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post #1 of 22
4/24/06 at 4:17pm
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Texas College Bans My Space

I can only imagine that many more colleges/corporations are going to follow suit in this... I know many, many people who are wasting their life "MySpacing"...
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post #2 of 22
4/24/06 at 4:27pm
The link is messed up, for some reason the extra http makes it go to microsoft.com
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post #3 of 22
4/24/06 at 4:29pm
Story would not come up. BUt yeah, people do waste too much time on myspace. I only go on sometime at work
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post #4 of 22
4/24/06 at 5:33pm
I don't think there's anything wrong with MySpace that isn't already wrong about playing Warcraft for 10 hours a day or watching Angel Season 3 in two sittings. It's all just 21st Century life-wasting entertainment.


But come to think of it - I guess there aren't any sexual predators lurking within Angel Season 3 hunting down teens...
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post #5 of 22
4/24/06 at 6:14pm
that's a bunch of crap, they should update their system to handle the load, all that's going to do is increase porn traffic
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post #6 of 22
4/24/06 at 6:44pm
Apple stores joining the plot against MySpace.
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/2006/04...ng-myspacecom/
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post #7 of 22
4/24/06 at 9:15pm
That's not a plot.
It just makes sense.

Why would you want people using your demo computers for personal use?

My college is very close to banning it from school computers but the real debate raging on is wether to block it from the network altogeher. Lots of kids bring their laptops and go on it when not in class. I think it'd be a bad idea to block it from the network. If I bring my laptop I should be able to log on. Hell, I'm sure some of my tuition goes to paying for it.

MySpace, in my opinion, is a damn great website. It simplifies blog usage, for those who don't want just a dedicated blog site, and networking with friends, classmates, and relatives you wish you didn't run into.

I've been on the site since it's incepetion practically and its evolution has been amazing.

And I've come across many musicians and bands from the opposite coast who are now becoming bigger names in music.
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post #8 of 22
4/24/06 at 11:43pm
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Originally Posted by Mad_Kinski
I don't think there's anything wrong with MySpace that isn't already wrong about playing Warcraft for 10 hours a day or watching Angel Season 3 in two sittings. It's all just 21st Century life-wasting entertainment.


But come to think of it - I guess there aren't any sexual predators lurking within Angel Season 3 hunting down teens...

I just did that you condescending bastard! :P
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post #9 of 22
4/25/06 at 1:49pm
Tuition should be paying for increased resources. Increased resources means more bandwidth and a larger pipeline.

I think that Apple can do what they want. It's a store, and they can dictate how their computers are used. The college, that's another story. If they want to block it from computers that belong to the college for a security related issue, that's their business. But, like Vader said, if someone has THEIR laptop, why can't they use tuition-paid-for bandwidth as they see fit?
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post #10 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by Vader
That's not a plot.
It just makes sense.

Why would you want people using your demo computers for personal use?

My college is very close to banning it from school computers but the real debate raging on is wether to block it from the network altogeher. Lots of kids bring their laptops and go on it when not in class. I think it'd be a bad idea to block it from the network. If I bring my laptop I should be able to log on. Hell, I'm sure some of my tuition goes to paying for it.

MySpace, in my opinion, is a damn great website. It simplifies blog usage, for those who don't want just a dedicated blog site, and networking with friends, classmates, and relatives you wish you didn't run into.

I've been on the site since it's incepetion practically and its evolution has been amazing.

And I've come across many musicians and bands from the opposite coast who are now becoming bigger names in music.
Sarcasm just doesn't work on the internets...

By the way, I don't use or like MySpace.
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post #11 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by thejumbo
But, like Vader said, if someone has THEIR laptop, why can't they use tuition-paid-for bandwidth as they see fit?
They should be able to until it becomes a hassle. Bandwidth is bandwidth no matter what computer is plugged into it. Yeah, you paid your tuition and you think you should be able to use the resources you pay for as you see fit, HOWEVER, MY tuition pays for that bandwidth too, and if you and all the rest of you MySpacers are killing the pipeline and making it difficult for ME to do what I need to do, what right is that of yours (not that I'm in college or paying tuition, just making an example)?

