Tag: CHEATING

Videos instructing students in how to effectively cheat are increasingly prevalent on YouTube, according to CBS News. While YouTube has not exercised its authority to remove these videos, or at least any significant portion of them, commentators are urging kids to consider their future reputations, and that apparently antiquated notion of ethics, before posting such videos. Some kids, while ...

As the Internet becomes increasingly important in our day-to-day lives, some are getting worried that it's making us, well, stupid to put it bluntly. The fear is that, with access to the world's knowledge instantly available at our fingertips, we're not learning as much as we should, becoming co-dependent on technology to remember things. Some aren't so worried, though, seeing this as inevitable ...

An 8-year-old tennis player in New Zealand was recently booted out of a tournament for wearing a hidden earpiece, which her father rigged under her shirt and headband to help her keep track of the scores. The idea of the clandestine earpiece reached a popular zenith when President George W. Bush was thought to have used one to help along his answers during a debate with Democratic candidate John ...

The Internet has provided many ways for shaming those who have wronged you, and we thought we'd seen them all. That is, until Paul Osborn decided to auction off his "adulterous, lying, cheating, bitch, whore" of a wife on eBay (his words). Paul found out that his wife and mother of his children, Sharon, was having an affair with a co-worker. His response was to throw her out of the house and ...

Nothing sucks the fun out of a game of wits like cheating. And when playing games online, cheating is so easy it's hard not to do, as one Wired writer found out when she added the Scrabulous application to her Facebook page. Scrabulous allows members to play a Scrabble-like game (Scrabble is a copyright of Parker Brothers) with their Facebook friends. Sarah Fallon (the writer in question) ...

In George Orwell's '1984,' the people were kept in check by the fear that Big Brother might be watching. At a new testing center at Pennsylvania State University, students won't have to wonder if they're being watched; they'll know. The new test hall, which opens next spring, is basically a big, high-security room full of cubicles and cameras. Professors schedule exams and when students show ...