Ignorance is such a wonderful thing. Instead of name calling, try to
understand why a university might develop policies - even poorly
thought out ones - that aren't part of some fascist money grubbing
agenda. For example, do you think it might be possible that
university techs are so bogged down by virus and adware attacks that
controlling what computers are used might be seen as a good idea to
control the virus attacks, adware, and zombies?
At my university EVERY YEAR for the last three years EVERY student
and professor has to have his or her computer inspected by a tech
before his account is unlocked and the computer receives an IP number
for the network. All students have to have virus software and to make
it easy to administrate students are provided that software by the
university. Students must also sign a waiver allowing a tech to
examine their computer at any time to ensure that the virus software
is being run and regularly updated.
This 'fascist' policy has cut virus related expenses to the school by
60%.
david
Mabye we should get the addresses of these institutions, and if
each one of us sent them an email complaining, their email server
would be completely flooded into the ground.
On 12/06/2005, at 3:07 PM, Brian wrote:
Winona State University (a public university here in Minnesota)
has a program that bans use of any non-winona owned laptop on
their campus. In other words, public schools are not immune to
this behavior.
Brian
On Jun 12, 2005, at 12:29 AM, Pacer wrote:
My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
Dude! Where does your daughter go to school??? Holy cow. Is
this college or high school? America? Europe? Somewhere else?
I hope it is a private school -- we'd be all over a public school
doing this in my state. They'd have so many lawsuits from so
many corners before they even thought of it ... well...
And as for the fascism of Universities ... have not really
experienced that myself. My State's flagship University is not
too shabby on that front. Not so hot at some others, though.
Like having a falling out with its Alumni fund-raising
foundation.... Oops.
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon
P.S. My father is a Professor at one of the larger public Us and
he does quite a bit more than research. Your cousin is lucky.
Wait till he gets picked to be head of a department or some other
admin+teaching+research-or-you-lose-your-tenure position. Ah the
state of Academia! :-)
Tom Ethen wrote:
Actually they allow my daughter to have the incredible
opportunity of
purchasing the two year old laptop from the school after she has
already
paid $2000 for a $799 computer at $500 per semester. They she
gets a new one
and the cycle starts over.
They also ban un-approved laptops in the classroom and only
their computers
may be used.
My cousin is a full professor at the main University in my state
and he only
teaches two hours each week, while the rest of his time is spent
doing
research, so that may be where some of the excess cash is being
used.
Tom
On 6/11/05 6:41 PM, "themacuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As well as this, some make the students give them back once
they have
bought them when they graduate...
Some even go as far as banning non-approved laptops (often
anything
except theirs) for fear of "security issues and viruses"...
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