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...into the Harvard Computer system (fas.harvard.edu), where and when you checked becomes public knowledge for about a week (the records are cleared at 3.00 a.m. every Monday). If you check your e-mail from someone else's room, that person's name is listed; otherwise a quick glance will tell you which building the terminal...
...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 " (or, "who | grep " will...
Naive political spectators will tell you that religion strongly influences policy and electoral politics. For evidence, they point to the fact that nearly every member of Congress professes some form of traditional faith and that no atheists ever run for public office because they would automatically lose. They call our attention to events like Congress' vote in the 1950s to put the word "God" onto our paper money, into our national motto and into our Pledge of Allegiance; the Congress and President Reagan's formal declaration that 1983 was the "Year of the Bible"; and the recent increase...
Conservative accusers tell us that the anti-religious liberals' influence is considerable and widespread. Perhaps they worry over the liberals' anti-religious effect on members of the executive branch, such as our President, an active churchgoer who also consults pop spiritualists like Marianne Williamson and Anthony Robbins. Maybe the accusers refer to liberals' effect on the First Lady, who is known for extolling the many virtues of prayer. Or do they refer to the liberals' influence over the nation's courts, where obsessive secularism truly reigns...
...wish there were a true story to tell everybody so people could run away screaming, running to the hills, but there is no story, just got it [the nickname] in fourth grade. I am sure subconsciously it comes from Fozzy Bear, but there is no story...