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Article #539180Re: SOLUTIONS MANUAL: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 7th Ed by Peter V. O'Neil
From: Questor
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:50
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:50
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:25:58 +0100, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >On 11 Apr 2018 08:47:52 GMT >Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > >> /Are/ these actual requests for solutions manuals (whatever that is)? > >Yes. They want to cheat on their college assignments. > >> They show up (it seems to me) mostly in inactive newsgroups, and have >> done so regularly for five years or more. > >There was probably a single post to each group offering to provide >these, that was picked up by Google or some other news-to-web site and >shows up in searches. >> >> You'd think that word would spread quickly that this is not a >> effective way to get the material in question. > >I suspect the fools who make these requests don't talk to anyone with >clue, and probably don't have any friends. >> >> Someone (in rec.games.roguelike.nethack I think) suggested they >> may be steganographic messages. >> >Because changing the least-significant-bit doesn't garble ASCII at >all. ;-) Steganography easily can reside elsewhere too. Many effective schemes suggest ascii's good eventually.
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