Want Collateral before they will loan you more money.
If you are a country who looks at their budget and decides that 14 Trillion is all you think you can pay back without ruining your cardboard box, this is an arbitrary limit set by YOU. Not the credit agency. It's also why the RestOfWorld still has the shakes about investing in the UnitedStatesOfAmerica (for various values of investment and shakes). It is quite possible that the austerity measures built in to the current agreement will mean Credit Agencies downgrade your rating not because you think you can pay back the debit, but because they think you can't.
Now excuse me while I exchange my USD for VND.
Not really a problem for me as I am running Linux on the Cloud\Laptop\Smartphone. The only reason it isn't on my Desktop is because that is mandated by my place of employ. Now hand me back my razor. I like to be clean shaven.
Tis simple. All the guys at xiph are asking is
If you are writing a standard, register it so patent holders can check their patents against it.
If you are a patent holder, check what standards are being penned in your patents field and inform the standards body quickly which patents this standard may affect.
Failure to do either of the above should result in a nullifying of your standard/patent on principal.
I think I read a comment like this further up the list. Lemme check.
by Stregano (1285764) on Fri June 17, 9:19 (#36469364)
Yup. I did. Hello all my meat working slashdot friends. I am kind of proud of Australia's stance on animal cruelty where once a video of slaughter house cruelty was exposed, we refused to send cows to that country until they got their act together. (Dispite loosing market share etc.)
I am currently coding. I have
The API information open.
Three text windows open.
A Browser open (True at the moment it is displaying slashdot)
That's 5 windows open where I would like to quickly shuffle information between them. I could use the Swap Pane keystroke, and the Arrange Windows to Tiles, but I find it's faster for me to "Glance"TM at the appropriate window or highlight and paste between them.
Work was nice enough to provide me with 2x 24" monitors to do this. They did offer me a third, but after 2 days, I gave that back. There is, surprisingly such a thing as too much screen real estate.)
For status information I have always found an alert dashboard that pops up with a healthy red glow when something goes wrong very useful. Especially if the whole office can see it. (There is nothing like manager walking in to Mission Control saying "I cant get my servic... Oh... What's happening?" when they see a board of all red flashy things.)
There is nothing intrinsically special about Arduino in the same way there is nothing intrinsically special about Ubuntu. The thing that makes them special is the communities that build around them helping each other.
This means that getting started with Arduino means I get to do cool stuff with microprocessors sooner. I actually implemented a link for fire panels over Ethernet using Arduino and some basic programming knowledge. I could have used a range of other systems to do the job but I selected Arduino because I could buy some of the "Shields" off the shelf and was able to make the rest using prototype boards.
Time to market 3 weeks. Experience before with Microprocessors 0 weeks.
Don't suppose you remember the wars in the Balkins?
Do the trains run on time? I could use some predictable public transport.
I remain convinced that most people cannot or will not read anything present on a computer screen.
This is because of the too easy use of the modal popup. A popup is very easy for a programmer to create and deploy, but it gets in the way of what I am doing now. So the question asked by the user is not "What options should I select on this pane to achieve optimal results for me?" but "How do I get rid of this and back to what I want to be doing?"
I would love to see installers/programs in general avoid using them. Even if it means users are staring at a"broken program" that needs configuring the first time it is opened. Not with a helpful wizard, but with appropriate preference dialogs. This would mean an install would be
1. Run Executable.
2. Be informed by some scrolly that installation was successful.
3. Open program and start configuring.
How about if banks hand out tokens? Mine does. I log on with a username\Password\token number that changes once every 30 seconds. So if the hacker has managed to get the https traffic unencrypted in record time, they only get 30 seconds to play.
The other feature is the "transfer money" feature requires re entry of the token number.
And do you have a checker that runs on Linux?
BSD?
Android?
Symbian?
MacOS?
Just windows is it? OK... Thanks, but your banking product is not secure enough for me to use. I'll head up the road to the other bank that supplies a token for logging on to their web site. Shame you don't get access to my savings as collateral for your loans.
