And just how do you plan on executing that instruction if you haven't got power eh? Or maybe you were expecting Martians to run your scripts for you.;)
ICARUS IS NOT ABOUT P2P! When will you people get this through your heads? It's about managing an enterprise class network with over 6000 nodes. ICARUS has also been used to help track down and identify hosts infected with things like Welchia so users can be contacted and cleaned. Do you even have a clue what HALF of those nodes using Kazaa on a 10 or 100Mbps LAN does to network performance? P2P programs beat hell out of a network and in some cases actually deny service to other users, which is another violation of the Acceptable Use Policy which students agreed to beforehand. I know this firsthand. I've seen it occur. Find a P2P program that's polite to a network and provides encryption and anonymity to users and maybe you'll see the RIAA go bye bye.
P2P just happens to be the thing that's pissing off students who want their free copyrighted mp3s. If students want mp3s, they can pay for them. iTunes' service is allowed. So are various other pay services. The vast majority of P2P is used for the illicit download of copyrighted music and movies, but that's not the point. If you're getting Linux ISOs from P2P, you're stupid -- not only because it's a security risk, but also because we have an Internet2 connection at UF as well as a local FTP mirror of a few Linux distros (Mandrake, Knoppix, Knoppix-STD to name the ones I remember off the top of my head), and even FreeBSD IIRC. There are alternatives to Kazaa for your digital media.
Under the DMCA, the University of Florida, as an ISP, is responsible for its users' activities. Yes, that's stupid, but that is the law, and UF isn't fond of testing out shaky legal ground by opposing the RIAA and its filing of dozens of lawsuits if the University were to fail to do anything about students using P2P. It's either we restrict users for a few minutes and say "hey, don't do that" or we turn their names over to the RIAA. Because of the DMCA, those are the only choices we are left with. Which would you rather have?
ICARUS IS NOT ABOUT P2P! When will you people get this through your heads? It's about managing an enterprise class network with over 6000 nodes. ICARUS has also been used to help track down and identify hosts infected with things like Welchia so users can be contacted and cleaned. Do you even have a clue what HALF of those nodes using Kazaa on a 10 or 100Mbps LAN does to network performance? P2P programs beat hell out of a network and in some cases actually deny service to other users, which is another violation of the Acceptable Use Policy which students agreed to beforehand. I know this firsthand. I've seen it occur. Find a P2P program that's polite to a network and provides encryption and anonymity to users and maybe you'll see the RIAA go bye bye.
P2P just happens to be the thing that's pissing off students who want their free copyrighted mp3s. If students want mp3s, they can pay for them. iTunes' service is allowed. So are various other pay services. The vast majority of P2P is used for the illicit download of copyrighted music and movies, but that's not the point. If you're getting Linux ISOs from P2P, you're stupid -- not only because it's a security risk, but also because we have an Internet2 connection at UF as well as a local FTP mirror of a few Linux distros (Mandrake, Knoppix, Knoppix-STD to name the ones I remember off the top of my head), and even FreeBSD IIRC. There are alternatives to Kazaa for your digital media.
Under the DMCA, the University of Florida, as an ISP, is responsible for its users' activities. Yes, that's stupid, but that is the law, and UF isn't fond of testing out shaky legal ground by opposing the RIAA and its filing of dozens of lawsuits if the University were to fail to do anything about students using P2P. It's either we restrict users for a few minutes and say "hey, don't do that" or we turn their names over to the RIAA. Because of the DMCA, those are the only choices we are left with. Which would you rather have?
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And just how do you plan on executing that instruction if you haven't got power eh? Or maybe you were expecting Martians to run your scripts for you.
That's what they get for not using ntpd. ;-)
We're already responsible for the content on our networks. It's called the DMCA in case you missed all the /. articles on it.
ICARUS IS NOT ABOUT P2P! When will you people get this through your heads? It's about managing an enterprise class network with over 6000 nodes. ICARUS has also been used to help track down and identify hosts infected with things like Welchia so users can be contacted and cleaned. Do you even have a clue what HALF of those nodes using Kazaa on a 10 or 100Mbps LAN does to network performance? P2P programs beat hell out of a network and in some cases actually deny service to other users, which is another violation of the Acceptable Use Policy which students agreed to beforehand. I know this firsthand. I've seen it occur. Find a P2P program that's polite to a network and provides encryption and anonymity to users and maybe you'll see the RIAA go bye bye.
P2P just happens to be the thing that's pissing off students who want their free copyrighted mp3s. If students want mp3s, they can pay for them. iTunes' service is allowed. So are various other pay services. The vast majority of P2P is used for the illicit download of copyrighted music and movies, but that's not the point. If you're getting Linux ISOs from P2P, you're stupid -- not only because it's a security risk, but also because we have an Internet2 connection at UF as well as a local FTP mirror of a few Linux distros (Mandrake, Knoppix, Knoppix-STD to name the ones I remember off the top of my head), and even FreeBSD IIRC. There are alternatives to Kazaa for your digital media.
Under the DMCA, the University of Florida, as an ISP, is responsible for its users' activities. Yes, that's stupid, but that is the law, and UF isn't fond of testing out shaky legal ground by opposing the RIAA and its filing of dozens of lawsuits if the University were to fail to do anything about students using P2P. It's either we restrict users for a few minutes and say "hey, don't do that" or we turn their names over to the RIAA. Because of the DMCA, those are the only choices we are left with. Which would you rather have?
ICARUS IS NOT ABOUT P2P! When will you people get this through your heads? It's about managing an enterprise class network with over 6000 nodes. ICARUS has also been used to help track down and identify hosts infected with things like Welchia so users can be contacted and cleaned. Do you even have a clue what HALF of those nodes using Kazaa on a 10 or 100Mbps LAN does to network performance? P2P programs beat hell out of a network and in some cases actually deny service to other users, which is another violation of the Acceptable Use Policy which students agreed to beforehand. I know this firsthand. I've seen it occur. Find a P2P program that's polite to a network and provides encryption and anonymity to users and maybe you'll see the RIAA go bye bye. P2P just happens to be the thing that's pissing off students who want their free copyrighted mp3s. If students want mp3s, they can pay for them. iTunes' service is allowed. So are various other pay services. The vast majority of P2P is used for the illicit download of copyrighted music and movies, but that's not the point. If you're getting Linux ISOs from P2P, you're stupid -- not only because it's a security risk, but also because we have an Internet2 connection at UF as well as a local FTP mirror of a few Linux distros (Mandrake, Knoppix, Knoppix-STD to name the ones I remember off the top of my head), and even FreeBSD IIRC. There are alternatives to Kazaa for your digital media. Under the DMCA, the University of Florida, as an ISP, is responsible for its users' activities. Yes, that's stupid, but that is the law, and UF isn't fond of testing out shaky legal ground by opposing the RIAA and its filing of dozens of lawsuits if the University were to fail to do anything about students using P2P. It's either we restrict users for a few minutes and say "hey, don't do that" or we turn their names over to the RIAA. Because of the DMCA, those are the only choices we are left with. Which would you rather have?