It's not that she re-used the work, but that they were "substantively similar". This is to be expected when your focus of study is one narrow field, of which you are one of only a handful of people looking at, and for which you are already published.
She did nothing wrong, and in fact the portion the computer highlighted were her critiques of legal documents, used as backup. The premise of the papers were entirely different.
Re-submitting a previous work is against the rules, yes. Leveraging your previous work is not. -nB
Depends on which people you are talking about. Users? No. Shareholders? Yes. Shareholders that use the product? must be a wash.
This whole damn thing is flamebait. The media in the US is well known for their left bent. I take all the news from the mainstream press with as much salt as I take Rush Limbaugh with. -nB
There are problems with that system though. My wife's writing style is rather uniform and predictable. The database she works from is the same regardless of the calss she is taking, she writes papers and whatnot for her masters/doctoral work (I'm coding an indexing on-line library of reference documents that is more easily searchable). This database of documentation is a superset of what she had when she was taking her BS degree classes (same data and sourcework, plus new sourcework and data, plus her previous papers). She has been brought up for plagerism because her paper too closely resembled another paper turned into the same on-line system to detect cheaters, and a published work on the same subject. Problem is, the paper that was used as a reference was one of her bachelor papers, and the published work was also hers (thus no plagerism). Had the teacher not discussed this with her before talking with the dean, this could have turned out rather badly.
How are systems like this to defend against such issues, I for one do not trust that every teacher / prof / dean will do the right thing, and would rather rubber stamp a transcript with the expelled mark for plagerism rather than look at the possibility that the student is simply leveraging some of their previous hard work... -nB
There have been several people to point to this basic premise. Your local mail server is less insecure by virtue of the ability to not archive your e-mail. Google has so much data that e-mail is persistant, even when deleted. Most ISPs and for sure a local mail server (if desired) would not back up the e-mail messages, thus once deleted the disk space is available for overwriting. It is by no means secure, but it is at least one more layer between you and a subpoena. -nB
Obviously you mean a digital whiteboard company. That's bacause no-one makes the exact style he wants. If he owned the company there would be no issue:-)
On another note: e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP, and all the other partner companies, and anyone I know. Time to see if I'm in a partnerish enough company . . . tempting, Really tempting. -nB
Correct, but in this case it's that deleted != DELETED On a local mail server the user can ensure that deleted mail is overwritten, and even with a traditional ISP POP account messages that are deleted on download alre usually quickly overwritten. -nB
1. I can compress anything you give me by a factor of at least 1 (inclusive of my own output).
"-1 pedantic", I know. -nB
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In exchange you give Google access to your e-mail if at least for ads, and in addition to had over upon subpoena. Don't take it wrong, I use google for the same reasons you do. -nB
Actually, I work in a lab that is in a lab. The common area requires badge authentication to enter, while the two restricted areas require further authentication. -nB
Yes, but you trade off optical security (shoulder surfing) for mechanical security (keylogger). At home or at my office I am unconcerned with shoulder surfing as by my workspace layout no-one can be behind me without my knowledge. I am, however concerned with keyloggers. In the case of a public computer I am concerned with everything, and consequently do not authenticate to anything at all. I run a server with a CGI app that allows me to paste URLs, blobs of text, or upload files. It will download the URL, store the text, etc. so that's how I take notes when at the uni library (or anywhere else for that matter). -nB
In the US this is only pragmatically true. Downloading is still willful infringement, it's just that you are too small a fish to worry about if you leach only. -nB
s/'To wipe the system to fix it is like killing the patient.'/'Hell, spend your CD money on booze and then join AA so you can sit around and blame the RIAA for your alcoholism.'/
Don't quite know wtf happened there.... not so funny anymore. ?!? It's teh RIAA's fault, i'm gonna get drunk now. -nB
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but that's a simple spelling error, I'm good at those. Getting my fingers to mix up a and o on a QWERTY board is something special.
-nB
s/pronk/prank/ :x
c h%20Cannon%20Hack/photos/photo4.html another pic of the ring on the canon ;)
Easy typo seing as they are so close to each other on the keyboards...
BTW: http://web.mit.edu/jotong/Public/Photos/MIT/Calte
Love the rat! A+ pronk on that :-)
-nB
It's not that she re-used the work, but that they were "substantively similar". This is to be expected when your focus of study is one narrow field, of which you are one of only a handful of people looking at, and for which you are already published.
She did nothing wrong, and in fact the portion the computer highlighted were her critiques of legal documents, used as backup. The premise of the papers were entirely different.
