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| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde |
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| Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein |
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| Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain |
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| I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain |
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| Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein |
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| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| On Mufti's and illness |
I calculate that there are 3 possibilities:
- Its not real and convenient
- It is real and convenient
- His God struck him down
While 2 & 3 are not mutually exclusive, I find my highly sceptical, heathen heart hoping its the third (despite the lack of dramatic lightning). |
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| Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| Why the education department concerns me |
I have discussed previously my issues with the new reporting system for students, however it now appears that an additional component of the federal govt requirements is for parents to be surveyed regarding their particular school. Hence 'you have been randomly chosen' to participate, followed by the following statement:
You have been issued with a unique username.... this will ensure that your response is anonymous.
What the? It was sent to me, with a unique username (which means it is linked to me in a database otherwise how can they be sure that its 'unique') so that anonymity is assured.
I give up. |
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| Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| Confused cows and faded curtains |
Premier Beattie has outdone himself with this one....
Not only will the extra hour of daylight fade the curtains, it will cause more skin cancer.....
So the confused cows are more at risk obviously. |
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| Words to gladden a mothers heart |
Children ring mobile.....
"Mum guess what we've done? We've been so good!"
"Really?" say I (not in the least sceptically, instead indulging in dreams of folded washing & clean bedrooms). "What did you do?"
"We taught the dogs to go down the slide!" |
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| Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| Todays post is brought to you by... |
The word 'asshored'
Yes I thought so too - very rude. Until it is put in context by the illiterate geek who wrote:
'I asshored the customer....' |
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| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| b-i-a-s |
I'm a little astounded that the notion of media bias is getting so much attention. All media is biased - its just the direction of bias that differs.
New policies introduced with the goal of stamping out bias is naive to say the least - a waste of taxpayer money on the alter of bureaucracy sounds more like it!
For the interested - some completely unbiased opinions here, here & here. |
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| Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| Literacy is over-rated (unless you are paying cash) |
For some time now I have been planning on blogging some of the more memorable examples of illiteracy presented by students at my university. Now that the botoxed wonder has spoken - I take her point - literacy is over-rated except by communists and paying for your education (because you aren't smart enough or didn't work hard enough) is a valid mechanism for devaluing education!! **
A number of these are full fee paying students - can you guess which ones?
For ease of reference I have categorised them as follows:
Coherence or Not:
Good explanation of some of the security treats in e-commerce environments
Question 1 has nearly a proper definition of every threats.
They have provided references for every definition,though more use of textbook is done which I guess is okay , but they should give more information from the net as well
The paper however is inhibited by issues
The web reference should contain a date viewed and the use of uncommon words.
The report is easy to read and follow. It is a good report. However, some of questions are not answered in a complete way.
Yet the traditional way does allowed consumers to purchase products and services online at their own convenience and prepare the budget according to their income without any additional charges such as surcharge, credit card charges and others. Consumers not able to control the times while browsing on the Internet since a large list of products and services that may providing an additional advantage and less advantage by purchasing certain product or services. Therefore, the airtime of browsing online may increase the bills in other hands.
what one person may offensive
While the laws theoretically strict, in reality they are not enforced to the full extent of the law.
This is a cost effective way of monitor the countries security of it's online environment.
I didn't like the idea of the introduction; it started by putting the thought of an attempt being made in my head and not a factual, academic paper.
the group have given started of well
What is a bogey email address, is this a golfing term?
Apart from answering the second part first and the first part second, i felt this was the strongest part of the report.
Sentence/Paragraph Confused? I am.
In relation to the second part of the question there was no mention of the word tiger teams which lead me to conclude that the last paragraph was to answer the second part of the question, however I felt the question did not lead me to the conclusion of the groups thoughts where on how secure hiring tiger teams to test security vulnerability was, the answer may have been there but it was not made clear to me.
This quote was put in to give evidence to why the US government wants/needs to restrict the exportation of encryption systems, but understandable that it is dismissing the US policy on the restriction but it still gives evidence at why they have the policy in the first place. BUT the explanation of the quote is very vague and should have a better explanation for using it in the first place.
Mixed Messages:
Overall the groups report read well although I have a few comments regarding some parts, well done.
This question is answered well, maybe a little too well.
Wiki:
References do not need to come from the university database, although that is a convenient source for journals as it requires little research on your part.
Forgive me if I'm naive but what do you mean by in-text references? References within the text book?
All the sources cited are basically from peer reviewed journal articles which normally are very reliable and form a wealth of information to go by
The internet has grown from a small university network, constructed by the United States' National Science Foundation in 1983
Critique: There seems to be an over use Wikipedia information. This is not as a professional source of information because of its freely-available nature and its motto "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". It is also not sanctioned for referencing by any reputable education or research organization. Whole paragraphs have been copied (although referenced) straight from its articles.
