HA Letter: Time for a Change - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Dec 29, 2004

RE: RE: HA Letter: Time for a Change

Date: Dec 29, 2004

Thank you for the definition Webster. By the way, I loved you on that show you did with Alex Karras. I wasn't asking what it meant. I was just wondering why Professor Deep Pockets had to resort to name calling.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

"Cracked Up?"

More witty comments...you people seem to be full of them. Or full of something?

Something has to be said for people who sit and monitor a forum all day. We could be doing something productive, myself included, like trying to get old SFT kicked out to the curb.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Jane Dohe
"Mr. John, nothing in your posted referred to Dr. Do Little. Your post was about computer security and little silver tags. Our question is why post your warning on this particular innocuous thread?"

Maybe I know something you don't, or maybe I'm just some dumb shumck trying to be an alarmist.
I was adding something to this conversation. I hate using quotes because it seems pointless to keep repeating the same damn quote over and over.

As to your question about this Thread, why not? What did it hurt? Would you like me to create a separate thread that just talked about computer issues.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Jane Dohe
"Mr. John, nothing in your posted referred to Dr. Do Little. Your post was about computer security and little silver tags. Our question is why post your warning on this particular innocuous thread?"

I posted it on this thread because they are watching you. They are watching all of you and you should be afraid, really afraid......not really.

I posted on this thread because I just felt like adding my two cents. I thought it went along well with Dr. Do Little's statement. Because I ddin't quote the good doctor like some dumb yuppie, doesn't mean I was just randomly posting. What's wrong with my posting on this thread? YOu people have very little to say that's worth repeating.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: John Dohee
" I posted on this thread because I just felt like adding my two cents. I thought it went along well with Dr. Do Little's statement . . You people have very little to say that's worth repeating."

So. It appears that we might have two trolls all balled up in one: Dr. Do and Mr. Don't.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

Troll Zapper, you talk in riddles. Are you saying that Me and Dr. Do lIttle are one in the same?

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: John Dohee
"Troll Zapper, you talk in riddles. Are you saying that Me and Dr. Do lIttle are one in the same?"

Pay him (her?) no mind Mr. Dohee. Those who express contrarian views here are often labeled trolls. Your point concerning the lack of privacy when using company/university owned computers was legitimate. Whether it was heard is another matter.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

I've nary a clue as to the identity of John Dohee and, as for this idea of troll zapping, I don't know what that even means.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

I agree Seeker's RM. There is a reason why we have two ears and one mouth. The very people blasting my posts are likely the ones sitting in their office posting on this forum.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Seeker's Risk Manager
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Pay him (her?) no mind Mr. Dohee. Those who express contrarian views here are often labeled trolls. Your point concerning the lack of privacy when using company/university owned computers was legitimate. Whether it was heard is another matter."

That was old news as of last April and the source of great controversy. Faculty members have, by and large, quit using campus computers or phones for anything sensitive. Others have just quit.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Incredulous
"

That was old news as of last April and the source of great controversy. Faculty members have, by and large, quit using campus computers or phones for anything sensitive. Others have just quit."

That's a bold statement and I would imagine it's also a false one.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Dr. Do Little
"

That's a bold statement and I would imagine it's also a false one."

If that is what you imagine, then you are wrong. Check it out.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

I don't have to. I know the truth and the truth shall set me free. Free, I tells ya!

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Dr. Do Little
"I don't have to. I know the truth and the truth shall set me free. Free, I tells ya!"

"Free" as in "free beer," or "free" as in "Free Bird?"

"Sweet Home Alabama
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long.}

- Warren Zevon

Date: Dec 29, 2004

These folks do realize that the university is CLOSED right now, don't they?? Professors and others do get vacations from time to time, and if they choose to spend the time on this board, it's their time.
In any case, these two gentlepersons are obviously new to the board or they would remember the hundred or so times the computer discussion has already taken place.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: John Dohee
"Troll Zapper, you talk in riddles. Are you saying that Me and Dr. Do lIttle are one in the same?"

Not at all. They only think alike. One speaks like a young yuppie and the other speaks like an old hippie.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Dr. Do Little
" That's a bold statement and I would imagine it's also a false one."

No false at all, Dr. Do. I'm not even employed by USM and live nowhere around there, but it would be a cold day in NitChampburg before I would send anything to a computer bearing one of those little silver tags.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

Well, as long as we are back on the ancient topic of computer privacy, I will add this. I know of at least one person at USM who will only use the public computers in Cook Library to access this board. I suppose that using a public computer is one way to keep correspondence private.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: ram
"I know of at least one person at USM who will only use the public computers in Cook Library to access this board. I suppose that using a public computer is one way to keep correspondence private."

I know someone who will use only the campus payphones when discussing delicate matters of university proportion. I am not exagerating.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

God bless you each and every one.

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Dr. Do Little
"I don't have to. I know the truth and the truth shall set me free. Free, I tells ya!"

Hey, you don't know me and I refuse to set you free!

Date: Dec 29, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: John Dohe
" I hate using quotes because it seems pointless to keep repeating the same damn quote over and over. "

Well, it may seem pointless, but it certainly helps the reader understand a response that is removed from the original post. Like, for example, this one.