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Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules
Scott Jaschik writes "A new study documents just how much money colleges are spending on enforcing P2P rules through software license fees, hardware, and other costs. Many private universities are spending more than $100,000 a year — a major allocation of funds. An article in Inside Higher Ed explains the study and its findings."
They could spend the money on a slick, feminist ad campaign to get more BEWBIES into engineering school.
My university both supports and is against bittorrent. There are posters that say we shouldn't use it, while at the same time there are instructions on how to securely use bittorrent on a university website. Guess it's because we have one of the co-creators of bittorrent on campus.
And they could hold on to their precious, precious virginity until they're married, stay off those evil reefers and goofballs, turn their darn hippity-hop music down, and get off your lawn.
None of the above will happen in the few remaining years of your lifetime, nor even in theirs.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
When I went to college all I had was a 28 kbit/s line, and I survived all four years. You could survive too on slower access.
I also had to walk uphill, through snow, to get to class.
No, really, I'm serious!
Penn State's snow removal team was not very good.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
And they'd move the snow while you were in class so you'd have to walk up hill through snow going home as well :D