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What can (will) the instructors do to check the originality of student work (plagiarism/cheating)?
Ask the prime-minister to create a task force to investigate. 
My University is not coming slow 
modified 8-Apr-20 10:17am.
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Seems like overkill.
When I was in college in the early 1980's, programming projects were submitted for grading using paper listings. Instructors then returned final projects after the quarter ended using a cabinet outside the computer science office. After taking the real-time programming class (essentially multi-threading in PDP-11 assembly language), my project listing was missing. I informed the instructor.
A couple of quarters later, I was called into the department chairman's office, and asked to bring a copy of my final project listing for the class. I met with the chairman and the instructor, and they had me compare a listing to mine. It was the same code, but the comments were all different (and in some places wrong). I later heard about a guy I knew who was summarily failed for the class and expelled from the university.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: I later heard about a guy I knew who was summarily failed for the class and expelled from the university.
Quite right.
If he had to cheat to do the easy coding they make you do in uni, he'd be worse than useless in the workplace.
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If all variable, function and class names are replaced to new ones, keeping rest of the code the same, is it easy to detect, or difficult?
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Asking for a friend?
Even if they aren't replaced, I'd say it's difficult unless you've seen the original code recently. Some metrics would make it easier, such as the number of lines, the size of the .exe, or a list of function signatures. These would work even when things were just renamed.
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It would not be difficult to check the metrics of each method in a file, a simple size/word count would pick up most plagiarists, they would probably be too lazy to go to the effort of changing the content.
Actually the more I think about it the more interesting it would be, I'm pretty sure someone has built something like that into a doc compare tool already.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Like many of us, I've been working from home. Most of the time I use a VPN over my home broadband connection to Remote Desktop to my PC at work, and I just noticed something.
According to the icon in the notification area, my work PC thinks there's no Internet connection  .
No sign of a tall, gray long-hair in a robe with a staff shouting "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"...
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You don't say what sort of VPN, but our hardware to hardware VPN has a setting to route all internet traffic through the VPN. I think this does the same thing that you see, but not sure. Been a while since I fought that as it severely limits Internet on remote end.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Windows checks Internet connection trying to send your personal information to pinging Microsoft servers. If the route is blocked either by firewall or VPN it registers no Internet connection.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Windows checks Internet connection pinging Microsoft servers.
That seems remarkably deceptive and short-sighted.
Oh wait. Never mind.
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Well, the most used ways to check for routing problems in the field is trying to ping either google or facebook, because they have so much redundancy that they are virtually always up. If DNS is the supposed culprit, it's easy to remember to ping 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS server).
Microsoft being Microsoft tries to ping its own servers, which are also used for authetnication, updates (which are becoming "mandatory" for them) and data collection.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You drop it in water!
If it sinks: Girl ant!
If it floats: .... 
Ba-Tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Is that something one really needs to know?
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Of course - why do you think they call it importANT?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Johnny J. wrote: why do you think they call it importANT?
Because they're foreign?
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That won't work in the US because of their Monty-Pythonesque pronunciation of "buoy" (which makes me chuckle every time I hear it -- especially when it issues forth from the mouths of uniformed-up, important-looking naval ship captains).
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Yes, we call them "boo-ees" but items that float are "boy-ant"
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Yes, we call them "boo-ees" but items that float are "boy-ant"
Really?
That's a shame,
"Boo-ee-ant" would amuse me no end.
Can't you talk to someone about it?
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I'll get right on that.
Hey, Murica, this guy wants us to say Boo-ee-ant!
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Cheers, Mate. I'll await the obvious outcome.
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Please wait in the "foy-er"!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Oh buoy, the puns are getting worse.
That one went down like a lead balloon.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: we call them "boo-ees"
Except for when we talk about "buoys and gulls".
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I use bit different technique:
I drop it in water!
If SHE sinks: Female ant
If HE sinks: Male Ant
Amit Joshi
Value of the value is valued only if its value is valued.
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