A new law may require a webcam in your house if you're doing remote course work for a degree

To eliminate cheating, of which there is no solid evidence, much less proof that attending classes and taking exams in person eliminates cheating, there is a provision in a new education law that may require you to have an electronic monitoring device in your house for when you take tests.

Naturally, some of these systems only work with Windows computers.

Now, obviously you can unplug the stupid things when they're not needed, but WTF?

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i46/46a00103.htm

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1724225

An Apollo astronaut claims aliens have visited the Earth and the gov't has hushed it up

Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades."

Uh-huh. I'm sorry, but as much as the government leaks on the least little thing, I just don't buy that they could cover up something like this for 60 years. But this will certainly get lots of press with him being a doctor and astronaut.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24070088-13762,00.html

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1610229