Re: TI-H: Come on you guys, no more talk of cheating


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Re: TI-H: Come on you guys, no more talk of cheating



ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org wrote:
> 
> At 05:20 PM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote:
> >James Sulak wrote:
> >>
> >> >Because that would make it look suspicious in a test wouldn't it?  Also,
> >> >you can't network calcs together this way...
> >>
> >> Since there is very limited space inside the TI-8x series (at least the 85),
> >> the only way to make a radio or IR link that I can see is a small external
> >> box, which would also look suspicious...
> >
> >Come on people, you're too worried about being suspicious.  Are you
> >prepared to stoop low enough to actually cheat on a test with one of
> >these things?  Come on, a teacher will find out some day and then no one
> >will be able to use them in your school, they may even make strict
> >guidlines about the calculators themselves.  Let's not make this as a
> >cheater and something you have to hide, a life of secrecy is no life at
> >all.  Lets make a legal unit that could really be useful, maybe even
> >productive that the teachers won't be "suspicious" of.  I have no
> >problem with a small box that would hook up to the calc.  Let's
> >completely drop all subjects of cheating on tests.  This is a study and
> >game tool, except for the TI-OS which we don't talk much about.
> >
> >Eric Barker
> >
> 
> hehe.. speaking of guidelines.. I brought Zshell to my school last year and
> everyone was playing it all the time.  My school sucks so bad they put it in
> our handbook that you could get a detention if you were caught w/ any games
> on the calc :)
> Doesn't that suck?
> But luckily, they don't strictly enforce it :)
> 


God, youve got to be kidding me. Tell them it is your property, and the
data in there is yours. Say its not meant to be executed, and if you are
'playing' a game and they ask what the hell youre doing, tell them youre
doing math, which is all you are doing. (Basically just XOR AND OR
NOTing etc)


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