I, too, had the unfortunate experience of also expecting it to involve the CellBE.
What the article_really_is about though is also quite interetsing - I've always been amazed by how close genetics/programming is related. Well, in the sense that one is able to control both mediums via a 'language' of sorts...
Pretty soon we'll see people who know languages such as RNA++ and Gattaca
That last one was a stretch...but it'd make for a neat name:P
They did indeed have an AUP for their computers, but they didn't mention anything about installing software, or even running software that wasn't already there.
Technically, I was running Firefox from a flash drive, so nothing was installed, but in both cases, nothing in their AUP covered it until_after_I went back to school, as they modified it while I was gone.
I'm not saying that I'm completely innocent, I kinda knew that they wouldn't be happy if I was using it, but there was nothing in the AUP at the time that either explicitly stated or alluded to installing/running unapproved software, but that didn't keep them from getting me on it *shrug* that's what irked me about it all.
Hmm, currently I'm out of high school, in college for that matter, but back in the day I, too, was hounded for using firefox at my school.
The only difference being that I was suspended, for three days, because the head of my school's IT department lied through his teeth about how since firefox is OSS, and because of that it poses a security threat to the school.
Yeah, ok.
I defended myself against the accusation of "having the ability to alter the source code and exploit firefox to gain network control" (the exact wording of what went on file with the suspension, btw) by stating that I had no source code with me, and that the MD5 sums of the.exe I used and the readily available one would be identical.
The IT guy's eyes glazed over at the mention of the MD5 sum, he couldn't even explain it to the deans! It's people like that that give IT techs a bad reputation, and moreover I was punished despite having proved that I did nothing wrong.
Classic case of "pulling rank" to save face on the Administration's side, they added in a clause on my suspension saying I violated the school's Tech AUP, which was conveniently revised to include what I did while I was serving my suspension.../rant
*shrug* sorry to rant, but what I'm saying overall is that though this story was/is a hoax, it happens.
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I, too, had the unfortunate experience of also expecting it to involve the CellBE. What the article_really_is about though is also quite interetsing - I've always been amazed by how close genetics/programming is related. Well, in the sense that one is able to control both mediums via a 'language' of sorts... Pretty soon we'll see people who know languages such as RNA++ and Gattaca That last one was a stretch...but it'd make for a neat name :P
They did indeed have an AUP for their computers, but they didn't mention anything about installing software, or even running software that wasn't already there. Technically, I was running Firefox from a flash drive, so nothing was installed, but in both cases, nothing in their AUP covered it until_after_I went back to school, as they modified it while I was gone. I'm not saying that I'm completely innocent, I kinda knew that they wouldn't be happy if I was using it, but there was nothing in the AUP at the time that either explicitly stated or alluded to installing/running unapproved software, but that didn't keep them from getting me on it *shrug* that's what irked me about it all.
Hmm, currently I'm out of high school, in college for that matter, but back in the day I, too, was hounded for using firefox at my school. The only difference being that I was suspended, for three days, because the head of my school's IT department lied through his teeth about how since firefox is OSS, and because of that it poses a security threat to the school. Yeah, ok. I defended myself against the accusation of "having the ability to alter the source code and exploit firefox to gain network control" (the exact wording of what went on file with the suspension, btw) by stating that I had no source code with me, and that the MD5 sums of the .exe I used and the readily available one would be identical.
The IT guy's eyes glazed over at the mention of the MD5 sum, he couldn't even explain it to the deans! It's people like that that give IT techs a bad reputation, and moreover I was punished despite having proved that I did nothing wrong.
Classic case of "pulling rank" to save face on the Administration's side, they added in a clause on my suspension saying I violated the school's Tech AUP, which was conveniently revised to include what I did while I was serving my suspension... /rant
*shrug* sorry to rant, but what I'm saying overall is that though this story was/is a hoax, it happens.