Dropping all my conspiracy theories, this would be a really good way to get mail immediately anywhere you want, for a lot cheaper.
Examples:
1) The USPS could be a proxy for delivering checks electronically.. pay by credit card on the web, they have a check there the next day. Imagine.. Your parents could get your tuition money to the college in one day for less than $15.:)
2) *Vanity alert* For a small monthly fee, you could have your email printed out and delivered..
3) The USPS could transfer official, authentic documents electronically.. contracts and such.. when faxes won't do.:)
I know there are lots of holes, so to speak, in these ideas.. but hey whatever.:)
embee23: Although I may personally use it at home, it has no place on an academic network.
Lord Kano: When you live on campus, for 9 months out of the year, that IS your home. They pay tuition, technology, and housing fees. They've paid for it, they can use it as they see fit.
Ok, 1) I don't live on campus.
2) I do work in network services, and I can tell you for certain that this is a very common policy. When you pay your technology fee, you have to sign a piece of paper saying that you won't use your ethernet connection for any illegal purposes, and that you won't serve files of any kind. (I don't the specifics of other schools, but this is the case at UCF.)
Paying for something doesn't mean you can do anything you want with it.
I work at a fairly large university in Florida (UCF), and I can definitely say that napster has been causing problems with our online network..
We just killed the DHCP connections for 25 people in our dorms for this... though we couldn't find a way to definitively say the users were using napster, it was very obvious from the packets flying back and forth.
We have a multiple t3 connection to i1 and a 45 mbit link to i2.. and napster users *still* slow down the network. Although I may personally use it at home, it has no place on an academic network.
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I think it may be from _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ by Robert Heinlein. Not 100% sure, but I read it fairly recently.
I think this could be pretty neat.
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Dropping all my conspiracy theories, this would be a really good way to get mail immediately anywhere you want, for a lot cheaper.
Examples:
1) The USPS could be a proxy for delivering checks electronically.. pay by credit card on the web, they have a check there the next day. Imagine.. Your parents could get your tuition money to the college in one day for less than $15.
2) *Vanity alert* For a small monthly fee, you could have your email printed out and delivered..
3) The USPS could transfer official, authentic documents electronically.. contracts and such.. when faxes won't do.
I know there are lots of holes, so to speak, in these ideas.. but hey whatever.
embee23: Although I may personally use it at home, it has no place on an academic network.
Lord Kano: When you live on campus, for 9 months out of the year, that IS your home. They pay tuition, technology, and housing fees. They've paid for it, they can use it as they see fit.
Ok, 1) I don't live on campus.
2) I do work in network services, and I can tell you for certain that this is a very common policy. When you pay your technology fee, you have to sign a piece of paper saying that you won't use your ethernet connection for any illegal purposes, and that you won't serve files of any kind. (I don't the specifics of other schools, but this is the case at UCF.)
Paying for something doesn't mean you can do anything you want with it.
embee
I work at a fairly large university in Florida (UCF), and I can definitely say that napster has been causing problems with our online network..
We just killed the DHCP connections for 25 people in our dorms for this... though we couldn't find a way to definitively say the users were using napster, it was very obvious from the packets flying back and forth.
We have a multiple t3 connection to i1 and a 45 mbit link to i2.. and napster users *still* slow down the network. Although I may personally use it at home, it has no place on an academic network.
Indeed. Now if only B&N and Borders would seperate all that damned fantasy from my wonderful sci-fi..