Net stupidity?
Got to this story , via Alootechie (a site I'm partial to only cos it's name is so geekily silly:)) Apparently this was in response to "limited participation in social and cultural activity" by the students of (and because of a recent suicide at) IIT Bombay (incidentally why isn't it calling itself IIT Mumbai now that the city has been renamed? And why isn't there a IIT Chennai ? Think they're concerned about losing brand value? or will there be just too much work involved in changing web addresses?:)) Argh..I digress a lot. Anyway, the Dean of the School decided to ban Internet access in the hostel rooms from 11pm to 12:30pm. That's right: for more than half the day. I have a simple question. How can people in charge of the education of some of the smartest kids in a country (and arguably the world) do something so incredibly boneheaded? And how are they getting away with it? Seriously?:) What's next? Banning access to all books because some st...