You can steer your career path any way you please. I have spent the last 6 years trying to get away from windows, and now I rarely come into contact with it, and generally only when looking at applications that affect or interact with the unix space, like Citrix metaframe.
I have never wanted an MCSE or any other Microsoft qualification, and there is utterly no reason for me to go down that path - unix contract work, with integration, networking and security aspects are plentiful in the market at the moment.
Believe it or not, I have actually seen a job listing that stated the following: "Have an MCSE? DONT apply!". This was listed late 2003. Bemused, and because there was a substational unix requirement I applied for and gained an interview with the company. They were an ISP full of long-haired debian fanatics, with narry a suit or tie to be seen, but a lot of colorful furniture and nerf gear. Up until that time, I thought that stuff either died out during the dot.com bust, or was a stereotype and never really existed at all. I passed on the offer, but it really made my day.
Maybe we should apply anti-tamper technologies like md5sums, public key authentication, and so on to legislation to detect the malicious hackers that try to make stealth/trojan modifications of these proposed laws?
It seems like they employ techniques used by virus writers and other criminal elements - there are known defenses against these trojan-type attacks, so they can be re-used in this non-software space.
But wait, that works under the assumption that the legal process wants to maintain self-integrity ; that politicians will be self-policing and honest. So scratch that thought.
So what exactly is this great and pressing need for killing all the Japanese.. The kids and families incinerated by those bombs were just as innocent and blameless as any child of the Warsaw ghettos. If you are using war as an excuse to throw any standards of humanity away and embrace barbarism and savagery, hey Germany was at war too right?
Do you realise you come across as an apologist for some of the most warped and evil behaviour the human race has ever committed against one another? Thats pretty sad, I hope you get over all the hate one day because theres more than enough of that in the world without it being added to.
So whats your insightful critique and analysis of why genocide and mass killing of japanese civilians is utterly different ( and morally correct ) compared to genocide and mass killing of jewish civilians? I'm sure an Ubermensch like yourself can fill my poor ignorant self in on the subtle differences.
Maybe for an encore you can explain why blowing people up with bombs is a noble and compassionate act too?
I eagerly await your pearls of wisdom, Oh enlightened one!
Yeah because murdering thousands of innocent people makes you a TRUE hero, take a bow!
To hell with medical research, food aid, relief supplies, clean water and emergency shelters - Bombs for everyone, because they all save lives!
Odd how you refer to the taking of hundreds of thousands of lives as a necessity, there was a german chap who used to feel the same way back in the 40's, whatever happened to that heroic moral crusader of virtue and peace anyways?
I'd like to know exactly how one goes about troubleshooting sound in MacOSX anyway. Do you open up some control applet and stare helplessly at a bunch of checkboxes that you have already tried before to no avail? Or do you fire up an xterm, bash , man and vi and hack away at/etc files just as you would under any other unix?
Its great that Jamie can afford to throw a few thousand dollars at a new system in a fit of pique because its beneath him to RTFA, we should all be so fortunate eh? Enjoy your proprietry OS updates too, you can pay for each one of those as well.. unless you want to put up with bugs you have no way of fixing yourself in perpetuity.
David Blaine can eat his own head, its no wonder he has become an evil genius with dire powers.
For lesser mortals, a steady nutrious diet of master mindflayers, wraiths and giants ought to do the trick, with a side order of quantum mechanics and floating eyes. Mystery eggs however should be avoided at all costs.
I think its very sad for windows that it is hopelessly hardware and driver-crippled out of the box, and it needs vendor-supplied drivers to merely get up and working. Linux and the *BSDs just dont have this problem.
I mean, you cant even install Windows onto a PA-RISC, UltraSPARC or MIPS box for Linus' sake! How on earth do windows users cope?! Its like they are second class IT citizens, struggling to get by with a sluggish, unstable legacy OS that no one wants to help them with:(
In most offices and enterprises I have worked in the Microsoft-people are the irritable, dishevelled, harrassed-looking people that are instinctively dishonest and evasive whenever you ask them anything "Hey Bob has that server crashed again?", "No there is nothing wrong with the server, its clearly all your fault.", "So why is the whole department complaining about the same problem, and whats with that cloud of smoke seeping underneath the server room door anyways?". The suited shmoozers are probably the sales types offering up Microsoft-software like crack dealers, "Just try out this evaluation server package, its free for 60 days! After that, you just wont be able to say no to Microsoft, trust me!"
