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Alexander Turcic · 08-16-2004, 04:59 AM

This is funny - straight from The Inquirer:

A TWELVE year old kid [Nicholas Hinds] has put the wind up countless Kiwi students by interesting their Universities in a little plagiarism program he wrote.

So far so good. BUT:

Unfortunately the program works so well that it netted one plagiarism suspect – step forward 12 year-old computer Whiz kid Nicholas Hinds. His teacher Frank Lewthwaite found Nicholas had apparently borrowed material from an internet site.

Can you believe it? He is only twelve! When I was twelve, I was still playing arcade games on my Commodore Amiga 500! Heh, but at least I wasn't caught plagiarizing

08-16-2004, 04:59 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	12 year-old's program kills plagiarism This is funny - straight from The Inquirer: A TWELVE year old kid [Nicholas Hinds] has put the wind up countless Kiwi students by interesting their Universities in a little plagiarism program he wrote. So far so good. BUT: Unfortunately the program works so well that it netted one plagiarism suspect – step forward 12 year-old computer Whiz kid Nicholas Hinds. His teacher Frank Lewthwaite found Nicholas had apparently borrowed material from an internet site. Can you believe it? He is only twelve! When I was twelve, I was still playing arcade games on my Commodore Amiga 500! Heh, but at least I wasn't caught plagiarizing