One answer to that would be "to make sure it doesn't happen again in the future." The best way to ensure that is to make sure all the other professors know that they'll be fired (regardless of tenure) if they do such a thing in the future, and the only way to demonstrate that is by firing this professor now.
You really don't know how it works, do you? It is NEARLY impossible to fire a tenured professor. In fact, in order to fire this one, he would have to be actively using or selling the SSNs.
Even worse, You may not be able to immediately fire an untenured professor for this, depending on how the contract with the union is written. In either case, I suspect you can't do anything to someone for having something stolen from their home.
Yes, the data security was very lax there, as it is at ALL major institutions, regardless of type. In fact, most universities have very good systems in place compared to, say, the military. You have probably heard of some of those cases, like that famed British hacker who hit 'Enter' at the password prompt and now faces hacking charges?
If someone with computer knowledge can't make it run well on an older system, what are the odds that a Win98 user can?
Slim to none. And you wonder why all you fanboys are dismissed. The elitism you show and the way you look down your nose at those whore are unable to perform the text-based install and stripping out unnecessary services and packages is 100% why Linux will never take off.
What should be happening is that a legacy install, nearly automatic, should be included. Until it is, you "idiots" who don't understand how real people work will continue to think you know it all, when in reality your advanced knowledge of Linux makes you dumber overall.
Sadly, government regulation destroys that free market you cite in your comment. So do you like the free market, or do you flop to whatever saves a couple pennies a month?
So GNOME giving scholarships or internships or whatever to women is bad, but it's ok for the dance school to give free tuition to men? Did you read anything that you wrote?
I mean, yes, there guys who take ballet-dancing, are into sewing, baking or cross-stitch as well, (or other mainly-female oriented activity) but they're in the vast minority. Women in those fields shouldn't be wondering why there aren't more of us there. Attempting to reach out to us, like that ballet school I mentioned is fine,
How is that any different than what TFA is saying about GNOME? Monetary incentives for get women into a primarily male arena is worse than monetary incentives to get men into a primarily female arena?
So compare it to other disks. Your console games could be installed to the hard drive, so you should get free replacements there? In theory your DVDs could be ripped into memory in a DVD player. Free replacements?
If you don't like it, don't buy them. You are agreeing to their terms by purchasing them. Period. End of story.
Put the righteous indignation down before you hurt yourself, son. There's a limited supply left, and most of us would rather it be used for something we are forced to do, not something which occurs in a voluntary activity.
You're part of that 15%. You are represented. Do I care if I'm playing PGR or something and a billboard for a new product flies past? Nope. Do I care if there's a Coke truck on the side of the road? Nope.
Speak with your wallet and save the tissues for important occasions.
How is writing the software different than having an employee as on of the lead developers and PAYING for your search to be default different?
Ok, so instead of writing it yourself, you pay someone to work on it and pay for it to be the default. 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
How is there hypocrisy in running free software on Windows? Wouldn't the real hypocrisy be developpers releasing versions of F/OSS for Win32?
It's never hypocritical to make use of something that is provided for free. Unless you would also mean "It's hypocritical to buy a car and then take advantage of the opportunity when you are offered free gasoline."
Web browsing, making phone calls, checking your cases in RT, checking in on your servers, pinging machines from the field, etc., etc.
So basically.... Everything you can do on a normal cellphone or TREO, except you can say it runs Linux, even though there ien't a single application you've cited that requires it. Now I understand.
1) Apple users who want to run windows-based apps are in the minority; it is an amazingly limited market slice.
Yes, current Apple users who will want or need to run Windows programs are in the minority. If Apple wishes to expand marketshare, who do you suppose is going to making up that expansion?
Businesses which still require Windows apps and current PC users who want to be able to play games. Stop using your fanboyism to speak for people who might someday use OSX.
They want to keep the documents out of court because they say they are confidential. Well what about my internet traffic that was intended to be confidential also. They had no problem sending that to the NSA. I say they loose any right they might have had to confidentiality. What is good for the goose is good for the gander!
You mean your unencrypted, sniffable-by-anyone-with-a-laptop, personal private internet traffic? The same internet traffic that your TOS with the ISP says can be sniffed and monitored for any reason?
That's the biggest load of crap I've read. If you have ANY delusions of private internet traffic, you have bigger problems than AT&T forwarding it to the NSA.
Why is this AT&T's problem? Why aren't more people speaking out against the government on this? AT&T is most likely dealing with a Patriot Act issue, trying to stay in business, and everyone is acting like their puppy got run over. Put the blame where it belongs. The government.
No court can REQUIRE a foreign company to remain open for business. The injunction may have exempted RIM from shutting down government customers, but it couldn't require the service to remain in operation.
So is it defending a trademark if you wait more than 2 years and 1 billion downloads? Seems to be that if the music Apple were all that concerned they would have done something before now...
...but they wouldn't get as money if they hadn't waited.
