I wish more people would realized how cheap and easy it is for spammers to break captchas and how extremely hostile captchas are towards people with disabilites. Deaf-blind people aren't helped by the sound alternative, the few times that's even an alternative. The only protection captchas give is one of inconveniance for spammers, it's not a working obstacle and the whole idea is flawed.
Spammers can be fought by traffic analysis, communication caps and community based moderation. Even if you are absolutely insisting on captchas please don't do it as a first line of defense, use them on spikes like how youtube handles mass comment voting.
In my school (a Swedish University) we sometimes have to turnin our papers via Urkund which is similar to TurnIn, although we don't sign anything in doing so. I read that I can opt-out of having my paper used outside of my local university though, I'm not sure why that would matter to me but at least that's something.
The main thing that worries me with outsourcing these types of things is that how could you defend yourself if the system finds you guilty of plagiarism when the source isn't open. It's not like false-positives can't happened and it seems perfectly reasonable that it should happened with an increasing rate as the system grows.
I've learned to use wikis, version control systems (which granted I should have been using prior to that anyways..) and other ways of keeping a history of how my work progresses so that if I at some point would have to defend myself I can actually show the entire process behind something and not just the finished product.
My biggest fear when it come to being accused of cheating is getting called out on the spot and then not being able to answer because my brain shuts down, like how many people curse themselves for not being able to answer job-interview engineering questions even though they knew the answer. Instant expulsion unless I guess you proclaim you are guilty and beg for your life, then maybe come of with a warning.
I've got no idea but re-coining (or I guess pre-coining) the term web 2.0 into something that doesn't make me cry a bit on the inside every time I or others mention it is pretty high on my list.
In Sweden I'd say we almost always use Visa and to a lesser extent master card. If a website doesn't want to deal with credit cards, I think a local version of paypal https://www.payson.se is more common than paypal if it's a page that's only avaliable in Swedish. I'm only really basing this on my own experience and observations though.
The HN title and in parts the wording of the article is misleading, even if it's later cleared up in the article. For them to refuse to retain data would imply it's somehow required of them, which it isn't.
Not only that but they are only four people of a much larger swarm maintaining the pirate bay. Even if they go to jail it wouldn't mean anything to the site being up or not.
Somehow I doubt it matters one bit how you use reverse psychology (or don't), they'll have sex anyways. It might work fine for things like "Walk against red at a crossing", but with sex your fighting hormones.
The legal age for consent is 15 in my country, so the idea is somewhat absurd to me. There was plenty of virgins in my high school, plenty who wasn't (and some lost theirs quite a bit earlier). Doesn't seem to matter one bit.
Although maybe that mind trick worked on me when mother told me to go out and have fun partying with the other kids when I hit puberty, I go out drinking substantially less than my peer at the university do.
This needs to be sent to our alchol stores that are a monopoly controled by the government (I think that's absurd too) who are only allowed to run adds against drinking, it would be hilarious if they started running adds telling you to drink.. so you wouldn't.
