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Webcams Watching The Classrooms?
embarcadero writes "Webcams will be tuned to watch over 500 classrooms in the Biloxi, Mississippi school district this year, according to a story in USA Today. The goal is to make classrooms safer, but there's a lot of speculation about how the recorded info could be used for or against teachers in disputes or teaching reviews. I can just see Mrs. Waters pointing towards the camera, 'If I don't catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even think about it.'"
No more smoking while the teacher is out!
The package said "Windows XP or better. Pentium Class Processor or better"... So I got a Mac with OS X
The teachers watch the kids...the principals watch the teachers...the superintendant watches the prinicpals...and the eye in the sky watches them all.
-B
Someone emailed me the other day and apparently I can view "High School Girls" in the changing rooms and showers having fun and splashing out. I tried to subscribe but my credit card was refused, which seems weird as it worked when I bought some Viagra off of a Nigerian prince.
Any other slashdotters managed to view these high school webcams?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
That's a lot of spitball targets.
They tried this at my college, especially in the computer science labs since so much stuff was stolen.
Here's what happened - my roomie stole the actual camera and used it to monitor the hallway for police/RA's when we were drinking.
Obviously not a huge problem in high school (the use) but I'm sure some will get stolen.
Sig & Below
Yuck Fou
Get together a group of geeks who have a broad range of skills in electronic engineering and computer science. Give them each a few copies of Playboy, Hustler and the like as a sort of 'payment' for their duties. Then sit back as they concoct some sort of bypass device that can be hooked up to the camera. This device will play back a constant loop of say, maybe 10 seconds of footage. You might need Keanu Reeves to come into the classroom and look nonchalant to add to the effect. Now, whatever you do in the classroom, the grunts in the monitoring room will just see a class full of kids with their heads in the books, and a teacher that looks supsiciously like papier mache
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Watching classes through a camera would be about as exciting as watching the House of Commons channel. That's one of the first things I delete from my channel "hotlist".
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Of course, if you get caught, you can always moan about that terrible pain in all the diodes in your left side...
It was a security tape, shot from a "hidden"? camera cleverly hidden in the factory ceiling duct/conduit/wiring/plumbing mess.
After a few seconds of nothingless, you see a guy coming with a crow-bar, and dutifully lop-off a big padlock on a door.
The kicker was that this guy was not stealing anything at all, but just opening the door so he would have not to walk an extra 100m to go to the bathroom!!!
Well, it seems that when shown the incriminating tape, just prior to his firing, the guy only said " boy, do I walk funny "...
* Since this was more than 20 years ago, there is prescription (and the company doesn't exist anymore anyway).
? Since the VCR was a U-Matic 1 inch tape, you can guess how "small" the camera was, back then!!!
remember that one?
The teacher points out a new surveillance camera designed to monitor the kids' bad behavior. The kids point out it could also monitor the teacher's bad teaching, and the teacher runs over to cover it with his jacket.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Professor Dolores Umbridge strikes again! Evil old b^H witch!
cameras in the girls' dressing room.