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Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:03:37 -0500
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:52:35 EST, "James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/IT & CIO" said:
Take for example highway "speed limits". There is not enough police/surveillance in place to ensure that everyone complies with it. But there is some in place to catch folks so as to (hopefully) keep the rest of the drivers in compliance.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:22:23 EST, Gary Flynn said:
randy marchany wrote:One should never put in a policy/standard any item that can not be enforced.I've heard that opinion espoused several times and I don't understand it.
The crucial point is that the speed limit *can* be enforced - every driver going down the interstate *knows* there aren't enough cops to enforce every mile of the highway, but there *are* enough to make it *possible* that the next bit of shrubbery by the side of the road may have a trooper behind it, and if their radar gun goes 'PING', you *will* have a very unpleasant 15 minutes on the side of the road getting a ticket, and you will have a hard time beating the rap. Contrast this to a law that says "You may not drive on this highway on Wednesdays wearing purple underwear, or on Thursdays wearing paisley", where there is no feasible *practical* method for enforcing it, even on a semi-random basis the way speed traps and truck weigh stations are done. Consider how well-received the average DWI sobriety checkpoint is - how would you *enforce* an underwear law? It's one thing to write a policy that everybody knows that you *can* catch the offenders, even if you actually bother to do so only 5% of the time. It's something else to write a policy when it's widely known that you have *no* way of catching offenders.
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- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Christopher Jones (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials randy marchany (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Mike Wiseman (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Charlie Reitsma (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Neil Sindicich (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Barros, Jacob (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Basgen, Brian (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Brad Judy (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Charlie Reitsma (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Gary Flynn (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials Neil Sindicich (Jan 25)
- Re: stopping students sharing their login credentials James M. Dutcher - Assoc of IS/IT & CIO (Jan 25)