reflection

well i had fun making this blog but now its my turn to express my real feelings about blogging. to me since we had to make this blog for school i felt restricted as to what i could say so i guess i didn't really get a full experience in blogging and no one commented on any of my blogs so that was a huge let down but since we had to do this for school i had to enjoy it as much as possible. even though my topic was challenging to think of things to write about i guess it should be worth a grade personally i think blogging was a huge waste of time that we could have been using by learning things we need to know for next year instead of having to rush everything by after we got finished with our blogs but i guess its supposed to get u ready for next year and having a lot of homework every night so i guess i get why my teacher did this. I'm not trying to make my teacher look bad or anything because he is a great teacher he is always nice and he is energetic he always encourages everybody to do better. but with my blog i feel some of my topics were just all over the place but that's just how i think. if i had spent a little bit more time on each blog i could have organized the words better but other than that i think i got my point across in each blog so i guess that was a mission completed. also with the music player from trance.fm it took me 3 days to figure out how to get it to work and to me that was the most frustrating part. the easiest part in the blog for me was finding pictures to go with my posts. most of my blog was just a go with it type of thing because i hardly had a clue what to write about after about my 5 post so i guess i has a small case of writers block but it was easy to get over.

arg! he be a pirate!

pirates are bad people weather we are talking about the people who steal ships or the people who steal music and movies off the Internet. no body like pirate they steal things for their own personal gain and not for everyone. think how many pirates in movies are double crosiers and take the treasure all for themselves. well that's how a person who pirates music and movies off the Internet because they burn the movies and music onto discs and sell them for a way lower price then the stores that sell that CD or DVD and because they are selling the music or movies for a way lower price they get good bossiness and make a pretty big chunk of change. pirating is wrong when a person pirates a movie or CD the artist loses money because when more people pirate their music they make less and less money but they essentially become more popular and more people go to their concerts but if people don't buy the artist's Cd's the artist wouldn't get golden records and if the artist doesn't get golden records they lose money. when someone pirates a movie the makers of the movie make less money from it and since people have already seen the movie there is hardly any point in going and seeing it in a movie theater unless the movie was good enough to go and spend $40 to see the same thing you already saw. so basically when someone pirates something the weaken the economy because more people hold on to their money and there is less money being sent and stimulating the economy and since less people are buying companies have to lay off workers to make a profit.

here is a link to a video that wont show p on my blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9ZTApTM_Q

hacking

hacking can be as little as changing the controls of a video game to as big as stealing top secret information from the government. hacking can be harmless or it can get you put in jail for the rest of your life. hacking is no laughing matter. when you hack a video game its not that big a deal because all it really does is make people not like you but once you start hacking online accounts and tampering with them then you could really endanger people because if you tamper with the persons account and reveal information about the actual person you could give a stalker all the information hes needs or if people extremely dislike that person they could potentially kill the person or severely injure that person. if YouTube required peoples personal information i bet half the people on YouTube would be being stalked or something but either way i wouldn't want something to happen to anyone because someone hacked their Internet account and handed out that persons personal information. also when people hack an account associated with a credit card the hacker can steal the persons credit card information and cheat by getting free money. also when hackers hack a persons account the hacker can steal the persons identity and try to get a credit card under the persons name or try to get a loan for something and usually its too late by the time the person notices that they have to pay off a loan or a credit card that they never even saw. also one way to prevent hackers from accessing your accounts is by having extremely complex passwords that could take months to decode and change the password every 3 to 4 months. i know so far most of this blog hasn't been about cheating directly but in a way it is how the hackers themselves cheat at life just to make someone they could have never met miserable. also there are hackers that are professional and they spend thousands of dollars on equipment so they are very hard to catch. these professional hackers sometimes are hired by people who need information from a government data base that they cant get to personally. and sometimes the government hires hackers to rat out other hackers because they know what the other hackers are doing, but also hackers can be hired by terrorists and the hackers could launch missiles at certain places for the terrorists.

