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UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack
An anonymous reader writes "The UCSB Daily Nexus reports "A UCSB student is being charged with four felonies after she allegedly stole the identity of two professors and used the information to change her own and several other students' grades, police said." The article goes on to note that, though working a few tricks to get into the system, she was fairly unsophisticated, and in fact failed to conceal her IP address from authorities. With other computing snafus recently making headlines, are universities too careless with their data?"
I guess it brings a new meaning to not being able to hack it in college.
*ducks*
"I'd be smart if I didn't let thinking get in the way."
the only grade that was changed was an F in "Ethics 101".
Nonono! The line is "if it hadn't been for those pesky kids and that dog!"
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
"Professor, I will do ANYTHING to get an A. (wink wink nudge nudge"
"Well then, why don't you try studying?"
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
A friend of mine at university used to have "Tempus Fugit" in his email signature file. This pretentiousness could not go unpunished so we changed it to "I wank daily"
He was sending out emails with it on for a week before a professor wrote to him telling him to change it to something more appropriate.
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What with men having the advantage because they give better blowjobs you mean?
"if a woman wants to get ahead, all she has to do is suck some dick."
Strange choice of example. It says that men are easily corrupted by offers of trivial sexual favours. It doesn't say anything negative about women at all.
_O_
.|< The named which can be named is not the true named
This reminds me of a little experiment I did with my universities ID card system. When you first enrol they ask you to supply, electronically, an image of your face so they can make you an ID card. I thought it was odd that they would ask for an image and not even check to see if it was of you.
Now I'm white, small and not very built at all so naturally the only real option was for me to submit an image of Mr T. A fortnight passed with anticipation and soon my new ID was ready to be picked up. I had this whole bogus "There must have been some mistake here! This isn't me" speech ready or if I felt funny on the day I had the "This is so me, I pitty the foo who be discriminating against my people" speech. I go to pick up the ID, the lady asks for my student number, name, dob etc. Takes a look at the ID to see the details match and hands it over...
nothing.
She didn't even question the fact that there was a huge black man with bulk bling on my ID and it was clearly not me.
I went home with my new souveneer, resubmitted my real photo and got a replacement ID two weeks later. I still bring the thing out for laughs.
I didn't have any mod points here, so I just logged in to the UCSB grading system and gave you a 100.
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oh, men are usually so easy we don't *have* to offer a blowjob... I remember I used to manage an auto shop, and occasionally when things were slow I'd pull my car into the garage and change the oil, tune it up, etc. I kid you not, all I'd have to do is put my car on the lift and say in a tired voice "this drain plugs on really tight!" Next thing you know I'd have two guys working on my car to prove how easy it all is while I drank my coffee and listened to the radio show. please women...let them think they help us, let them think *they is* so so smart before you mess up my whole M.O.!!!