That these were made into films? Most (but I believe not all) of the books were adapted in British made-for-TV movies that aired over here on "Wonderworks" on PBS in the 80's.
Granted, I haven't seen any of these in years... I was a little kid at the time... but those films were great, production values notwithstanding.
I really hope the new films do as well with the text as those did. And, as a side note, I don't remember a whole lot of heavy-handed Christian doctrine in the films... although even at that age, I could see it plainly in the books.
I like this idea... and it could not only help to sort of colocate indymedia as it exists today, it could help to desseminate media coverage further and further... Wow. The possibilities are really interesting. In a way, this could sort of create the potential for a super fast, ultra distributed news source sort of like what USENET never was... however, I could also see the crap factor potentially skyrocketing with this. It would need a lot of work, or at least some really badass indexing and rating...
No, what makes it wrong is the fact that directory separators are used more frequently than switches, and the positioning of "/" on keyboards is way more consistent than the positioning of "\"
OK, I'm a UNIX zealot. And a license bigot. I run Debian more for the "Code free or die" element than for APT. But I don't see the problem. Separating policy from method is smart. It doesn't mean you have to have messy GUIs, it means you have maximum flexibility. What it comes down to, is your vision for computing.
Would you like to see everyone compute smarter? Or use computers only within the confines of limits set by Redmond?
If people want a lowest-common denominator interface, all sorts of appliances are possible that aren't "computers." I built a Linux box for my mom that lets her check her email, surf the web, type stuff up and print it... it auto logs in to a GNOME desktop, pretty much all the apps are GTK2 based, she can even run apt-get to automatically upgrade her apps.
Unix is just more flexible. Better. Smarter. Anybody who wants to do more than the most basic stuff in Windows has to make an effort to learn something. If the Redmond-software-hegemony wern't in place, I don't see the difficulty in learning Unix rather than Windows. The rewards are certainly far greater.
At this rate, the only thing it will be acceptable to discuss online is oneself... and then only if your lawyer tells you it's okay. I can just imagine some contractual obligation to not link to something about oneself...
In an age where intellectual property laws interfere with our ability to communicate efficiently to this degree and with such frequency, piracy is a virtue... perhaps even a right.
I was thinking before I posted, "What happens when there's bumper-to-bumper traffic; how do you target every car when they move that slowly?"
But then I got to thinking: could you drop a radio next to the billboard and amp the faint tuning signal, so, say, all the people listening to top 40 see ads targeted toward NPR listeners?
I guess this is theoretically possible. Funny how every new advertising technology begs the question, "How can I subvert this?"
Unfortunately, this thing isn't fine enough to extract enough usable genetic material from blood... so the trick will be getting a tissue sample from daddy after he passes out from one too many glasses of eggnog.
What amazes me is how tiny the stuff is... the centrifuge is this little test-tubdee holder with a bell jar ovewr it.
It sure beats trying to put the wshing-mchine sized behemoths a lot of labs use for this application under the christmas tree... and those things can rock themselves across the room. Just imagine Junior getting caught between that and the wall.
Well, sure portable convergence devices are a great thing. I want something 2mm thick that's indestructible with broadband wireless networking, every media codec imaginable, a terabyte of storage and a hi-res color plasma screen.
But at home, I like my boxes and boxes and boxes. I want 8 computers, an xbox a ps2 a stereo etc etc etc. It's just the damn wires that are the problem. Keep separate devices, put the R&D money into figuring out cheap wireless substitutes for the 2.6 * 10^13 wires that are perpetually the bane of my existence.
Perhaps the best that could come of this is if people start asking, "why does he need to file a preemptive suit to continue his research?" Academic research has always occupied a privileged sphere, and the DMCA poses a greater threat to these intellectual freedoms than possibly any previous legislation.
It kinda reminds me of the situation when the NSA tried to stop academic cryptographers from continuing or publishing their results, slapping them with secrecy orders and citing national security concerns--however, they were beaten pretty soundly in court. Somehow, though, intellectual property seems more important to this government than national security. Say what you will, but the NSA had a much more legitimate interest in maintaining the breakability of codes than in protecting the rights of companies to obtain security through the combination of weak codes and obscurity.
