That "taxpayer funded" argument might hold water if universities and colleges hadn't created a property right in network access by charging their students for it as a line item on the tuition bill.
Either they should provide what the student paid for or outsource it to someone who can.
Yes, it is an invasion of privacy. You suspect someone of abusing the network? Go through the due process required to obtain permission from the administration (those are the people who are supposed to be setting policy, not computing or network services). Then follow through, and educate/nail/bring charges against the abuser as appropriate.
Access to a network is not a license to troll for "violations."
There is a big difference between a "client" and a "student." The trend of institutions of higher learning starting to treat students like "customers" (i.e. kiss their asses and allow them to escape responsibility for their own education) is going to cause a generation of dependent simps to graduate from college.
If you want to be a customer, go to McDonalds. If you want to learn, go to college. While the administration has the responsibility to not mistreat students, and to see to their needs as far as getting an education, they have no charge to provide "customer service," "client relations," or any of that crap.
One of the first things you should have learned in college is that the people whose best career option is to work for a university's computing services deparment don't like having their noses rubbed in the fact that you know more than they do. So don't do that, and you will probably be left alone.
I assume you're posting as AC because you're ignorant. In most jurisdictions, the sherrif will execute a judgement for a fee (e.g. $75). That's no fantasy, it's reality. Come back when you know something.
I'd spend ten times the $35.00 to see the look on their face when the sherrif shows up at Intuit while I pick which desk lamp I want to satisfy the judgement:).
. . . and sue in Small Claims Court. They'll spend more than $35.00 to fly a corporate drone to the trial, or, more likely, just pony up the damn money.
This type of advertising will bring success rates closer to television ads and thus raise rates and bring back the financial feasiblity of free internet businesses.
And make the net the same kind of crap that TV is. Give me back Citadel BBS's!!!
- ZKS Freedom gaining lots of subscribers from Michigan (Note that ZKS is a Canadian company and is not subject to any U.S., much less Canadian, jackbooted information collectioon laws.)
- Michigan suddenly having lots less ISP's willing to do business in the state. Onerous data collection and retention requirements that can be nicely bypassed by moving to a bordering state aren't exactly brilliant courtship moves towards commerce.
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Either they should provide what the student paid for or outsource it to someone who can.
Access to a network is not a license to troll for "violations."
If you want to be a customer, go to McDonalds. If you want to learn, go to college. While the administration has the responsibility to not mistreat students, and to see to their needs as far as getting an education, they have no charge to provide "customer service," "client relations," or any of that crap.
One of the first things you should have learned in college is that the people whose best career option is to work for a university's computing services deparment don't like having their noses rubbed in the fact that you know more than they do. So don't do that, and you will probably be left alone.
I assume you're posting as AC because you're ignorant. In most jurisdictions, the sherrif will execute a judgement for a fee (e.g. $75). That's no fantasy, it's reality. Come back when you know something.
I'd spend ten times the $35.00 to see the look on their face when the sherrif shows up at Intuit while I pick which desk lamp I want to satisfy the judgement :).
. . . and sue in Small Claims Court. They'll spend more than $35.00 to fly a corporate drone to the trial, or, more likely, just pony up the damn money.
And make the net the same kind of crap that TV is. Give me back Citadel BBS's!!!
- Michigan suddenly having lots less ISP's willing to do business in the state. Onerous data collection and retention requirements that can be nicely bypassed by moving to a bordering state aren't exactly brilliant courtship moves towards commerce.