In contract the linux/Unix people seem more relaxed and laid back, if not more polished and professional looking. They are better paid, more qualified, and deal with more interesting projects. Sure, there are a few bearded brown cardigan-wearing types that lurk on the social fringes, but they are the exception now rather than the rule.
Yeah thats true. I had a raid on my business by the local Debian License Enforcement group who demanded I show receipts and license certificates for all my linux installs, and threatened to shut down my company if I failed to comply.
Fortunately I was running the ultra-reliable and cheap SCO and Microsoft OSes exclusively, so I was safe from their extortion and blackmail. That charity down the road though was not so lucky, the last I saw of them was their office being looted and their servers being loaded into the back of a garishly painted Kombi van with a huge grinning evil-looking Penguin on the side of it.
So if all I knew was gnumeric, evolution, kmail and openoffice I would be completely incapable of using the MS office suite in a workplace? Nonsense. By the same token, would you expect a MS user sitting down at a system presenting a Gnome or KDE desktop to be utterly helpless and unable to do anything?
Its not true of adults, and its certainly not true of children who take to any new environment like a duck to water and are capable of learning much faster than any adult.
Its more a historical summary than a precise review.
Apache was slammed in a ( soon to be infamous ) review done by Mindcraft back in 1999 ( some post-incident slashdot coverage here ) as being slower than IIS at serving static content ; though much faster at content generated on the fly via php/perl/python and the like. The tests were biased heavily in favour of IIS, but after the BS was filtered out and the report distilled down to the bare facts, it was admitted that IIS did indeed have the edge in serving some specific content types. After a bit of grumbling, a few side projects like the tux webserver & kernel httpd were born, then the best ideas and strengths of each were rolled out with apache 2.x, and it has never looked back.
Incidentally, its a perfect example of the strengths of opensource development: critiques even if intended as flamebait or non-constructive criticism might point out legitimate weaknesses -> community is galvanised into action -> weaknesses are repaired -> project is stronger -> profit!
spec.org should have fairly impartial albeit dry results, or you can dig up old apache articles on/. like this or this.
No reason. However going by historical benchmark precedents, and with the assumption that open-source applications improve at a faster rate than their proprietry competition, I find the claim to be rather improbable.
Is Apache/Linux the "end-all-be-all, there is nothing that can be better so let's stop trying" type of quality?
Nope. Its merely the best we have right now, there is always room for improvement. Are the guys who work at Microsoft a bunch of idiots that anyone can out-program?
No, but they are coders forced to work with antiquated interfaces and inbred development tools in secrecy using a clunky weak OS with a decade of accumulated garbage under the hood. An OS that has evolved due to marketing and legal impervatives ( gosh we had better make IE an essential part of the OS just like we claimed in court! ) rather than technical, performance, or security goals.
I'm sure IIS is better at some things, maybe more things, maybe less.
Yeah, it runs.ASP and ActiveX better than Linux/Apache, or any other OS/webserver combination! *Golf clap for IIS*
Perhaps you dont know X and Linux as well as you like to think you do. Ever heard of Knoppix? Boot it on any x86 box with pretty much any video card, and it starts X and a full-featured desktop ready for use. It really *is* that easy.
I challenge you to get a usable Microsoft environment - desktop, IM, email, webbrowser, and office apps in ~5 minutes on any random box. Better yet, see if you can do it on a system with no harddrive.
Seriously, Linux has pulled so far ahead of Windows as a viable platform, you really need to take a look at current offerings. I struggled to get X running on Slackware back in 1994 sure, it took a couple of days and I knew little about X or linux at the time. Wasting days getting X working in this day and age is absurd - unless you enjoy the challenge of writing your own video and kernel driver, in which case it is a perfectly understandable use of time!
I found the cybermen more scary than the daleks, what with their elite stair-climbing skills, and how they could kill people and then re-animate them with nasty control-helmet things on as proto-cybermen.
The daleks did have a spot in Paradroid on the C64 though, one of the better games of the era, and faithfully reproduced in Freedroid
Theres a lot of anger in that post. As a veteran of your calibre, I would ask you why you restrict yourself to technologies and software packages ( like RPM ) that you find useless, buggy, or worse.
There are plenty of alternatives you know.