In the end, the NSA's arguments were found to be less than compelling when it came to restricting academic freedom. It's shocking that Hollywood's interests are not patently irrelevent in the same arena.
It took a while for the courts and congress to stop being scared away from 'crypto anarchy' by NSA spooks, and to side with researchers. My hope for the current crisis is that these same bodies will stop being frightened off by the cries of doom and gloom from spookier spooks like Jack Valenti before academic (and even personal) research is further crippled in this country.
telekon
Hollywood's three leading products: Fear Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Now your wrist can get tired on all of your phone calls, not just the ones you hope your significant other doesn't see on the bill.
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I was excited reading the kernel changelog until I got to this line:
- Trond Myklebust: make NFS use SLAB_NOFS, and not play games with PF_MEMALLOC
I'm sure NFS won't mind using SLAB_NOFS, but it's cruel to prohibit it from playing games with PF_MEMALLOC. NFS has reached the point where playing games with PF_MEMALLOC is the sole respite from the drudgery of its mundane life. None of the other protocols will play with it since the Trivial Pursuit incident of 1998, and it's banned from EQ for excessive Britishing.
Sure, we've all been inconvenienced a little now and again when NFS is playing games with PF_MEMALLOC, but it wasn't that bad, and it brought a glimmer of joy into NFS's otherwise bleak existence. Now NFS will be forced to sit alone in its room playing X Bill all alone until it goes mad and starts initializing remote filesystems at random.
Then where will we be?
Trond Myklebust, I hope you're happy with yourself. What did NFS ever do to you? It's just cruel, and we'll all have to deal with the consequences when people start running NFS on 2.4.13. You should be ashamed.
Well, it's a lot of fun to read ultimate-box descriptions, but I agree that for most of us, it's like salivating over a Cray (years ago...).
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm also more interested in what the heck to do with the three pentium-100's sitting in my closet, and the 486 laptop with the dead CMOS battery... sure, i could have them compute pi 'til buffers overflow, but that's no fun.
It would be nice to have that ultimate box, though... or 2000 of them in a beowulf cluster...
Wow, this is a great idea. But the application I'd really like to see is a T3 (or better) being pretty much standard coming into eavery big apartment building, or city block. Using wireless could save so much on infrastructure costs that it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect high-speed internet to be cheap and accessible almost universally. Between this and sub-$700 PCs, we could have most of the population online very soon... and maybe an ubiquity of online communication would make everyone's life better.
The only interesting thing about N*SYNC publishing the first copy-protected CD is the total lack of irony. I don't doubt that, following this, the majority of (at least new) major label releases will carry some sort of 'digital rights management.' But copy-protection isn't the only reason to hate the record companies. They do, for the most part, make music nothing more than a commodity and will sign (or create) whatever bands they think they can market best.
But it doesn't have to be like that. Most of the good music being made right now is on independent labels. And a lot of the bands realize that the record industry sucked long before copy protection, and that this is just the latest move in a trend of suckiness. So support your local scene. Don't listen to boy bands unless they're emo-boy bands. Go to shows, and buy your CDs there, so the record stores don't get to gouge you a second time. Indie CDs are cheaper, the bands are usually better, and I doubt any indie label will ever use copy protection on a CD--many of those labels have seen sales increase after Napster hit, because a lot of people had never heard of the bands before, since they weren't backed by millions of dollars of brainwashing... er... advertising.
C'mon, if you're going to run an indie OS, don't you think your music should match?
Of course having two CPUs isn't as important as having 384 or 512 gigs of RAM, but it's a valid concern for the average home user...
See, these days, the average home user wants to run Nautilus and Netscape simultaneously in Enlightenment on top of GNOME with antialiased screen fonts and alpha-rendered transparent xterms, while he (or she) watches Antitrust on DVD in a window (if LiViD worked) and works in Photoshop running on VMWare.
This is what the average home user wants these days, and so the average home user is building his (or her) own PC because Dell and Gateway just aren't offering it.
Okay, even ignoring momentarily the media reputation of everyone lumped into the category of "hackers," from script kiddies to Alan Cox, it's nice to 2600 of all people getting some good press.
