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Random Stuff
-The CS softball team won our first regular season game the other night in the extreme cold. The final score was something like 12-2, but the game wasn't even that close. The other team's first pitcher often rolled the ball towards home plate as if she were bowling. They then brought in a second pitcher who threw fast-pitch style so that the ball was still rising as it went past the batter.
-I spent 3 and a half hours on Friday evening working on a problem for CS507 that involved infinite sets of prime numbers and Goldbach's Weak Conjecture. This class is the dark side of CS, the side that I absolutely hate. It's not a good sign when the professor comes in to class one day, glances at the board which is marked up from the class before, and states "that stuff is way too practical for this class". Especially when the stuff written on the board is unintelligible.
-In my other class, Computer Vision, I get to write a program that generates autostereograms. So far my program generates random patterns of dots, but it's getting there. This assignment is infinitely more fun than the one involving prime numbers and much more practical.
-The whole Direct Connect nonsense has gotten out of control. Now the school is sending letters to everyone who was signed on to the WashU DC hub saying that they are "strongly suspected" of downloading illegal materials. Actually, the school has no proof of this, but they are counting on the students' lack of understanding about how DC works. Most students will assume that because the school has the server log, they have a record of who downloaded and shared what. This, of course, is not true, since only search and chat traffic go through the hub server. For all the school knows, every single person could have been sharing legal mp3s, non-copyrighted files, or porn. None of these things are restricted in any way. Saying that because you were connected to a hub that had illegal files on it you must therefore have the illegal files yourself is like saying that because there is bestiality porn on the internet, everyone with an internet connection has bestiality porn. I urge any WashU students reading this to strongly consider protesting the charges, since the school in all likelihood has no proof that you did anything wrong.
Comments
A good idea Chris. Although I wouldn't recommend using the excuse "I was only sharing porn, not mp3's".
Posted by: Jim at March 1, 2004 1:00 AM
Chris, have you been sharing copyrighted bestiality porn? Just because you wish your habit isn't copyrighted doesn't mean it isn't. If everybody just copies their bestiality porn, who's going to feed the animals? Think of the animals, Chris. Stop the piracy of bestiality porn.
Posted by: Joe at March 1, 2004 9:48 AM
Use the dark side Chris, the force is strong in you. Goldbach was your father, Chris (and Greibach your mother?).
Posted by: rkc at March 2, 2004 7:03 AM
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