Slashback: Cheaters, Spammers, Chessmen

Slashback brings you more words tonight on catching CS cheaters (and whom to credit for the software that does so), giving money near-painlessly to another worthy cause, complications in wiretapping California's phones, and more. Read on, and enjoy!

GA Tech TAs not given credit for program exposing those who don't give credit. zorba1 writes: "Chalk another one to the 'TAs get no credit' department. CNN is running an article on how on how Georgia Tech's College of Computing professors wrote a cheat-finder program that discovered 186 Intro to Computing cheaters. As a former CS TA at GaTech, some clarification points:

1. The app was developed by TAs, not by professors.
2. It doesn't detect 'exact duplications of computer code.' It removes variable names and examines duplication in code structure.
3. The only reason it's in the news is that GaTech recently required nearly all students to take one or two introductory CS courses."

The stench whiffed 'round the world ... Kelsevinal writes "A look at this article on the Chicago Tribune website reveals that our good friend Bernie Shifman is getting a little publicity... Think what you want about the situation, but I think it's funny as hell. I bet Shifman likes it too ... think of all the human resources depts. who might see this!"

After all, not everything is Free. xueexueg writes: "I just noticed that the Free Software Foundation has finally gotten around to setting up secure servers for orders and donations. For ages you actually had to print out and mail an order form to them, but now, at last, you can give them money for goods or charity, in your proverbial underwear."

And let's face it, there aren't that many places in the world where you can order T-shirts adorned with a levitating gnu.

Does this remind you of Gorman Seedling's electric collars? koganuts writes: "Updating a story posted by Slashdot on January 9th, according to The Los Angeles Times, "Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to let state and local police obtain roving wiretaps on suspected criminals was dropped from the legislation containing it Tuesday after the legislative counsel's office concluded that it was illegal." There were also provisions in the proposed bill which extended wiretapping to e-mail and the Internet. One thing I never knew was that "...wiretaps cost an average of $56,767.""

Have you learned your lesson? Eblis writes: "The Learning Machine Challenged hosted by AI has finally ground to a halt, with results available at lmw.a-i.com. Congratulations to the winners and to AI for hosting such a successful contest!"

Comments

CS Cheaters

[Renraku]

So...who'se going to write something to find all of those damn wallhackers and aimbotters?

CS Cheaters

[mESSDan]

Slashback brings you more words tonight on catching CS cheaters

I was very impressed that the people who cheat at Counterstrike were finally going to be caught! (As opposed to those people who use Punkbuster, where the cheating may only be averted) I figured it's about time since the latest version of Half-Life features Opaque Walls (Finally!).

To think that I was wrong, this was about people cheating the people who wrote the program that caught cheaters! heh ;)

jeez...

[mewsenews]

Am I the only idiot that thought Taco meant Counter-strike when he said CS cheating..

CS == "Computer Science" && CS == "Counter

[commonchaos]

I almost started in my chair. Something about catching Counter Strike cheaters! Finaly!

Such a program would be more useful to me than the GA thingie

for those interested in voting

[S. Allen]

Here is the URL:

http://chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/ ch i-0201210012jan21.story

Speaking of CS Cheaters

[redhotchil]

Maybe these geniuses could write a program that'd catch all the cheaters playing Counter Strike

Off Topic, -5 :P

when i saw CS cheaters

[zigzagksu]

when i saw CS cheaters I thought this article was about Counter-Strike... boy was I disappointed