Even though 2600 (the magazine) isn't what it used to be, 2600 (the magazine, the meetings, etc.) deserve some respect they never seem to get. I was sick of seeing 2600 bashed in Wired, even in/. comments for supporting Kevin Mitnick. Okay, yeah, he broke the law and deserved to get caught, but the treatment in his case was extreme, and you didn't see anyone else constantly reminding people that four years in jail without a trial or bail hearing is wrong.
Even igoring the Mitnick saga, 2600 provides a really great entry point for kids who've seen War Games and... okay, maybe today it would be (god forbid) HAckers, but you get the point. In the pages of that mag, people find out that you don't just guess a password and launch bombs, if you want to do things (even illegal things) you have to learn... a lot. I started learning everything I know now, from system security, to TCP/IP, UNIX, C, everything, because when I was 11 I wanted to be a kr4d 31337 h4x0r d00d. Hell, I used to type on BBSs like that... but by the time I learned how to write an IRC bot, I didn't have time to transpose letters in to numbers, so I had to remap the keyboard in my terminal emulator so I c0u1d 7yp3 a11 l337 w17h0u7 5p3nd1ng 51x h0ur5 534rch1ng 4 34ch k3y. So I learned things, even for the sake of being stupid.
And I feel like I owe a lot of this to 2600. when I found an old acoustic coupler, I took it to the local 2600 meeting to figure out how to rewire it to work with my built-in modem... I learned half of what I know about hardware there... Hell, I learned what a front-side bus was from those people.
So it's nice to see 2600 getting some good press, and to see the meetings described as something other than a bunch of lurking, black-clad teenage misfits in doc martens and 2600 t-shirts.
I don't find Taco's MS-bashing-even-though-he-uses-windows amusing, because it's not ironic. Of course the/. man who uses Windows bitches more; he has more to bitch about. I still have to use Windows more than my friend who has managed to run 100% Linux and BeOS for about a year... I bash Microsoft approximately 637% more than he does, because he only has to deal with the news and propaganda; I still have to use their crappy product.
Every time I try to read illicit scientologist texts, X seg faults. They got to the CVS tree. I bet 4.0.3 is just a patch to remove all that scientology code. Or maybe 4.0.3 will make yr monitor explode when you say bad things about scientology...
I think it's the first one. The scientologists won't let XFree 4.0.3 into the tree for Woody.
dds:~#apt-get install scientology
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Lists...Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
free-speech libfree-speech0 reason freedom task-individual-thought
The following additional packages will be installed:
fear uncertainty doubt libfud11 libfud-dev harrassment task-intimidation-core
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 17 removed, and 6 not upgraded
Need to get 234GB of archives. After unpacking you will be brainwashed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Although I wouldn't wish a legal battle on anyone, it's troubling to think that good software might not see the light of day, (or be included in the source tree) just because it might violate bad legislation.
Maybe I'm just a little too libertarian, or maybe I just agree with Thoreau that there is a duty of civil disobedience, but it seems to me that the coding and dissemnination of proof-of-concept 'circumvention devices' needs to occur until the DMCA is abolished.
I think this goes along the need for source code to be considered protected speech. Maybe by including comments in the code that state that you are writing it just to protest the DMCA... who knows, maybe our editors will soon have automatic DMCA-protest C and C++/Java comment blocks just like the GPL comment blocks available in many (open-source) editors now.
The important thing is for at least some software to be seen as being political-- that's in many ways the gauge, as 'poltitical speech' is often seen as having the most vital need of protection.
We'll never win fights by tucking our tails and running.
So how exactly is a kid with a rather puerile sense of humour a 'bully' or a 'punk' ?
Often offensive parodies of individuals appear on the Onion every week... BBSpot as well... and the Daily Show... I'm not hearing any of these being referred to as bullies or punks.
The law states very clearly what does or does not constitute libel; the statements in question must be intended to falsely discredit or defame a person and the statements must be ones which a reasonable person might believe to be true. Also, the parody exception from libel of an individual requires that the target of the parody be a public figure... that's the debatable point here.
Although I'm sure the asst. principal was a 'public figure' to the audience of the parody (i.e., the high school students), that's not even the point here. The school acted inappropriately by disciplining the student for activities not within their scope.
I almost feel sorry for the school system losing $62k, but it's their own fault. Complaining that they lost funds that could have helped students is like the Catholic church complaining that they lost funds which could have gone to orphans when they had to compensate the families of children molested by priests.
