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...cracking of CAPTCHAS--Gmail's, Hotmail's, Yahoo!'s. Von Ahn doubts the headlines are true--and companies aren't eager to confirm this kind of rumor--but it's possible for an amateur, poorly conceived CAPTCHA to be hacked. (He gives an example: a CAPTCHA in which each letter was always formed out of the same number of pixels. All the malware had to do was count the pixels in a letter to figure out which letter it was looking...
...Dershowitz, who is also a Faculty Affiliate of PED, had complained of a letter to the Wall Street Journal in which Trivers described Israel’s attacks on Lebanese civilians during the 2006 invasion as “butchery.” He also called Dershowitz a “Nazi-like apologist” for justifying it, and told Dershowitz to “look forward to a visit” from him if his public justifications continued. Trivers denied any intent to threaten or harm Dershowitz physically. In 2008, it was a professor from outside...
...would not know their grades when making their final grading choice, as the deadline would still be before final papers and exams. And last, such a change would not imply that the reverse could be done—students would not (and should not) be allowed to change a letter-graded class to pass/fail at the end of the semester...
...Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges and risks of exploring new fields, but there is also no reason Harvard should not have academic policies that encourage...
...which had until that point supplied $1,750 per weekend for parties open to all students. While the UC had been working with the College to resolve concerns that funds were going to sponsor underage drinking, the administration soon decided to abandon negotiation and abolished the fund in a letter posted on the internet. The decision was not only disrespectful of student input, but also deeply flawed. While the cancellation of the Party Fund was intended to stop underage drinking, it will likely merely push the locus of the campus party scene further away from administrative control, while further exacerbating...