To the phrase: Blood Diamond Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all night

I just recently graduated from the electrical and computer engineering program at Carnegie Mellon. The IT policy was pretty solid, open to all platforms, no headaches. Data integrity and personal privacy are held very highly. Student data stored on CMU servers may not be access unless there's an emergency, or if there's a valid warrant.

Getting caught by the RIAA/MPAA/BSA with copyright violation gets you 45 days loss of connectivity on that MAC address, but there's a solid intra-CMU file sharing network.

Plenty of bandwidth available to students (average 1-3MB/sec up and down -- yes, megabyte). Limited to rolling average of 2GB up/down a day over 5 days for wired connections. 750MB for wireless.

More general information can be found here: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Computing.htm

I just noticed the same issue on my FF browser.

we should also give them tax exemptions and build casinos for them.

Instead she'll get fucked by everyone else

which is why so many people get into serious trouble.

Because it could be really, really cool. As an engineer I like "hard" problems, and when I find a project interesting I go after it -- regardless of how "flashy" it is to the general public.

I think in Google's case, this is certainly true if you examine how much work has gone into their infrastructure (and how many research papers have been written on those topics).