On the Chernobal accident, it came down to a bureaucracy forging ahead because an incompedent manager made a decision to go ahead with a test because he didn't want to tell his bosses he couldn't due to worry excessively over what could happened. He should of worried more.
On hindsight, pulling all the control rods out of the reactor wasn't the brightest idea.
Or, if you want to be an ineffective lump, go ahead and sit back and shut up... If you're going to complain, for god's sake aim your mouth in the right direction.
Actually, I was hoping if I complain loud and long enough on slashdot that someone else would do it for me.
I think your comment about the Eastern Front neglects to really appreciate how close the Russians were, at several points, to losing that portion of the war. It's quite believable that if the Germans hadn't had to fight a war on two fronts simultaneously, they would have overcome the Russian resistance.
I have to pipe in because I am a certified wargamer and have actually thought about this issue in order to win as Germany in various War games.
There are 3 times the Germans could have won the War in the East.
1941 - Germans Assaut during June and Get bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow. During December the Soviets attack repelling German forces.
What ere the Americans doing at that time? Well... Pearl Harbor. Any aid to the Soviets at that time? Nah. Neglible.
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad. 600,000 Germans and her Allies are off fighting the Soviets inflicting over 2 million Soviet deaths over a dead city. What else are the Germans doing at that time? They are fighting the Brits in Africa with 2 measly German division with a whole bunch of Italians. Would those 2 divisions made a difference? Probaly not. Maybe Rommel would have been more helpful on the eastern front but he was sent there mostly because he was an unproven commander at that time but made some striking victories.
After this battle the Germans realed loosing over 400,000 soldiers. I'm suprised Manstein was able to save them but he did.
The last chance the Germans had to win was:
1943 - Kursk. Largest tank battle of all time. Where were the Americas at this time? Well they helped drive Rommel out of Africa. Not much else going on. No bombing raids on Germany yet. The German army attacked in the largest concentration known and yet was repulsed by a larger soviet force. Even though the Germans inflicted horrible casualties on the Soviets they could not reach their goals and many had retreat. Their panzer armees were basically destroyed and wasted on the Russian Steppes. It was a grand retreat from there.
A week later, American forces landed in Sicily. Get bogged down hold up about 200,000 German forces. Then the 1943 day air raids begin in earnest.
1944 - Americans land at Normandy. They face Verterns and second line units which number about 200,000. Not to belittle the attack (by all odds it should have failed against the defenses and if it wasn't for naval and air superiority and the bravery of the soldiers storming the beaches it would have ended pretty badly)
Shortly there after the Soviets face a force 3 times larger on the eastern front and wipe it out.
75% of German Dead (about 1.75 million) were on the Eastern front. Bombing raids proved neglible to destroying german infrastructure and many factories continued in operation until they were over run.
So the truth of the matter is... America did help end the war sooner and prevent Stalin from taking over Europe, but I think we overstate our importance at least in victory.
But we have to remember of course what happened after the ware was more important. Without the atomic bomb we would have seen total Communist hemogy in Germany, France, Japan, China, and pretty much the rest of the world from there. So if we are talking about today, then yeah... It was pretty important that the US got involved when it did.
Seriously, early Christianity (or at least organized Christianity in the Catholic church) has tended to not like Science and anything that didn't have to do with the Church.
Remember Copernicus? Galieo?
Back then, Islam was more into science and learning. Remember most of the Greek works that would have been lost during the dark ages were saved by Islamic Scholars and later made their way back into Europe after 1400's.
Even though today, being religious shouldn't mean that you are against science and knowledge. But some are... Most people aren't however including the Papacy which has apologized for its stances in the middle ages against said scientists.
Copyright isn't the problem. Copyright is what allows creative people to believe thier stuff won't get pirated as soon as it is exposed to the public. If you think DRM and licensing is a nightmare now, think what it would be like if there were no legal framework for ti to work within.
I dunno... If copyrights disapeared tomorrow, people would still make movies, play music, and write books.
In fact it might improve the industry by getting people out who are doing nothing but writing and producing crap just to make money (Uwe Boll anyone?)
If no one made money off their works, then only true artists would continue doing so. Performances would continue and people would live off commisions by people who pay the artists directly.
As of right now, most artists don't receive enough royalties as it is from the labels to make a living even if they sell millions. The only real benefit of selling CDs means you end up selling out shows and selling t-shirts. But they aren't mutually exclusive...
