Most definitely. I was an English major, and they put the fear of God in me. I cited everything but the coordinating conjuctions.
Well, then.
Nail the motherfucker!
Not a very good comparison, Phil. I’m sure you can do better.
–Tim
Rat on the rat bastard.
In most colleges, plagarism and cheating can mean getting kicked out.
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Can you name a college or university where that wouldn’t get you kicked out?
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Best advice Suo Na!
Get a time/date stamp notarized copy of the entire screen that this maggot is posting. Go through a copy of it and annotate all of the locations of your name and any misspellings that give you document a “signature”. Also show a dated original of your own work for legal comparison.
Then gut and fry this scumbag like a fresh caught trout. What a piece of shit! Definitely put him on notice to his academic superiors. A reputation for taking credit for other people’s work is pure poison in the academic world.
All the best, and keep us posted.
Homer, yeah, I know, I’m off my game. Must need more protein in my diet or something. Or maybe it’s the shoes.
Don’t they call that system, “the Internet”?
–John
University of South Carolina. I had a student, a freshman, who turned in a paper on “Cosmography and Cosmology in John Donne’s ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.’” Nevermind that he/she (getting around Federal Privacy Act) was a C student at best; nevermind that the assignment was deconstruction. Nevermind that I found the same paper on the first 3 pages of an internet-published doctoral dissertation from Oxford. Nevermind that he/she did the same thing in the same week in History.
He/she is a track star. He/she got a reprimand and an “F” in my class. But not expulsion or a permanent recording of the incident.
Fuck it. Why bother sometimes?
I sent the following to Mr. Cocksucking Plagiariser:
Dear Mr. Quynh:
I am the author of the tutorial on the Apache Open Source web server which you have willingly placed on your web site, http:// axon.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/, at the location http:// axon.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/Apache/Apache-tutorial.html. You have also willingly removed my name and email address from this document. This constitutes plagiarism. Though I normally grant license for the copying and distribution of said document for no cost, I require that the contents not be changed, and that full credit is given. As a fellow member of the academic community, I am sure you are aware of that plagiarism is not tolerated in any form in the academic world. You are directed to remove the aforementioned document, or face civil penalties. You are further directed to provide written confirmation of compliance with this request either via email to mnf7228@osfmail.rit.edu or via postal mail to the address above.
Sincerely,
Mike Friedman
And I sent this to the guy he works for:
Dear Prof Yoshiyasu Takefuji
I am writing to inform you that a member of your staff, Nguyen Anh Quynh, has plagiarised a tutorial I wrote on the Apache web server. The document, which can be found at the location
http://axon.neuro.sfc.keio.ac.jp/Apache/Apache-tutorial.html
is identical to my published work in every way except that my name and email address have been removed. The text of the document still contains references to my own web server, friedo.rh.rit.edu.
As I’m sure you are aware, plagiarism is an extremely serious offense in the academic community. I trust you will take appropriate action with this member of your staff.
Sincerely,
Mike Friedman
In the words of that cook on television, “BAM!”
Now we’ll see how it all turns out. I hope the cocksucker loses his job and is forced to become a male prostitute.
I got a reply from Prof. Takefuji:
Hello,
We will add your name and email address of the original document
ASAP.
thank you.
regards,
takefuji
professor of keio university
The dude doesn’t seem the least bit upset about the plagiarism. I replied:
Dear Prof. Takefuji:
I am afraid this is unnacceptable. I want the document removed from your web servers immediately. I also want disciplinary action taken against Mr. Quynh.
I have yet to hear from the shiteating enema discharge that actually did the plagiarising.
friedo, I hope you get satisfaction from this indignity. About colleges: they are willing to let murderers and rapists in, but the Lord won’t save you if you plagiarize, unless, of course, you are a football star.
On a lighter note:
One of my friends a long time ago had a website with a background image that he specifically clearly stated “nobody may take these without my permission” (and I don’t think he ever gave his permission…)
Anyway, he found another page that had the background image from his site…and it was linked directly to his site!
Can you predict where this is going?
Anyway, my friend sent the guy an e-mail requesting that the image be changed, but not before he changed his webpage to point to a different image (a renamed copy of the original image) and change the original image to a dirty hentai image. So the plagarizer’s site had a nicely tesellated(sp?) pornographic image in the background. It was hilarious.
I’m sorry that you are not lucky enough to be able to do a prank like this, but I hope this guy gets punished. Badly.
That’s brilliant, KJ.
Unfortunately, short of having another war, I don’t think I can do much personally.
–As a side note, maybe you should keep a few typos in. That’s how publishers catch copyright infringers.
The dickhead apologized profusely (apparently my email address was “accidentally” removed) and that site no longer appears to be up.
So, victory, sort of.
(I was hoping he would get executed, but, take what you can get, I guess.)