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Cheating Made Easy
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I worked at a Belgian University and our program used to catch many cheaters (although some no doubt went undetected). Our method was simple: students had to hand in drafts as the semester wore on, and many professors would make an oral examination of the paper part of its evaluation. You cannot speak convincingly of something that you did not write.
One professor had an even more radical method: he would only allow students to write about books that had just appeared, and the students had to structure their essays around specific questions that the professor posed. Impossible to get around this, unless you hire someone to write it to spec.
But, with all of the terrorist threats lately, bringing passport documents into the digital world is sure to increase security
Surely, this is a non-analytic proposition. And as such, an argument must be made. It is not evident that security will be increased. What is evident, however, as many people have pointed out, is that the volume of data-bases containing personal data will be increased. Nothing more.
(much like in English the infinitive is two words, but one idea)
Actually, the English infinitive is not necessarily two words, which is why we speak of the periphrastic infinitive.
'I want to go' -> to go = periphrastic infinitive
'I must go' -> go = non-periphrastic infinitive
In essence the infinitive is simply the non-conjugated (and hence infinite or not bounded) form of the verb.
Of course, I am sure that I will no be subjected to dictionary attacks claiming to show that the infinitive is the form of the verb preceeded by 'to.' So be it.
This is old hat. Guy Debord's Internationale Situationniste was daubing "ne travaillez jamais" on walls back when it was formenting the Paris student riots of 1969. And they meant it, man...
I find it vaguely disturbing that this man, who would tell us about support and who makes his living with his notebook, would not do automated back-ups.
Although I know that this may not be an absolute statement, so many computer problems are not the fault of the vendor, and those that are, are often made worse by personal computing habits.
It is so simple to do a nightly backup to a ftp server with only a batch file, a text file, and pkzip. I only dare mention this on/. on the off-chance that the article's writer is lurking nearby. It is advice he could use.
And finaly A new hotmail address every month or so for sites that want personal info to log in ect where you want to look at something but you think you might get spam. Think of it as giving microsoft a DNS attack with every new spam this act needs to deal with.
A new hotmail account every month or so? Why not simple use the mailinator?
I bet legislation in this area will do nothing to ease the spyware problem, but instead will only act as a trojan increase governmental control of the web.
I know: not a new idea, or particularly interesting. However, I do find it funny to see people applauding legistative solutions to problems on the internet, which is usually praised for being an anarchic forum.
My university administration caps all last names, which is very helpful since the student population of our university is rather international, and it is not always easy to figure out names like Zambak Aziz (Zambak AZIZ).
I would not accuse you on the grounds of writing a professional-sounding paper. If I suspected you, I would first try to find a copy of the original. If I could not, then I would give you a grade based on the quality of the paper.
I have used "an" properly here. Since this is a matter of prescription, I gladly quote my Houghton Mifflin dictionary: "an -- the indefinite article, a form of a used before words beginning with a vowel, or an unpronounced h." The Oxford Guide to Writing (OUP) concurs (p. 780). Although one would never say "an university," one should write it that way. English, as you may notice, is often written differently than it is pronounced.
But no, I am not an English instructor. And I am glad I am not, for I would hate to be even partly responsible for the sorry state of English composition.
I am an university instructor, as well as an admissions officer. Feeding everyone's papers through a plagiarism detector is probably going help, especially since the process itself will act as somewhat of a deterrent. But my own simple rule is as follows: if an essay sounds professional, it probably is. The writing standards of most undergraduate students are so low that anything well written really stands out. I simply run these through google. It is amazing how many of these turn out to be plagiarized (right now, in a program of about 60 students, I am dealing with three plagiarism cases - this does not include the handful of applicants who submitted plagiarized writing samples).
As a corollary, it is amazing how stupid today's plagiarist is.
I am a Canuck expat in Europe, and I grew up with 8.5x11 paper. Now, however, I shudder when I see it. A4 is so much more aesthetically pleasing to me, probably because it looks less clunky than its fatter and shorter American cousin. And, since the headline asks, I have found the scaling of the metric series to be very handy; it is easy to ask for precisely the size of paper you want.
oh, you object to my orthography. i would accept that 'skewed' is perhaps more standard (we all have our verbal ticks, but at least i do not say 'orientated').
