Chinese Students Expelled from Duke for Academic Disonesty

19 Chinese students were expelled or suspended by Fuqua Business School of Duke University in North Carolian for cheating in a take home assignment.

Some names leaked by XYS:
Degang (Kendall) Shen, People (Renmin) University, Beijing, 1999, expelled;
Hongmiao (Hugo) Zhao, Wuhan University, Beijing, 1998, failed class;
Lin (Richard) Zheng, University of Georgia, Athens, 2001, suspended;
Pingfan (Elle) Zhou, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, 2002, suspended;

Chinese Student Arrested

A Chinese high school student of the Clements High School in Houston, Texas was arrested by school district police for making a 'mod' of a popular video game CounterStrike. A mod of a game is a new map, often created by a player on a familiar subject. The police also found a hammer after searched the kid's home, which was taken in as evident of potential weapon.
source: slashdot
a few notable comments:
koreth:

If any high school students are reading this...
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by koreth (409849) * on Wednesday May 02, @03:48PM (#18961609)

Please take heart. Not all of us adults are such utter fucking morons.

Not that you'd know it from the comments on the article, where a depressing number of people say they hope he has learned from his "mistake."

I bet he has. He's learned to keep his activities secret from the authorities if he values his freedom. He's learned a little bit about what it's like to live in an increasingly paranoid, authoritarian society, where innocuous activities that harm nobody can get one declared an enemy of the people. He's learned that politicians have no compunctions about advancing their own careers by ruining the lives of the people they supposedly serve.

His mistake wasn't making the map. If FPSes had been around when I was in high school I would have loved to play on a map of the school; unlike a bunch of adults, it seems, I understood and understand the difference between video games and reality. His mistake was not being sufficiently clandestine when he shared it with his friends. Hopefully he will take this as a valuable lesson about the value of covering his tracks thoroughly in his daily life.

Sneakernets

We need revolution and we need it now
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by Sneakernets (1026296) on Wednesday May 02, @03:47PM (#18961591)
(Last Journal: Thursday March 22, @09:24PM)
I did this with my high school. I showed it to my teacher in CAD class. He loved it. We converted it to a Doom II map. we played it. No one died, no one cared. in fact, I was given an award from my school for my "excellent achievements", partly due to that.


I also remember a group called the POCD made a DoomII mapset with school layouts. The maps turned out to be a hit in deathmatch, especially on "Last man standing" mode that was added in a recent Doom port, Skulltag.

Now you can be arrested for...... this? What I got.. this plaque for?


*a tear falls down his cheek*

America, what is wrong with you?

CherniyVolk

And they wonder why...
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by CherniyVolk (513591) on Wednesday May 02, @05:04PM (#18963041)

Perhaps, the real reason children are shooting up schools is because adults are wrong and kids know this and become frustrated by it. To be honest, there were times I'm certain I would have done the same thing. Honestly, a feeling of solitude kept me secure from ever actually doing it. This day and age, we can see how wide spread the bullshit is, and there's no feeling of solitude putting doubts into the minds of young ones, as they clearly see, many others who agree. The world is much smaller, thanks to the internet. When I was growing up, I had to go on a back porch to contemplate the world and I had no choice to figure I was in the wrong since I had no other opinions easily available.

However, if my child were to ever get treated like this... I have good aim, and the school officials might be in trouble. Afterall, social workers will probably take my child away anyway to be psychologically evaulated or some other bullshit. You can't take much more from a parent... and you can't dishonor one any more.

In Memory of the Digg Revolt

And, hat off to Kevin.

Half Hearted Prank Or Bona Fide Racism

Jeff Vandergrift of CBS WFNY placed an on-air prank call to a local Chinese restaurant, pretending a customer making phone ordering at noon of April 20th, 2007. WFNY covers New York, New Jersey. Also on the air at the time with Vandergrift was Dan Lay.

When asked whether he would like to pick up or deliver, Jeff Vandergrift told the female receptionist 'Should I come to your restaurant, so I can see you naked', 'that way, I can see your hot Asian spicy ass', 'Spicy ass', etc. At the point, an elder male employee took over the phone, and Jeff told the old man he wanted 'Chinese egg roll in your pants', 'told the young Asian ass I wanted touch her ass'. Vandergrift also used words such as SOB, Chinaman repeatedly.

Imus had been fired for his stupidity. For bottom feed small fish Vandergrift & Lay, a rather little known coward, being fired for work stupidity would probably bring them career high name recognition. Therefore, we no longer want Vandergrift & Lay fired, we want Vandergrift & Lay punished by the legal system based on the offense he made. Sooner or later, one or another, someone in the society will have to pay for Vandergrift and Lay's arrogance and foolishness.

The producer of the program is Lance Otani, a Japanese. The wife of Jeff Vandergrift is Natasha Yi, a Korean.

Korean Reacted to Virginia Tech Shooting Spree

One of the largest newspaper of Korean, the Seoul News published a cartoon depicting an excited President Bush addressing the nation after the shooting by saying '33 people in one shot,..., this proves the high technologies of our weapons'.

Cho Seung Hui, a 23 years old Korean citizen killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors before taking his own life. In a note left on his dorm desk, it reads, 'you made me do this'.

Eminent Domain in 1083

The first Chinese law regulating eminent domain was approved and announced in Yuanfeng 6th year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1083). Before the law, the common practice of the Chinese government is to compensate the evicted residents by allowing them a place in another location, plus waiving of taxes for a certain years. However, this method usually can't guarantee consistent living level especially for those originally live in a prosperous place. One emperor of Song, Tai Zong, lemented that although his palace was too narrow, but he had to resist the expansion plan being afraid of seeing people would have to move.

The 1083 law on eminent domain states that the government is responsible to compensate those evicted with comparable location as well as monetary reimbursement. The value of the compensation would be the average of the original purchase value and current accessed value. According to record, 120 families were moved on eminent domain in June of the same year. They were totally reimbursed at 20600 Min, or 171 Guan per family which is about $6,000 today's US dollars.

Where have all the H1B gone?

Where have all the H1B gone? Gone to Indians everyone. According to a Business Week report, seven out of ten largest H1B applicants are Indian consulting companies (ICC).

Among well known ICCs, there are HDD, Marlabs, Wirpo, BCG.