here are some websites on how you can stay safe from hackers

http://www.ftc.gov/bpc/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/about-identity-theft.html

http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/keep-your-pc-safe-from-hackers-434774.html

cheating at school

hey you out there, have you ever cheater on a test or something at school? I know i haven't, any way, i know the consequences of cheating because so many kids in my classes over the years have cheated. the consequences can be dire if you cheat ,you can fail the test you cheated on, you could get detentions, you can get suspended, or even be expelled. some people cheat by writing the answers to the questions on their hands and just copying the answers from their hands on to the test or quiz they are taking. another way people can cheat at school is by plagiarizing, when you plagiarize you steal other peoples work without giving them credit for it or if they don't give you permission to use their work and you use it anyway. i personally am not a fan of plagiarizing because when you plagiarize you could be sued and some people will just copy entire reports and what not of the Internet just to get the easy way out of having to actually do something. i don't think its fair when people copy other peoples work and say its theirs because the people who plagiarized could get paid a lot of money for stealing and i think that is wrong. i know how it feels to have my work plagiarized because in halo 3 i had made a fantastic map in forge and i liked playing on it with my friends and after about 3 months after i finished making the map i found it on bungie favorites and it said the maker of the map was one of my friend's friends that i had talked to before and so i got angry and i asked my friends to file a complaint on him and he got banned for a couple days and after that he had apologised for stealing my map. but back to cheating at school another way people cheat at school is when they have a project that they didn't do and they erase someones name off of a good project and write their own. you can also cheat at school by being good at sports and being involved in a bunch of school sport teams and having the teacher pass you just so you can play sports for the school and win a championship for your school. this would not be fair because the people who don't play sports are then graded harder than the people playing sports and the people that play sports are the ones that are more likely to get scholarships to good schools.

here is a link to a website about cheating

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/cheating.html

Cheating at sports

people cheat at sports by doing a lot of things. some people find loop holes in the rules, take performance enhancing drugs such as steroids, also in sports involving animals people dope the animals or make the animals work even if the animals are injured. in sports like baseball people take steroids so that they can hit the ball harder. in equestrian sports like horse racing, cross country, jumping and, dressage events people dope the horses so that the horses are easier to control. also in equestrian sports people use spiked nose band or bits that hurt the horses for the same reason people dope horses. in dog racing people drug the dos so that the dogs can run faster. also in foot ball players take steroids so they can throw the ball farther, run faster, and block better. in all sports people cheat some way or another. i don't agree with it i think that they have no need to cheat. it gives people no sense of achievement or anything all cheating does is give you false bragging rights, its stupid, its pointless and the players already make enough money they don't need to play better than they already are.

an example of how steroids can effect an athletes career is Marion Jones because in the 2000 summer Olympics she won 3 gold medals and 2 bronze medals and she admitted to taking steroids before and after competing in the Sydney games and she had to return all 5 medals she won. after a court session she said "I want you to know that I have been dishonest and you have the right to be angry with me. I have let (my family) down, I have let my country down and I have let myself down,"

this is exactly what I'm talking about how when you cheat you don't achieve anything and you let everyone down. according to drug free.org some side effects of taking steroids are increases in lean muscle mass, strength, and ability to train longer and harder. The major effects of steroid use include liver tumors, jaundice, fluid retention, and high blood pressure. Additional side effects include the following: for men shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, development of breasts; for women growth of facial hair, changes in or cessation of the menstrual cycle, deepened voice; for adolescents growth halted prematurely through premature skeletal maturation and accelerated puberty changes. Researchers report that users may suffer from paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions, and impaired judgment stemming from feelings of invincibility

here is a music player that i got from www.trance.fm

what people do to cheat at video games

There are many ways people can cheat at video games and there are many games people can cheat at. Some of the games I know people can cheat at are Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto 4, Drawn to Life, Sonic Rush, Guitar Hero 3, Dragon Ball Z The Legacy of Goku, Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum / Soul Silver / Heart Gold, Kirby Squeak Squad, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Heroes, and many more.

People can cheat at Resident Evil 5 by duplicating rotten eggs, which are worth a lot of money. People duplicate rotten eggs so they can upgrade their weapons and have the ability to buy unlimited ammo for those weapons.

People can cheat at Grand Theft Auto 4 by using the cell phone you get in the game and call certain numbers. By calling those numbers vehicles will appear out of nowhere or you get weapons, health, or armor. Also when you call a certain number you can make your wanted level go down or up.

People can cheat at Drawn to Life by just pressing a couple buttons in a row and those codes can make you gain health, make your weapons really powerful,and make you invincible.

