The cheap mats get destroyed rather quickly. The arcade platform feels very different. So if you start adding your investment, you'll find that a full-scale solution can easily put you over $200 without the console. Figure about $50 for the game, and about $100 for a decent pad/platform. But you may want two pads, hence over $200.
Playing at arcade is more enjoyable and easier.
Add to that the fact that you'll need quite a bit of space to jump around.
You are not looking at expert level players. You are looking at players on light mode.
I get completely wiped out in less than 20 minutes on my typical 7-8 foot difficulty songs.
Anything above 6 feet even on normal mode will make you reconsider the "low intensity" comment. 5 feet you can still do standing still without much effort. At 6 feet and with jumps and multi-cross sequences of "little" steps, you are done for the day in 20 minutes.
Not only do most people can't dance, more importantly, most clubs today feature music that's not very dancy. I can dance to some of it, but it is challenging to do so without a driving line and to a rather boring beat. It's far easier to dance to a song with variable lyrics, things like guitar runs etc. I have a lot more fun dancing at a blues concert than I do in a typical nightclub.
Try to dance to a typical salsa beat and then try something from a mainstream club. You'll find dancing to salsa an easier more interesting dance experience.
This is not necessarily much of a problem here in Bay Area or a couple of other hot spots around US, but the rest of the locations are quite doomed. I am speaking from experience having traveled all over US for an extended period of time.
Novices need help and encouragement to become better. The game spots the trend where you are noticeably improving. It offers a lot of encouragement rather than negative comments. There are certain tricks and techniques that are common to every dance form. If anything, DDR might not teach you to dance, but it will certainly help you out in the "show off circle". That speed your feet learn from 6+ foot songs really kills the crowd.
Face it, most people in the clubs do not dance. Some dance maybe for a few songs. I start my night at 10pm and end it on the last song. In all the time I've been doing this, I've met very few other dancers who could keep up. Not drinking helps as well.
Lastly, clubs force you to alter your schedule. I prefer to dance on my own schedule.
Tell the manager it's just $12,000 and covers not just you but also ten other people concurrently from A+ to CCIE. I've tried many CBT materials, but Nuggets are what was most useful to me.
There is some seriously good information in those videos.
Watch the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon". That will explain why it's so important.:-)
Now is a very good time to start despite all of our current conflicts. Bush will be out of office soon enough, so we might as well start to climb out of the dark ages now.
I have an SSA 1000 in storage with a matching SparcStation 10 that has a fibre channel host bus adapter. The SSA had 30 SCSI disks in groups of 10 and a fibre channel interface. Once upon a time it made for a lot of fun with doing some database performance modeling with 30 1GB SCSI drives. The size was roughly the same.
It is a question of what constitutes a reasonable cause and the search object is not required. That case hinged on the fact that reasonable suspicion of having cigarettes on her person was established that allowed for escalated search procedure that in turn uncovered a controlled substance illegal in that state. It is a question whether the minor is covered by 4th amendment in the first place (look at how many people believe that minors in school have no rights!). It is the case that lowers the test from probable cause to reasonable suspicion and defines the criteria for warrantless searches. It is the case where school officials are defined as representatives of the State without parental exemption to the 4th Amendment, which is why I say that Wikipedia article needs a review. I don't rely on that source, but others might. It is the case where the modifier "exceedingly intrusive" is introduced. Would you not conclude that this is an exceedingly intrusive search that must be based on a reasonable suspicion that there will be evidence of a crime revealed after search is complete?
The second case further defines minors' protection under 14th amendment and confirms that school entities specifically are not above the reach of Constitution and further acknowledges that they often behave otherwise.
How is TLO applicable here? We are discussing whether such a search would be legal. We establish that any school representative does NOT have parental exemption from 4th Amendment, henceforth any search must be done on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that evidence uncovered will prove either violation of a law or a violation of a school rule. And you can probably get inappropriate rules declared unconstitutional in court.
This is far away from the "minors have no rights while in school" argument and also refutes the implied assertion of parental exemption to the 4th Amendment.
Reasonable cause is not a hunch, it's not a guess. The test for reasonable cause is expressly defined in the TLO case.
