Word: cs50
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe you're selling me out for CS50," he teased...
...Apart from a spontaneous and collective conversion to new behavior, we may need an on-screen reminder to help us out, a guardian angel, if you will, telling us when we've exceeded our fair share of time and pointing out the line growing behind us. Surely someone in CS50 could write such a program...
Most people at Harvard know that you can "finger" someone to see when they were last logged on. Many also know that you can type "nofinger" at the 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...
...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...
...wearing my new red Abercrombie button-down to CS50 section, but my TF was wearing the same shirt! I tried to cover it up, but my TF noticed while she was explaining binary search algorithms. "We're like two nodes on a search tree! She exclaimed. My face was as red as my shirt...