Results tagged “cheating” from The Death Of Print

Before literacy, we were mere listeners. We heard stories read to us as a group. After the printing press, we were elevating to individuals, each with our own, acknowledged perspective on what we read. (The Renaissance, if anything, was a celebration of individual perspective - just like the paintings.) This reading phase took us right through the reading equivalent of cheating: postmodernism, cut-and-paste, and other personal deconstruction of the author's original intent.

Finally, computers have changed our relationship to the text again. Instead of just reading the publications of others, we are free to write and distribute our own - on a relatively level playing field. We become authors.

--Link [boingboing]

So I've been trying to get to the bottom of what constitutes cheating these days. Much of this interest stems from how disillusioning it is to play multiplayer games where players are clearly doing something outside the rules of play as I understand them. Part of me is frustrated, but I'm also fascinated as to what the hell game it is they're playing.

I'll start of nice and easy with my favorite stupid google trick...
define: cheating

from wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Violating accepted standards or rules. A nice, clear framing of wtf people mean by the word "cheating."

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating (casino)
Actions which are prohibited by a casino's rules. This works with the last one... mostly by framing accepted rules as the ones defined by a casino. Cheating is usually illegal but the exact sanctions will depend on the jurisdiction i
n which the casino operates. In Nevada, cheating in a casino is a felony under Nevada law... So state governments can enforce rules in a casino? Odd!