Wikileaks + google = FBIs new search engine?
At a minimum they should add a "provided by google" after the link
No. at very least there should be a Google ad banner on the page. In all truth if I was google, I would be using the results to encourage Bing users to end up at Goatse sites. This may play with the "Don't be Evil" thing, and is probably why I don't work for Google. (that and not being clever enough)
If I were Geohotz, I wouldn't even be doing that. I might do some research on the PS3 in my spare time, but nothing would be published until the court case is over. Then, once the cheque comes form Sony paying his legal bills, release that research. His lawyer is probably telling him (for his own good) to STFU for a bit.
Having had a read through the court docs that have come to light thus far, I'd say Geohotz has this case in the bag if his legal representation can stand up.
i remember the time when GIF was used as THE standard graphic format on the web. It had alpha channels, multi frame and was lossless. The only down side was you only got 256 colours. Everybody was happy with the situation. Right up to the point where the owner of the GIF patents started suing people. Within 6 months, there was very little GIF left on the internet and everybody was using PNG.
I can foresee a future similar to this for H.264. The holders of the standard will need to capitalise due to angry shareholders (Possibly for releasing a dud of an operating system for mobile phones). They will start suing people who are not using the standard the way the licence allows. In 6 months, everybody will be using another standard. Probably WebM or Ogg Theora.
The DMCA protects not only copyrighted works, but the technological means used to prevent their copying. This includes passwords and encryption keys which can be represented by numbers. The number is not copyrighted. It may not even be a secret. But if it breaks the mechanism, then it will fall foul of the DMCA.
If Geohot is a citizen of the USA and does not fall into one of the safe harbour categories, then he is stuffed.
Best legislation you can buy...
What the Faceless Google rep said was that this test cannot be peer reviewed because they did not release all the data (specifically the URLs visited). Now releasing a report that does not allow for independent review does not make for good science.
The tests may be valid. But until there is enough information to confirm this, I can only be skeptical of the faceless Microsoft rep.
The elephant in the room for Microsoft is MSOffice. If it can't run that, then Microsoft's cash cow becomes less relevant. Microsoft is more interested in getting MSOffice everywhere. So MS thinks that if the screen is big enough to squeeze a version of the full blown MSOffice product on it then it should run an OS that will allow it to do that. Anything less does not feed the cash cow. Rewriting MSOffice to use a touch interface properly is another problem that needs dealing with.
This is why the phone and MS will not bother with each other too much. MSOffice for the phone would be dumb. Who needs to do a mail merge of a document with accompanying slide show from a phone? Ms will puddle about with the phone, but until they work out how you put the MSOffice suite on the phone, it will be half hearted. Let's face it. WINCE7 is the fourth player in the Apple/Google/RIM game. and it is NOT a game changer.
Lemme see. A written question where the answer contains more than 5 words in a row that are identical.
A calculation question where the majority of people made either the same mistake, or, failed to include any notes.
A series of multiple choice questions where the "less right" answer was picked more than the "more right" answer (assuming that there are two wrong, a less right and a more right).
Cheaters who do not expect to be caught will copy religiously from a crib sheet (be it memorized or handed around) This leads to patterns where it is highly unlikely to occur in the real world. And once I say that, then I can prove "beyond reasonable doubt" (say... 1000 to 1).
Their whole business model is designed around selling advertisements next to things you have found.
The RIAA and friends will not be purchasing things from the ads. Google need to recoup the losses of using the system somehow. Google choose to do this with a flat fee. There are some days when I'd pay for Google without the ads. I say bring on GoogleSubscriber. All the results, none of the ads.
It's still illegal to upload copyrighted files which you do not have permission to.
Fixed that for ya.
So you choose a pipe that shoots lead at supersonic speed as defence?
Defence would be a hockey mask. A gun is a weapon not a shield.
(And that is the correct spelling for Defence you cheap and nasty spellchecker.)