Krishnakant wrote: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:52 +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >>> On Thursday 18 June 2009 23:31:56 Nitesh Mistry wrote: >>> >>>>> hacking is an art to inovate a solution for a problem under constrained >>>>> environment. >>>>> >>>> But exactly the reverse is what Institute of Chartered Accountants of >>>> >>> India >>> >>>> teaches in the subject of "Management Information and Control Systems" >>>> which is a separate 100 marks paper in our CA syllabus. >>>> This is what they asked us in the exam this time- >>>> "List the main threats from hacking" >>>> And I was supposed to criticise hacking or else stand to loose 4 marks! >>>> >>> so - did you sell your soul for 4 marks? >>> >> >> Yes I did :P >> >> > what a shame. > It is such blunders intentional or unintentional that helps to fuel the > fire started by dirty publicity. Most of the people have "thirdclass > mentality " to say "this is what people believe popularly as being > right, so let's continue". > I know those 4 marks were important, but the answer could start like > "although there are different takes on the term hacking, including > positive ones ...". > If we are just going to believe in some thing which is popular, then we > should not have stopped the *popular* tradition of a wife going sati > when her husband died. It was popularly believed to be wright. > > as a side note, I often ware a t-shirt with the word "hacker " printed > in the "s" stype of superman and was never cought at airport or any > secured zone :) > > > > A student is supposed to follow a syllabus and give answers within its limits. When we cannot make the college change its syllabus, why put pressure on the students to take risks in their exams. Anyway it is a word with different points of view in different environments so lets not hang him for following his curriculum.
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