i can't speak for the day before Thanksgiving, but i flew out of Atlanta (Hartsfield-Jackson; busiest airport in the world) on thanksgiving morning, and i was through security in about 10 minutes. it looked to me like the scanners were all roped off and turned off.
since it appears that this has happened at other airports as well, wouldn't that make National Opt-Out Day a success?
hrmmm...following this through...don't change the chip program in your car's ECU (including you folks modding your Prius to improve it). Don't even think about trying to mod one of those new internet capable TVs. Using Wii remotes and the Kinect outside of their intended function(s)? Off-limits.
I know there are other situations that would fit, but I'm drawing a blank.
it's possible that the entire point of the lawsuit is to sine a very bright light on what Viacom is doing regarding youtube. let's face it: the average person doesn't care that Viacom is issuing takedowns that it shouldn't be, and no amount of advertising is likely to change that.
however, sue Viacom (and one of it's most popular and well known franchises) for the same reasons that they're going after youtube, and now you've got instant publicity and people taking an interest because it directly relates to something they're invested in.
maybe that's a stretch (and an expensive one, at that), but that might be the whole point of the suit...
you might not even need a few years. you could do it in a single term depending on how he constructs his tests. if he is quick to turn graded tests back to students (i had one or two professors who would give us mid-term and final grades and return our tests within two days), then you could collect a number of questions and answers in the same week (assuming more than one section of the course is taught by the same professor).
technically correct, but i would argue that such rules have to be enforceable. i don't think that simply saying, "don't study from this book because it will help you pass the test," and then trusting students not to do something that benefits their GPA and increases their knowledge is absurd and goes against their whole reason for being in the class.
if they came into possession of the "official" testbank by legally or ethically questionable means, then i would concede that it's probably cheating (certainly if they did something illegal), but i'm willing to be that he's done this before if he routinely has classes of this size. using questions and answers from previous tests to study (or memorize) for an upcoming test wouldn't be cheating.
i guess it more comes down to right and wrong (also doesn't determine whether it's considered cheating or not), and what instructions the professor gave his students. i doubt he gave them a list of what could and couldn't be studied, but he might start doing so now...
i'm not so sure about it not being publicly available. hell, in high school they had teachers' editions sitting on shelves, and in college (at UCF) i had access to test banks in a few of my courses.
but even so, there were professors who recycled the same 1-3 tests every term. if this guy did the same thing (wouldn't be surprising), then the testbank is now publicly available anyway.
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"What if the professor, who clearly doesn't want to be bothered to write his own tests, had each student submit one test question based on the material and chose the best ones to include in the test?"
there is a flaw there. if he did that, then the students could share the questions they came up with, and that would be cheating! and he'd also have to read all those questions and make a decision on which were the best. that's hard work!
if the professor had said, "don't study any previous quizzes or tests i've given you this term," would that be reasonable? hardly, and, from appearances, he didn't say, "don't use the textbank." he just expected the students not to look for study aids.
No way. Even if the professor explicitly told them not to use the testbank why would that make it cheating? It's a publicly available resource. It may be INTENDED for use by teachers, but banning them from using that resource is like banning them from talking to students who had already taken the class (good luck with that) or banning them from using alternative study guides other than what he has provided in class.
It might muddy the waters a little, but I still wouldn't consider it cheating.
So the students in question took a readily available tool and used it to study. I fail to see hoe that's cheating even if they memorized every word of the questions and answers (which I must assume they did if he could somehow identify the cheaters). This is something the teacher knew was out there, and he should have known that students could obtain it easily enough. Even if he had created his own questions, memorizing the ones in the testbank would allow them to apply similar techniques to anything he put on the test.
The professor's argument is the same as if somebody said, "i pull my mid-term and finals questions from pop quizzes and random questions from the book," and then expecting the students NOT to go back and review every pop quiz and book question they saw. I went to UCF (go, knights!) and actually had a professor tell us that that was how he built tests, and then he told us we should be sure to study those questions in order to do well.
It's not cheating. It's good preparation.
Usually I'm proud to see my alma mater make headlines (lots of good research coming out of UCF), but not so much this time. Though I would like to know how he determined who had cheated and who hadn't (I haven't been able to watch the video yet).
MSNBC has a few read polls that would show otherwise. Granted, they're reader polls, so they're not all that scientific, but when they've got 20,000+ respondents, you'd probably think that they might show a slight indication of preferences. For instance:
What do you think about "opt out" day?
69% of 25,589 respondents support it because the TSA needs to hear an angry public's concerns.
http://travel.newsvine.com/_question/2010/11/18/5488278-what-do-you-think-about-opt-out-d ay
Do you support TSA's enhanced security procedures?
80% of 5,987 respondents said, "no," because they believe they are a burden and safety risk to Americans and ineffectual for catching terrorists.
And here are a few ideas for having fun with it:
1) Bring along copies of the US Constitution, or at least the 4th Amendment, and hand them to the TSA agents should you be selected to go through the body scanners and/or be molested. Pass some out to your fellow travelers too.
2) tape a copy of the 4th Amendment to the from of the body scan machine (not sure of the legality, but it will probably annoy them regardless).
3)Request a pat down from a member of the opposite sex. Tell them you were hoping for a cute screener.
