Buy assignments online - take the easy way out

Buy assignments onlineLast year, my blog had an entry on how the internet is making us smarter and now its time to write about how the internet saves us from using our brain.

There are many websites online like http://customresearchpapers.us/, http://thepaperexperts.com/ and http://termpaperrelief.com/ that sell term papers for about $15 a page. There are many students who choose this path and there have been reports that most students get caught for plagarism because the papers they buy off these websites have been submitted and published before.

From Yahoo:

Some 37 percent of undergraduates admit to copying portions of their research papers from the Web, up from 10 percent in 1999, according to a 2006 poll of 60,000 U.S. college students by Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey. Three percent admitted to downloading and submitting entire papers and 77 percent of students did not consider copying material off the Internet to be a serious issue.

“It’s so prevalent, it’s so easy, it’s so anonymous,” said McCabe.

How would you fight this?

October 9th, 2006 :: tags: Tech News comments: 3 Comments
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Big Brother looking to extend reach

Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.A consortium of major universities is developing software that would let the U.S. government monitor negative opinions of the United States inpublications overseas. The universities include Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Utah.

A $2.4 million grant from the Homeland Security Department will finance the research over three years. The researchers are using a database of articles published in 2001 and 2002 which will be used to train a computer to recognize, rank and interpret statements.

Claire T. Cardie, a professor of computer science at Cornell, said “The software would need to be able to distinguish between statements like this spaghetti is good - and this spaghetti is not very good - it’s excellent”.

October 6th, 2006 :: tags: Tech News comments: 1 Comment
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A geek and his money are soon parted

Star Wars Bonus DVDRemember the time when you saw a movie, you liked it and you went out and bought the dvd? Well, nowadays there are so many versions coming out that you dont want to look silly buying a movie only to find out there is another newer (or older), better version that is out. For example, remember Sin City? Well, they released the movie on DVD in August and by September, they were advertising a Recut, Extended, Unrated version.

George Lucas (of Star Wars fame) released the original Star Wars Trilogy as a DVD set when he ………

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October 5th, 2006 :: tags: Tech News comments: 1 Comment
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Google buys garage

Google GarageGoogle has bought the garage that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin has rented eight years ago as they set out to take over the world and they spent all their time in this Garage

The house belonged to Susan Wojcicki who is now Google’s vice president of product management. She did not work for Google at the time but knew the Larry and Brin because one of her friends had dated Brin.

Susan Wojcicki had rented out the garage at $1,700 a month for five months to the boys.

October 2nd, 2006 :: tags: Tech News comments: No Comments
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Enter Vertical Search and find what you are really looking for

Vertical SearchVertical Search is a new phenomenon in the internet world and it has been created to give people the search results that would actually be useful (alteast most of them).

Broad-based search engines like Google and Yahoo fetch crawl a very large numbers of websites and documents and save the results in a common database and it is from this database that search results are pulled out and given to the user.

Vertical search engines, on the other hand, send their spiders out to a highly refined database, and their indexes contain information about a specific topic. The results thrown up by the vertical search engines cater to what the user is really looking for. The companies that advertise on these search engines reach the very niche they cater to.

Here are some of the vertical search engines - Looksmart, Retrevo, Pluggd, KnowledgeStorm’s KnowIT.

September 30th, 2006 :: tags: What is ....? comments: No Comments
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Too young to drive but kid still buys car on Ebay

Three year od kid buys carA three year old child from Lincolnshire bought a car for £9,000 (approx $23,000) when his mother was not looking. As she turned her back, he pressed the ‘buy now’ button and that has impressed his mother.

Rachel Neal said “Jack’s a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons. I was horrified. We now have the parental locks on - and we make sure we sign out of eBay.”

All the right buttons? ummmm I dont think so. Maybe he was looking for the ‘Why would anyone look at buying a bright pink car’ button and could not find it.

Luckily for the Neals, the seller has laughed this away and agreed to re-advertise the car on Ebay.

September 27th, 2006 :: tags: Tech News comments: 3 Comments
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