And the "not getting the GUI" rant is utterly irrelevant to Linux, which after all is a kernel and has no preferential behaviour to CLI, GUI, mind-meld interface, smoke-signal quadrature shift-keying, or any other means of interfacing to it.
If its the distributions you are railing against, then pick one that boots to an X desktop, with accessible applications via popup menus, and a MS control panel workalike. It seems like you only have your own ignorance to blame for your outlook, not linux/GNU/application developers.
Yeah because a few snide comments to the press are a great reason to abandon a profitable high-profile business - quitters are winners! Look at McVoy, the skillful, diligent way he threw a tantrum, took his toys and went home will garner him the greatest respect and credibility from the community.
Remember how Microsoft gave up the software business years ago after a single negative comment about the quality of their software? What an amazing day, I wonder where Bill Gates would be today if they kept on selling software...
Fuck, here comes Chef Boy-R-D and his patent lawyers. Someone tell that 90 year old woman she is no longer lawfully allowed to make her family dinner.
Dont you get it? This 90 year old woman is a communist, an IP pirate, and a damn thief! Shes with the terrorists! Stop stealing the valuable intellectual property of Smuckers, you Jesus-hating enemies of America! Send her to federal PMITA prison for 20 years after hitting her with a $500,000 fine per IP violation I say!
Oh wait, thats what things are like in the fascist, dystopian Bizarro World, not the US. Nice to see sanity prevailing for a change.
I'm still waiting on the edge of my seat with anticipation to hear some ignorant putz equate breaking DRM to stealing CDs from a shop.
How can I steal something that I own? Are you a criminal for locking up your car at night, and then unlocking it when you want to use it?
There is a reason why noone is buying the lies despite the volume of propaganda that the content cartels are pumping out - its obvious even to children how false and utterly without merit their claims are.
How trustworthy do you believe the people are that made these 'protections' ? Their assurance that they have done the right thing and havent inserted any secret backdoors into their proprietry code is not good enough, I'm sure it would be a simple thing to bring up plenty of examples in which companies have lied in similar situations. This is another form of Treacherous Computing, in which control over your system is not retained by you, but is in the hands of some third party.
Its a similar problem to having proprietry BIOS present on the motherboard, an issue now being addressed by the Campaign for Free BIOS. Given that the harddrive has a type of firmware, its likely flash-upgradable in some fashion. It would be a great thing to replace this with Free Software that allows the user to have full control over their system.
Interesting. I would suggest that George W Bush is responsible for half the points you have attributed solely to Bin Laden. Or is OBL secretly running the US government and authorising all the foreign and domestic policy since that fateful day?
I'm quite sure Osama does not need to take credit for the actions of any other mass murderer or war criminal, he has done more than enough as it is.
I guess you have never seen kernel code with copyright assigned to RedHat Inc before? Heres a hint, some obscure kernel hacker with a name that sounds like "Callen Ox" has contributed these, oh the horror, this totally means that all of Linux is illegal now!
Oh wait, no it doesnt. Drat and blast. Back to the old drawing board for you, for more planning and plotting deep in the bowels of Redmond:
"Destroying Linux - Subtle Plan No. 65373463 - It will work this time for sure!!"
Another rant by the what's-his-name Institute of Lies, Damn lies, and Distortion proved that Linux is a legal time bomb ticking away.
Hark! Do you hear that Microsoft? That is the sound of your own mortality.. tick tick tick. Just as SCO were ground into the dust of history by the inevitable, implacable march of one billion cheerful penguins, so shall all who oppose the fearsome, dreadful might of Sharing Software, Free Communication and Collaboration, and Helping Your Neighbour!
No file sharing technology is illegal, any more than the RFCs, FTP, apache, exchange, IETF, sendmail or cisco routers are illegal. No precedent is necessary, because laws are not passed by mechanism of the MPAA/RIAA declaring something illegal. Their opinion is utterly irrelevent.
Dont make the mistake of believing that they are in any position of authority to make laws, enforce laws, or pass judgement on laws, it is simply not so.
Getting back on topic, its pretty pathetic that a university of all places can be duped by schoolyard-grade gutter propaganda. As the saying goes - Those who can, do; those who cant, teach.
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You can steer your career path any way you please. I have spent the last 6 years trying to get away from windows, and now I rarely come into contact with it, and generally only when looking at applications that affect or interact with the unix space, like Citrix metaframe.