Why would the DoJ not have subpoena powers in this case? They are gathering evidence to argue a case before a court, why in the world would they NOT have the ability to subpoena the information they need to argue their case?
Because there is no evidence that the information is relevant. A citizen can't just bring a case before the court and ask for information on the government just because they beleive it's crucial to the case.
This is why you can go to court and contest a subpoena. Any lawyer can subpoena anything for a case they are involved in. You can either give in or fight it. The choice is yours.
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You really don't know how it works, do you? It is NEARLY impossible to fire a tenured professor. In fact, in order to fire this one, he would have to be actively using or selling the SSNs.
Even worse, You may not be able to immediately fire an untenured professor for this, depending on how the contract with the union is written. In either case, I suspect you can't do anything to someone for having something stolen from their home.
Yes, the data security was very lax there, as it is at ALL major institutions, regardless of type. In fact, most universities have very good systems in place compared to, say, the military. You have probably heard of some of those cases, like that famed British hacker who hit 'Enter' at the password prompt and now faces hacking charges?
It's a hell of a lot more than most places do when this sort of data is breached.
Short of screaming and crying at the top of your voice, there is nothing you can do.
Predictable and contrived!
What you forget is that RIM broke the first rule of lawsuits: Don't piss off the judge.
Had the judge not already been so against them, he might have listened as the USPTO tossed out NTP's patents...
If someone with computer knowledge can't make it run well on an older system, what are the odds that a Win98 user can?
Slim to none. And you wonder why all you fanboys are dismissed. The elitism you show and the way you look down your nose at those whore are unable to perform the text-based install and stripping out unnecessary services and packages is 100% why Linux will never take off.
What should be happening is that a legacy install, nearly automatic, should be included. Until it is, you "idiots" who don't understand how real people work will continue to think you know it all, when in reality your advanced knowledge of Linux makes you dumber overall.
Sadly, government regulation destroys that free market you cite in your comment. So do you like the free market, or do you flop to whatever saves a couple pennies a month?
I mean, yes, there guys who take ballet-dancing, are into sewing, baking or cross-stitch as well, (or other mainly-female oriented activity) but they're in the vast minority. Women in those fields shouldn't be wondering why there aren't more of us there. Attempting to reach out to us, like that ballet school I mentioned is fine,
How is that any different than what TFA is saying about GNOME? Monetary incentives for get women into a primarily male arena is worse than monetary incentives to get men into a primarily female arena?
Disallowing children of certain ages to not access R-rated movies is voluntary. The same SHOULD be the case for video games.
God, I wish you were kidding....
So compare it to other disks. Your console games could be installed to the hard drive, so you should get free replacements there? In theory your DVDs could be ripped into memory in a DVD player. Free replacements?
If you don't like it, don't buy them. You are agreeing to their terms by purchasing them. Period. End of story.
Put the righteous indignation down before you hurt yourself, son. There's a limited supply left, and most of us would rather it be used for something we are forced to do, not something which occurs in a voluntary activity.
You're part of that 15%. You are represented. Do I care if I'm playing PGR or something and a billboard for a new product flies past? Nope. Do I care if there's a Coke truck on the side of the road? Nope.
Speak with your wallet and save the tissues for important occasions.
How is writing the software different than having an employee as on of the lead developers and PAYING for your search to be default different? Ok, so instead of writing it yourself, you pay someone to work on it and pay for it to be the default. 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
It's never hypocritical to make use of something that is provided for free. Unless you would also mean "It's hypocritical to buy a car and then take advantage of the opportunity when you are offered free gasoline."
So basically.... Everything you can do on a normal cellphone or TREO, except you can say it runs Linux, even though there ien't a single application you've cited that requires it. Now I understand.
Yes, current Apple users who will want or need to run Windows programs are in the minority. If Apple wishes to expand marketshare, who do you suppose is going to making up that expansion?
Businesses which still require Windows apps and current PC users who want to be able to play games. Stop using your fanboyism to speak for people who might someday use OSX.
You mean your unencrypted, sniffable-by-anyone-with-a-laptop, personal private internet traffic? The same internet traffic that your TOS with the ISP says can be sniffed and monitored for any reason?
That's the biggest load of crap I've read. If you have ANY delusions of private internet traffic, you have bigger problems than AT&T forwarding it to the NSA.
Why is this AT&T's problem? Why aren't more people speaking out against the government on this? AT&T is most likely dealing with a Patriot Act issue, trying to stay in business, and everyone is acting like their puppy got run over. Put the blame where it belongs. The government.
Wouldn't that now mean that Novell told them to file this suit...?
He could, but he'd have to rename himself "coherentexplanation".
No court can REQUIRE a foreign company to remain open for business. The injunction may have exempted RIM from shutting down government customers, but it couldn't require the service to remain in operation.
So is it defending a trademark if you wait more than 2 years and 1 billion downloads? Seems to be that if the music Apple were all that concerned they would have done something before now...
...but they wouldn't get as money if they hadn't waited.