It's a POS because it relies on the student not purposefully submitting false information.
When you were at school and the supply teacher handed around a piece of paper for you to write your name on as they didn't have the register, did nobody write the name of their friend? Or "Mickey Mouse" for that matter. Same principle applies. Kids will mess with stuff they're not supposed to.
I've worked in four schools. ID cards with RFID cover access control to buildings and cashless cafeteria systems. Fingerprinting I disagree with totally. CCTV has been used to prevent vandalism in IT Suites, and aiding in investigating reports of violent behaviour and burglary. Its use in classrooms I do not agree with. ContactPoint database should never, EVER be brought about, and I will do all I can do prevent it. Vote for opposition, write to my MP, join organised demonstrations, donate to NO2ID-linked charities etc.
FYI, we also have total monitoring of any and all computer use within the school. Every keypress, every website is logged and checked. It is used to prevent incidents of online bullying or access to objectionable material. Remember that we're talking about a school, not general public internet access.
Nobody talks to me on the phone like that, customer, user, or employer. If they want a reasonable, well considered discussion on any topic, that's fine. Swear at me and I'm hanging up.
If they want to fire me for that, I really don't want to work for them.
In the last school I Tech'd at, there were CCTV cameras in the ICT suites. There were issues regarding students damaging property on a daily basis. This stopped it overnight.
You also have no idea how effective it is to assist parents in disciplining unruly children when they are faced with a video recording of them starting a fight. It empowers them beyond any backlash the child may have. Sometimes these systems are beneficial. You should stop making sweeping judgements.
A school I used to Tech in had an electronic registration system using a system called PARS. All staff laptops had the registration software which updates a central database. Admin staff can amend these details as required.
Located in three seperate offices in three seperate buildings were three laptops, designated "Fire Modules". These pulled updated registration information from the central server for whole school every minute, and were constantly running during the school day. In the case of fire, the three staff who's office it was obtained these laptops (if safe to do so). The redundancy of three laptops in different locations ensured there would always be one laptop available. They held all of the information required for a comprehensive registration check, and you check off each class as complete as the tutors tell you. It is remarkably effective.
Only if he included the deviations from the published timetable which occured, for example late arrivals or services which didn't run at all.
Any more than 5 minutes or so late and the timetable becomes useless. People would arrive for the published time of 5 minutes later and miss their train.
For all intents and purposes, what I bought was a time card. It just so happened that my "special deal" for that purchase was a copy of the game client on CD. It saved me downloading the client, but didn't cost me any extra compared to downloading the client and then paying for time. I just saved myself the hassle of downloading 700MB on a line which was "sketchy" at best.
- Remove the file / drive with the encrypted information from the computer you had it installed in originally and put it in a "sheep dip" station with only a CD drive and no other storage. Boot a linux distro from CD and scan for malware using paranoid settings under heuristics. - Put a second drive into the machine, and boot from CD again. If you need Windows, use Bart or WinPE. Use the software you used to encrypt the data to decrypt it to the second drive. Remove old drive and destroy. - Re-encrypt decrypted data on new drive and secure-erase space on old drive before destroying it. Carry on as normal.
If what you had on your drive is still encrypted and unviewed by The Powers That Be, you've probably spent a couple of years in prison for the trouble (at least in the UK). I hope it was worth it for those private pictures of your wife and your CV.
By continuing with this action, you hurt the consumer by artificially inflating costs. As a consumer, I do not approve of this.
I will not buy an album or track from any band or label which is RIAA-associated and included within these games, should you abuse your market position like this. I actively ENCOURAGE Rock Band and Guitar Hero's respective developers to avoid your music at all costs, and provide market exposure for independant bands, whose music can be freely downloaded and used from Jamendo and similar sites for review before contacting the author for permission for use. I have no doubt that 100% will agree.
I will buy their game anyway, as I enjoy the gameplay regardless of the backing track. It's for this same reason that I bought AudioSurf on the Steam platform.
I'd buy it as it's a solid backup of all of the content up until this point. My system gets hosed, no problem; I'll pop this disk in and update a couple of patches instead of a whole new game client.
Plus, I have a CD with the original EVE client from 2004 on my shelf at home. They did ship a paid for client, with the equivalent cost and of a time card, including the time. It saved me downloading 700Mb on my then blindingly fast 512k (50kb/s top) line from BlueYonder. At the time, that was 4 hours, if the connection held for that long.
Yes, you do. You can request a trial by jury. However, professional legal councel does not suggest this very often, as the costs escalate extremely quickly, and for minor offences can cause a much more serious sentence at the end of the trial (should you be found guilty) than the Magistrate's court can give you (currently 6 month prison sentence and a pretty hefty fine).
Once again, i'm not arguing points of the UK judicial system, i'm stating that the Swedish system does not operate the same way as the American system. Jury trials DO NOT EXIST unless it concerns freedom of the press. Was nobody paying attention earlier, when someone els posted exactly that point?
