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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx</link><description>FakeYourSpace will help you look more popular on MySpace with fake hot friends.&amp;nbsp; You actually subscribe to them on a monthly basis and they leave comments on your profile.&amp;nbsp; It's kind of weird to see a page full of people with "add to my cart"</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16583</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:53:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16583</guid><dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator><description>"The conical glass is not really a fraud because you pay for a certain quantity of liquid, not for a full glass."

Here is the real fraud...a couple of years ago there was a "truth in Cable TV" bill being debated by congress.  The bill was defeated because of the efforts of cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner.

With the defeat of the bill, cable companies selling HDTV signals to subscribers can legally sell the unsuspecting consumer a signal claimed to be at 1080i resolution, when in fact they degrade the 1080i signal to 720p resolution but still charge the customer for 1080i service. The cable company does not have to tell you that they are doing it.  That practice is what the bill was designed to eliminate. That is fraud!

I would imagine that this will also be something the Satellite companies like DirectTV and Dish Network will also do to their customers.


</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16698</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:53:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16698</guid><dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator><description>I tought the The simulation argument was really stupid.  If A and B are false then C must be true does no follow.  C may very well be false also and he doesn't present any compelling evidence to make his site even the least bit interesting to view.</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16761</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:59:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16761</guid><dc:creator>Mark N., Portland OR</dc:creator><description>The conical glass "issue" is a good case study in why it pays to have a decently educated public.  If I have a conical glass of height H and volume V, filled up to level h from the point, it doesn't take much high school math to find out that the (v/V) = (h/H)^3.  That is, for half the available volume, the glass would be "filled up" around 80% of the way, as shown in the video.  This isn't anything like "fraud" - it's plain old solid geometry.</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16786</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:27:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16786</guid><dc:creator>Ross, Overland Park, KS</dc:creator><description>one sad aspect pertaining to the article about data being stored on paper is the vast amount of people who may actually believe it if they read it in a forum giving convincing credentials to the story. along the same lines, i recently read a study about intelligence levels among the college-aged population – ironically named the Internet Generation, and their inability to gather and decipher valid information using modern technology – i.e. Google. basically, some people assume the pages served up first are authentic.</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16787</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:32:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16787</guid><dc:creator>Prowler67, CO</dc:creator><description>I had a lot of time to think out at sea when I was in the Navy.  Great video.</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16816</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:49:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16816</guid><dc:creator>Rob Carr, Pittsburgh, PA</dc:creator><description>Will,

As you can see from this picture of Richard Feynman holding a Feynman diagram and an opened lock (second image on the page), it's more than just hackers who are interested in the hobby of lock picking:

http://archive.bathfringe.co.uk/past/fringe98/sun_24.html

For some reason, students taking their first Statistical and Quantum Mechanics course find themselves imitating the good Doctor's exploits during World War II. Whether there's some link between solving a Hamiltonian and getting pins to line up, or if it's simply a matter of dealing with the stress of waves/particles behaving badly (or at least non-Newtonianly), I can't say. 

Perhaps it's just the pleasure of finding things out:

http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Finding-Things-Out-Richard/dp/0738203491</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16866</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:24:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16866</guid><dc:creator>MrEntropy</dc:creator><description>FakeYourSpace sounds ideal to me.  I'm the type of person that buys new picture frames but leaves the filler photo in so I can pretend I have family and friends.</description></item><item><title>Faking, cheating and rule breaking</title><link>http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/30/16559.aspx#16910</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:51:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16910</guid><dc:creator>SEO Company</dc:creator><description>If you have to "fake your space" there is a good reason why you probably don't have friends.</description></item></channel></rss>