So we know they have the right to do this, the question is under which circumstances. I do not believe that it needs to be in a school policy and I believe that a subpoena should be used instead. I think at the point where they will have established reasonable cause for drug-related charges the police will be involved already. All you are doing is requesting a snapshot of that person's phone bill. I would expect that request in the form of a subpoena and not something that a school would be involved in.
Therefore, would you not agree that this policy is redundant? Any search results of a random phone without reasonable cause and without consent I'd expect thrown out of court. That is provided that the phone was not handed over after a search request is made, which would imply consent and thus make it legal.
Based on that, would you not consider that denying this request to search and requesting a meeting with an attorney would be the most prudent course of action protected by 4th and 5th amendments?
They tell you they have that assumed right to take your property, but ask for it in writing and see what happens. I don't think you'll get it in writing.
The following is just my opinion of a reasonable person who read the text of findings of the Supreme Court. I think the article I am replying to misleading in general, and FUD specifically.
Let me make it abundantly clear SCHOOL IS GOVERNMENT. All restrictions against government apply except as limited by the Supreme Court.
I've been looking into general causes for the failure of US Education system, and found quite a few interesting references a couple of days ago, so this is not totally new. My goal is to entice some reforms once I can afford to do so.
Now, I've been upset about this policy and its potential impact for several hours since I got back from a nightclub... so thanks for giving me some Supreme Court cases to read. Since you likely haven't read them, I'll post the relevant parts. The TLO case is pretty thorough by itself, but I also think that your "free speech is moot" argument not confirmed by the Hazelwood case. Please read it in your spare time. It concerns limited special circumstances school censorship and disruptions to classroom, but it doesn't waive the 1st Amendment. In case of 4th Amendment, the TLO case reduces "probable cause" to a lower standard and does not require a warrant but doesn't change much else. It doesn't authorize a random baseless search.
Citing the cases is all well, but let's include full quotations omitted from this text with regards to special circumstances as it's quite key:-). Rights are being stripped daily, and something must be done to stop it. Ironically, it seems like kids will have to read some Supreme Court rulings and get familiar with http://www.flexyourrights.org/
Here is the full paragraph related to 4th Amendment from TLO:
1. The Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to searches conducted by public school officials and is not limited to searches carried out by law enforcement officers. Nor are school officials exempt from the Amendment's dictates by virtue of the special nature of their authority over schoolchildren. In carrying out searches and other functions pursuant to disciplinary policies mandated by state statutes, school officials act as representatives of the State, not merely as surrogates for the parents of students, and they cannot claim the parents' immunity from the Fourth Amendment's strictures. Pp. 333-337. [469 U.S. 325, 326]
2. Schoolchildren have legitimate expectations of privacy. They may find it necessary to carry with them a variety of legitimate, non-contraband items, and there is no reason to conclude that they have necessarily waived all rights to privacy in such items by bringing them onto school grounds. But striking the balance between schoolchildren's legitimate expectations of privacy and the school's equally legitimate need to maintain an environment in which learning can take place requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. Thus, school officials need not obtain a warrant before searching a student who is under their authority. Moreover, school officials need not be held subject to the requirement that searches be based on probable cause to believe that the subject of the search has violated or is violating the law. Rather, the legality of a search of a student should depend simply on the reasonableness, under all the circumstances, of the search. Determining the reasonableness of any search involve
School == government. If you wondered why they are so bad, well, clearly that is a normal function of its being a government agency. The school board is an elected government office. All of the school staff members are government agents. Thus, all restrictions related to government apply. You have more rights against government at any age than you do against any private person. Do not advise other people to waive their rights. Ideally - the student should say nothing besides the "I do not consent to any searches" line. Let the school be forced to call the police at which point the student should invite a lawyer. Worst case scenario would probably be unlawfully obtained evidence and $500 or so lawyer bill for time. This article is purely an opinion.
This concerns a policy being implemented in your school district regarding searches of students' mobile phones. My opinion is that it will result in great costs to your school district due to legal expenses. Modern cell phones are computer systems, hence they will likely be covered under the unauthorized access to computer systems act in the event of forced search.
Typically, once news of a local event involving blatant violations of US residents' rights relating to the use of computer systems appears on the front page of Slashdot, which is a publication that has close to a million registered readers, other organizations whose sole mission is to protect the privacy rights may likely get involved.