What "inherant rights in all human beings" are these? What relevance does this have to the TPB case? The right to... Life? Nobody's hanging anybody else over this.
You've taken my comment out of context; I'm directly responding to whether a person, within Sweden, has the right to a trial by jury. They do not. They don't have juries. They have what I would call three "Magistrates" from the community, and one Judge.
Are you Americans so totally absorbed in the notion that YOUR system is THE system?
What's the policy between UK / US and India regarding extradition? I'm no criminal, but I don't want to be the next McKinnon just because I said something America or England didn't like.
Your rights don't come from the judicial system that you happen to live under. They are inalienable rights that all human beings have (or should have).
The statement is inaccurate. You don't have a right to a jury trial in Sweden, because they have no concept of a jury trial. Criminal court is presided upon by a trio of Laymen (commoners, or for the ease of understanding a small "jury") and a fourth person who decides when the others cannot. I forget if this is a Judge or whatever, but it's a fourth person anyway.
In the UK, we have a similar system for lesser offences called Magistrates court. Members of the local community preside on cases such as pety thefts, afray, common assault, and fly-tipping. Run-of-the-mill stuff. It's three trained Magistrates, supported behind the scenes by a Clerk who is always a legal professional to aid the Magistrates in interpreting and following Black Letter law.
I have no axe to grind; I'm just smarter than you.
I too have served on a Jury, and not once was anything regarding voting other than Guilty or Not Guilty mentioned. I later found out about Jury Nullification.
Note that Wikipedia is a start, not an end. It's up to you to become aware of these things, as an informed and empowered citizen.
The US, Canadian, UK, and Australian constitutions (which may or may not exist for each; I know the UK has no formal "Constitution" but several varied entries within legislature) do not cover Sweden.
The right to "Trial by one's Peers" does not mean a jury. It can be anybody from your society, as long as it's more than one person who does not have a vested interest in the outcome. That's why we have the Magistracy in the UK. They handle 98% of all UK criminal cases; They never go to Crown court and sit in front of a Judge or jury.
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I'm posting here that I'm going to eat all of your staff's pets.
You 15 minutes to reply to this post, or you agree that Bruno the Poodle is my main course.
They were doing this during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Haven't you seen Braveheart?
It's a POS because it relies on the student not purposefully submitting false information.
When you were at school and the supply teacher handed around a piece of paper for you to write your name on as they didn't have the register, did nobody write the name of their friend? Or "Mickey Mouse" for that matter. Same principle applies. Kids will mess with stuff they're not supposed to.
I've worked in four schools.
ID cards with RFID cover access control to buildings and cashless cafeteria systems.
Fingerprinting I disagree with totally.
CCTV has been used to prevent vandalism in IT Suites, and aiding in investigating reports of violent behaviour and burglary. Its use in classrooms I do not agree with.
ContactPoint database should never, EVER be brought about, and I will do all I can do prevent it. Vote for opposition, write to my MP, join organised demonstrations, donate to NO2ID-linked charities etc.
FYI, we also have total monitoring of any and all computer use within the school. Every keypress, every website is logged and checked. It is used to prevent incidents of online bullying or access to objectionable material. Remember that we're talking about a school, not general public internet access.
Nobody talks to me on the phone like that, customer, user, or employer. If they want a reasonable, well considered discussion on any topic, that's fine. Swear at me and I'm hanging up.
If they want to fire me for that, I really don't want to work for them.
In the last school I Tech'd at, there were CCTV cameras in the ICT suites. There were issues regarding students damaging property on a daily basis. This stopped it overnight.
You also have no idea how effective it is to assist parents in disciplining unruly children when they are faced with a video recording of them starting a fight. It empowers them beyond any backlash the child may have. Sometimes these systems are beneficial. You should stop making sweeping judgements.
A school I used to Tech in had an electronic registration system using a system called PARS. All staff laptops had the registration software which updates a central database. Admin staff can amend these details as required.
Located in three seperate offices in three seperate buildings were three laptops, designated "Fire Modules". These pulled updated registration information from the central server for whole school every minute, and were constantly running during the school day. In the case of fire, the three staff who's office it was obtained these laptops (if safe to do so). The redundancy of three laptops in different locations ensured there would always be one laptop available. They held all of the information required for a comprehensive registration check, and you check off each class as complete as the tutors tell you. It is remarkably effective.
This system with the face recognition is a POS.
Mod parent -1 Sensationalist tabloid rubbish.
Disclaimer: I work in the education system, and the Headteacher here is fantastic.
There are other comments in this thread which explain what I was getting at.
Only if he included the deviations from the published timetable which occured, for example late arrivals or services which didn't run at all.
Any more than 5 minutes or so late and the timetable becomes useless. People would arrive for the published time of 5 minutes later and miss their train.
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Apologies, I wasn't clear.
For all intents and purposes, what I bought was a time card. It just so happened that my "special deal" for that purchase was a copy of the game client on CD. It saved me downloading the client, but didn't cost me any extra compared to downloading the client and then paying for time. I just saved myself the hassle of downloading 700MB on a line which was "sketchy" at best.