Um, I did go to the site first (that's why my post in not near the top of the page). And second of all, I did not claim that you would receive limited results, but that they would be skewered (ranked according to all-encompassing preferences). Third of all, the slider is in essence another filter, and will channel your results accordingly.
Of course, there are good sides to this. But the beauty of the web is the ability to dig up the info you want from as many sources as possible. Honing your searches according to general preferences, and not accrording to logical criteria, seems to me not to be the smartest search method. To each his own, I guess.
I am not certain this is a good thing. Obviously, setting up filters in a search by search manner is helpful. But pre-filtering all web searches based on a menu of categories seems to me to be a great way to skewer, not filter, your results.
The referrer normally tells a website the URL of the last page you visited. This may be something you prefer them not to know - especially if your visiting the page by clicking a link in from your email or a private message board. Much sensitive information can be leaked this way. By default Proxomitron will send the web pages own URL instead. This looks more or less normal to the server, but doesn't reveal any information. I recommend using this if you're security conscious.
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One professor had an even more radical method: he would only allow students to write about books that had just appeared, and the students had to structure their essays around specific questions that the professor posed. Impossible to get around this, unless you hire someone to write it to spec.
cheers, potor
'I want to go' -> to go = periphrastic infinitive
'I must go' -> go = non-periphrastic infinitive
In essence the infinitive is simply the non-conjugated (and hence infinite or not bounded) form of the verb.
Of course, I am sure that I will no be subjected to dictionary attacks claiming to show that the infinitive is the form of the verb preceeded by 'to.' So be it.
cheers, potor
This is old hat. Guy Debord's Internationale Situationniste was daubing "ne travaillez jamais" on walls back when it was formenting the Paris student riots of 1969. And they meant it, man ...
cheers, potor
I find it vaguely disturbing that this man, who would tell us about support and who makes his living with his notebook, would not do automated back-ups.
Although I know that this may not be an absolute statement, so many computer problems are not the fault of the vendor, and those that are, are often made worse by personal computing habits.
It is so simple to do a nightly backup to a ftp server with only a batch file, a text file, and pkzip. I only dare mention this on /. on the off-chance that the article's writer is lurking nearby. It is advice he could use.
cheers, potor
D'oh, interpolate "to" between "trojan" and "increase." I could have sworn I hit the preview button.
I know: not a new idea, or particularly interesting. However, I do find it funny to see people applauding legistative solutions to problems on the internet, which is usually praised for being an anarchic forum.
Yeah, sorry, I missed the emoticon. I speak Dutch ...
cheers, potor
Actually, that says: "answer the 2 following questions for advice regarding the subscription that best suits your internet use."
My university administration caps all last names, which is very helpful since the student population of our university is rather international, and it is not always easy to figure out names like Zambak Aziz (Zambak AZIZ).
Agreed. I don't understand why this is on /. at all. Digital cameras are not new; bad photography is not new; and these rules are not new.
I would not accuse you on the grounds of writing a professional-sounding paper. If I suspected you, I would first try to find a copy of the original. If I could not, then I would give you a grade based on the quality of the paper.
But no, I am not an English instructor. And I am glad I am not, for I would hate to be even partly responsible for the sorry state of English composition.
As a corollary, it is amazing how stupid today's plagiarist is.
I just tried your experiment, on various sheets of A4. I did not reach the same results as did you; I guess, like cold fusion, it is unrepeatable.
I am a Canuck expat in Europe, and I grew up with 8.5x11 paper. Now, however, I shudder when I see it. A4 is so much more aesthetically pleasing to me, probably because it looks less clunky than its fatter and shorter American cousin. And, since the headline asks, I have found the scaling of the metric series to be very handy; it is easy to ask for precisely the size of paper you want.
cheers, potor
skewered: obliquely presented; distorted ranking.
Of course, there are good sides to this. But the beauty of the web is the ability to dig up the info you want from as many sources as possible. Honing your searches according to general preferences, and not accrording to logical criteria, seems to me not to be the smartest search method. To each his own, I guess.
I am not certain this is a good thing. Obviously, setting up filters in a search by search manner is helpful. But pre-filtering all web searches based on a menu of categories seems to me to be a great way to skewer, not filter, your results.
thanks to proxomitron, i am beyond your evil clutches ...
i cannot call talk of a geologico-political cover-up "ravings?"