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View Poll Results: The manual will be cracked in...?
A few Minutes. 10 7.58%
A few hours. 24 18.18%
Never. 41 31.06%
FIRSTers have to high a moral ground and will wait until Saturday (where's the fun in that!!) 57 43.18%
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Re: The Manuall will be cracked in...

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Originally Posted by swando
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Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert
I'm not trying to be a butt or anything, but isn't this thread against forum rules?
eh i would say technically yes, but in reality no. i doubt it would be illegal to crack the manual password, this is more of an intellectual challenge.
Whoa. That sounds suspiciously like the standard excuse that virtually every serious hacker has used over the years - even when committing blatantly illegal acts. "It was just an intellectual challenge - I didn't mean to do anything wrong" is no excuse for breaking the rules or violating the law. Joking or not, I think you are trying to walk a very tight line with that attitude.

In our society we have come to accept "I didn't mean to" excuses as a rationale for irresponsible behavior. Some famous sports figures have refined it to an art form. Pete Rose bets on baseball, in full, knowledgeable violation of the rules of the league, and then basically says "I didn't really hurt anyone, and besides I am so good at the game that I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame anyway." And a whole lot of baseball fans say he is right! Mike Tyson bites off Evander Holyfield's ear, and uses the excuse "I just got caught up in the moment - twice." He admits on national TV that he hit his wife hard enough to throw her across the room, calling it "the best punch I ever threw." But it is OK "because she made me mad," and nothing happens. The governor of Texas gives his OK to pay amateur players at SMU because "it would be good for the state" - despite the fact that it was blatantly illegal. Clem Haskins has his staff write literally hundreds of papers for his basketball players to submit as their own work at the University of Minnesota, and then obscenely refuses to admit that there was anything wrong with the practice, as if the very concept of "plagiarism" didn't even exist.

Somehow we have come to think that wonderful performance ON the field justifies bestial behavior OFF the field. But at some point, you have to stand up and say "wait a minute - you guys are all adults, and you all know better. You want to be treated like grown-ups (and paid grown-up salaries), then you better start behaving like grown-ups. YOU are responsible for your own behavior, and no one else. If you screw up, then YOU are the one at fault. And just saying 'I didn't mean to' doesn't cut it any more."

So why do I care at all about this? Because the quote above says that, on OUR playfield - the environment of the FIRST competition and the community of teams that define the FIRST culture - some may think that it is OK to bend or break the rules, as long as it is covered by the "I'm not trying to break the law, I was just curious" rubric. I am only speaking for myself, but I do not think that is acceptable behavior. I am not satisfied with the attitudes that society finds acceptable. I believe that the best way to change those attitudes is to change society. And one of the best ways to do that is to raise the standards of "acceptability" and then live by them. I would hope that within THIS community, we are trying to do that.

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