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Plagiarizing Student Sues University

bq. No one takes responsibility for anything these days. Just ask a student who has been told that he won’t get a degree after he was caught plagiarizing his essays from the internet. What does he do? He threatens to sue the school for accepting his money and giving those plagiarized essays passing grades. What’s ...

RIAA Lying With Statistics

Moses Avalon posted a great US article on interpreting the RIAA’s figures. When the RIAA discusses sales, they mean shipments to retailers, *NOT* purchases by consumers. While shipments to retailers may be down, sales to consumers as measured by Soundscan are actually *UP* . bq. There is only one logical integration of all these statistics ...

EPA Inflates Hybrid MPG

Wired News: Hybrid Mileage Comes Up Short bq. after a few months of commuting to his job in Cincinnati, Blackshaw’s hybrid euphoria vanished as his car’s odometer revealed that the gas mileage he was hoping for was only a pipe dream. Honda’s Civic Hybrid is rated by the EPA to get 47 miles per gallon ...

Cameraphone Software Reads Barcodes

Semacode bq. Simply put, a semacode is a URL barcode. Using our free software, you can scan a semacode, and with just one click the proper webpage will be loaded on your phone’s browser. The system is open and extensible, and anyone can create semacodes on their own computer. This is a phenomenal idea. I ...

Problems Getting Macs in Enterprise

Mac News: Enterprise : The Challenge Apple Faces in Enterprise Computing bq. Unfortunately, that kind of expertise, in which the wrong people apply inapplicable experience to make wrong decisions, perpetuates its own reality and thus defines the challenge Apple faces in the enterprise computing market — explaining why spotting an Apple X-serve and RAID array ...