I urge you to educate Mr. Welch on the long-term implications of this policy as well as review our discussion on why it will be ineffective and to consult an attorney familiar with the implications on unauthorized access of computer systems.
Please understand that we have encryption capabilities in the more advanced cell phone devices and we do have removable memory cards. We also have removable SIM cards. If a student swaps a SIM card, the phone's entire identity is stored on such a card. They may have one handset with an infinite number of identities.Cingular and T-mobile are two major carriers that use SIM cards in their GSM phones. There are also prepaid SIM-based cards that are virtually untraceable. As a matter of fact, there is an HBO show called "The Wire" where the only way they were able to get accurate data from such phones was to pre-tap the phones prior to selling them to drug dealers. Obviously, that is purely a fictional scenario. That, Mr. Martes, is how futile this policy is. It will further alienate the students from the school and contribute to the existing tension.
If I had something to hide, I'd store my data on an encrypted volume on a removable storage card with a 256bit key. It is impractical to break that kind of a key in less than a lifetime. Additionally, I'd use multiple SIM cards with an unlocked phone. An unlocked phone enables the use of SIM cards from other carriers. That means that a student with a T-mobile device may in fact also be able to use a Cingular SIM card. That situation is uncommon for most people, but can be easily achieved for those who need it done for just a few dollars or some minor online research. By the way, the above description is how I store my data today on a removable miniSD card because I can legally control all of my customers' networks directly from the device and I need a secure way to transfer data as necessary. I can't afford to have some of that data fall into wrong hands. The cost of software to achieve this is insignificant.
I can also opt to store my data on remote web site that leaves no traces on my mobile network access device. They are not just phones anymore. Even many of the phones you wouldn't expect to be smart, such as the free Nokia phone model #6010 are capable of running Java applications, which can also enable encryption. You may find this list to be of interest http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
In summary, Mr. Martes, the technological battle is already lost. Today's mobile network access devices are no longer just phones. They are sophisticated network-enabled computers that can be used as the students to greatly assist in their scholarly progress.
You do not give up that right. My opinion is that your rights are protected stronger precisely because it's a government institution, which is squarely under the jurisdiction of the Constitution.
The Constitution does not contain age limits on the Bill of Rights, if I recall. I'd demand that the school call the police and obtain a search warrant. "So you want to look through my phone, and probably also my e-mail on this computer? Please, call the police and have them get a warrant. And that warrant must have my name on it. If you choose to ignore this request and access my data without a warrant, I'll consider your actions as unauthorized access of my computer systems, which is a federal felony and call the police immediately myself. This device is a Windows Mobile 5.0 computer system where my data is stored on an encrypted volume so that law will apply. Additionally, the school district will be sued by my family's attorney. Do you wish to continue with your line of inquiry now?"
I was watching a Fox show "So you think you can dance" that was recorded on my Comcast DVR. There is a hack to add a 30-second skip feature. The show was completely destroyed and didn't even start properly for 45 minutes, which apparent with a secondary host introduction. I skipped literally 30 minutes of commercials. I rewind for the commercials I haven't seen yet and that looked interesting.
I don't think that requring me to sit through 45 minutes of irrelevant garbage is a good idea. Same with races. I record them and then I have a pre-race show for an hour that I don't care about.
ABC doesn't have me as a customer anyway as I never watch any of their holdings, but this is a terrible idea.
I have a t-mobile account that allows me to use Tmobile's Wifi at any equipped Starbucks location. So I usually access it from half a block away as a paying customer of T-mobile but not of Starbucks.
You should become a teacher only when you can afford to do so. It's a volunteer position that has a modest salary along with substantial time requirements and a not so modest budget for out of pocket expenses.
Attempting to survive on those miserable salaries leads to a miserable educational experience for the students. That's why we wind up with energetic young teachers become disillusioned and on the picket lines in a fairly short order. The best teachers whom I had the pleasure to learn from could afford to teach for free. Poor teachers really made my time in school miserable. The correlation was simply too direct not to notice it.
Make your money in a successful career, then become a teacher. That will allow you to inspire students to break free of the boundaries of paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. Your job is to teach them to be successful. That does not mean preparing them to follow corporate orders.
