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Internet Curfew for College Students?
140Mandak262Jamuna writes "IIT Bombay, one of the top Indian engineering schools, is restricting internet access to its students. The restriction is simply to cut off all internet access at night from the dorms. The school claims the 24/7/365 internet access is hampering academic performance, personality development and extra curricular activities. Though these are the 'official' reasons, it appears there are other reasons too. Mr Prakash Gopalan, the Dean of Student Affairs, says, 'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'"
>'one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.'
It's a sad commentary about the Simpsons' effect on our culture - that I can only hear Apu's voice when I read this.
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I had 24/7/365 Net xs when I wuz in coll3g3!!! I turn3d 0ut ju5t f1ne!!! LOL!!!!
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Oh, so they're spying on the hard drives of their students now. Bad University! Bad! Have you been taking lessons from the RIAA?
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$ du -hLs /home/daeg/porn /home/daeg/porn
/home/daeg/school /home/daeg/school
18G
$ du -hLs
29M
Ack! Quick, everyone symlink your porn directory into your school directory!
with people like you who are there to socialize.
This reply is what happens when you let people play WoW all night: reasoning abilities and reading comprehension suffer.
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What does one do during "late night browsing" that doesn't involve "touching the hard drive"? Eh?
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Just because there's porn on my HDDs than anything else, doesn't mean I spend all my time watching porn. It just means I have a large selection to choose from and wont tire easily from my collection. In the amount of hours in a week, I spend the majority of them at work and second to that would be resting.
As a taxpayer I expect that my state funded schools exist to serve the purpose of education. Since that appears to be your goal as well I think we should form a coalition to achieve this purpose. Our platform can be:
1) Internet banwidth is provided for the purpose of education. Any educational use that is associated with the student's current course work or field of study is included in tuition.
2) Any usage that does not fit under #1 will be billed at $1.00 per bit. Payable immediately.
3) In the event that a student falls $100.00 behind on their bandwidth bill, access will be restricted both by time of day (6:00 AM - 6:00 PM) and by rate (5 Kbps.)
4) In the event that a student falls $1,000.00 behind on their bandwidth bill, they will be suspended from school and their transcript held until they are paid current.
5) If a student manages to go from less than $1,000.00 due to over $2,500 due in a single data packet, said student will be charged with misuse of public property. And jailed until they have earned enough working for Prison Industries to pay off their bill.
It is amazing how many college welfare cases cry about their rights when taxpayers start looking askance at utterly inappropriate use of state funded resources.
If I have to read one more comment (in)directly telling people how they should lead their lives and especially grow as human beings by indicating just how ever-so-important the college phase is for social development, I'm going to pull a Bill Hicks. Not everyone is "squandering" their lives away by 'wasting' their time playing on the computer a lot - not even factoring in that people who play past a given time are huge addicts. Some of us, *gasp* went through that social thing in high school or the first couple years of college. Then we realize that the majority of people who go to college will forever have the maturity level of your average high-schooler, or worse. We call them frat guys. But that's going off-point. Even still, many of the 'addicted' gamers - *gasp again* - do go out to bars/parties/social events - and some of those people even have GIRLFRIENDS! I know, crazy right?
While I have bared witness to the addicted wowaholic who shells him/herself into their room and frantically paws at anyone who tries to make RL social contact with them, in my experience that's the minority. Most avid gamers do it in their spare time in place of, say, watching television.
And going on topic, what kind of self-righteous prick would employ these kinds of rules? Like he is so perfectly amazing, he never does anything lazy or unproductive, that he can determine when others can and can't do something *potentially* unproductive. OH NO! Most of a student's hard drive is filled with baaaad things that aren't geared toward solving the world's next big problem! Their lives must be utter SHIT. Give me a fucking break. Some of us actually prefer to live our lives without working to the absolute breaking point and stuffing every possible second of productive work into our bodies. It's called laying back and enjoying life.
There is so much studying and socializing to do while in college, I honestly can't imagine playing any online game during college.
Well, you've got to do SOMETHING until you're old enough to get into the bar....
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