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> But there's really no equivalent of "cheating" in real world industries where it's the results that matter. e.g. nobody cares if you took wrote the software
by baldfat 8y ago
> But there's really no equivalent of "cheating" in real world industries where it's the results that matter. e.g. nobody cares if you took wrote the software yourself or got it from someone else's library, as long as the software product works.
Real Equivalent cheating:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21043693 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21043693
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his jo
- eecsninja 8y agoHow does that harm anyone? Does anyone who doesn't work at Verizon care? Here's the real problem: leaking private info: > And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confidential information from the company to China. > "Central to the investigation was the employee himself, the person whose credentials had been used to initiate and maintain a VPN connection from China," said Mr Valentine. > Further investigation of the employee's computer had revealed hundreds of PDF documents of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, he added.
- heartles 8y agoHa, that story reminds me of an old Onion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ Same concept taken to its extremes.
- your-nanny 8y agoI mean just look at Enron. Or the volkwagon diesel fraud. Or the financial crisis of 2008