Some do. Others do what what two of our students did, who I will call Tom and Jerry. The project involved writing some unit tests, and Tom had written a test for a function that took a string as its argument. For the test string, Tom used his name. When Jerry copied Tom's code verbatim, he changed a few things around, but made sure not to mess with the test code. It was pretty easy to figure out who Jerry got his project from. I couldn't believe it.

"Why didn't you go for the National Guard, hmm? Your chances of being deployed over seas to hostile combat zone are dramatically reduced in that organization"

The 29th Infantry Division, a part of the Army National Gaurd, was part of the first wave on the assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day in WWII. [wikipedia.org]

Watch out, Congress is already hell-bent on hate/thought crime legislation.

Far preferable to the Slashdot Self Righteous Knights Templar Squad O' Dumbasses.

Anyone who thinks my silly comment was even on the same planet as hate speech is operating on a zero intellectual level. I have never experienced such a flurry of over-sensitive holier-than-though blasted out the ass responses.

Oh, and Sam Palmisano seems to be doing OK at IBM.

Whatever. You read more into it than was there. Just like every other useless, humorless motherfucker in this world who soils his panties at the first sight of something off color.