Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work.
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- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
- plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook businessi tend to agree with your wifeThis is very poor english, but does express a meaning that make sense. You may disagree with what it says, but it is coherent. I wouldn't call the extracts you chose as plagiarism. Author used one transformed sentence...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Plagiarism, gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
- When the the prestigious IEEE Software publishes something that's obvious gibberish - and later turns out not to have been original work - as a peer reviewed contribution to IT knowledge, what are we to make of it? by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Jackson Browne and Copyright
- Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger
- While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner's VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of Linux
- I'll have the #3 Value Meal, Super Size, with an order of LinuxPlagiarism, Jason? :-)Exactly my thoughts, in a Talkback some time ago:http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10535-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=46338&messageID=858549&start=0Greeting, Pjotr.Planet DietsYou forgot to mean the lean but mean Mars Ubuntu, and of course the sweet Venus Ubuntu versions just to get back to the basic...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements
- Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- I'd love to tell you about this article, but...
- I'd love to tell you about this article, but...Chris, you should have quoted the article anyway...Or even better, quote a little piece of the Odyssey that relates to the article. I don't think Homer holds the copyright on that since around 500 B.C.(if today's copyright terms applied) :)Re:Chris, you should...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda
- Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda..."[B]allowing the [U]submitterto [/U]electronically hand in their work,[/B]"Another edit for you... See the underlined. ]:)Don't the source databases violate copyrights?If they are comparing to millions of pre-input texts, they probably are violating the copyrights of the authors of those texts. Storing...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda
- Universities around the world have been using plagiarism software for a good few years now, to crack down on the amount of copied work. This, after all, is defrauding a university for the purpose of gaining a qualification, which can and has been classed as a criminal offence at...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Yet another academic against Wikipedia
- Yet another academic against WikipediaGood Starting PointWikipedia is an excellent resource to use as a starting point for any research, so long as you understand that the articles are not necessarily written by experts in the relevant field.It's main failing is that any subject that has a political slant is...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Plagiarism-Detector Personal (exe)
- When you ask a person to make a creative report, you can never be absolutely sure if they will not copy-paste it from some topically relative Web site. Copy pasting is much easier than creative work, so the temptation to cheat is unbreakable. This becomes a crucial problem for business...
- Software downloads 2008-03-07
- Collusion (msi)
- Collusion is an application that checks all the documents within a folder against each other for evidence of plagiarism. Trial version is limited to checking the first 250 words of each text. Costs $20 to buy. Ideal for teachers checking homework or coursework. This version is the first release on...
- Software downloads 2008-02-21
- U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problem
- U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problemPlagiarism is good ..."I think the majority of students who engage in plagiarism do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own merit."Here's the issue: you go through school being told that plagiarism is...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- SparkNotes not actually the root of all evil
- I was helping my oldest with a summer writing assignment tonight and ended up using Sparknotes for some background on A Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. As a teacher, I knew about Sparknotes since our students tend to just copy and paste their papers directly from...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Please don't steal this Web content
- Please don't steal this Web contentPLain and simple, copyright infringement is out of hand,Web sites, media, software, anything... Some people just don't care how much they steal or who they harm.Confusion"VanFossen isn't referring to the kind of plagiarism in which a lazy college student copies sections of a book...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Masaryk University Develops High Profile Anti-Plagiarism Solution
- Masaryk University is the second-largest public university in the Czech Republic and the leading higher education institution in Moravia. The university wanted to combat the potential for students to plagiarize material for their essays, both from online sources and from other students. The challenge was to develop a solution tailored...
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Singing search engines have it all wrong
- On an off-topic item, I came across fellow blogger Roland Piquepaille's blog about search engines that let you find music by singing to the computer. Well Midomi has just such a search engine where you sing to the computer to find the song you're looking for. While Midomi sounds interesting,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
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