I have never wanted an MCSE or any other Microsoft qualification, and there is utterly no reason for me to go down that path - unix contract work, with integration, networking and security aspects are plentiful in the market at the moment.
Believe it or not, I have actually seen a job listing that stated the following: "Have an MCSE? DONT apply!". This was listed late 2003. Bemused, and because there was a substational unix requirement I applied for and gained an interview with the company. They were an ISP full of long-haired debian fanatics, with narry a suit or tie to be seen, but a lot of colorful furniture and nerf gear. Up until that time, I thought that stuff either died out during the dot.com bust, or was a stereotype and never really existed at all. I passed on the offer, but it really made my day.
Maybe we should apply anti-tamper technologies like md5sums, public key authentication, and so on to legislation to detect the malicious hackers that try to make stealth/trojan modifications of these proposed laws?
It seems like they employ techniques used by virus writers and other criminal elements - there are known defenses against these trojan-type attacks, so they can be re-used in this non-software space.
But wait, that works under the assumption that the legal process wants to maintain self-integrity ; that politicians will be self-policing and honest. So scratch that thought.
So what exactly is this great and pressing need for killing all the Japanese.. The kids and families incinerated by those bombs were just as innocent and blameless as any child of the Warsaw ghettos. If you are using war as an excuse to throw any standards of humanity away and embrace barbarism and savagery, hey Germany was at war too right?
Do you realise you come across as an apologist for some of the most warped and evil behaviour the human race has ever committed against one another? Thats pretty sad, I hope you get over all the hate one day because theres more than enough of that in the world without it being added to.
So whats your insightful critique and analysis of why genocide and mass killing of japanese civilians is utterly different ( and morally correct ) compared to genocide and mass killing of jewish civilians? I'm sure an Ubermensch like yourself can fill my poor ignorant self in on the subtle differences.
Maybe for an encore you can explain why blowing people up with bombs is a noble and compassionate act too?
I eagerly await your pearls of wisdom, Oh enlightened one!
Yeah because murdering thousands of innocent people makes you a TRUE hero, take a bow!
To hell with medical research, food aid, relief supplies, clean water and emergency shelters - Bombs for everyone, because they all save lives!
Odd how you refer to the taking of hundreds of thousands of lives as a necessity, there was a german chap who used to feel the same way back in the 40's, whatever happened to that heroic moral crusader of virtue and peace anyways?
I'd like to know exactly how one goes about troubleshooting sound in MacOSX anyway. Do you open up some control applet and stare helplessly at a bunch of checkboxes that you have already tried before to no avail? Or do you fire up an xterm, bash , man and vi and hack away at /etc files just as you would under any other unix?
Its great that Jamie can afford to throw a few thousand dollars at a new system in a fit of pique because its beneath him to RTFA, we should all be so fortunate eh? Enjoy your proprietry OS updates too, you can pay for each one of those as well.. unless you want to put up with bugs you have no way of fixing yourself in perpetuity.
David Blaine can eat his own head, its no wonder he has become an evil genius with dire powers.
For lesser mortals, a steady nutrious diet of master mindflayers, wraiths and giants ought to do the trick, with a side order of quantum mechanics and floating eyes. Mystery eggs however should be avoided at all costs.
I think its very sad for windows that it is hopelessly hardware and driver-crippled out of the box, and it needs vendor-supplied drivers to merely get up and working. Linux and the *BSDs just dont have this problem.
:(
I mean, you cant even install Windows onto a PA-RISC, UltraSPARC or MIPS box for Linus' sake! How on earth do windows users cope?! Its like they are second class IT citizens, struggling to get by with a sluggish, unstable legacy OS that no one wants to help them with
Interesting that you perceive the image that way.
In most offices and enterprises I have worked in the Microsoft-people are the irritable, dishevelled, harrassed-looking people that are instinctively dishonest and evasive whenever you ask them anything "Hey Bob has that server crashed again?", "No there is nothing wrong with the server, its clearly all your fault.", "So why is the whole department complaining about the same problem, and whats with that cloud of smoke seeping underneath the server room door anyways?". The suited shmoozers are probably the sales types offering up Microsoft-software like crack dealers, "Just try out this evaluation server package, its free for 60 days! After that, you just wont be able to say no to Microsoft, trust me!"