- Remove the file / drive with the encrypted information from the computer you had it installed in originally and put it in a "sheep dip" station with only a CD drive and no other storage. Boot a linux distro from CD and scan for malware using paranoid settings under heuristics.
- Put a second drive into the machine, and boot from CD again. If you need Windows, use Bart or WinPE. Use the software you used to encrypt the data to decrypt it to the second drive. Remove old drive and destroy.
- Re-encrypt decrypted data on new drive and secure-erase space on old drive before destroying it. Carry on as normal.
If what you had on your drive is still encrypted and unviewed by The Powers That Be, you've probably spent a couple of years in prison for the trouble (at least in the UK). I hope it was worth it for those private pictures of your wife and your CV.
By continuing with this action, you hurt the consumer by artificially inflating costs. As a consumer, I do not approve of this.
I will not buy an album or track from any band or label which is RIAA-associated and included within these games, should you abuse your market position like this. I actively ENCOURAGE Rock Band and Guitar Hero's respective developers to avoid your music at all costs, and provide market exposure for independant bands, whose music can be freely downloaded and used from Jamendo and similar sites for review before contacting the author for permission for use. I have no doubt that 100% will agree.
I will buy their game anyway, as I enjoy the gameplay regardless of the backing track. It's for this same reason that I bought AudioSurf on the Steam platform.
Sincerely.
I'd buy it as it's a solid backup of all of the content up until this point. My system gets hosed, no problem; I'll pop this disk in and update a couple of patches instead of a whole new game client.
Plus, I have a CD with the original EVE client from 2004 on my shelf at home. They did ship a paid for client, with the equivalent cost and of a time card, including the time. It saved me downloading 700Mb on my then blindingly fast 512k (50kb/s top) line from BlueYonder. At the time, that was 4 hours, if the connection held for that long.
This is the third post i'm replying to regarding the same issue, so i'll just say... Wooooosh.
Yes, you do. You can request a trial by jury. However, professional legal councel does not suggest this very often, as the costs escalate extremely quickly, and for minor offences can cause a much more serious sentence at the end of the trial (should you be found guilty) than the Magistrate's court can give you (currently 6 month prison sentence and a pretty hefty fine).
Once again, i'm not arguing points of the UK judicial system, i'm stating that the Swedish system does not operate the same way as the American system. Jury trials DO NOT EXIST unless it concerns freedom of the press. Was nobody paying attention earlier, when someone els posted exactly that point?
What "inherant rights in all human beings" are these? What relevance does this have to the TPB case? The right to... Life? Nobody's hanging anybody else over this.
You've taken my comment out of context; I'm directly responding to whether a person, within Sweden, has the right to a trial by jury. They do not. They don't have juries. They have what I would call three "Magistrates" from the community, and one Judge.
Are you Americans so totally absorbed in the notion that YOUR system is THE system?
I think i've found my new home.
What's the policy between UK / US and India regarding extradition? I'm no criminal, but I don't want to be the next McKinnon just because I said something America or England didn't like.
I don't know whether this is -1 Flamebait, -1 Redundant or +1 Insightful. Can we have a "+0 Brain melted" rating?
Either way, they could track it unless you switched DNS server.
http://www.torproject.org/
Hey, actually that's a good point. Maybe they should create a Freenet site for the information... Get some more folk interested in that project too.
I offered insight into the statement:
Your rights don't come from the judicial system that you happen to live under. They are inalienable rights that all human beings have (or should have).
The statement is inaccurate. You don't have a right to a jury trial in Sweden, because they have no concept of a jury trial. Criminal court is presided upon by a trio of Laymen (commoners, or for the ease of understanding a small "jury") and a fourth person who decides when the others cannot. I forget if this is a Judge or whatever, but it's a fourth person anyway.
In the UK, we have a similar system for lesser offences called Magistrates court. Members of the local community preside on cases such as pety thefts, afray, common assault, and fly-tipping. Run-of-the-mill stuff. It's three trained Magistrates, supported behind the scenes by a Clerk who is always a legal professional to aid the Magistrates in interpreting and following Black Letter law.
I have no axe to grind; I'm just smarter than you.
I too have served on a Jury, and not once was anything regarding voting other than Guilty or Not Guilty mentioned. I later found out about Jury Nullification.
Note that Wikipedia is a start, not an end. It's up to you to become aware of these things, as an informed and empowered citizen.
The US, Canadian, UK, and Australian constitutions (which may or may not exist for each; I know the UK has no formal "Constitution" but several varied entries within legislature) do not cover Sweden.
The right to "Trial by one's Peers" does not mean a jury. It can be anybody from your society, as long as it's more than one person who does not have a vested interest in the outcome. That's why we have the Magistracy in the UK. They handle 98% of all UK criminal cases; They never go to Crown court and sit in front of a Judge or jury.
Again, World + Dog != America.