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Student Logs Teachers Keystrokes
handy_vandal writes "A 16-year-old student has been charged with a misdemeanor for rigging a keystroke-recording device onto a teacher's computer. School district police received a tip from students that the boy was trying to sell answers to final exams. The District Attorney's Office has charged the teen with breach of computer information, a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days in jail. This sort of thing has happened before. The problem is so pervasive that the GRE board has switched from computers back to paper and pencil."
If you can't do geometry... that's pretty damn sad.
No wonder they're moving computer jobs to India.
I just graduated high-school in '04 and thus we had the standard assortment of pentium/celeron based win98 machines. My absolute favorite thing to do was just unplug the Cat5 from the back of every single machine in the library, only to come in 2 days later with hand written OUT OF ORDER signs draped over them.
The real fun was watching the techs come in (You know the type, 30 something and you KNOW you know 100x more about computer than he does) and just struggle with it. I watched this one guy run at least 10 different diagnostics then get frustrated and leave.
I felt bad so I plugged them back in.
I unplugged them in 2 week intervals. I have seriously never laughed more in my life, especially the time there were 3 techs pulling computers apart (and when you put it back duh you plug the wire in) and so they thought they jiggled some magical connection (yeah in all 30 computers).
they proceeded to open every computer, jiggle each pci card, press on the RAM, put it back together and pronounce it cured. Idiots.
Isn't the first rule of troubleshooting to check and recheck every wire? Oh but you couldn't tell these guys anything, they were MCSE.