In contract the linux/Unix people seem more relaxed and laid back, if not more polished and professional looking. They are better paid, more qualified, and deal with more interesting projects. Sure, there are a few bearded brown cardigan-wearing types that lurk on the social fringes, but they are the exception now rather than the rule.
Using gpg --verify and md5sum/sha1sum perhaps?
Authentication is easy, distribution is even easier.
Behold the awesome power of teh intarweb!!1one
Yeah thats true. I had a raid on my business by the local Debian License Enforcement group who demanded I show receipts and license certificates for all my linux installs, and threatened to shut down my company if I failed to comply.
Fortunately I was running the ultra-reliable and cheap SCO and Microsoft OSes exclusively, so I was safe from their extortion and blackmail. That charity down the road though was not so lucky, the last I saw of them was their office being looted and their servers being loaded into the back of a garishly painted Kombi van with a huge grinning evil-looking Penguin on the side of it.
Damn you Linux vendors.. Damn You!
So if all I knew was gnumeric, evolution, kmail and openoffice I would be completely incapable of using the MS office suite in a workplace? Nonsense. By the same token, would you expect a MS user sitting down at a system presenting a Gnome or KDE desktop to be utterly helpless and unable to do anything?
Its not true of adults, and its certainly not true of children who take to any new environment like a duck to water and are capable of learning much faster than any adult.
Its more a historical summary than a precise review.
/. like this or this.
Apache was slammed in a ( soon to be infamous ) review done by Mindcraft back in 1999 ( some post-incident slashdot coverage here ) as being slower than IIS at serving static content ; though much faster at content generated on the fly via php/perl/python and the like. The tests were biased heavily in favour of IIS, but after the BS was filtered out and the report distilled down to the bare facts, it was admitted that IIS did indeed have the edge in serving some specific content types. After a bit of grumbling, a few side projects like the tux webserver & kernel httpd were born, then the best ideas and strengths of each were rolled out with apache 2.x, and it has never looked back.
Incidentally, its a perfect example of the strengths of opensource development: critiques even if intended as flamebait or non-constructive criticism might point out legitimate weaknesses -> community is galvanised into action -> weaknesses are repaired -> project is stronger -> profit!
spec.org should have fairly impartial albeit dry results, or you can dig up old apache articles on
Google is also your friend, post Mindcraft articles and mailing-lists generated a lot of 'how do we speed up apache' type discussion.
Why couldn't IIS be faster than Apache?
.ASP and ActiveX better than Linux/Apache, or any other OS/webserver combination! *Golf clap for IIS*
No reason. However going by historical benchmark precedents, and with the assumption that open-source applications improve at a faster rate than their proprietry competition, I find the claim to be rather improbable.
Is Apache/Linux the "end-all-be-all, there is nothing that can be better so let's stop trying" type of quality?
Nope. Its merely the best we have right now, there is always room for improvement.
Are the guys who work at Microsoft a bunch of idiots that anyone can out-program?
No, but they are coders forced to work with antiquated interfaces and inbred development tools in secrecy using a clunky weak OS with a decade of accumulated garbage under the hood. An OS that has evolved due to marketing and legal impervatives ( gosh we had better make IE an essential part of the OS just like we claimed in court! ) rather than technical, performance, or security goals.
I'm sure IIS is better at some things, maybe more things, maybe less.
Yeah, it runs
Perhaps you dont know X and Linux as well as you like to think you do. Ever heard of Knoppix? Boot it on any x86 box with pretty much any video card, and it starts X and a full-featured desktop ready for use. It really *is* that easy.
I challenge you to get a usable Microsoft environment - desktop, IM, email, webbrowser, and office apps in ~5 minutes on any random box. Better yet, see if you can do it on a system with no harddrive.
Seriously, Linux has pulled so far ahead of Windows as a viable platform, you really need to take a look at current offerings. I struggled to get X running on Slackware back in 1994 sure, it took a couple of days and I knew little about X or linux at the time. Wasting days getting X working in this day and age is absurd - unless you enjoy the challenge of writing your own video and kernel driver, in which case it is a perfectly understandable use of time!
I found the cybermen more scary than the daleks, what with their elite stair-climbing skills, and how they could kill people and then re-animate them with nasty control-helmet things on as proto-cybermen.
The daleks did have a spot in Paradroid on the C64 though, one of the better games of the era, and faithfully reproduced in Freedroid
Theres a lot of anger in that post. As a veteran of your calibre, I would ask you why you restrict yourself to technologies and software packages ( like RPM ) that you find useless, buggy, or worse.
