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Comment Don't grade homework. Test critical thinking. (Score 4, Insightful) 74

Homework assignments, and frankly any work done outside of a controlled environment, should serve only to prepare people for the work that will be done on an exam in a controlled environment. If students want to use AI to complete those assignments they are free to do so. But it likely won't do a good job of preparing them to do the work on an exam. Multiple choice exams and short form writing assignments under controlled conditions (i.e. no electronics, or laptops locked out of anything other than exam writing software) are well suited to assess factual knowledge and the ability to apply those facts to novel circumstances. The problem here isn't that people don't know how to create an assessment that can't be completed by an AI. The problem is that they are unwilling to do so. They are locked into a mindset where take home assignments and projects count for large parts of the grade or where they aren't willing to lock people into a controlled environment for testing. Partly because they can't envision a better way and partly because they're too lazy to do so. The underlying problem is that there's a fundamental disconnect between why people really attend college or post graduate programs and why the people teaching them think they do. People are not there to learn. They are there to get a certificate that says they've learned. Preferably while doing the least amount of actual learning possible. The real value of a degree is not what you learn to get the degree. It's the degree itself. If universities and professors think that it's more important that the people they are purporting to educate are actually educated there are fairly simple ways to accomplish that. But they have to recognize that their students (and a large share of professors) are not going to quietly adapt to that new paradigm without objection. It will be difficult and messy and may require them to ask students to 'unlearn' everything they did to be 'successful' in academics up to that point.

Comment Re: I wonder... (Score 1) 69

You're getting some of the details wrong but you're probably thinking of this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FvSZnf9ypD-o%3Fs... From 2015. A bystander recording, not a building security video. Officer cuffs him after the initial shots. Then can be seen planting a gun. He was later charged and entered a guilty plea they resulted in a 20 year prison sentence for federal civil rights violations. The sentencing judge determined the underlying offense was 2nd degree murder but that isn't technically what he was convicted of. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...

Comment Poor writing or deliberately misleading? (Score 2) 34

This reads like it was written by someone who has never actually read an IPO filing before and who also has poor reading comprehension skills. Alternately, it could have been written by someone who has decided to deliberately mislead people who don't know any better by misrepresenting selective portions of a complex document knowing that most people (i.e. the typical Slashdot poster) won't bother to read the original source on their own or obtain different perspectives. Needless to say, this isn't the smoking gun incrimination of the business model that the author wants you to believe it is. Sounds like someone is still bitter about the outcome of the Prop 22 vote.

Comment Re:peripherals (Score 1) 221

My wife suffered a stroke last year that left her without the use of her left arm. She has been able to play SW:TOR and WoW using this setup (Razer Naga + foot pedal). She doesn't play PvP, but is able to play PvE at a fairly high level (can raid, run 5 mans well, etc). She's able to play games like Diablo3 and Torchlight2 with just the mouse (no foot pedal needed). By far the hardest thing so far has been trying to play FPS games like Borderlands. It's doable, but at least thus far not at the level she was used to. But, assuming you have one good arm and one good leg, you should find that you can do almost anything you want with the setup described.

Comment Re:Champagne bottles popping at Groklaw (Score 1) 73

Given modern interpretations of the commerce clause, it's doubtful that the "intellectual property clause" that you quote in any way limits Congress' ability to legislate in this area. Congress can pass IP laws under their commerce clause power without having to worry about the limiting language in the IP clause.

For example, it's not at all clear what the constitutional authority for the DMCA is, but the legislative history shows that one draft cited the IP clause as the constitutional authority, and another cited the commerce clause. The final version didn't state what the authority was.

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