Eh, that's tricky. I was originaly going to write "the uni has to do what it must to protect its network, and if that means prohibiting the installation of wireless access points to its network, so be it". But the article mentions that these access points are being attached to commercial ISP's, and labels these rooms as "apartments".
The situation gets a bit stickier there:
Are these truly "apartments", or just on-campus dorm rooms? Do tenent-owner laws apply? If so, a lot of things that typically end up in a lease are often not legal, even if the lease is signed by both parties.
Is there school-provided internet access? If so, why do these students have comercial internet access?
If someone really pushes the "you can't regulate my openly-licenced wireless device", the university can go the extra step and say "fine, no outside internet providers are allowed on campus". It kinds of seems that, from a security stand point, that rule should already be in effect anyway.
But for the most part, the school's IT department should reconize what they installed: a wireless network that 1) has security issues, 2) has reliability issues, and 3) "must accept interference" as per the FCC. Saying "Hey, your unregulated device is f'in up my unregulated device, you've got to take yours down!" is kind of a big-bully attitude.
I'll concede on the "office has a lot of features" point, but I wouldn't call them nice. Autoformating bites nuts, and I can't get into the way Word applies styles. I'm much rather create documents in HTML & CSS, which makes me think that I should probably look into LaTeX...
But any way, while it may be fairly stable, its not-so-nice features (like autoformat/autocomplete) really make it unintuitive to use.
That joke was first forwarded to me @sitvxc.stevens-tech.edu 10 years ago. That particular machine (sitvxc) has been dead for over 8 years, and I've been told that email sent to stevens-tech.edu bounces (the school uses stevens.edu now).
So I tell you what... You find the true author, and give him credit. I doubld dog dare ya:-)
An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
In this case, I'm obviously playing off of the parent post's use of the term "retarded monkeys". The deeper message is you get what you pay for: nickle monkeys die, and in this case the so-called "cheaper" software sucks.
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that
odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not
to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His
name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really
bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed.
Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new
environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at
high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the
spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive:
they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped
dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours
later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over
my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It
looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked
for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to
smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't
want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately
there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change
them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer
so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to
extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys
in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The
odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use
the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't
allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet
one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about
the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts.
My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they
like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched
them in the genitals.
I see... a methane burning engine, and "U of BC Engineers Go To Taco Bell".
I'd bet ya that a couple of Chimichanga Burrito Supream Stupidbigs would induce one human to produce enough methane to power a small 'copter for a 5 minute trip.
I also played with self... I don't think anyone would be particularly impressed with my results. I mean, I finished quickly enough -- but the output was rather messy.
However, would you rather drive knowing that if some dipshit hits you, you're screwed?
Screwed? I'm the one with the 4 D-Cell mag light within quick reach... I'd say that the dipshit that hits me will be the one that gets beaten^W screwed.
It was also good that they do that because 800 numbers charge the recipient (Microsoft) exorbitant rates (as high as $0.75/min),
Uhm, that's just wrong. I work for a small company that spends about $1,200 a month on telecom, and even we get a nation-wide toll-free number for 6 cents a minute, with no connection fees. I'd imagine that Microsoft spends many times that amount every hour, and are surely paying the very best rate available for their 800 numbers.
I think e-mail will become the next platform for file sharing.
I disagree. They are already predicting the death of email due to spam & worms & other crap.
. . . you can download the files at your leasure. Just because your e-mail client doesn't work properly, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
Yes, some email clients offer a "message preview" before downloading thw whole email; some clients don't automatically download large emails. But those are not default configurations in the majority of email programs out there. Further, not seeing your all your email automatically, as one is used to, can be disconcerning for those that don't know better.
Finally, SMTP is an ASCII protocol; if you're going to send binary attachments over email, they must first be encoded into a 7-bit ascii friendly format. Doing that adds at least 12 perecent (7 usable bits/byte vs. 8), so it makes your download even larger than it has to be.
No, HTTP -- and even FTP -- are available for distributing files: those protocols were made to do that; SMTP wasn't.
NEW YORK--Somewhere in Berlin, Germany, is a baby Superman, born with bulging arm and leg muscles.
Uh-oh. Isn't this what Nietzsche was writing about... and subsequently appropriated by the Nazis to further their ideals? Zee Germans may have a few tricks up zhere sleaves.
Nothing is worse then trying to download a really important email, but being stuck waiting for a hand full of large, mostly less-important messages to download. Ofoto, Shutterfly, and others offer free image hosting, allowing your friends & family the chance to view pictures at their leisure -- and often order hard copies as a bonus. Not everybody has broadband access, and us "Technology Haves" should be teaching the "have nots" to 1) not send huge f'in emails and 2) don't blindly open every attachment you get.
In conclusion, do not send large attachments over email.
So what happens when my wife and I have sex.
Do the two networks connect?
I think the more important question is, "what happens when my girlfriends wants to know what I'm doing with all of these extra 'Client Access Licences'."
