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MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers

Posted by kdawson on from the what-were-they-thinking dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft has applied for a patent for 'securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage.' The application describes how face-recognition webcams and CAPTCHAs can be used in schools to ensure that computer users are paying attention to ads, and the recourse of 'disabling or even repossessing the computer' if they are not."

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  1. Re:Schools with no money. by fourchannel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Not directed at you, but I fucking care.

    If we treat education like some service, optional, profitable, exploitable, then we will eventually get degredation over time, and the quality of education will drop. With that, the investment in the school will drop, and what do you know, education fucking drops some more.

    Education is the only thing (technology is derived from the knowledge education provides), that separates our society from those of the primative past. If we treat education as anything but the highest concern, then we have failed our ancestors to learn from the past and prevent the problems of the past from manifesting now.

    So, yes I fucking care.

    BTW, I was ranting, but I'm not mad at the parent or anyone in particular.

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