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Rider is a private institution and has a flat fee for everyone. They charge $40K to start - regardless of where the student comes from.

How does a school which charges $40,000/yr in tuition end up cash-strapped?

Now there's the $64,000 question.

(Actually it's more like the $64 million dollar question when adjusted for 2018 tuition rates.)

How does a school which charges $40,000/yr in tuition end up cash-strapped?

Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.

How does that work biologically?

Like flies on shit.

Note that there is only one gender of trolls, and yet they increase in number. Proof!

Witling faecus the rightfully endangered, potty-mouth troll.
Habitat: under bridges, in sewage systems, amongst the cruft of computer systems. Dark places close to humans.
Weaknesses: Humour, facts and sunlight. Humour causes them pain. Exposure to sustained Facts or strong Light are fatal.
Appearance: Various aberrations. Recognisable by the unique pin-like growth on their neck - the only visible feature that reliably distinguishes them from sentient bipods.
No pictures exist due to their sensitivity to light of any form Artists impression
History: A hydrogen-sulphide based life-form, possibly originating from the interaction of decomposing faeces and swamp gas. Whether they in fact qualify as a life form, or possess sentient capabilities is uncertain. It's theorised that they appeared when the first ancestors of humans developed intelligence, and that trolls have been devolving ever since. The theory is much debated and purely hypothetical as the only historical records are in the form of ancient legends due to the lack of fossil record. They have no backbone and upon death leave only a nasty stain and a foul odour.
Biology: Their "closed-loop" digestive system allows them to survive their entire life eating only their own excrement. As their brain is composed of only two cells (neither of which function) they are unable to support any distro other than Windows - and even then, only the sliding kind.
Additional references: Troll study, Suler, J.R. and Phillips, W. (1998). Deviant Behavior in Multimedia Chat Communities.

4. The head of IT moves on.
5. The authentication is moved away from the system set up in (1); the new system doesn't have the 8-13 character issue. But the policy stays in place - nobody actually knows why it was brought in but it specifically says "for security reasons" so there must have been a good reason.
6. The system in (3) is retired. None of the remaining systems suffer from the punctuation issue.

In the Buddhist world, what you described is a zen koan called "Ritual Cat" (and other variants)

http://users.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/ritualcat.html

-AI

Yes, there are other psychological problems that can make bullying worse, but bullying is its own phenomenon to begin with.

Conformity, obedience to authority, diffusion of responsibility / bystander effect, anonymity-enabled disinhibition or belittling ("it's just a game"), group mentality... these complicate or exacerbate more fundamental psychological problems.

I live in a pretty bad area of town, so, for my part I agree with you: screw the cameras and buy a Remington-

but the question seems more concerned about gathering evidence, and frankly, video tape and self defense don't seem to mix well in the US of A. So my only advice would be this: get a gun XOR a camera, but expect to go to jail if you use them both.

As long as the camera was on your property, filming your property, you had a warning sign on the normal entrance to your property, and used either automated motion detection or continuous recording, you should be all right. That something is captured on video isn't evidence of premeditation. WHAT is captured on video might be evidence of premeditation, so you'd need to be on your best behaviour - detain and restrain, but resist the temptation to kneecap the fucking thief - while the tape is running. But exactly the same constraint operates for policemen with a camera on his dashboard or a shopkeeper detaining a shoplifter, and it doesn't make their actions actionable. Unless they do a Rodney King special on the perp.

Videoing the car out on the street is a slightly different matter. You'd probably need to get some sort of permission and put up warning signs on the street. It might be legally easier to put together some sort of motion-detector activated filming of the doors (where the perps are more likely to come in) from the interior of the car, and set the car up with something along the lines of those "bait cars" to lock the doors, immobilise the engine, scream the horn and flash the lights. Oh, and call the cops (or you). You might need GPS too, but that's making a much more complex system.

A video viewing people visiting your front door (which is a public place by some definitions) is an intermediate level. What your local laws are probably varies from town to town.

> The "darkness" of the dark ages is severely exaggerated.

Well, Schumpeter would probably call the Dark Ages, post Rome,
a period of "creative destruction". That being, of course, a
term describing the main positive dynamic of Capitalism.

So it could be argued that it was that precise turmoil that
was able to breed over time, darwin-style, the best states,
organizations, philosophies, art, war techs, which ultimately
brought the renaissance and the modern world in which we live
today.

Would we count that messy period as progress, though ?
Maybe...

I just wrote my a paper for an interpersonal communications class on this very subject and finished it about literally 4 hours ago, so how odd this comes up on Slashdot. To summarize why I disagree with the assessment from my simple minded point of view:

In-Person relationships are based on a whole stage process that psychology has spent many, many years developing and refining. It is actually a fairly interesting model, and does seem applicable in many situations. The methods of how we communicate and open up to each other now with Instant Messanger, Slashdot message boards, BBS's, FidoNet, or whatever completely takes a lot of these concepts and throws them out the window. This is of great confusion to some by-the-book psychologists, and therefore, I cannot tell you how many articles I had to parse over in terms of "Whats Better: In-Person Relationships or Cyberspace Relationships." For example, http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/showdown .html

The author contrasts online versus in-person relationships and cyberspace relationships and which type might be better. He specifically poses the questions, "Is it true that real relationships ...are superior ... or relationships in cyberspace better?" I really don't see much value in generalizing both and making such vast assumptions about how either works or which is "better" than the other, though I can appreciate the author's efforts at trying to present a well thought article contrasting the two.

The author only hints at one such reason why I feel the generalization isn't necessarily fair - "some people may not have the opportunity to develop good relationships in person." If someone is homebound, due to physical limitations or even mental impairment, a potential relationship in cyberspace may be that individuals only avenue or gaining some form of positive communication with the outside world. This contrasts to them living a depressed life as a hermit, and contemplating such things as suicide. I am absolutely confident that even simple online communication has given people a feeling of participating in the real world and prevented suicides.

Additionally, cyberspace allows us to discuss things that we may not normally feel comfortable discussing in person. I had a friend who was vastly overweight and joined several online chat groups to learn more about gastric bypass, developed many close relationships with people in different online groups, learned much about the procedure and its effects on your personal life, and recently underwent the surgery. I am confident that he would not have simply walked into a support meeting initially searching for information on this, as it just was not in his nature. Near strangers online confided in him very personal information about how this surgery affected their lives, and I don't believe these barriers would have been anywhere near as easily climbed in person.

I was a groomsman in a wedding a couple of years ago for my friend Aaron, and his wife Tiffanie. He was an office manager living in New Hampshire, and she was finishing a communications degree and lived in Montana (she was also a former Miss Teen Montana). He is a great guy, and most girls regard him as pretty decent looking, though he is very shy and had an extremely difficult time working out relationships with women. He met Tiffanie online in a Yahoo chat forum years ago, and they built a relationship from that point. They learned about each other, started to share secrets and personal information, and truly learned about each others values. This then transpired into phone conversations, and eventually they flew back and forth to meet each other, converting into an in-person relationship. They have been married several years now, and I can honestly say that they are the happiest couple I know.

I think a better argument is to recognize online chatting for what it is, an

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ for all your library needs in Gnome

http://creativelibrarian.com/library-oss/ Some ideas

http://www.koha.org/ what my wife uses in her library (she is an MLS at a state library)

or...

http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/ecorrado/il2004 /ossfeatures.html

wow, that took me all of 2 minutes and a Hot Pocket to look up.

The Online Disinhibition Effect has been well documented. Move along, nothing newsworthy to see here.

When will they have empirical evidence that our entire existance is just Butterflies dream...
And that the butterfly in question is My Butterfly

Here is a mirror.