Perhaps some of you don't remember 9/11. But don't you remember the March 11th train bombing in Madrid or the attacks just this last summer in London?
If you fear terrorism, you are a coward plain and simple. You are more likley to die because of a drunk driver. Even if 9/11 happened every day for a year more people would have died to car accidents, yet we don't see more laws being passed in the name of public saftey for the "War on Drunk Driving"
Secondly, you are just plain ignorant to think it requires new powers to government.
9/11 happened because the pilots didn't lock their doors like they do is Israel.
To prevent 9/11 again, we simply have to require more common sense on the airlines. We do not... I repeat... We do not need to pass more laws in order to prevent more terrorism. Killing people and conspiring to kill people is illegal right? There ya go. Go catch those terrorists. You don't need to trample on the Constitution in order to do so.
Lastly, laws will not prevent terrorism. I'm more right wing than probaly you, but I know the reason why we haven't caught Bin Laden is not because we haven't passed another Patriot act but it is our leaders or incompentant or cowards.
Or perhaps there is a reason Pakistan hasn't caught him yet. Maybe we are paying them too much money to find him and they wouldn't want a good deal to go away. Maybe they have nukes and we don't have the balls to stop terrorism once and for all.
As of now, the only government that has this system in place is Israel. Works pretty well for them. They get leaders that the people want rather than just 51% of them.
Sure they have external problems with Palestine (and questionable practices against with them), but as far as their inner workings go, they are way more democratic than us.
Then after that there is the parliment system. Has a few more flaws than the proportional, but you still get better leaders than through a electoral college system like we have.
Ours was "Ming", he worked at the food court at the Manchu Wok. On his breaks he would come up to the arcade and play. He's spend 50 cents and beat people until his dad made him go back to work. When I got good, he had to bring up more than 50 cents when his break began.
Ah the old days on the mall. You know... When every mall in the states had an arcade, Babbage's, comic book store, and that hobby shop (which I can't remember)
I think the golden age of arcades for me was when Street Fighter II hit the shelves and went from that to Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Killer Instinct, and then went downhill about the time of Mortal Kombat III.
Throw in all the Neo Geo games at the time and it was damn fun.
I remember the days of Street Fighter II Championship edition in which we would wait in lines to challenge the current player. If you were good you could basically stay up there for a while til someone beat you.
Of course if no one was there and it was me and my friends we'd just put quarters in for both of us and let the first player play against the CPU and then if we were about to loose the second player would jump in and repeat the process.
Honorable mentions would be King of the Monsters, Operation Wolf, Double Dragon, NBA Jam, and Virtua Fighter.
Who the hell would buy these? They've been available for free over the Internet (via MAME, etc.) for the better part of a decade.
Same reason people buy music for iTunes.
Its a bitch to spend hours searching the internet for roms and it isn't just because the SPA, RIAA, or MPAA has shut down the sites, but it is because most of the ROM places are nothing by malware, spam, and ultra porn popup sites with no real roms on them.
Now I'll be dead by the time this thing gets close enough. Should we just assume we'll have better technology then and fire some photon torpedos at it?
No and yes.
Chances are if you can live another 30 years, you will live in an era where technology is going to keep you a live from more than 200-500 years (and by then they'll figure out the rest of the problems so you'll end up living past then).
And we'll most likely have large mass drivers and various other technology that would make little work of such an event.
If not... Then what the hell were we doing in the past 100 or so years? Dancing naked in the woods and retruning to nature?
My point is YOU are out of touch. You have no idea what it is like to be a parent until you have kids. Period. Go fuck yourself if you think you do cause you don't.
Did you not just read what I said?
Having a kid does not automatically make you a good parent!
I guess you are right. I never played videogames or look at porn or smoked a doobie or jerked off when I was a kid, and I am soooo out of touch.
Well, you are going to be in one hellava a shock when your kids do. And there is nothing... I repeat nothing you can do to prevent them from doing so if they want to.
Do you feel that lack of power? That is the sound of your kids growing up and leaving your house and then doing all the things you didn't let them do when they were in your ivory tower of a house. Heck, they might even do it because of resentment of what you wouldn't let them do.
No amount of punishment or force will make them be the person you want them to be.
