Comment Re:What About Plagiarism? (Score 1) 431
At least your students use spellcheck; some of mine last year thought they could do without both that and proofreading. Fewer by the time of the second assignment...
Submission + - UK Parliament Network Latest Conficker Victim
nandemoari writes: The Conficker/Downadup worm has reportedly found its way onto the British government's IT system, joining millions of others who have fallen victim to it. An email sent to MPs, lords and their staff revealed that parliament's IT network appears to be completely unsecured.
The Conficker/Downadup worm has been in circulation since November 2008 and a patch is available from Microsoft that fixes it. The fact that parliament's systems have become infected indicates that their anti-virus software, if there is any, hasn't been updated since last year and could be vulnerable to other attacks.
Comment Re:Please explain to me (Score 1) 345
I don't know about his legal theory, but presumably the people writing moralityware like the program in this story tell themselves they're doing it to bring people back to the path of righteousness. So that's their duty of care taken care of.
Comment Re:Second that! (Score 5, Interesting) 183
The difficulty in evaluating Akismet - I speak not as a user but as someone who ended up apparently blacklisted and having to try their appeals system - is that everyone I see praising it is by definition the kind of person who pays attention to the filter and therefore will train it effectively. Since your average wordpress.com user more likely lets false positives pile up, I'd love to know how effective it is for people who don't wonder how effective it is.
