While I don't pretend to know much about the American system, I doubt that it is ALL students doing that. Further, I suspect that you will find that the problem starts with high school not sufficiently preparing students for university. However, since universities need students in order to exist, if the students applying are of lower standard, then the university is eventually going to lower its standards in order to keep its student numbers up.

There is some truth to this. I teach at an Australian university, and there are a number of people from specific cultural backgrounds who try this every year, because they come from somewhere that, what we regard as, plagiarism is acceptable.

I completely disagree with the "don't give them any chances, just send them packing". This is ludicrous. We catch a lot of these guys out (a lot of them are REALLY stupid and I actually feel embarrassed for them when we do catch them out) and, most of the time, pulling them up on it and explaining the rules to them sorts out the problem. You will always get a small minority who will try to work the system no matter what, but it is exactly that: a small minority.

It's easy to get indignant about it, but if they come from a culture which has different views on what plagiarism is at what point are they supposed to have this explained to them? It seems pretty unfair to let these students come into the university, pay their fees, and then throw them out when they break the rules that they were not aware of. Yes, you can find the university policy on academic misconduct etc if you dig through the website enough, but having the rules buried in some difficult-to-find legal document is hardly sufficient*

*Yes, I am aware that this is exactly how the "real world" works

If this were true, Apple wouldn't be suing Samsung over who owns the rectangle.

Vterminal

Removing the top 500 "easiest" or "most common" passwords just means that you will then be creating a new list of most common passwords...

Lockouts bother me because I know that at least once I've forgotten which password I use for that particular account, and ended up cycling through passwords to find it (I seem to recall that whatever account it was I had no reasonable way [at the time] to "reset" the password. I think it was a matter of "I would need to actually contact the foreign company")

I've seen ads to this effect. I can't say that they haven't been banned, but I doubt that they have.

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This is such nonsense. If he has violated it, tell him where. Giving a non-specific reason and telling him to try and work it out for himself is ridiculous.

(Yes, obviously this is a "we are banning you but not explicitly saying why, mwahaha!" but it is still bullshit)

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Note: I've not read the pdf as it isn't loading for me.

I hate when studies like this consider accidents due to "cell phone use". That is far too general. You need to split it up into talking and texting. As much as I'm sure that talking on a phone does increase your risk of having an accident, that effect would be trivial when compared to the risk increase due to texting. However, people text with their phones in their lap, so it can't be seen from a passing police car so they have a blanket ban on phone use and fine people for talking on their phones when that isn't really the problem.

It kind of bothers me that the same rules apply to the same people (read: civilians) regardless of driver training.

Yet another reason not to use either of those ISPs

I'll not be seeing the second one for reasons of "Fool me once, shame on you..."

Yeah, but if I deleted "The Hangover" from my memory there is a chance that I'd eventually watch it again only to be horrifically dissappointed again.

And you can stop losing the game.

MIB standard issue.