4) Right when they're about to start the pat down ask if it would be easier for you to just take your shirt off and drop trou. Then start taking your shirt off as they answer.
perhaps, but what is the cost of damage to the airport? don't forget that, in addition to the cleanup and repairs, you'd have a reduced ability to screen passengers which would likely mean fewer outgoing flights (meaning less money). i'm willing to bet that people would also be more afraid of flying if a bomb went off in an airport because of the much higher chance that it could happen (once it does).
honestly, i'm a bit surprised that that hasn't been attempted already (though i seem to remember some reporting about an abandoned u-haul a few years ago).
does it really matter? either way, it was down for about 12 hours. granted, the folks being tracked likely weren't aware of the downtime, but it's indicative of pathetic IT management processes at the company.
all the company had to do was install a little program to monitor drive space. hell, most 1st party server management software that i'm aware of does that already. and send notifications when certain thresholds are reached.
i can only imagine what the rest of the company's infrastructure is like. it's kind of pathetic...
as a side note: Bing would eliminate half the relevant destinations in an effort to give you a more precise arrival point. Google's system would likely take you to the middle of the destination street; ignoring the address and actual location altogether...
that's a joke, right?
should they also blur the logo from every scene in the movie? did/does BP have every right to demand that articles written, or tv reports or documentaries made, about the the spill in the Gulf not use their logo? not in the slightest.
whether or not they want to be associated with the DVD is irrelevant ass the DVD is about the school. it's a documentary, and it's kind of hard to make a documentary about an entity, any entity, without using that entity's logo.
really? how do you make an oversized coffin? ummmm...add 6"-16" width and reinforce the bottom. doesn't seem that difficult to me, but, y'know, i'm not an arrogant funeral director (i'm just arrogant...and mouthy).
here's my idea for the best way to smack this down: the state attorney general discusses it with the monks and they all agree to go to trial. the catch? turn it into a media circus that results in extreme embarrassment for the funeral directors and any legislators who don't sign on to change the absurd law. nothing works better than embarrassing the crap out of people to institute change.
and...Globalists? really? really? this is a local, homegrown issue. globalism and "globalists" have all of nothing to do with it. might want to cut back on reading all those conspiracy websites.
trojans can cause all sorts of problems in a machine. they can overwrite/replace system files, they can delete other files, they can interfere with networking (no idea how the system talks to other systems on the plane), and they can simply eat up processing time and system memory. in any case, trojans can certainly cause all sorts of system instability once on a machine.
honestly, i'd be more concerned that the plane i'm riding in is operating on windows or some other consumer-level OS. that's the real scary thing here. even scarier than that? if it was a custom OS and still contracted a trojan...
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since it appears that this has happened at other airports as well, wouldn't that make National Opt-Out Day a success?
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Can't mod anything?
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Maybe that's the point?
however, sue Viacom (and one of it's most popular and well known franchises) for the same reasons that they're going after youtube, and now you've got instant publicity and people taking an interest because it directly relates to something they're invested in.
maybe that's a stretch (and an expensive one, at that), but that might be the whole point of the suit...
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if they came into possession of the "official" testbank by legally or ethically questionable means, then i would concede that it's probably cheating (certainly if they did something illegal), but i'm willing to be that he's done this before if he routinely has classes of this size. using questions and answers from previous tests to study (or memorize) for an upcoming test wouldn't be cheating.
i guess it more comes down to right and wrong (also doesn't determine whether it's considered cheating or not), and what instructions the professor gave his students. i doubt he gave them a list of what could and couldn't be studied, but he might start doing so now...
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but even so, there were professors who recycled the same 1-3 tests every term. if this guy did the same thing (wouldn't be surprising), then the testbank is now publicly available anyway.
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there is a flaw there. if he did that, then the students could share the questions they came up with, and that would be cheating! and he'd also have to read all those questions and make a decision on which were the best. that's hard work!
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if the professor had said, "don't study any previous quizzes or tests i've given you this term," would that be reasonable? hardly, and, from appearances, he didn't say, "don't use the textbank." he just expected the students not to look for study aids.
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It might muddy the waters a little, but I still wouldn't consider it cheating.
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That's not cheating
The professor's argument is the same as if somebody said, "i pull my mid-term and finals questions from pop quizzes and random questions from the book," and then expecting the students NOT to go back and review every pop quiz and book question they saw. I went to UCF (go, knights!) and actually had a professor tell us that that was how he built tests, and then he told us we should be sure to study those questions in order to do well.
It's not cheating. It's good preparation.
Usually I'm proud to see my alma mater make headlines (lots of good research coming out of UCF), but not so much this time. Though I would like to know how he determined who had cheated and who hadn't (I haven't been able to watch the video yet).
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MSNBC has a few other polls...
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honestly, i'm a bit surprised that that hasn't been attempted already (though i seem to remember some reporting about an abandoned u-haul a few years ago).
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all the company had to do was install a little program to monitor drive space. hell, most 1st party server management software that i'm aware of does that already. and send notifications when certain thresholds are reached.
i can only imagine what the rest of the company's infrastructure is like. it's kind of pathetic...
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as a side note: Bing would eliminate half the relevant destinations in an effort to give you a more precise arrival point. Google's system would likely take you to the middle of the destination street; ignoring the address and actual location altogether...
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Re: every right?
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Oversized coffins?
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it's not that hard to imagine
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