No matter how noble the professed intent of the institution, you mess up, you pay. The school abused its authority and the courts saw to it that a clear message would be sent, hopefully preventing these abuses in future.
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Granted, I haven't seen any of these in years... I was a little kid at the time... but those films were great, production values notwithstanding.
I really hope the new films do as well with the text as those did. And, as a side note, I don't remember a whole lot of heavy-handed Christian doctrine in the films... although even at that age, I could see it plainly in the books.
I like this idea... and it could not only help to sort of colocate indymedia as it exists today, it could help to desseminate media coverage further and further... Wow. The possibilities are really interesting. In a way, this could sort of create the potential for a super fast, ultra distributed news source sort of like what USENET never was... however, I could also see the crap factor potentially skyrocketing with this. It would need a lot of work, or at least some really badass indexing and rating...
only if * != xmms
No, what makes it wrong is the fact that directory separators are used more frequently than switches, and the positioning of "/" on keyboards is way more consistent than the positioning of "\"
If people want a lowest-common denominator interface, all sorts of appliances are possible that aren't "computers." I built a Linux box for my mom that lets her check her email, surf the web, type stuff up and print it... it auto logs in to a GNOME desktop, pretty much all the apps are GTK2 based, she can even run apt-get to automatically upgrade her apps.
Unix is just more flexible. Better. Smarter. Anybody who wants to do more than the most basic stuff in Windows has to make an effort to learn something. If the Redmond-software-hegemony wern't in place, I don't see the difficulty in learning Unix rather than Windows. The rewards are certainly far greater.
In an age where intellectual property laws interfere with our ability to communicate efficiently to this degree and with such frequency, piracy is a virtue... perhaps even a right.
I was thinking before I posted, "What happens when there's bumper-to-bumper traffic; how do you target every car when they move that slowly?"
But then I got to thinking: could you drop a radio next to the billboard and amp the faint tuning signal, so, say, all the people listening to top 40 see ads targeted toward NPR listeners?
I guess this is theoretically possible. Funny how every new advertising technology begs the question, "How can I subvert this?"
Unfortunately, this thing isn't fine enough to extract enough usable genetic material from blood... so the trick will be getting a tissue sample from daddy after he passes out from one too many glasses of eggnog.
It sure beats trying to put the wshing-mchine sized behemoths a lot of labs use for this application under the christmas tree... and those things can rock themselves across the room. Just imagine Junior getting caught between that and the wall.
like I said, you must not understand RFID cause it would be useless to track people outside of a small, definitive area.
Exactly. And that's why tagging politicians will be followed by confining all of them to a small, definitive area.
Well, sure portable convergence devices are a great thing. I want something 2mm thick that's indestructible with broadband wireless networking, every media codec imaginable, a terabyte of storage and a hi-res color plasma screen.
But at home, I like my boxes and boxes and boxes. I want 8 computers, an xbox a ps2 a stereo etc etc etc. It's just the damn wires that are the problem. Keep separate devices, put the R&D money into figuring out cheap wireless substitutes for the 2.6 * 10^13 wires that are perpetually the bane of my existence.
The other fifty percent voted that, 'When we prepare a program, it's just like Cowboy Neal.'
It kinda reminds me of the situation when the NSA tried to stop academic cryptographers from continuing or publishing their results, slapping them with secrecy orders and citing national security concerns--however, they were beaten pretty soundly in court. Somehow, though, intellectual property seems more important to this government than national security. Say what you will, but the NSA had a much more legitimate interest in maintaining the breakability of codes than in protecting the rights of companies to obtain security through the combination of weak codes and obscurity.
In the end, the NSA's arguments were found to be less than compelling when it came to restricting academic freedom. It's shocking that Hollywood's interests are not patently irrelevent in the same arena.
It took a while for the courts and congress to stop being scared away from 'crypto anarchy' by NSA spooks, and to side with researchers. My hope for the current crisis is that these same bodies will stop being frightened off by the cries of doom and gloom from spookier spooks like Jack Valenti before academic (and even personal) research is further crippled in this country.
telekon
Hollywood's three leading products: Fear Uncertainty, and Doubt.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, aside from all the others."
