sthede - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Do they really think it's cheating? (Score 1) 439

by sthede on Friday July 09, 2010 @11:43PM (#32857806) Attached to: Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology

That's not cheating. My rule of thumb is if the student can explain the answer they wrote down, it's not cheating. So people that actually did work together will be fine, but if one just copies off the other, they are in trouble.

Of course, this means you actually talk to your students about the assignment...

xkcd, Devotion To Duty 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:39PM from the a-different-breed dept.

xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.

Comment Re:Fuck the police (Score 1) 317

by sthede on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @04:02PM (#25208837) Attached to: MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay

The article states that the police replaced the seized equipment.

Journal Journal: Nimble chimps outscore college students on memory test

Journal by arbitraryaardvark on Monday December 03, 2007 @12:13PM

AP's Malcolm Ritter reports that young chimpanzees were better at remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese college students used as a control group. Scientists plan to repeat the experiment using 5th graders against the great apes.

Submission + - The dumber Android is, the better say experts (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

ZDOne

on Thursday November 08, 2007 @01:47PM

ZDOne writes: "ZDNet UK is reporting that it will not be known until the Android software development kit comes out on Monday whether the Gphone will be strictly Java-based but security experts claim that the less smart a phone is, the less vulnerable it is. Android developers should stick to a semi-smartphone platform because the Java sandbox can protect against the normal kinds of attacks, experts claim."

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