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Hmmm wonder if that would really work?
i think it’s been a bit overdone —
—kinda like the “my grandma died”
Most professors will be like “meh, that the 10th dead grandparent in this class so far. Okay get it to me soon, and don’t let anymore grandparents die this semester”
I’ve asked for a screencap of the properties of the original file when I see stuff like this. It’ll work if your professor doesn’t know or doesn’t care. But if your professor tried the same crap in college, it won’t work on him/her.
no it doesn’t, the teacher will tell you off for giving them a bad file because they don’t understand computers
yes it works
Wow, I used that during my whole graduation. I just picked a random Word document, renamed it to an adequate name, RAR’ed it and garbled up the RAR file contents, preserving just the file index. That way the teacher would be able to open the RAR and see that I actually sent him the assignment, but it wouldn’t decompress xD
This is why I, as a teacher, require hard copies of assignments. No paper, no grade.
Most professors that I’ve had require a printed out version to be handed in, in addition to submitting one online. So this wouldn’t work there.
Same here, but it does work when they allow you to email it LOL
we have to email it…always! So this might be a handy last resort…xD
it would totally work if you do online classes like my fiance. however, he has pretty laid back teachers so he can turn stuff in whenever anyway.
Way faster : get a random file (for example blablabla.dll so you’re sure teacher is never gonna manage to open it…) and rename it assignment.pdf
Done!
been there, done that. it works.
Not a chance. Usually the professors I’ve experienced give a specific format to send an assignment in and if you don’t follow their directions you get a 0.
Erm, nobody is saying to send it in a funky format.
If they ask for a .docx for example, open up photoshop, scribble a load of garbage all over the page (ensuring to hit the top left pixels), then save the file.
Rename the file to .docx and it will appear corrupted. The only really problem is if they are savvy enough to open it as a psd or png or whatever it was saved as originally.
I wouldn’t… They might just be a Linux user (Mac too?) which are generally not fooled by file extensions.
With OS X, Macs are now extension-reliant. It is possible to set the right application and format via some obcsure thing IDR, but usually it will go by the extension.
A PDF file doesn’t need an extension and osx will still know it’s a PDF file. Same goes for any registered mime type. Extensions are merely a Windows / DOS abstraction from the 8.3 days that hasn’t been done away with, despite every other file handling mechanism doing it right.
I had cases where documents written in MS Word for Windows could not been opened properly in MS Word for Mac. Perfectly plausible that something as as doc is not displayed properly.
As a professor, I’d always ask for machine-independent formats. A PDF would be a good start.
Except that a lot of people can’t create PDFs (but most people with a mainstream browser can at least open them…) And you’d think .txt is universal, but Ubuntu seems to think .txt is an executable text file.
Also, Windows can very easily be fooled by file extensions, or at least WinXP seems to be. Saving a .zip as something like “Troncraft Texture Pack 2.0″ will make the file type show as “0 file”. In fact, a recent part of the Valve ARG was dependent on this (phrase as filename with last three letters as the extension, and you have to manually rename it to blahblah.zip).
Ubuntu can only be fooled if you set the file permissions to executable.
Linux in general does not care about the extension, and they only exist for the sake of users and readability.
The funny thing? I’ve actually done this before, and I thought I was sooo cool when it actually worked.
Yeah, me too.
Except that it’s not that funny at all.
This would probably work at my school, lol. They just care about being able to open and read the thing, if it up, we just have to send it again.
Most of my professors are pretty lenient about late work. Albeit, I’m a second semester Junior Engineering student and by this point, 70% of the kids in my major that entered in as freshman with me either failed out or switched to something different so I think my professors are lenient moreso because they know we can truly do the work and are studious and don’t hold it against us.
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Aaah, the number of times I’ve done this…
Ahh! Why would the creator post this? Totally ruined my strategy! Delete it! Delete it before it becomes commonplace!
OP must have just graduated and doesn’t need it any more.
U mad ?
Most profs I know aren’t that tolerant. Even if you send a file that somehow got corrupted and you didn’t know, they’ll blame you for not checking it before sending and give you a 0.
This right here.. They generally say send it to yourself as well and make sure it opens.
Plus, I’m in video game design, so my profs aren’t idiots.
I usually email them without attaching any documents, then later when I’m done with the assignment I send off another email saying I ‘realized’ I forgot to attach it. Works all the time.
My wife is a teacher and she has a husband that is smart enough to be able to tell if a student tried this or not. ^_^ If they did: Auto 0 for student and get-out-of-grading for teacher.
