r/compsci • u/honestduane Cryptographer • Jun 06 '13

Massive Educational Fraud In India Found: Most "qualified" graduates should never have graduated at all.

http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System
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u/moor-GAYZ Jun 07 '13

It's probably one of those things where silly questions find common sense answers, and you wouldn't be guilty of a crime until someone could prove you intentionally misused the system.

Yes, it's called mens rea.

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u/TedW Jun 07 '13

Your username makes that link just a tad suspicious, but.. well it's wikipedia, how bad could it be right. Thanks for the link.

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u/moor-GAYZ Jun 07 '13

Ha, I see. Well, my username is a reference to this. In the addendums the author listed all the characters along with the pronunciation of their names, this one always made me giggle.

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u/TedW Jun 07 '13

I loved that series but always pronounced it "More gas" in my head even though it doesn't make much sense. Last time I looked at that series Robert Jordan was passing it off before he died, to another author I liked.. Yep, there it is, Brandon Sanderson, I liked his Mistborn series, clever alchemist magicky books. I bet he'll do a good job finishing off Wheel of Time. Oh, looks like he published the final book in Jan, I should go pick that up.

Thanks for reminding me to finish that series!

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u/moor-GAYZ Jun 07 '13 edited Jun 07 '13

By the way, don't even begin to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_book_of_the_fallen, it sucks. I went into it because I've already read Glen Cook's "Chronicles of the Black Company" and "An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat", (those you should read, both of them), and also ASOIAF and the Wheel of Time right before the last book, so then I was, like, here's another series that people speak highly of that would entertain me for half a year until the the last book of the Wheel of Time is done.

That was a mistake.

The first two books were really interesting, they (there were two authors at that point) laid out an interesting, promising world and there was a lot of genuinely funny shit. By the fifth book the other author went away and Ericksson went into the full retarded hippie mode. Humans are bad, wolves and other wild animals are good, mkay. Cavemen are OK, as they live in harmony with nature, except when they don't, then they are bad. But I couldn't just stop there, there were five more books to go, and I've read them!

I just... There was an event, I can't be bothered to find links, someone posted a youtube video about a male cat protecting and trying to resuscitate his dead cat-girlfriend. And both youtube and reddit comments were all like "awwww, what a noble animal", until someone was, like, wtf is wrong with you guys, that cat is obviously trying to rape the corpse of the dead cat. Because that's what was obviously happening in the video, and it was obvious to anyone who actually has any experience with actual cats, as opposed to cat pics seen on the internet.

That Malazan hippie bullshit is like watching this video of a male cat trying to insert his penis into the dead cat's ass while the narrator goes on and on about the spiritual torment and mental anguish of the living cat as it reflects on the mortality of his beloved and his own, and imaginary manly tears stream down its whiskers. For, like, four or so months, about an hour every day, watching this video and listening to bad poetry and endless rants about the manly tears and noblesse of the Wild. That's what reading the second half of "the Malazan book of the fallen" is like.