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It is talked about on Google Groups also.  Here is a good explanation of backscatter.  Here is a blog about diploma mills.

I swore I would never buy another Microsoft product, but the college uses mymathlab.com. This website might have a deal with Microsoft, because they will not allow their software to interact with the free and open source Linux operating system.  It seems that I am forced to use the buggy, bloated, vulnerable, accusatory software that is the Windows Operating System.

I have a three year old Toshiba laptop with XP, but the LCD screen has failed, it has so many lines running through it that it is hardly viewable.  I won’t be buying another Toshiba product.  By coincidence, I took the laptop off of the shelf and fired it up just three days ago.  It had not been started in about a year and everything needed to be updated.  This took about three hours and several reboots. I hate Windows. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Thursday, April 24, I went to the Downtown campus to take the College Placement Test.  It has been 30 years this month since I took the Florida GED test and passed in the top 10%, so I was told.  I already had a student number and the $35 fee was paid, so a nice young lady at the counter directed me to a quiet little room with two other test takers who finished soon after I took a seat at a computer.  I finished the test in 1 hour, 33 minutes, 12 seconds.

On the Reading Comprehension Test, My score was 114; student is at college level reading when the score of 83 or better.  No reading is required.

On the Sentence Skills Test, I scored 107; a score of 83 or better is required. So I am qualified to take Composition I, ENC 1101.

This course description is copied from the SP College web site:

ENC 1101 COMPOSITION I 3 credits

“G” Prerequisite: (ENC 0020 or EAP 1695) and (prerequisite or co-requisite REA 0002) or appropriate scores on the Writing and Reading placement tests. This course is designed to develop composition skills. It emphasizes the development of the multi-paragraph essay and includes practice in information retrieval from electronic and other sources, as well as in the selection, restriction, organization, and development of topics. It also offers the student opportunities to improve proficiency with sentence structure, diction, and mechanics. Selected writing samples are examined as models of form and as sources of ideas for the student’s own writing. Conferences provide individual instruction. Sections of computer-assisted and individualized instruction are offered. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. Credit is not given for both ENC 1101 and ENC 1121H. 47 contact hours. Read the rest of this entry »

On Sunday, April 17, 2008 I registered online at the St. Petersburg College website.  It cost $35 to register and it was very convenient to put that on my credit card and finish registering.  I had to prove that I was a Florida resident in order to receive the in-state tuition rate. Acceptable proof was a valid Florida Driver License or State ID, valid Florida Vehicle Registration or a valid Voter ID.  I have all three but I still ran into problems.  It was a bit difficult to do because both my license and vehicle had to be renewed in February of this year, so I could not use them as proof that I had been living in Florida for over one year.

It strikes me as strange that they would include vehicle registration as a requirement, because to be considered a resident, one must have lived in Florida at least one year.  In Florida, vehicles must be registered every year. The government has imposed severe penalties for those that fail to pay this tax. Since everyone must renew every vehicle every year, no one could possibly have a legal vehicle registration that is over one year old.  I do not understand this. Read the rest of this entry »