I fear that, under this system, a malicious user would only have to break into one central system to wreak havoc on the entire network.
Isn't that already true?
Anyway, keep this in mind: it's their network, and therefore it's their responsibility to secure it as best they can. If you don't like their methods, that's certainly your choice, and thus your best option may be a modem and your own dialup account off-campus.
IMHO, you needn't worry about much invasion of privacy at a small liberal arts college. Such institutions tend to avoid such controversy. But make no mistake, you have no right to unfettered internet access when it's their network. It's a privilege, not a right.
With all those zombies mailing out spam, I have to wince at the possibility of removing the 128k upload bottleneck
Personally, as a non-spammer, I've been just *dying* to lose the 256k cap on my cable modem... As a webcaster, i'm very limited in my ability to expand my offerings. I'd love to be able to offer higher quality streams than my current 64k.
Of course, if it costs $100/month to get this level of service, that won't help me a bit... I can spend that with Comcast right now if I want a higher U/L cap.
Uh, yeah, frankly I was surprised to get modded up that high, with what (I readily admit) was not the best example to make my point... The plaintiff here wasn't the corporation.
But...venturing slightly off topic to answer this, I think placing a coffee cup in your lap is ill advised at any "coffee" temperature. I make no character judgments about this woman, nor do I deny that she was injured or suffered from it. What I don't believe is that McDonalds is liable for anything. Coffee is hot. I say, deal with that. Don't place the cup between your legs at any time. If you do, assume you will get burned and suffer, and I think that's nobody's problem but your own.
Now, if someone threw that 180 degree cup of coffee at you, that's a different discussion all together!
If you settle, you are agreeing that the other side's case had merit such that you're willing to pay to make it go away.
Heh, in reality you are agreeing that a Large Company With Deep Pockets has enough money to pay their lawyers longer than you can afford to pay yours.
While the insane legal interpretation may be that you admit the case had merit, that is rarely the case. This is why McDonalds coffee cups now have a printed warning that the contents may be hot. Duh.
If we had some tort reform in the US, and insituted a "loser pays" system, then the truly innocent could afford to fight the good fight to the end rather than settle, and legal persecutions in the US courts would all but disappear.
But the lawyers we elect to represent us will never let that happen... Lawyers make a living out of creating victims where there were none.
Give people an alternative desktop that asks no sacarfice on their part and you kill the giant. IBM has the resources to do this.
I disagree. If that's all it took, and if IBM had the resources (they did and still do), they had their opportunity with OS/2. They failed to create (or successfully foster the creation of) a base of applications users wanted, AND they failed to break the MS stranglehold on vendors.
It was all a marketing campaign to be the "anti-windows." For IBM Linux is no different than OS/2. It's still a marketing campaign to be the "anti-windows." The difference is for their customers - this time they get a real usable OS out of the deal, an OS with a large developer community working on solutions people might actually use, with tools readily available for those developers.
gnu = free
Visual Age = IBM goofs again
Who knows, maybe OS/2 was before it's time. It might have made it if SourceForge had existed from the time of OS/2's inception.
Shyeah, right, and monkeys might fly out of Bill's butt.
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Isn't that already true?
Anyway, keep this in mind: it's their network, and therefore it's their responsibility to secure it as best they can. If you don't like their methods, that's certainly your choice, and thus your best option may be a modem and your own dialup account off-campus.
IMHO, you needn't worry about much invasion of privacy at a small liberal arts college. Such institutions tend to avoid such controversy. But make no mistake, you have no right to unfettered internet access when it's their network. It's a privilege, not a right.
Personally, as a non-spammer, I've been just *dying* to lose the 256k cap on my cable modem... As a webcaster, i'm very limited in my ability to expand my offerings. I'd love to be able to offer higher quality streams than my current 64k.
Of course, if it costs $100/month to get this level of service, that won't help me a bit... I can spend that with Comcast right now if I want a higher U/L cap.
Anyway, I'm stoked! Bring it on, SBC!
But...venturing slightly off topic to answer this, I think placing a coffee cup in your lap is ill advised at any "coffee" temperature. I make no character judgments about this woman, nor do I deny that she was injured or suffered from it. What I don't believe is that McDonalds is liable for anything. Coffee is hot. I say, deal with that. Don't place the cup between your legs at any time. If you do, assume you will get burned and suffer, and I think that's nobody's problem but your own.
Now, if someone threw that 180 degree cup of coffee at you, that's a different discussion all together!
Heh, in reality you are agreeing that a Large Company With Deep Pockets has enough money to pay their lawyers longer than you can afford to pay yours.
While the insane legal interpretation may be that you admit the case had merit, that is rarely the case. This is why McDonalds coffee cups now have a printed warning that the contents may be hot. Duh.
If we had some tort reform in the US, and insituted a "loser pays" system, then the truly innocent could afford to fight the good fight to the end rather than settle, and legal persecutions in the US courts would all but disappear.
But the lawyers we elect to represent us will never let that happen... Lawyers make a living out of creating victims where there were none.
I disagree. If that's all it took, and if IBM had the resources (they did and still do), they had their opportunity with OS/2. They failed to create (or successfully foster the creation of) a base of applications users wanted, AND they failed to break the MS stranglehold on vendors.
It was all a marketing campaign to be the "anti-windows." For IBM Linux is no different than OS/2. It's still a marketing campaign to be the "anti-windows." The difference is for their customers - this time they get a real usable OS out of the deal, an OS with a large developer community working on solutions people might actually use, with tools readily available for those developers.
gnu = free
Visual Age = IBM goofs again
Who knows, maybe OS/2 was before it's time. It might have made it if SourceForge had existed from the time of OS/2's inception.
Shyeah, right, and monkeys might fly out of Bill's butt.