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Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-an-A-in-cafeteria dept.

AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?"

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  1. Re:indoctrination by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I actually just have a personal identification number. I think a personal identification number number would be a bit harder. Is it like a matrix of vectors?

    Like PIN[0]=1234, PIN[1]=5678. So my PIN number for school would be 1, but my PIN number for my luggage would be 0.

    Now from the summary I don't even know what a personal identification number code is. Unless you have a secret code to unlock a little brief case that contains your PIN.

  2. Re:i hate big brother but... by QuantumFlux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't these children know their 7-digit home phone numbers?

    Nope, they just scroll to "Mom" in the Contact List of their cell phones. These *are* 5 year olds; they might not be able to tie their shoes yet but they're not savages!