Me bitter? Nah. Just realistic. Secondly, how do you know I'm not a parent? It wouldn't be something I would dick wave on a public forum like some badge of courage. It would be something I'd keep between me and my family.
You will learn about responsibility when you have children. I don't need a study to tell me that violent videogames are bad for chidren.
Listen to this. Video games are not bad for children. Neither is porn.
Millions of kids (including myself) played violent video games in the early 90's and aquired porn mags.
I'm not saying you should openly give these things to your kids, but obviously it won't kill them if they ecounter them.
You know is bad for them...
Abusive parents. Neglegent parents. Abusive relatives. Parents who do drugs. Violent poor neighborhoods. Drugs. Teenage pregancy. Parents who claim their care, but don't know shit about parenting and don't really give a damn if their kids live or die.
Just because you have a kid, doesn't mean you know what is best for them. So stop telling people that, because anyone drunkard lowlife can get another lowlife pregnant.
It takes a good person with love in his heart and a desire to do good for their children. Frankly, you don't even have to be the kids natural born parents.
A loving caring person who adopts a kid is far better than a person who forces a kid into the world because of their ignorace or desire to live vicariously through some experiment they think will bring happiness in their lives... Lets not talk about the unwanted pregrancy types.
I played Doom, listened to NIN and vulgar heavy metal music, violent movies, porn, and violent hentai as a young child. (for your reference this was 1993). I was a Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat junkie when I was younger than that... Heck... I even played Time Killers. I read violent and dirty comics.
I was a bad kid.
I also read books like Clockwork orange and James Clavell's "dirty" books (well his is more educational about eastern cultures but it opened my eyes to how much I ever been repressed).
Have I ever killed someone? Nope. Have I ever hit a girl? Nope. Have I even punched someone other than a freind (and he was asking for it since we were both drunk at the time and was asking me to hit him)? Have I ever killed an animal other than bugs? Nope.
Frankly, I'm the most well adjusted 20 something I know and most likley more responsible than those kids who didn't play video games when there were a kid.
To tell you the truth all my other friends got or made someone pregnant right out of highschool. I was too busy being a looser video game freak that I ended up being successful in life as a computer repair person.
Everyone else I know in the industry and is my age pretty much had the same experience.
What's more dangerous? A disease that kills half the people it infects, that infects a hundred people a year, or a disease that kills one in 10,000, that infects half a million people a year?
The one that comes in aerosol form and is easily created in a homemade lab in say... Iran.
Going up to the porch is acceptable. Trying the door is attempted burglary. Jumping the back fence is criminal trespass, and trying the backdoor is burglary.
Then again what if its a store? Or the preson thinks it is a store? Would you arrest someone because they walked to a place and pushed on the door?
I can't think how many times I tried to enter a place only to find it was locked. Maybe it was the wrong entrance or after hours, but doesn't mean I had intention of breaking in.
Someone who leaves FTP service on with no password might be stupid, but you are still breaking the law if you take their stuff or use the server to hold warez.
Well... Yeah that is how the law works with intrusions, but port scanning is not breaking in (intrusion). It is like you walked up to someone's house and checked to see if the door was locked without actually even opening the door.
Yes, its kind of dubious, but its not breaking any laws (or at least shoulnd't).
They had a ninja Chnin exam with extremley hard and actually unanswerable questions. The point of the exam was to actually force students to cheat in order to fail the ones they could catch.
At the end of the exam anyone left (who stayed voluntarily after the 10th question) was passed regardless of whether they had written down any answers or not.
As long as they hadn't got caught cheating so the expert cheaters were passed.
After all... The goal of the Ninja is to be able to aquire information undetected.
Perhaps, the only way to pass this class it to be able to do these tasks without getting detected by the university or authorities.
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On the Chernobal accident, it came down to a bureaucracy forging ahead because an incompedent manager made a decision to go ahead with a test because he didn't want to tell his bosses he couldn't due to worry excessively over what could happened. He should of worried more.
On hindsight, pulling all the control rods out of the reactor wasn't the brightest idea.
Or, if you want to be an ineffective lump, go ahead and sit back and shut up... If you're going to complain, for god's sake aim your mouth in the right direction.
Actually, I was hoping if I complain loud and long enough on slashdot that someone else would do it for me.
Well, there's someone that obviously doesn't know it's Friday afternoon.
What? This is slashdot. Do you really think we'd actually go out on a Friday night?
