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Comment Re:Why have that in colleges at all? (Score 1) 177

Short answer: Because at the end of the day, having a high-profile and appealing sports program makes them a lot more money than they invest in it.

Hold the phone. These days, the athletic departments are entirely separate organizations from the school they're affiliated with. They have separate websites, budgets, the whole nine yards. They're in charge of selling the tickets, merchandise, etc. How would the university benefit from any of that?

Comment Re:It's all a scam (Score 1) 205

Has anyone ever had a controlled experiment where having the full paid for version of Symantec or AVG actually provided more security than their free counterparts?

Has anyone done a controlled experiment to prove that antivirus software does anything at all?

I work in an IT office, and despite loading antivirus software on everyone's computer, it doesn't seem to do anything to stop people coming in every week with some sort of easily avoidable infection

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