1. A student writes a paper and submits it. These TurnItIn type services compare it to other papers and returns a score to determine if it was a copy of someone else's work. This student's own work now becomes part of that database to help the service make more money. Students need to copywrite their work before handing it in and demand that any service verifying that it is original remove it from their database.
2. A student writes a paper, it gets tested by one of these services and is found to be original and gets a decent grade. Later in a different class, another paper is required and it just so happens that this previous paper fits in precisely with the requirements, so the student uses it again. Remember, it is the student's own work. The service now says that he copied it word for word from another student and the student is accused of cheating.
Now with scenario #2, reuse of a student's own work may be questionable, but it IS HIS OWN WORK and he should be free to use it however and whenever he wishes.
Reguarding the Anonymous Cowards comment, PJ had disabled new accounts so it is currently impossible for anyone to create one. All new users have no choice BUT to be anonymous.
Some also prefer NOT to be anonymous, but their accounts were disabled/deleted because they posted a serious comment that was against popular opinion and labeled a troll. That isn't to say there aren't a lot of trolls there, because there are.
When I looked at the homepage of MSN (which many IE browsers use as the default home page), I found a minimum of 21 links that you thought were links to articles but were only links to Bing searches. This is why they are gaining ground, not because of a better search engine but because of the sneaky way they get people to use their search engine.
Not only do the various security companies use different names for the threats they identify; they don't even identify the same threats.
This is why I have to run 6 different scanners: because there isn't one that detects all the threats. I currently run 2 antivirus programs along with SpyBot, SuperAntiSpyware, Windows Defender, and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.
I think a lot of people are missing a very important piece of the puzzle: The guy pretended to be 17. I think this may be a big factor in their decision to prosecute this guy. It wasn't just a case of an adult chatting with a child. It was a case of a guy pretending to be a child himself and talking to another child. Of course he couldn't pretend to be much younger than 17 as I'm sure his voice was too deep, but he could still at this point pretend to be a "big brother" to the victim.
... the fees for recording whatever song you just performed? If not, make sure you sing a song that is in the public domain, otherwise you can be sued even though it is only your voice.
This is more like being charged a fee to buy last year's model car because you don't like this year's version. Not silly at all. Why should I pay a fee to get an older model that suits me just fine? Next thing you know Microsoft will drop support for XP and then charge them extra when they want to refresh their XP install. If you don't pay, we won't unlock XP and make it "legal".
Note: Microsoft is not authorized to read this post or use my ideas without paying me $1,000,000 in cash.
... of hearing "black this" and "Afro-American that" and he just became President. I just hope that the media (and America) can finally get over this whole "race" thing and let the guy do his job. For an election that wasn't supposed to be about race, we sure do hear a lot about it. To Obama: America and the world is watching - MAKE US PROUD!
I think the key statement in the previous article that you mentioned was the following: "Colleges and universities once obtained fewer than 250 patents a year, but that was before the Bayh-Dole Act gave them ownership of inventions developed through federally financed research." FEDERALLY FINANCED RESEARCH. If you are a part of any federally financed research, then yes, your invention belongs to the college/university. The other key statement was "Whether or not students are aware of it, the NYTimes reports that most universities own inventions created by students that were developed using a 'significant' amount of schools resources." Are you using school resources to create/discover this invention? Just because you are going to school there, doesn't mean that anything you create while there belongs to them. Sitting in your dorm creating the design for cold fusion using your own PC would not allow them to take it from you. Of course, the usual IANAL applies to this post.
It would be interesting to hear from the songwriters and artists how much they actually get from these deals. I suspect that the percentage of each dollar that the artist receives by the Warner Music Group for their songs in a deal like this is very low. Why not cut out the fat and give the artists a larger chunk of the proceeds?
Companies that use billboards don't illegally come onto your property and erect a billboard. Junk mail advertisers don't sit in the back seat of your car while you drive around and "make" you deliver their ads. Spammers illegally access computers that they have no right to access to deliver those ads.
If the Government uses open source code that is under the GPL license, and modifies it to include some security or other feature that is considered to be under the umbrella of "National Security", are they required to provide the source code to terrorists so they can attempt to crack it?
Unfortunately, some people need to be available for business emergencies. The only way they can spend time with their families is to have their smartphone/pda with them. So now, you just ruined the entire family's fun at your park. Will be interesting to see the drop in ticket sales.
And, even honoring DMCA notices in order to take advantage of the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions hasn't prevented the **AA from suing. So, if I find a movie online and send the link to the MPAA and report it, then I can get sued for contributing to copywrite infringment for providing that link. I guess it is time that I stop reporting possible infringements.
From the article:
"We have no capability of targeting any school at all," said the RIAA representative, who argued that there is a large "misperception" among university administrators that individual colleges are being picked on. "Technically we can't do it. We find what we find with this process, and that's what we send to schools." Technically we can't do it? BULL***T! A simple filter that throws away all schools not A, B or C is very easy to create. It is possible that they CHOOSE not to do it, but it is technically possible.
The easiest way around this problem is to make a calendar of Black Mustang Club Members. Make sure the photo contains the Club member standing next to their vehicle. The vehicle would then only be a background item, as they are in the movies, and used only as a prop, since the title of the calendar clearly states: "Black Mustang Club Members".