I think your comment about the Eastern Front neglects to really appreciate how close the Russians were, at several points, to losing that portion of the war. It's quite believable that if the Germans hadn't had to fight a war on two fronts simultaneously, they would have overcome the Russian resistance.
I have to pipe in because I am a certified wargamer and have actually thought about this issue in order to win as Germany in various War games.
There are 3 times the Germans could have won the War in the East.
1941 - Germans Assaut during June and Get bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow. During December the Soviets attack repelling German forces.
What ere the Americans doing at that time? Well... Pearl Harbor. Any aid to the Soviets at that time? Nah. Neglible.
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad. 600,000 Germans and her Allies are off fighting the Soviets inflicting over 2 million Soviet deaths over a dead city. What else are the Germans doing at that time? They are fighting the Brits in Africa with 2 measly German division with a whole bunch of Italians. Would those 2 divisions made a difference? Probaly not. Maybe Rommel would have been more helpful on the eastern front but he was sent there mostly because he was an unproven commander at that time but made some striking victories.
After this battle the Germans realed loosing over 400,000 soldiers. I'm suprised Manstein was able to save them but he did.
The last chance the Germans had to win was:
1943 - Kursk. Largest tank battle of all time. Where were the Americas at this time? Well they helped drive Rommel out of Africa. Not much else going on. No bombing raids on Germany yet. The German army attacked in the largest concentration known and yet was repulsed by a larger soviet force. Even though the Germans inflicted horrible casualties on the Soviets they could not reach their goals and many had retreat. Their panzer armees were basically destroyed and wasted on the Russian Steppes. It was a grand retreat from there.
A week later, American forces landed in Sicily. Get bogged down hold up about 200,000 German forces. Then the 1943 day air raids begin in earnest.
1944 - Americans land at Normandy. They face Verterns and second line units which number about 200,000. Not to belittle the attack (by all odds it should have failed against the defenses and if it wasn't for naval and air superiority and the bravery of the soldiers storming the beaches it would have ended pretty badly)
Shortly there after the Soviets face a force 3 times larger on the eastern front and wipe it out.
75% of German Dead (about 1.75 million) were on the Eastern front. Bombing raids proved neglible to destroying german infrastructure and many factories continued in operation until they were over run.
So the truth of the matter is... America did help end the war sooner and prevent Stalin from taking over Europe, but I think we overstate our importance at least in victory.
But we have to remember of course what happened after the ware was more important. Without the atomic bomb we would have seen total Communist hemogy in Germany, France, Japan, China, and pretty much the rest of the world from there. So if we are talking about today, then yeah... It was pretty important that the US got involved when it did.
if we completely fuck the entertainment companies and take away their incentive to produce content, well, they'll just stop.
You mean like Uwe Boll? I don't see the problem here.
Seriously, early Christianity (or at least organized Christianity in the Catholic church) has tended to not like Science and anything that didn't have to do with the Church.
Remember Copernicus? Galieo?
Back then, Islam was more into science and learning. Remember most of the Greek works that would have been lost during the dark ages were saved by Islamic Scholars and later made their way back into Europe after 1400's.
Even though today, being religious shouldn't mean that you are against science and knowledge. But some are... Most people aren't however including the Papacy which has apologized for its stances in the middle ages against said scientists.
Copyright isn't the problem. Copyright is what allows creative people to believe thier stuff won't get pirated as soon as it is exposed to the public. If you think DRM and licensing is a nightmare now, think what it would be like if there were no legal framework for ti to work within.
I dunno... If copyrights disapeared tomorrow, people would still make movies, play music, and write books.
In fact it might improve the industry by getting people out who are doing nothing but writing and producing crap just to make money (Uwe Boll anyone?)
If no one made money off their works, then only true artists would continue doing so. Performances would continue and people would live off commisions by people who pay the artists directly.
As of right now, most artists don't receive enough royalties as it is from the labels to make a living even if they sell millions. The only real benefit of selling CDs means you end up selling out shows and selling t-shirts. But they aren't mutually exclusive...
Perhaps some of you don't remember 9/11. But don't you remember the March 11th train bombing in Madrid or the attacks just this last summer in London?
If you fear terrorism, you are a coward plain and simple. You are more likley to die because of a drunk driver. Even if 9/11 happened every day for a year more people would have died to car accidents, yet we don't see more laws being passed in the name of public saftey for the "War on Drunk Driving"
Secondly, you are just plain ignorant to think it requires new powers to government.
