CNN has this new article about magically discovering that students have been using iPods to cheat in their exams. They make it sound like it's something so revolutionary. Like as if the discovery of such a process is like discovering the way the Chinese originally made paper for the first time.
Maybe it's because I'm a student. But I've seen this sort of cheating all over the place. All the time. Perhaps more in high school than in University.
The method involves having an iPod (duh!) and putting in your pocket. You then line the headphones through your shirt and have one of the ear pieces thread through one of your sleeves and out into the palm of your hand. The trick is then to pretend like as if you are resting your head on your hand, but instead, you are listening to a feed of valuable information that is telling you how to answer specific questions - or in the case of having to write an essay, it's telling you exactly what to write word for word (given you have initially prepared and recorded something of the like). Quite ingenius, to say the 'most' (pun...).
Maybe CNN needs to find better news. Or maybe it needs to find news faster. Or at least when it does find news, not make it sound like it's something that has just happened over night. But then, where would news be were it without sensationalism. Nowhere, I think.
Obviously you can use other mp3 players instead of just an iPod. But it's a deliberate attack on iPods. That's the way the world works. And it's fun. Sometimes.
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