If banning the MySpace gets rid of bottlenecking and makes the service available for all people to be used for what it's meant to be used for, then go right ahead and ban it.
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post #12 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:16pm
Why bother? By my calculations, everyone on MySpace will have either commited suicide or been murdered by the year 2012. Just wait it out.
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post #13 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Why bother? By my calculations, everyone on MySpace will have either commited suicide or been murdered by the year 2012. Just wait it out.
I don't plan on being murdered until at least 2016.

As far as MySpace goes, I use it and enjoy it, but I don't have people that demand constant communication and contact on my Friends list, either. I'm not 14. For my friends and myself, the once or twice-a-day log in works just fine.
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post #14 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Why bother? By my calculations, everyone on MySpace will have either commited suicide or been murdered by the year 2012. Just wait it out.
Did you take the lower rate of logon by casual users like myself and Nordling into account? Asymptomatic exponential curve, if I'm seeing it right...
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post #15 of 22
4/25/06 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by JGButler
They should be able to until it becomes a hassle. Bandwidth is bandwidth no matter what computer is plugged into it. Yeah, you paid your tuition and you think you should be able to use the resources you pay for as you see fit, HOWEVER, MY tuition pays for that bandwidth too, and if you and all the rest of you MySpacers are killing the pipeline and making it difficult for ME to do what I need to do, what right is that of yours (not that I'm in college or paying tuition, just making an example)?

If banning the MySpace gets rid of bottlenecking and makes the service available for all people to be used for what it's meant to be used for, then go right ahead and ban it.

MySpace use from personal laptops doesnt seem to be significant enough to clog the line to the point where other non-MySpace users suffer. Not with the huge new tech updates our library went through for about two years. I see most kids with their laptops either listening to music or doing legit research. It's just the idea of being able to ban sites from the network that has some kids upset.

The library actually has about twelve computers out in the lobby as "E-Mail Computers" with a 10 minute time limit and yeah, everyone is on their MySpace.


But yeah, fuck this discussion.

Leave me some picture comments or I wont add you to my "Top 8".
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post #16 of 22
4/25/06 at 4:00pm
At the risk of placing myself even further outside my anonimity bubble, the computer lab that I work for part time is rife with people with nothing better to do than Space out. This becomes a problem, as the computer lab is usually a high traffic zone with plenty of people wating to use a computer. Coupled with the fact that online registration has already started for next semester, this becomes a massive headache.

A technique that has worked for me in the past is to 'count-n-kick' every 30 minutes or so. If you're a chronic Spacer, you are adised to either:

a) get to work on something academically inclined, or

b) free up the computer for someone else.

The only problem here is that multitasking is usually a token gesture; Alt-Tab.
However, with no real means or policy of enforcement, thre is really no way to stem the tide of MySpacers.

"Excuse me, but do you mind turning your MySpace page down?" : A phrase that will haunt me to my grave.
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post #17 of 22
4/25/06 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by Einhander
a) get to work on something academically inclined, or

b) free up the computer for someone else.
yeah, we had this at my school too, especially during mids and finals, it was understandable, but it was a tiny school, and the moderators were ass nazi's, but it was a good system, less porn and Doom, more physics lab, i would think that a larger school would have more resources and be less stringent on its students...
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post #18 of 22
4/25/06 at 4:37pm
I was at a Circuit City and they have a computer there that's supposed to be used to look up product info on the Circuit City website. And I swear this overweight teenage girl was standing there on her MySpace page for the entire hour I was there. I couldn't decide if it was desperate, sad, or both.
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post #19 of 22
4/25/06 at 5:03pm
That you spent an entire hour at Circuit City? I might go for both, unless you had to wait for tech support or something.
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post #20 of 22
4/25/06 at 5:07pm
Nah, I was just killing time and the Circuit City was near where I had to be. Besides, it takes about an hour to find anything the way their DVDs are organized.
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post #21 of 22
4/25/06 at 5:28pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
Nah, I was just killing time and the Circuit City was near where I had to be. Besides, it takes about an hour to find anything the way their DVDs are organized.
Your Circuit City organizes their DVDs? Must be nice. Mine apparently doesn't care about genre, but just places them all alphabetically - but not necessarily based on the first letter of the title. They may use the first letter, the last, or any letter in between that they see fit....
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post #22 of 22
4/25/06 at 5:57pm
My local CC now seperates things by genre. Dump the assloads of disks by genre onto the racks. But even then, you'll find a Matrix in the comedy section.

Well, maybe that's not a mistake.
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