9/11 happened because the pilots didn't lock their doors like they do is Israel.
To prevent 9/11 again, we simply have to require more common sense on the airlines. We do not... I repeat... We do not need to pass more laws in order to prevent more terrorism. Killing people and conspiring to kill people is illegal right? There ya go. Go catch those terrorists. You don't need to trample on the Constitution in order to do so.
Lastly, laws will not prevent terrorism. I'm more right wing than probaly you, but I know the reason why we haven't caught Bin Laden is not because we haven't passed another Patriot act but it is our leaders or incompentant or cowards.
Or perhaps there is a reason Pakistan hasn't caught him yet. Maybe we are paying them too much money to find him and they wouldn't want a good deal to go away. Maybe they have nukes and we don't have the balls to stop terrorism once and for all.
Our flawed Republic is not it--only better than all the other alternatives.
It is called proportional representation.
As of now, the only government that has this system in place is Israel. Works pretty well for them. They get leaders that the people want rather than just 51% of them.
Sure they have external problems with Palestine (and questionable practices against with them), but as far as their inner workings go, they are way more democratic than us.
Then after that there is the parliment system. Has a few more flaws than the proportional, but you still get better leaders than through a electoral college system like we have.
Very large electric fans.
Remember people, Do No Evil is a marketing slogan, nothing more.
Apparently, so was "Love they neighbor" and "turn the other cheek".
Actually they are looking for the stupid and rich category.
According to Dogbert (somewhere on one of scot adams sites) there are always 4 target demographics:
The smart and poor
The smart and rich
The dumb and poor
The dumb and rich
I'd say they are going to the 4th option.
Ours was "Ming", he worked at the food court at the Manchu Wok. On his breaks he would come up to the arcade and play. He's spend 50 cents and beat people until his dad made him go back to work. When I got good, he had to bring up more than 50 cents when his break began.
Ah the old days on the mall. You know... When every mall in the states had an arcade, Babbage's, comic book store, and that hobby shop (which I can't remember)
I think the golden age of arcades for me was when Street Fighter II hit the shelves and went from that to Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, and Killer Instinct, and then went downhill about the time of Mortal Kombat III.
Throw in all the Neo Geo games at the time and it was damn fun.
I remember the days of Street Fighter II Championship edition in which we would wait in lines to challenge the current player. If you were good you could basically stay up there for a while til someone beat you.
Of course if no one was there and it was me and my friends we'd just put quarters in for both of us and let the first player play against the CPU and then if we were about to loose the second player would jump in and repeat the process.
Honorable mentions would be King of the Monsters, Operation Wolf, Double Dragon, NBA Jam, and Virtua Fighter.
Who the hell would buy these? They've been available for free over the Internet (via MAME, etc.) for the better part of a decade.
Same reason people buy music for iTunes.
Its a bitch to spend hours searching the internet for roms and it isn't just because the SPA, RIAA, or MPAA has shut down the sites, but it is because most of the ROM places are nothing by malware, spam, and ultra porn popup sites with no real roms on them.
Now I'll be dead by the time this thing gets close enough. Should we just assume we'll have better technology then and fire some photon torpedos at it?
No and yes.
Chances are if you can live another 30 years, you will live in an era where technology is going to keep you a live from more than 200-500 years (and by then they'll figure out the rest of the problems so you'll end up living past then).
And we'll most likely have large mass drivers and various other technology that would make little work of such an event.
If not... Then what the hell were we doing in the past 100 or so years? Dancing naked in the woods and retruning to nature?
Or is there a difference between positive and negative stress against the brain?
Positive Stress:
Shooting at something
Negative Stress:
Something shooting at you
Or in the primates world...
Positive Stress:
Finding something to eat
Negative Stress:
Something finding you to eat
The official link to RO is here: http://www.redorchestragame.com/
The other is to their old site.
My point is YOU are out of touch. You have no idea what it is like to be a parent until you have kids. Period. Go fuck yourself if you think you do cause you don't.
Did you not just read what I said?
Having a kid does not automatically make you a good parent!
I guess you are right. I never played videogames or look at porn or smoked a doobie or jerked off when I was a kid, and I am soooo out of touch.