... that all company officers and directors MUST have installed on every work and home computer the same software that they are installing on everyone else's computers. I'll bet money that none of them have installed this onto their own computers.
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1. A student writes a paper and submits it. These TurnItIn type services compare it to other papers and returns a score to determine if it was a copy of someone else's work. This student's own work now becomes part of that database to help the service make more money. Students need to copywrite their work before handing it in and demand that any service verifying that it is original remove it from their database. 2. A student writes a paper, it gets tested by one of these services and is found to be original and gets a decent grade. Later in a different class, another paper is required and it just so happens that this previous paper fits in precisely with the requirements, so the student uses it again. Remember, it is the student's own work. The service now says that he copied it word for word from another student and the student is accused of cheating. Now with scenario #2, reuse of a student's own work may be questionable, but it IS HIS OWN WORK and he should be free to use it however and whenever he wishes.
http://www.superantispyware.com/portablescanner.html I have had good luck with this. Hope you do too.
Reguarding the Anonymous Cowards comment, PJ had disabled new accounts so it is currently impossible for anyone to create one. All new users have no choice BUT to be anonymous. Some also prefer NOT to be anonymous, but their accounts were disabled/deleted because they posted a serious comment that was against popular opinion and labeled a troll. That isn't to say there aren't a lot of trolls there, because there are.
When I looked at the homepage of MSN (which many IE browsers use as the default home page), I found a minimum of 21 links that you thought were links to articles but were only links to Bing searches. This is why they are gaining ground, not because of a better search engine but because of the sneaky way they get people to use their search engine.
This is why I have to run 6 different scanners: because there isn't one that detects all the threats. I currently run 2 antivirus programs along with SpyBot, SuperAntiSpyware, Windows Defender, and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.
I think a lot of people are missing a very important piece of the puzzle: The guy pretended to be 17. I think this may be a big factor in their decision to prosecute this guy. It wasn't just a case of an adult chatting with a child. It was a case of a guy pretending to be a child himself and talking to another child. Of course he couldn't pretend to be much younger than 17 as I'm sure his voice was too deep, but he could still at this point pretend to be a "big brother" to the victim.
Well I doubt that Microsoft will ever sue Linux (users, distributors, etc) over the use of this patent.
... the fees for recording whatever song you just performed? If not, make sure you sing a song that is in the public domain, otherwise you can be sued even though it is only your voice.
This is more like being charged a fee to buy last year's model car because you don't like this year's version. Not silly at all. Why should I pay a fee to get an older model that suits me just fine? Next thing you know Microsoft will drop support for XP and then charge them extra when they want to refresh their XP install. If you don't pay, we won't unlock XP and make it "legal". Note: Microsoft is not authorized to read this post or use my ideas without paying me $1,000,000 in cash.
Is this the real reason the world ends in 2012?
I hope the scientists don't make the usual NASA mistake of confusing metric figures and imperial figures when doing their black hole calculations.
... of hearing "black this" and "Afro-American that" and he just became President. I just hope that the media (and America) can finally get over this whole "race" thing and let the guy do his job. For an election that wasn't supposed to be about race, we sure do hear a lot about it. To Obama: America and the world is watching - MAKE US PROUD!
I think the key statement in the previous article that you mentioned was the following: "Colleges and universities once obtained fewer than 250 patents a year, but that was before the Bayh-Dole Act gave them ownership of inventions developed through federally financed research." FEDERALLY FINANCED RESEARCH. If you are a part of any federally financed research, then yes, your invention belongs to the college/university. The other key statement was "Whether or not students are aware of it, the NYTimes reports that most universities own inventions created by students that were developed using a 'significant' amount of schools resources." Are you using school resources to create/discover this invention? Just because you are going to school there, doesn't mean that anything you create while there belongs to them. Sitting in your dorm creating the design for cold fusion using your own PC would not allow them to take it from you. Of course, the usual IANAL applies to this post.
It would be interesting to hear from the songwriters and artists how much they actually get from these deals. I suspect that the percentage of each dollar that the artist receives by the Warner Music Group for their songs in a deal like this is very low. Why not cut out the fat and give the artists a larger chunk of the proceeds?
Well if we are moving to the middle east, do we get cheap gas?
Companies that use billboards don't illegally come onto your property and erect a billboard. Junk mail advertisers don't sit in the back seat of your car while you drive around and "make" you deliver their ads. Spammers illegally access computers that they have no right to access to deliver those ads.
They had to recover from the clubbing they got from developers.
If the Government uses open source code that is under the GPL license, and modifies it to include some security or other feature that is considered to be under the umbrella of "National Security", are they required to provide the source code to terrorists so they can attempt to crack it?
Unfortunately, some people need to be available for business emergencies. The only way they can spend time with their families is to have their smartphone/pda with them. So now, you just ruined the entire family's fun at your park. Will be interesting to see the drop in ticket sales.
... then shake the monitor.
It is totally unacceptable to kill thousands of innocent people but some of them do it anyways.
The easiest way around this problem is to make a calendar of Black Mustang Club Members. Make sure the photo contains the Club member standing next to their vehicle. The vehicle would then only be a background item, as they are in the movies, and used only as a prop, since the title of the calendar clearly states: "Black Mustang Club Members".
... that all company officers and directors MUST have installed on every work and home computer the same software that they are installing on everyone else's computers. I'll bet money that none of them have installed this onto their own computers.