Response: We do not agree. We believe the freedom to change produces good information, with little bias to the educational institution.
Literacy:
In the statement "methods to win customer' fidelity and ease" a more appropriate word would have been loyalty, as I had to look up fidelity in a dictionary to find the meaning in terms of you wording. Fidelity is correct in the meaning you wanted but it is more common as a music meaning. The reader may get confused.
Can the group supply some clarification on "waffly", what is waffly?
Also you only gave one disadvantage to e-marketing what about unscrupulas vendors and the such
But like I said at the beginning a good paper overall that is well writen even if question 2 didnt realyy answer the question.
But there are a few points that can be rebuttled.
Some of the sentence structures lacked some joining words, however an understanding could still be made
I would say that China has alot of control over it's people in the way that they use fear and propergander.
there where a number of speling and grammer mistakes
I hate to say it but unfortunately this paper did not read well for me, there were quiet a few questioning remarks
This case, although was very informative on the topic and has shown good referencing, I found it to be slapped together in non-adhesive parts. Especially the first section.
the flow was interrupted consistantly by referenced material,
Arrogance:
A very good and well written case. The best I have read this semester (besides my own groups of course)! All answers were relevant and covered the questions being asked, even if somewhat lacking in depth.
Mills & Boon***:
However, the thing that struck me here is something that I see quite often (and what I say here, I say with the best of intentions; I'm not knocking you, just trying to make you see the picture as I see it). I think that we as students, for example writing this paper about Tiger Teams with the knowledge that it will probably only ever be read by students and staff of our "E-Biz" course, tend to 'pitch' the level of the paper to our supposed readers.
This is of course natural, and we see it in all circles of life, but I don’t think it's necessarily a good thing. I think we need to try to make the target audience of our papers a little more widespread. What I am saying here is that your discussion of the pros and cons of hiring Tiger Teams would have been not just adequate (as yours definitely was, and there’s nothing wrong with that) but really "sparking" if you had pitched it a little lower, added a little more, forgotten the pre-requisite knowledge that you assume we all have, and really gotten in there and done a summary in words of one syllable.
To summarize what I am saying here - when I read a paper, I want it to take me to the heights, but I'm not the typical student. I'm a middle aged lady (almost old, in fact, *sigh*), and I'm tired. Don't make me climb a cliff to get there – show me the stars, and then give me the steps. Our readers here in E-Biz are all advanced students and/or academics, and we all do have the knowledge that we credit each other with. We are able to understand whatever the others of us are trying to say, but let's make it really easy and readable and "fun". I always feel that papers that make the reader rack their brains to see what they're saying, rather than just slide into it easily and then strive to reach the summit of the presentation, make it more difficult than is necessary. Do you agree? And if not, then why not?
** These examples are all taken from a 2nd year course where as a group we had to write a paper which was then loaded to a repository; individually we were then required to critique another groups paper - all in all an excruciating task!
***This was all from one paper - but it would be cruel (albeit amusing) to post the whole thing
So, which is your favourite? |
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| Sunday, October 01, 2006 |
| Best Spam™ Subject Ever.... |
In animal studies when given very large doses Codeine did decimal.
Which is a nice change from the usual rolex watches and erectile dysfunction. |
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| Torture is NOT an Australian Value..... |
According to this nutjob, sleep deprivation is not torture.
The man has obviously never had to stay up for many nights at a time with a sleepless child (or 2). Lack of sleep is mind numbing and thoughts of sleep becomes all consuming. Studies show that 17hrs without sleep is the equivalent of blowing .05 on an alcohol breathalyser.
Additional Protocol I, Article 75 of the Geneva Convention states: 'murder; torture of all kinds, whether physical or mental; corporal punishment; and mutilation…are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever, whether committed by civilian or by military agents.' Furthermore, using force to obtain information is specifically prohibited in Article 31 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which states that: 'No physical or moral coercion shall be exercised against protected persons, in particular to obtain information from them or from third parties.' I'm not sure precisely how Ruddock & his mate GWB determined that sleep deprivation is outside the bounds of the Geneva Convention – but my personal opinion is that damaging people to get answers means that at some point the lack of sleep or the large amount of pain will ensure that they tell you ANYTHING just to make the inhumane actions stop. On a positive note however the following statement was made by Bob Brown (Greens Senator): 'The use of sleep deprivation is torture. Using ghetto blasters and extreme cold and light to keep prisoners awake for days on end is part of new torture techniques aimed to scar the mind but not the body,' 'Philip Ruddock is dumping long-held Australian values.' Which means of course we've had an Australian Value articulated: Torture is anti-australian Which is not subjective by any means is it? More here, here, here and here. |
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