People can cheat at Sonic Rush by using an action replay and editing the information in the game to make you invincible, have a lot of lives, give you never ending power ups, and give you a lot of chaos emeralds.

people can cheat at Guitar Hero 3 the same way as with Drawn to Life but with these codes you get different things. with these code you can make it so you can never miss a note, make the song play faster, change the singer person, or change the difficulty to your advantage

Also people can cheat at the legacy of goku the same wy as with Drawn to Life and Guitar Hero 3 only the only thing that the code for The legacy of goku does is make you be invincible.

People can also cheat at Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum / Soul Silver / Heart Gold the same way as with drawn to life. only the action replay codes can do way more. The action replay codes for Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum / Soul Silver / Heart Gold can give you 999 of any item you want, they can make the amount of experience your pokemon gains be way higher than it is supposed to, they can make your pokemon be able to use a certianmove as many times as you want.

People can cheat at Kirby Squeak Squad the same way as with Drawn to life and Pokémon Diamond / Pearl / Platinum / Soul Silver / Heart Gold only the codes for kirby squeak squad can make you invincible, or make you never lose your power ups.

People can cheat at naruto ultimate ninja heroes by connecting your play station portable to your computer and editing the code for your saved game so you have everything unlocked.

here is a link to a video on how to use an action replay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PTsg7jwj4

cheating at board games

I don't like people hat cheat at Uno especially when I'm about to win but I need to go to the bathroom and while I'm going to the bathroom they look at my cards and change the color so I cant win. I also dislike people that cheat at mancala when they don't beads in one hole but they put 2 or 3 in a different one and they set me up to lose. I dislike people that cheat at monopoly when they steal your money when you walk away from the board for what ever reason. Also when people move your houses and stuff to different places so they don't have to pay as high of a rent. I don't like people that cheat a black jack because when they go over they shove a card in their sleeve or something. I also don't like people who cheat at Trouble when they move their piece more or less than they are supposed to. I dislike people that cheat at Cranium Ziggity when they make up words and try to take more cards than they can. I also dislike people that cheat at the game of life when they spin the wheel and twist it after their spin so they can move to where ever they want. I hate people that cheat at slap jack when they puppy guard the cards so they can win. I hate people that cheat at go fish when they lie about what cards they have. I don’t like people that cheat at Yu-Gi-Oh when they draw more cards than they are supposed to or when they put their cards in a certain order so they win. I also dislike people that cheat at Pokémon where they put all their best cards at the top of their deck.

bio

I chose this topic because i don't get why people feel they have to cheat at games weather its to be cool or what ever. I am qualified to blog on my topic because I encounter a lot of people that cheat and sometimes i cheat but only when other people cheat. My blog will work by me posting my thoughts and other people commenting on it.

cheating at games

Sometimes i wonder why people cheat at games. To me, what i see when people cheat is people cheating themselves. I say this because they cant get the feeling of achieving something. Some examples of people cheating i see frequently are people playing a video game called Modern Warfare 2, playing boardgames, and playing many other video games.

The people i see playing Modern Warfare 2 that cheat are people that are the highest rank in the game when they have only played for three hours.These people cheat by paying hackers to get themselves into modified game types that will make them go up in rank rapidly.

The people i see that cheat at board games are people that win every single game and when people walk away from the game they move their piece or look at the other peoples cards. I think these people especially annoying because when they win most of the time they get all excited and tell everyone else that they are horrible at the game and they make the game boring ant not fun for any of the players.

The people i see that cheat at other video games are people that use lag switches, people that screen watch, and people that mess up the other person they are playing with. People who use lag switches are extremely annoying because when people use lag switches it makes the other people in the game lag and when people lag they stop moving and they are extremely easy to win against. What a lag switch is, is a device that connects to an Internet cable that will increase the speed of the users connection so much that the users connection speed makes the requires connection speed for the game so fast that other people's connections cant keep up with the lag switch users connection and so the user of the lag switch can win against everyone in the game and sometimes win by default because the other people's connections are so slow compare to the lag switch users connection that they lag out of the game. Screen watchers are annoying because when you are trying to hide they just look at your screen to find you. I cant stand people that mess up other people they are playing video games with because when they mess you up its hard to get back your original settings and play the same way as you did.