But sweetie, they just came as part of a bundle... I hardly ever use more than two at once...
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You're surprised? I thought every one knew that 83.13% of statistics are created on the spot.
Eh, that's tricky. I was originaly going to write "the uni has to do what it must to protect its network, and if that means prohibiting the installation of wireless access points to its network, so be it". But the article mentions that these access points are being attached to commercial ISP's, and labels these rooms as "apartments".
The situation gets a bit stickier there:
But for the most part, the school's IT department should reconize what they installed: a wireless network that 1) has security issues, 2) has reliability issues, and 3) "must accept interference" as per the FCC. Saying "Hey, your unregulated device is f'in up my unregulated device, you've got to take yours down!" is kind of a big-bully attitude.
How do I get ls to produce color output?
Then you, sir, must have missed my monkey post.
Shit, and I mis-read the title as "Potato Gun found in Mice".
Astroturf?
I'll concede on the "office has a lot of features" point, but I wouldn't call them nice. Autoformating bites nuts, and I can't get into the way Word applies styles. I'm much rather create documents in HTML & CSS, which makes me think that I should probably look into LaTeX...
But any way, while it may be fairly stable, its not-so-nice features (like autoformat/autocomplete) really make it unintuitive to use.
... the same way I like me jeans: baggy.
::sniff::
Riiiight... a joke I got in an email a decade ago should be credited to monkeymania.co.uk? Uhm, NO, but thanks for playing.
:-)
That joke was first forwarded to me @sitvxc.stevens-tech.edu 10 years ago. That particular machine (sitvxc) has been dead for over 8 years, and I've been told that email sent to stevens-tech.edu bounces (the school uses stevens.edu now).
So I tell you what... You find the true author, and give him credit. I doubld dog dare ya :-)
And FWIW, google doesn't find that story anywhere on slashdot.
An anon coward post:
An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
In this case, I'm obviously playing off of the parent post's use of the term "retarded monkeys". The deeper message is you get what you pay for: nickle monkeys die, and in this case the so-called "cheaper" software sucks.
What's wrong with monkeys? I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
Just use the "one" key111 Everyone will know what you mean, especially if you end every sentance with three of 'em111 See?1?
I see... a methane burning engine, and "U of BC Engineers Go To Taco Bell".
I'd bet ya that a couple of Chimichanga Burrito Supream Stupidbigs would induce one human to produce enough methane to power a small 'copter for a 5 minute trip.
I also played with self... I don't think anyone would be particularly impressed with my results. I mean, I finished quickly enough -- but the output was rather messy.
Screwed? I'm the one with the 4 D-Cell mag light within quick reach... I'd say that the dipshit that hits me will be the one that gets beaten^W screwed.
Penguin &&/|| Katie T. should have just registered "katiedotcom.com" and put this whole mess behind them.
Don't be so pedantic, the guy was being funny.
Oh, wait...
Uhm, that's just wrong. I work for a small company that spends about $1,200 a month on telecom, and even we get a nation-wide toll-free number for 6 cents a minute, with no connection fees. I'd imagine that Microsoft spends many times that amount every hour, and are surely paying the very best rate available for their 800 numbers.
I disagree. They are already predicting the death of email due to spam & worms & other crap.
Yes, some email clients offer a "message preview" before downloading thw whole email; some clients don't automatically download large emails. But those are not default configurations in the majority of email programs out there. Further, not seeing your all your email automatically, as one is used to, can be disconcerning for those that don't know better.
Finally, SMTP is an ASCII protocol; if you're going to send binary attachments over email, they must first be encoded into a 7-bit ascii friendly format. Doing that adds at least 12 perecent (7 usable bits/byte vs. 8), so it makes your download even larger than it has to be.
No, HTTP -- and even FTP -- are available for distributing files: those protocols were made to do that; SMTP wasn't.
Uh-oh. Isn't this what Nietzsche was writing about... and subsequently appropriated by the Nazis to further their ideals? Zee Germans may have a few tricks up zhere sleaves.
Do not send large attachments over email.
Again, do not send large attachments over email.
Nothing is worse then trying to download a really important email, but being stuck waiting for a hand full of large, mostly less-important messages to download. Ofoto, Shutterfly, and others offer free image hosting, allowing your friends & family the chance to view pictures at their leisure -- and often order hard copies as a bonus. Not everybody has broadband access, and us "Technology Haves" should be teaching the "have nots" to 1) not send huge f'in emails and 2) don't blindly open every attachment you get.
In conclusion, do not send large attachments over email.
I think the more important question is, "what happens when my girlfriends wants to know what I'm doing with all of these extra 'Client Access Licences'."
But sweetie, they just came as part of a bundle... I hardly ever use more than two at once...
Besides, isn't that usually a "nut behind the wheel" or PEBKAC kinda issue?
'cause there's no "+1, Ironic" mod?
... which is not the same as "-1, Moronic", in case you didn't realize...