Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by ecshafer on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:14PM (#27032584)

I couldn't imagine a situation where if someone knocked on my dorm room door asking if I had a printer in there, I would not have told them off with very unflattering language and telling them to perform fellatio upon themselves.

How many students are just rolling over and saying sorry? I would imagine most would give you a very hard time.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by alibrarydweller on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:14AM (#27036294)

When I was in university IT ~2008 our main concern was people accidentally serving their own DCHP onto the network and colliding with ours, generally by plugging in a router LAN port out. I could imagine a decree with this goal saying "no personal devices" to keep it simple.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by mywittyname on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:18PM (#27041701)

> How many students are just rolling over and saying sorry?

Probably most/all. IT infrastructure is critical and there's a very good chance that the IT staff have a process in place for dealing with kids who won't let them do their jobs. And it's probably a pretty effective process that has been refined over the past decades.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by JCharante on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:16AM (#27035500)

Replying all gets you booted off the school network for a certain amount of time, it's in the TOS so they can do it. I imagine people value network access over having their own printer.

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