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This is the ultimate troll line, the combo breaker had me cracking up for like 5 minutes, now back to homework that I actually do have to turn in on time.
Easiest way to tell? Check the filesize. An empty Word document is 13kb (newer .docx format; legacy .doc is 26kb empty), so anything significantly smaller than that means hax. Decent-size essays (3-5 pages) are usually at least 30-40kb. And if it’s in the hundreds of kilobytes to over 1MB, either they wrote a freakin’ novel or it’s full of embedded pictures.
And AFAIK, online class systems check for corrupted files before allowing upload anyway.
copy/paste. Done.
Does her husband know about you?
have some internets
Why yes, I know quite a bit about myself, thanks.
Sorry, the Internets were already awarded. You can’t have any, you cheating *****.
Well maybe you should tell her husband that you’re her husband
How do you know that the file wasn’t somehow corrupted *after* being sent?
Because if it has a header AND a footer then parts of the middle were erased. Plus if you open it in most text editors lots of “special characters” will be reinterpreted as something else and the entire thing will be garbage. Also “uploading incorrectly” is still failing at the assignment.
You’re just mad, making up excuses trying to turn people away from this nearly undetectable trick.
You have to know your teacher for this to work, but I’m actually a bit angry this has been posted. This was my ace in the hole in some classes, when students came to me and asked for help this was what I gave them, now I feel like its open source
Mine too :-/
Yeah, except we use Macs for school.
*facepalm*
*facepalms too* Just… *facepalm*
A student of mine actually tried this last semester.
…And you didn’t mark it late, yes?
and what did you do?
I told them that I had seen that trick before they were out of diapers. The student then plagiarized an assignment and I failed ‘em.
This just made my day.
Trick? What trick? This was an unpredictable data transfer error.
Please assume good faith unless you have actual proof, not just prejudice based on past experience.
(This is what any crooked-mind manipulative person would try to pull.)
Proof is easy. Open the properties on the file you eventually get and you can see date of creation and last edit. Chances are creation will be day of due date, and last edit will be minutes ago.
Bam, lawyered.
You do realize things like this are not necessarily intentional?
FYI, you should definitely use a larger chunk of text before doing this.
If the teacher checks the file size, it’s pretty obvious somethings off.
Too bad our teachers just give us a failing grade anyway. They’ll blame the student that they should have checked the file and backed it up on several drives.
This is why you just do the work so you don’t have to mess with this and leave things up to chance.
This is a rather ignorant answer. This trick is trying to appear as if the data TRANSFER to the teacher failed and has nothing to do with the current state of the original file and the copies.
But perhaps you are a bitter teacher, unable to deal with the new opportunities for ”my dog eat my homeword” the Internet brought to people.
I’ve done this for years…
I found out You can send a Code through Email that causes Computer lag. It’s super effective If You want to stall Your teacher Via Email. First, You have to activate the Code in Your computer. Once You press the Key Combination, it automatically Activates and Copies the Code so You can Paste it. It activates once the recipient of the Code opens the Email, and can work with any Email service!( Note: You cannot activate the Code while on Your Respective Email Site because of Security. It’s best to activate it here on Memebase as there is not as much Security ) To activate the Code for Windows press Ctrl+W and for MAC OS press Command+W.
That was a pathetic attempt.
Can’t blame a Troll for Tryin’
What’s with the random capitalization?
I didn’t know “you,” “code,” “computer,” “your,” “via,” “email,” “key,” “combination,” “activate,” “copy,” “note,” “respective,” or “security” were proper nouns.
More importantly, why did you take time out of your precious life to grammatically correct My troll?
Crazy Gramma Nazi….
Well if you call that trolling…
Perhaps he was trolling with a purposefull bad troll? But perhaps YOU were trolling ignoring the purposefull bad troll!
And at last, perhaps I am trolling about the… erm… I lost track of it.
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Trololol?
You forgot “if”.
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‘Correct this, b*tch’. Done and done.
Since when was 4=h? 4=A :O
Anyone who even knows how to turn a computer on was skeptical on the first sentence, suspicious on the second sentence, then probably stopped reading by the third sentence.
Yes, bad attempt. Very bad. Not just, regular bad, but as in you should feel bad about yourself bad.
Dude, this is genious!
I’ve actually done this.
