Re: "Portable" C compilers?

On Mar 16, 11:34 am, Keith Thompson <ks...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
luser-ex-troll <mijo...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Mar 16, 2:01 am, Albert <albert.xtheunkno...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Flash Gordon wrote:
If they have set up security properly you won't be able to run programs
which are not approved. Even if they have not you could still get in to
trouble for running programs which are not approved.

No I couldn't. There isn't an issue from running a console program, as
long as command prompt doesn't appear on the monitor.

Do they have cameras aimed at your screen?
If I were you, I'd probably do something to get
in trouble just so I could justifiably call
them all fascists (at a private high school this
can be very effective).

If you aren't hurting anyone, and have no intention
of doing so, and (thanks to whatever security they
have installed) have very little likelihood of
causing any harm. They really have no right to
care one way or the other.

[...]

Really?  Who owns the computers?  If you permitted someone to use a
computer that you own, but with conditions, would you have any right
to care if they violated those conditions?


I hadn't considered it from that angle.
If a was a proto-fascist, mob-following, domineering
paranoiac, would I let somebody use my computer at
all?

[This is all directed at the hypothetical school computer
administrator who outlaws the command line interface.
Not at Keith, who points out a valid flaw in my argument.]

It is, of course, reasonable and appropriate for any
organization providing equipment or services to a
population to establish groundrules for the appropriate
(ie. safe) use to which such "solutions" may be put.
It is also all to easy for the letter of the law to
diverge widely from the spirit even in its first
incarnation.

It sounds like some 30something blue-suit holds a
traumatic childhood memory which has burned a
single meme into his unconscious which is insulated
from the rational centers and manifests solely in
emotional bursts: COMMAND LINE BAD.

Codifying such a prejudice is exactly what the power-
hungry schizoid wishes to do.

lxt
ps. Apologies for the ranting. Entrenched stupidities rub me the wrong
way.
.

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