It was Winston Churchill...
Now your wrist can get tired on all of your phone calls, not just the ones you hope your significant other doesn't see on the bill.
I was excited reading the kernel changelog until I got to this line:
- Trond Myklebust: make NFS use SLAB_NOFS, and not play games with PF_MEMALLOC
I'm sure NFS won't mind using SLAB_NOFS, but it's cruel to prohibit it from playing games with PF_MEMALLOC. NFS has reached the point where playing games with PF_MEMALLOC is the sole respite from the drudgery of its mundane life. None of the other protocols will play with it since the Trivial Pursuit incident of 1998, and it's banned from EQ for excessive Britishing.
Sure, we've all been inconvenienced a little now and again when NFS is playing games with PF_MEMALLOC, but it wasn't that bad, and it brought a glimmer of joy into NFS's otherwise bleak existence. Now NFS will be forced to sit alone in its room playing X Bill all alone until it goes mad and starts initializing remote filesystems at random.
Then where will we be?
Trond Myklebust, I hope you're happy with yourself. What did NFS ever do to you? It's just cruel, and we'll all have to deal with the consequences when people start running NFS on 2.4.13. You should be ashamed.
*telekon
Well, it's a lot of fun to read ultimate-box descriptions, but I agree that for most of us, it's like salivating over a Cray (years ago...).
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm also more interested in what the heck to do with the three pentium-100's sitting in my closet, and the 486 laptop with the dead CMOS battery... sure, i could have them compute pi 'til buffers overflow, but that's no fun.
It would be nice to have that ultimate box, though... or 2000 of them in a beowulf cluster...
Wow, this is a great idea. But the application I'd really like to see is a T3 (or better) being pretty much standard coming into eavery big apartment building, or city block. Using wireless could save so much on infrastructure costs that it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect high-speed internet to be cheap and accessible almost universally. Between this and sub-$700 PCs, we could have most of the population online very soon... and maybe an ubiquity of online communication would make everyone's life better.
Or maybe I'm just a geek.
telekon
The only interesting thing about N*SYNC publishing the first copy-protected CD is the total lack of irony. I don't doubt that, following this, the majority of (at least new) major label releases will carry some sort of 'digital rights management.' But copy-protection isn't the only reason to hate the record companies. They do, for the most part, make music nothing more than a commodity and will sign (or create) whatever bands they think they can market best.
But it doesn't have to be like that. Most of the good music being made right now is on independent labels. And a lot of the bands realize that the record industry sucked long before copy protection, and that this is just the latest move in a trend of suckiness. So support your local scene. Don't listen to boy bands unless they're emo-boy bands. Go to shows, and buy your CDs there, so the record stores don't get to gouge you a second time. Indie CDs are cheaper, the bands are usually better, and I doubt any indie label will ever use copy protection on a CD--many of those labels have seen sales increase after Napster hit, because a lot of people had never heard of the bands before, since they weren't backed by millions of dollars of brainwashing... er... advertising.
C'mon, if you're going to run an indie OS, don't you think your music should match?
*telekon
Of course having two CPUs isn't as important as having 384 or 512 gigs of RAM, but it's a valid concern for the average home user...
See, these days, the average home user wants to run Nautilus and Netscape simultaneously in Enlightenment on top of GNOME with antialiased screen fonts and alpha-rendered transparent xterms, while he (or she) watches Antitrust on DVD in a window (if LiViD worked) and works in Photoshop running on VMWare.
This is what the average home user wants these days, and so the average home user is building his (or her) own PC because Dell and Gateway just aren't offering it.
Okay, even ignoring momentarily the media reputation of everyone lumped into the category of "hackers," from script kiddies to Alan Cox, it's nice to 2600 of all people getting some good press.
Even though 2600 (the magazine) isn't what it used to be, 2600 (the magazine, the meetings, etc.) deserve some respect they never seem to get. I was sick of seeing 2600 bashed in Wired, even in /. comments for supporting Kevin Mitnick. Okay, yeah, he broke the law and deserved to get caught, but the treatment in his case was extreme, and you didn't see anyone else constantly reminding people that four years in jail without a trial or bail hearing is wrong.