Well, you are going to be in one hellava a shock when your kids do. And there is nothing... I repeat nothing you can do to prevent them from doing so if they want to.
Do you feel that lack of power? That is the sound of your kids growing up and leaving your house and then doing all the things you didn't let them do when they were in your ivory tower of a house. Heck, they might even do it because of resentment of what you wouldn't let them do.
No amount of punishment or force will make them be the person you want them to be.
Me bitter? Nah. Just realistic. Secondly, how do you know I'm not a parent? It wouldn't be something I would dick wave on a public forum like some badge of courage. It would be something I'd keep between me and my family.
You will learn about responsibility when you have children. I don't need a study to tell me that violent videogames are bad for chidren.
Listen to this. Video games are not bad for children. Neither is porn.
Millions of kids (including myself) played violent video games in the early 90's and aquired porn mags.
I'm not saying you should openly give these things to your kids, but obviously it won't kill them if they ecounter them.
You know is bad for them...
Abusive parents.
Neglegent parents.
Abusive relatives.
Parents who do drugs.
Violent poor neighborhoods.
Drugs.
Teenage pregancy.
Parents who claim their care, but don't know shit about parenting and don't really give a damn if their kids live or die.
Just because you have a kid, doesn't mean you know what is best for them. So stop telling people that, because anyone drunkard lowlife can get another lowlife pregnant.
It takes a good person with love in his heart and a desire to do good for their children. Frankly, you don't even have to be the kids natural born parents.
A loving caring person who adopts a kid is far better than a person who forces a kid into the world because of their ignorace or desire to live vicariously through some experiment they think will bring happiness in their lives... Lets not talk about the unwanted pregrancy types.
Care to provide some references?
Me, myself, and I.
I played Doom, listened to NIN and vulgar heavy metal music, violent movies, porn, and violent hentai as a young child. (for your reference this was 1993). I was a Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat junkie when I was younger than that... Heck... I even played Time Killers. I read violent and dirty comics.
I was a bad kid.
I also read books like Clockwork orange and James Clavell's "dirty" books (well his is more educational about eastern cultures but it opened my eyes to how much I ever been repressed).
Have I ever killed someone? Nope.
Have I ever hit a girl? Nope.
Have I even punched someone other than a freind (and he was asking for it since we were both drunk at the time and was asking me to hit him)?
Have I ever killed an animal other than bugs? Nope.
Frankly, I'm the most well adjusted 20 something I know and most likley more responsible than those kids who didn't play video games when there were a kid.
To tell you the truth all my other friends got or made someone pregnant right out of highschool. I was too busy being a looser video game freak that I ended up being successful in life as a computer repair person.
Everyone else I know in the industry and is my age pretty much had the same experience.
What's more dangerous? A disease that kills half the people it infects, that infects a hundred people a year, or a disease that kills one in 10,000, that infects half a million people a year?
The one that comes in aerosol form and is easily created in a homemade lab in say... Iran.
My money's on the bugs.
I dunno. When is the last time single cell bacteria sent people to the moon or blew up an atomic bomb? Or posted on slashdot for that matter...
Going up to the porch is acceptable. Trying the door is attempted burglary. Jumping the back fence is criminal trespass, and trying the backdoor is burglary.
Then again what if its a store? Or the preson thinks it is a store? Would you arrest someone because they walked to a place and pushed on the door?
I can't think how many times I tried to enter a place only to find it was locked. Maybe it was the wrong entrance or after hours, but doesn't mean I had intention of breaking in.
No, that's not at all how the law works.
Someone who leaves FTP service on with no password might be stupid, but you are still breaking the law if you take their stuff or use the server to hold warez.
Well... Yeah that is how the law works with intrusions, but port scanning is not breaking in (intrusion). It is like you walked up to someone's house and checked to see if the door was locked without actually even opening the door.
Yes, its kind of dubious, but its not breaking any laws (or at least shoulnd't).
They had a ninja Chnin exam with extremley hard and actually unanswerable questions. The point of the exam was to actually force students to cheat in order to fail the ones they could catch.
At the end of the exam anyone left (who stayed voluntarily after the 10th question) was passed regardless of whether they had written down any answers or not.
As long as they hadn't got caught cheating so the expert cheaters were passed.
After all... The goal of the Ninja is to be able to aquire information undetected.
Perhaps, the only way to pass this class it to be able to do these tasks without getting detected by the university or authorities.