I figured this out back when I was in grade 6, I kept the ball rolling for about 4 months because I kept forgetting to use the extra time to actually write my work.
that’s what I would do… I know you could do this but buh… if I started using it I would never start the assignment…
You were submitting assignments online in grade 6? Holy, I’m old.. and I’m only 22. I didn’t start submit assignments online until university.
It was only 4 years ago for me, but I guess we did start pretty early.
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Profit.
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I’m so going to use this…
I’ve done this successfully so many times, this meme isn’t even funny. And I’ve done it with the same professor albeit different semesters.
Now you can procrastinate by going on Memebase to learn how to procrastinate more!
Yo dawg, we put this meme so you can procrastinate while you procrastinate.
Can I procrastibate instead?
brilliant !!!
useful !!
You can also encrypt it with encryption software. Lol the use a file converter to convert back to the base format. The program rages extra hard.
I once had a paper due for an intro computer science class. Recorded 3 seconds of audio nonsense, converted to .docx, and when you opened it was all gibberish. Worked like a charm!
I wish this would have worked at my college. The professors always opened assignments on the DAY they were sent to make sure the file COULD open. If they couldn’t open your file, they would ask for a new one that DAY and you would be expected to send the file THAT DAY. If that file couldn’t be opened, they would start ticking points off your grade or ask for a print-out copy.
Actually, a lot of my teachers still asked for a physical copy and a digital copy, too.
College profs are usually good about letting you turn in somethign late if you ASK, though. If it’s a 300 or 400 class the the prof likes you he/she will usually give an extension. I had to ask for a week extension in philosophy for my final paper and my prof was fine with it.
Really, they checked it THAT DAY? It kind of stinks they would open it the DAY you sent it and then respond to you THAT DAY. Stinks to be you man. It must have traumatized you pretty bad if you feel you have to capitalize DAY every time you type it.
It’s a shame that you don’t understand how the Internet works.
Not really. See, I usually didn’t have a problem with late assignments. I just try to type how I speak.
tl;dr
I did it, it worked. But I just sent her a word file with the coding all messed up. So she’d assume it was her computer. And ironic as it was she sent me a message days later cause she started grading too late too. Epic.
Repeat for infinites A+ !!!!
But that wouldn’t work on college, teachers would say “Not my problem the file didn’t work, it’s a 0 for you mister.” =/
This is why I require my students to give me both the electronic and paper copy.
lulwut? why would you need an electronic copy if you had a paper copy?
Tree killer.
But this you should be caught with this. You can do a better think, get any work on internet that has any correlated subject with yours, mess all tha paragraphs, words, and figures. Get out the author names, and do the same thing. So if teacher can open it’s just possible to see something that seems to be a work, which is more beliaveble
That’s an epic no-no. At least use one of YOUR previous works so you can’t be kicked / zeroed for stealing other people’s work.
Best strategy: encrypt the file and then delete header/extension…
There’s an unfortunate problem that you encounter by doing this if any of your teachers are familiar with how .doc or .rtf files work. Someone can easily open the file with notepad and check the contents that way. If you don’t see something that looks like an essay in there, then the student is trying to scam you.
On the other hand, you don’t seem to be familiar with how .docx files work. A .docx file is a pkzipped archive (identified by the PK string at the beginning of the file, see picture) containing the text part in a .xml file, and whatever files are embedded in the document. If you open it in notepad, you can only identify the PK string, the rest will look like gibberish. And if you try to unzip the content, all you get is “corrupt archive”.
I don’t use .docx files, so I didn’t know about that.
Oh, this will be my next lifeline.
This reminds me of when I gave in a blank CD for a video project in my senior year to give me an extra week to do it. Got a B+
Every one of my teachers:
SHOULD HAVE MADE A BACK-UP OR BROUGHT IT IN TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS ON MY COMPUTER. >:I
Making a back-up is not relevent at all here since the point is to make the teacher think your work is done and okay but the file-transfer by e-mail to the teacher failed.
The second part of your caps-lock teacher-ranting is hardly a point at all. The student can’t/shouldn’t access the teacher’s e-mail…
Most profs at my university demand paper assignments for this reason. I’ve only handed in 2 or 3 papers via email in four years of uni.
What’s wrong with just telling: I’m late again, you’ll have it in due time. Worked perfectly for me!
And now I’m nearing my Master’s degree in Computer Science, so not a scratch on my career!
