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University Networks Block Student Project
An anonymous reader writes "A computer science student at University College London put together FitFinder as a bit of a joke — it's been described as a cross between Twitter and personal ads, and it rapidly became very popular. The university took exception to this and started by blocking the site from being accessed on campus. Not content with this, a few weeks later it fined the student £300 and had him take the site down completely. Currently, the site is still offline, although there is a petition with several thousand signatures requesting its return. In the meantime, a site called PhitFinder has appeared, claiming to have no link to the original."
Well, I'd say it sounds more like a cross between twitter and a creepy stalker organisation, but maybe I'm over-sensitive.
It are happen in Europe.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Because we don't call our schools "University College"?
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
I was playing around with PhitFinder and I totally accidentally made it forward to slashdot.
Sorry.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
Judging by how badly the site got hacked within five minutes of being linked to Slashdot, I'd say people are playing with it enough already.
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If you are old enough to attend college/university you are old enough to do whatever you want.
Wrong on so many levels.
If you attend a college or university, chances are you are held to a standard of behaviour that prevents you from making the learning institution look like a fool.
Admissions papers are full of "Sign here on the X", one of them was your agreement to not be a jackass and accept the college's rulings on your behavior.
Don't like it? There's the door.
Somewhere around the time when they whizzed right past their original supposed casus belli of fighting workplace discrimination against women and morphed into a veritable female supremacy movement with all the subtlety and nuance of a massively overweight, excessively hairy, screeching man-hater of a lesbian landing on you from a height of 200 meters.