Re-submitting a previous work is against the rules, yes. Leveraging your previous work is not.
-nB
Depends on which people you are talking about.
Users? No.
Shareholders? Yes.
Shareholders that use the product? must be a wash.
This whole damn thing is flamebait. The media in the US is well known for their left bent. I take all the news from the mainstream press with as much salt as I take Rush Limbaugh with.
-nB
There are problems with that system though.
My wife's writing style is rather uniform and predictable.
The database she works from is the same regardless of the calss she is taking, she writes papers and whatnot for her masters/doctoral work (I'm coding an indexing on-line library of reference documents that is more easily searchable).
This database of documentation is a superset of what she had when she was taking her BS degree classes (same data and sourcework, plus new sourcework and data, plus her previous papers).
She has been brought up for plagerism because her paper too closely resembled another paper turned into the same on-line system to detect cheaters, and a published work on the same subject. Problem is, the paper that was used as a reference was one of her bachelor papers, and the published work was also hers (thus no plagerism). Had the teacher not discussed this with her before talking with the dean, this could have turned out rather badly.
How are systems like this to defend against such issues, I for one do not trust that every teacher / prof / dean will do the right thing, and would rather rubber stamp a transcript with the expelled mark for plagerism rather than look at the possibility that the student is simply leveraging some of their previous hard work...
-nB
There have been several people to point to this basic premise.
Your local mail server is less insecure by virtue of the ability to not archive your e-mail.
Google has so much data that e-mail is persistant, even when deleted. Most ISPs and for sure a local mail server (if desired) would not back up the e-mail messages, thus once deleted the disk space is available for overwriting. It is by no means secure, but it is at least one more layer between you and a subpoena.
-nB
Those flatscreens are NECs though, they are awesome for office and coding work. I turned down 2 IBM 21" over my existing 18" NECs at the office.
-nB
Obviously you mean a digital whiteboard company. :-)
That's bacause no-one makes the exact style he wants. If he owned the company there would be no issue
On another note:
e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP, and all the other partner companies, and anyone I know.
Time to see if I'm in a partnerish enough company . . . tempting, Really tempting.
-nB
Correct, but in this case it's that deleted != DELETED
On a local mail server the user can ensure that deleted mail is overwritten, and even with a traditional ISP POP account messages that are deleted on download alre usually quickly overwritten.
-nB
s/had/handing/
I for one see it as a real possibility should I cross the line beyond repairing bricked consoles and started offering hacked software.
-nB
This is super cool.
Now maybe we'll see performance improvements that can tightly take advantage of the Intel archecture.
-nB
dude, karma whoring funny comments is approaching the usefulness of this compression algo. :-)
hate to break it to you this way
-nB
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:-)
top that
1.
I can compress anything you give me by a factor of at least 1 (inclusive of my own output).
"-1 pedantic", I know.
-nB
In exchange you give Google access to your e-mail if at least for ads, and in addition to had over upon subpoena.
Don't take it wrong, I use google for the same reasons you do.
-nB
Tempest program
Actually, I work in a lab that is in a lab.
The common area requires badge authentication to enter, while the two restricted areas require further authentication.
-nB
I'll give you a buck for your UID...
No?
then I'll give you $100 for it.
-nB
Yes, but you trade off optical security (shoulder surfing) for mechanical security (keylogger).
At home or at my office I am unconcerned with shoulder surfing as by my workspace layout no-one can be behind me without my knowledge. I am, however concerned with keyloggers.
In the case of a public computer I am concerned with everything, and consequently do not authenticate to anything at all.
I run a server with a CGI app that allows me to paste URLs, blobs of text, or upload files. It will download the URL, store the text, etc. so that's how I take notes when at the uni library (or anywhere else for that matter).
-nB
On screen keyboard with random window location, use your mouse.
-nB
In the US this is only pragmatically true.
Downloading is still willful infringement, it's just that you are too small a fish to worry about if you leach only.
-nB
It's funny because it's true.
Hmmmmm, never seen this before:
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
s/'To wipe the system to fix it is like killing the patient.'/'Hell, spend your CD money on booze and then join AA so you can sit around and blame the RIAA for your alcoholism.'/
Don't quite know wtf happened there....
not so funny anymore.
?!?
It's teh RIAA's fault, i'm gonna get drunk now.
-nB
"To wipe the system to fix it is like killing the patient."
I'm off to the store, this is gonna be great!*
-nB
*as long as I can remember why I'm getting so pished once I am so pished.