It works true story
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I tried this. It worked. Memebase has once again saved the day.
in our school, we just turn the words into wingdings
Just tried this on myself. It didn’t corrupt the file and I coudl still open it (in Wordpad) but it had none of my original text so it would look all messed up. So I’m sure it indeed would work for microsoft word… wish i thought of this when i was in school lol
I should do that lmao I’m in college now >:D
Competent teachers open the files in Notepad if it’s corrupt. They’d notice it’s too short and the body of text is missing.
sources: i’m a competent teacher
Ever tried to open a .docx in notepad?
Obvious incompetent teacher spoted.
this doesn’t work. i just fail the papers.
i wish u posted dis earlier. My history project was due 2day & i gt a 70%
Your nemesis SafeAssign approaches
Story of my highschool career. Copy and pasting pieces in it to corrupt it. The next step up is going to “print it, but cant cuz its ‘corrupt’ “
This is cheating!!!!!!!!!
Can’t tell if trolling or is just really stupid.
your cheating
*rogue mode activated*
It’s not really cheating or lying unless the teacher asks if you did it on purpose.
*rogue mode… still activated* (Why would anyone turn that mode off?)
I’ve been doing this since high school. Yes, it works. It’s not cheating, it’s using the benefits of faulty technology to your advantage.
cant… tell… if… trolling??!!
if the teacher’s smart, she’ll look at the date modified property of the file.
That won’t help at all. I’m not even going to bother pointing out why, as the less teachers know the more it works.
Hey Guys! Lets make a trick into a meme so that eveybody knows about it! Profs don’t check memebase, they’re too busy smoking tobacco from a pipe by a fireplace reading hamlet for the 632nd time. way to bone yourselves.
It seems like most teachers already know about this…Why do you think so many ask for a hard copy and an emailed copy?
I’m a teacher; we totally know students do this.
U jelly?
If you haven’t done this … what are you doing on the internet?
There are actually honest people out there that don’t feel the need to cheat.
I used to do this all the time in school, unfortunately at uni every assignment has to be handed in on paper.
Just a heads up… a lot of the people who are teachers today are young enough to know about all techniques and certainly the memes on the inet. My bf is a TA at a university (26 years old) and his various students sometimes think they can pull on him like handing in papers including bits they got from around the web, and he easily googles them and find them if they don’t seem legit. Your high school teachers are often around our age too so you can’t really get fresh on them.
Except knowing the trick exists dosen’t mean you can prove the student used the trick.
Really, it’s an improved ”my dog ate my homework” as teh techer has the disgusting wet ”homework” to support the story.
Lol, I use this almost everytime already.
…would probably work in highschool. Wouldn’t try it at University though. Lotta “f#$* you, I’ll just flunk you for inconveniencing me” teachers.
It works! but i just copied random text
got 2 weeks extra
trololololol
I’m a college instructor. Thank you so much for posting this. It will help me catch many of my students who do this, and I will pass it on to all of my colleagues. You have done a great service for the world of academia!
Except, you cannot prove if this trick was used.
U jelly and powerless.
they don’t have to prove anything to fail you or make this trick useless. Most profs ask for hard copies and digital copies anyway, so if your file doesn’t open they will just go your physical copy.
Now just for the grammar correction :/
Did this a few times in college, with floppy disks (yeah i’m old).
Basically you created a file on a disk with random text, then pulled the metal slide back and made a few veritcal cuts on the disk itself. The file would show up in explorer with a file size, but you couldn’t open it.
would probibly work at a community college?
You forgot the part where you need to fill the document with enough data to make it about the same size as the rest he/she will open up. If you send a document that is all of 12.1k, you’re doing it wrong and you’re giving away the fact that you turned in a blank document.
Not important. Corrupt file could be cause by incompleate data transfer.
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Teacher will just mark you down for handing it in late, so you might as well not bother with an excuse.
Yes, because your teacher = all of our teachers. I actually had this happen once and it worked for extending my deadline, but the reality of the matter was that it wasn’t intentional and I wasn’t able to fix it.
LoL I did this to my American History teacher. It’s the same thing for a mac, which is what we use, but you open it in textedit.
Yea, this doesn’t work at university, you hand it in late you get a zero, no ifs or buts
I have to try this. My science class is trying to use an educational online site to turn in things instead of using paper…this would be a GREAT last resort.
where i’m from, we just stab teachers. then nobody will care about your late assignment.
Nice… hahaha
haha. this reminds me of the game…
Works great if you have a mac and the teacher has a windows. And you
“forget” to export it
This also happens when you try to save as .doc or .docx with OpenOffice Writer. When opening the file with Word, it reads it as a 97/2003 file and cant convert it.
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just did it hope it works
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