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Comment Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? (Score 3, Insightful) 694

Other signs of cheating: When you get a student that does A+ work on programming assignments, but fails the exam (not always the case, but usually). Another sure sign is when they turned in two or three sub par programming assignments and then turn in a beautiful program using concepts that haven't been taught yet. Also once you suspect them it is easy to verify. They can either explain the code or they can't, if they can explain it maybe they cheated, but at least they spent the time to learn what the code does, although I never saw this when I was grading work.

Comment Re:Nicotine vs Caffeine (Score 1) 790

It would be really really hard to OD on caffeine and it is only really hard to OD on nicotine. Yes it is much more toxic, but I would say it is also true that it is just as harmless as caffeine because your ability to get to a lethal dose is difficult and not going to happen without purposefully attempting it.
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Jacobsen v Katzer Settled — Victory For F/OSS 36

Andy Updegrove writes "A short while ago the parties to one of the most closely watched FOSS cases filed a settlement agreement with the US Federal District Court for the Northern District of California ending one of the most important F/OSS legal cases to date. That case is Jacobsen vs. Katzer, and the settlement marks a complete victory for Jacobsen, a member of the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) Project. Jacobsen's victory establishes several important rights for the first time in the US: the right to prevent their copyright and authorship acknowledgments from being removed from their code, and the right to collect damages if the terms of the licenses they choose are violated. Until now, those rights had never been tested in court."

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