Even igoring the Mitnick saga, 2600 provides a really great entry point for kids who've seen War Games and... okay, maybe today it would be (god forbid) HAckers, but you get the point. In the pages of that mag, people find out that you don't just guess a password and launch bombs, if you want to do things (even illegal things) you have to learn... a lot. I started learning everything I know now, from system security, to TCP/IP, UNIX, C, everything, because when I was 11 I wanted to be a kr4d 31337 h4x0r d00d. Hell, I used to type on BBSs like that... but by the time I learned how to write an IRC bot, I didn't have time to transpose letters in to numbers, so I had to remap the keyboard in my terminal emulator so I c0u1d 7yp3 a11 l337 w17h0u7 5p3nd1ng 51x h0ur5 534rch1ng 4 34ch k3y. So I learned things, even for the sake of being stupid.
And I feel like I owe a lot of this to 2600. when I found an old acoustic coupler, I took it to the local 2600 meeting to figure out how to rewire it to work with my built-in modem... I learned half of what I know about hardware there... Hell, I learned what a front-side bus was from those people.
So it's nice to see 2600 getting some good press, and to see the meetings described as something other than a bunch of lurking, black-clad teenage misfits in doc martens and 2600 t-shirts.
just my deux centimes.
telekon
I don't find Taco's MS-bashing-even-though-he-uses-windows amusing, because it's not ironic. Of course the /. man who uses Windows bitches more; he has more to bitch about. I still have to use Windows more than my friend who has managed to run 100% Linux and BeOS for about a year... I bash Microsoft approximately 637% more than he does, because he only has to deal with the news and propaganda; I still have to use their crappy product.
Every time I try to read illicit scientologist texts, X seg faults. They got to the CVS tree. I bet 4.0.3 is just a patch to remove all that scientology code. Or maybe 4.0.3 will make yr monitor explode when you say bad things about scientology...
I think it's the first one. The scientologists won't let XFree 4.0.3 into the tree for Woody.
dds:~#apt-get install scientologyReading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Lists...Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
free-speech libfree-speech0 reason freedom task-individual-thought
The following additional packages will be installed:
fear uncertainty doubt libfud11 libfud-dev harrassment task-intimidation-core
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 17 removed, and 6 not upgraded
Need to get 234GB of archives. After unpacking you will be brainwashed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Although I wouldn't wish a legal battle on anyone, it's troubling to think that good software might not see the light of day, (or be included in the source tree) just because it might violate bad legislation.
Maybe I'm just a little too libertarian, or maybe I just agree with Thoreau that there is a duty of civil disobedience, but it seems to me that the coding and dissemnination of proof-of-concept 'circumvention devices' needs to occur until the DMCA is abolished.
I think this goes along the need for source code to be considered protected speech. Maybe by including comments in the code that state that you are writing it just to protest the DMCA... who knows, maybe our editors will soon have automatic DMCA-protest C and C++/Java comment blocks just like the GPL comment blocks available in many (open-source) editors now.
The important thing is for at least some software to be seen as being political-- that's in many ways the gauge, as 'poltitical speech' is often seen as having the most vital need of protection.
We'll never win fights by tucking our tails and running.
So how exactly is a kid with a rather puerile sense of humour a 'bully' or a 'punk' ?
Often offensive parodies of individuals appear on the Onion every week... BBSpot as well... and the Daily Show... I'm not hearing any of these being referred to as bullies or punks.
The law states very clearly what does or does not constitute libel; the statements in question must be intended to falsely discredit or defame a person and the statements must be ones which a reasonable person might believe to be true. Also, the parody exception from libel of an individual requires that the target of the parody be a public figure... that's the debatable point here.
Although I'm sure the asst. principal was a 'public figure' to the audience of the parody (i.e., the high school students), that's not even the point here. The school acted inappropriately by disciplining the student for activities not within their scope.
I almost feel sorry for the school system losing $62k, but it's their own fault. Complaining that they lost funds that could have helped students is like the Catholic church complaining that they lost funds which could have gone to orphans when they had to compensate the families of children molested by priests.
No matter how noble the professed intent of the institution, you mess up, you pay. The school abused its authority and the courts saw to it that a clear message would be sent, hopefully preventing these abuses in future.
justice is served.
* telekon
'every processor waits at the same speed'