1. Student disciplined for improving campus course-selection system →

    wilwheaton:

    Timothy Arnold, a student at the University of Central Florida, produced a app called U Could Finish that automated the process of hunting for vacancies in popular courses. After the app was the subject of a popular Reddit post, the administration at UCF punished Arnold for doing this, on the grounds that it had overloaded their servers. As a persuasive presentation from Arnold and friends documents, this claim is not very plausible. Nevertheless, the project has been terminated and Arnold faces three semesters of academic probation, a paper in which Arnold must explain why what he did was naughty and why the system’s administrators are good people, and a coaching session on making good life sessions.

    Hey, I know what will inspire college students to make clever and helpful things! Let’s punish them for making clever and helpful things!

    YEAH! HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE WIN!

    …sigh. Fuckin’ Florida.

    ^ What Wil said ^

    9 months ago  /  832 notes  /  Source: wilwheaton

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      Easy way to piss off people in charge: do their own job better than they can.
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