There are plenty of alternatives you know.
And the "not getting the GUI" rant is utterly irrelevant to Linux, which after all is a kernel and has no preferential behaviour to CLI, GUI, mind-meld interface, smoke-signal quadrature shift-keying, or any other means of interfacing to it.
If its the distributions you are railing against, then pick one that boots to an X desktop, with accessible applications via popup menus, and a MS control panel workalike. It seems like you only have your own ignorance to blame for your outlook, not linux/GNU/application developers.
Yeah because a few snide comments to the press are a great reason to abandon a profitable high-profile business - quitters are winners! Look at McVoy, the skillful, diligent way he threw a tantrum, took his toys and went home will garner him the greatest respect and credibility from the community.
Remember how Microsoft gave up the software business years ago after a single negative comment about the quality of their software? What an amazing day, I wonder where Bill Gates would be today if they kept on selling software...
Fuck, here comes Chef Boy-R-D and his patent lawyers. Someone tell that 90 year old woman she is no longer lawfully allowed to make her family dinner.
Dont you get it? This 90 year old woman is a communist, an IP pirate, and a damn thief! Shes with the terrorists! Stop stealing the valuable intellectual property of Smuckers, you Jesus-hating enemies of America! Send her to federal PMITA prison for 20 years after hitting her with a $500,000 fine per IP violation I say!
Oh wait, thats what things are like in the fascist, dystopian Bizarro World, not the US. Nice to see sanity prevailing for a change.
I'm still waiting on the edge of my seat with anticipation to hear some ignorant putz equate breaking DRM to stealing CDs from a shop.
How can I steal something that I own? Are you a criminal for locking up your car at night, and then unlocking it when you want to use it?
There is a reason why noone is buying the lies despite the volume of propaganda that the content cartels are pumping out - its obvious even to children how false and utterly without merit their claims are.
How trustworthy do you believe the people are that made these 'protections' ? Their assurance that they have done the right thing and havent inserted any secret backdoors into their proprietry code is not good enough, I'm sure it would be a simple thing to bring up plenty of examples in which companies have lied in similar situations. This is another form of Treacherous Computing, in which control over your system is not retained by you, but is in the hands of some third party.
Its a similar problem to having proprietry BIOS present on the motherboard, an issue now being addressed by the Campaign for Free BIOS. Given that the harddrive has a type of firmware, its likely flash-upgradable in some fashion. It would be a great thing to replace this with Free Software that allows the user to have full control over their system.
Interesting. I would suggest that George W Bush is responsible for half the points you have attributed solely to Bin Laden. Or is OBL secretly running the US government and authorising all the foreign and domestic policy since that fateful day?
I'm quite sure Osama does not need to take credit for the actions of any other mass murderer or war criminal, he has done more than enough as it is.
I guess you have never seen kernel code with copyright assigned to RedHat Inc before? Heres a hint, some obscure kernel hacker with a name that sounds like "Callen Ox" has contributed these, oh the horror, this totally means that all of Linux is illegal now!
Oh wait, no it doesnt. Drat and blast. Back to the old drawing board for you, for more planning and plotting deep in the bowels of Redmond:
"Destroying Linux - Subtle Plan No. 65373463 - It will work this time for sure!!"
Another rant by the what's-his-name Institute of Lies, Damn lies, and Distortion proved that Linux is a legal time bomb ticking away.
Hark! Do you hear that Microsoft? That is the sound of your own mortality.. tick tick tick. Just as SCO were ground into the dust of history by the inevitable, implacable march of one billion cheerful penguins, so shall all who oppose the fearsome, dreadful might of Sharing Software, Free Communication and Collaboration, and Helping Your Neighbour!
No file sharing technology is illegal, any more than the RFCs, FTP, apache, exchange, IETF, sendmail or cisco routers are illegal. No precedent is necessary, because laws are not passed by mechanism of the MPAA/RIAA declaring something illegal. Their opinion is utterly irrelevent.
Dont make the mistake of believing that they are in any position of authority to make laws, enforce laws, or pass judgement on laws, it is simply not so.
Getting back on topic, its pretty pathetic that a university of all places can be duped by schoolyard-grade gutter propaganda. As the saying goes - Those who can, do; those who cant, teach.