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...prompt to disable this information, and many have decided to do so. What many people don't know (but your average CS50 graduate can tell you) is that this does nothing to deter someone who wishes to know where you last logged on. The command "last " will list without complaint the whereabouts of any student who regularly checks e-mail from a terminal in the past week. The command "finger | grep " (or, "who | grep " will supply the data that "nofinger" is supposed to disable...
Leaving aside that fact that I can't know who has "finger"ed or "last"ed me and thus have no basis for complaint, the idea that privacy should be protected only when someone feels in personal danger is rubbish. They also remarked that to disable the "last" command, or the "finger | grep " loophole would "significantly reduce the functionality of the computer systems". This is also rubbish, again as any CS50 graduate can tell you: a few keystrokes will remove the last command from/usr/bin or make is accessible only to the administration...
...Martin's complaint centered on a passage in which Roy described how the professor won tenure after filing and winning a discrimination suit against Wellesley...
Hyde dismissed the complaint, and the committee proceeded with voting on the articles, along party lines. "This vote says something about us," said Hyde on Friday night. "It answers the question, Just who are we, and what do we stand for? Is the President one of us, or is he a sovereign? We vote for our honor, which is the only thing we get to take with us to the grave...
There have been attempts to find Moses' tomb. But from Scripture all we have is a chorus of complaint, a last hurrah and then nothing. The stark ending moves Kirsch to acrid eloquence. "The life of Moses can be understood as an existential tragedy," he writes. "He was cast adrift at birth in a hostile world, he spent a long and lonely life in constant pursuit of a goal that always eluded him, and he died a lonely death...