I'm in a rather similar situation with TurnItIn in the UK. My university policy on IP reads:
"The ownership of IP created by a student, who is not an employee of the University, is with the Student. "
However, upon submitting a recent paper (ironically on Ethical Frameworks) I was email a TurnItIn report generated from the submission of my essay. Although I appreciated receiving the report, I had not been informed that our work would be submitted, nor had I granted permission for the University to pass my work to a third party.
I'm yet to get an answer as to why this happened. It seems the argument so far is that although they may be acting unethically, it's the best way to improve the image Universities handling of plagiarism. I think its sad that its come to this.
Why does Google set cookies on www.google.com when you access your gmail account? For the purpose of session tracking setting cookies only on gmail.google.com is sufficient.
There is no such thing as a "gmail account", there are only google accounts. With a google account you can enable or disable different services, including gmail (if you're invited), search history, google in my language and the most recent personalise google to name a few. The one account allows you to log into one service and use everything you have activated at once. It also means you only have to sign up once, and have to log in much less.
Don't believe in that "we do no evil" crap, Google is to be trusted no more than any other for-profit corporation.
I disagree, google has a very good history of always doing the right thing. Compared to other companies in the computing/information industry they appear almost angelic. As they have done no evil in the past, it is more likely they will carry on doing no evil in the future, compared to other "less moral" companies.
The very fact that they have already labelled themselves as a company that "does no evil" in the past, acts as a driving force to carry on doing so.
Sure, all systems have security problems. Few people get an operating system just for security, if the did, they wouldn't be using Mac os x or Windows XP they would be using openBSD
The author of that article seems to be pretty insecure himself.
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I'm in a rather similar situation with TurnItIn in the UK. My university policy on IP reads:
"The ownership of IP created by a student, who is not an employee of the University, is with the Student. "
However, upon submitting a recent paper (ironically on Ethical Frameworks) I was email a TurnItIn report generated from the submission of my essay. Although I appreciated receiving the report, I had not been informed that our work would be submitted, nor had I granted permission for the University to pass my work to a third party.
I'm yet to get an answer as to why this happened. It seems the argument so far is that although they may be acting unethically, it's the best way to improve the image Universities handling of plagiarism. I think its sad that its come to this.
Sueing google?
That sounds like searching for trouble!
The author of that article seems to be pretty insecure himself.
sounds smelly.
------> 1) Capitalism -------> 2) Globalization----|
|------ 4) Rebuilding---- 3) Liberation (a.k.a. war)---
Aren't open journals best kept to the internet? Where they can be easily edited and veiwed by all in real time?
It's a good idea though
"Trying is the first step towards failure" - Homer Simpson