# "I don't know why anyone would pay $30 to get caught cheating." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577 "2011-12-17T21:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/21 "2011-12-18T17:28:05Z")
Oh, and now that I’m on a computer with a real keyboard again instead of replying via my BlackBerry, I can more easily address the “stripped-down browser”/“limited access” question: this came up a while back from a school that wanted us to install a custom browser on our PCs for use when their students were taking exams which would lock down access to any sites but theirs. At the time the library was going through the worst budget crisis in its history and the IT department had neither time nor inclination to deal with such inconsequential requests. In their position, it was our job as the librarians held accountable for the proctoring to supervise access and ensure that it did not exceed what was allowed. And now, our IT department no longer actually works for the library (they’ve been moved over to the county payroll), so it’s even more inconsequential to them. To the question of how OtherBranch can justify such slack supervision, I cannot speak, but I can tell you that the OP text was mostly copied and pasted from my report to my manager, which named OtherBranch by name and which was copied to, among others, OtherBranch’s manager, who will likely crack a whip over the heads of the professional staff there about it all. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/22 "2011-12-18T17:57:31Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > The exam was on medical terminology. I only know because a different student took the same exam earlier in the week (it’s finals time: we’ve been insanely busy), and she said it was 100 terms out of the 400+ they had to learn. Thats all? I could probably sit the thing now and pass it. I know mrAru could sit it and pass it with no question [he used to help his mom study for her nurses classes when he was a sprout and has also been trained by the Navy as a medical responder] ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/23 "2011-12-18T20:43:22Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I’ll only offer this comment, as I really don’t disagree with anything else you said: I’m a dude. > > **Knead** > Wishes these things were less ambiguous My apologies. As I was writing that I wondered about your gender, but convinced myself I’d read something in the OP which made it clear. But I was lazy & didn’t actually go back & double check. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/24 "2011-12-18T21:41:48Z")
No worries, it’s not the first time someone’s made that mistake. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/25 "2011-12-19T15:47:45Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > No worries, it’s not the first time someone’s made that mistake. 🙂 Hopefully just online, though. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/26 "2011-12-19T20:12:31Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Hopefully just online, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/27 "2011-12-20T05:03:38Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Hopefully just online, though. I can see it now: Not Creepy Man: Hey honey, need a lift? KneadToKnow: I’m a guy. Not Creepy Man: Does that mean you cost less or more than the going rate? KneadToKnow: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/28 "2011-12-20T17:32:19Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > I can see it now: > > Not Creepy Man: Hey honey, need a lift? > KneadToKnow: I’m a guy. > Not Creepy Man: Does that mean you cost less or more than the going rate? > KneadToKnow: :smack: Not Creepy Man: You a chick or a dude? KneadToKnow: I don’t think you KneadToKnow that… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577/29 "2011-12-20T17:56:39Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:28, topic:606577”] KneadToKnow: I don’t think you KneadToKnow that… [/QUOTE] Depends on whether they’re standing in front of me or behind me, actually. 😉 Old joke punchline: “I’m gonna make sure that _he_ knows that _I’m_ a bull.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-anyone-would-pay-30-to-get-caught-cheating/606577.md?page=1)