Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

[David Collier-Brown]

Because there's no money in the budget, the dysfunctional-company
politics turns into debates on irrelevant points, like what colour of
paper-clip to use and whether to filter bittorrent.

Ork had all those kinds of problems, but since the Philosophy department
was a big sponsor of computing and helped fund our first main (unix)
machine, nexus.yorku.ca, they tended to squash the egregiously stupid.

Both startups and sanity seems to be common functions of Philosophy
departments: Windsor helped bootstrap both Human Kinetics and Computer
Science, and was often an island of sanity in a very silly world.

--dave

On 05/22/2014 08:03 AM, Neil Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 05:21:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> And based on my wife's info being a PhD student there, you do not want
>> to do bittorrent (she hasn't tried, but has heard what happens to people
>> who try).  I know Waterloo doesn't allow bittorrent either (with an
>> exception for the computer science club to share their videos from
>> talks).
>
> Universities used to be bastions of free thinking. Now they seem to be
> run by despotic lawyers and accountants </rant>
>


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