Instead of that second job, figure out how to set aside 10-20K by living very frugally initially and start investing in things that generate real returns, such as REITs for example. Let your friends laugh at you that you have an older car (and no payments) and a tiny apartment for a couple of years. Once you have 10-20K, you can start to make real money by increasing your wealth through investments. Yes this approach does work. It took us a couple of years before we started seeing real returns on that initial sacrifice. And yes it does take a lot of time that is consistent with having a second job.
I love to teach, but I am not yet at the point where I would be comfortable to essentially retire to volunteer as a teacher for a lousy 30K.
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A decent DDR setup at home is not easy.
The cheap mats get destroyed rather quickly. The arcade platform feels very different. So if you start adding your investment, you'll find that a full-scale solution can easily put you over $200 without the console. Figure about $50 for the game, and about $100 for a decent pad/platform. But you may want two pads, hence over $200.
Playing at arcade is more enjoyable and easier.
Add to that the fact that you'll need quite a bit of space to jump around.
Low intensity...
You are not looking at expert level players. You are looking at players on light mode.
I get completely wiped out in less than 20 minutes on my typical 7-8 foot difficulty songs.
Anything above 6 feet even on normal mode will make you reconsider the "low intensity" comment. 5 feet you can still do standing still without much effort. At 6 feet and with jumps and multi-cross sequences of "little" steps, you are done for the day in 20 minutes.
Not only do most people can't dance, more importantly, most clubs today feature music that's not very dancy. I can dance to some of it, but it is challenging to do so without a driving line and to a rather boring beat. It's far easier to dance to a song with variable lyrics, things like guitar runs etc. I have a lot more fun dancing at a blues concert than I do in a typical nightclub.
Try to dance to a typical salsa beat and then try something from a mainstream club. You'll find dancing to salsa an easier more interesting dance experience.
This is not necessarily much of a problem here in Bay Area or a couple of other hot spots around US, but the rest of the locations are quite doomed. I am speaking from experience having traveled all over US for an extended period of time.
Novices need help and encouragement to become better. The game spots the trend where you are noticeably improving. It offers a lot of encouragement rather than negative comments. There are certain tricks and techniques that are common to every dance form. If anything, DDR might not teach you to dance, but it will certainly help you out in the "show off circle". That speed your feet learn from 6+ foot songs really kills the crowd.
Face it, most people in the clubs do not dance. Some dance maybe for a few songs. I start my night at 10pm and end it on the last song. In all the time I've been doing this, I've met very few other dancers who could keep up. Not drinking helps as well.
Lastly, clubs force you to alter your schedule. I prefer to dance on my own schedule.
The device has no UI, so it probably has the secret code 0000.
;-)
In a location with a sufficient quantity of women wearing these and a bluetooth ring generator, one would be a very welcome person to hack them
Tell the manager it's just $12,000 and covers not just you but also ten other people concurrently from A+ to CCIE. I've tried many CBT materials, but Nuggets are what was most useful to me.
There is some seriously good information in those videos.
Watch the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon". That will explain why it's so important. :-)
Now is a very good time to start despite all of our current conflicts. Bush will be out of office soon enough, so we might as well start to climb out of the dark ages now.
I would actually buy the tissue holder.
Other stuff is useless to me, but this is a good thing.
I have an SSA 1000 in storage with a matching SparcStation 10 that has a fibre channel host bus adapter. The SSA had 30 SCSI disks in groups of 10 and a fibre channel interface. Once upon a time it made for a lot of fun with doing some database performance modeling with 30 1GB SCSI drives. The size was roughly the same.
Link please?
That's confusion between rights, priveleges, and statutory minimum age requirements. None of what is mentioned is a right the way I see it.
You are a US Citizen at birth if you are born in the US or on US soil in a foreign land. End of discussion on that one.
It is a question of what constitutes a reasonable cause and the search object is not required. That case hinged on the fact that reasonable suspicion of having cigarettes on her person was established that allowed for escalated search procedure that in turn uncovered a controlled substance illegal in that state. It is a question whether the minor is covered by 4th amendment in the first place (look at how many people believe that minors in school have no rights!). It is the case that lowers the test from probable cause to reasonable suspicion and defines the criteria for warrantless searches. It is the case where school officials are defined as representatives of the State without parental exemption to the 4th Amendment, which is why I say that Wikipedia article needs a review. I don't rely on that source, but others might. It is the case where the modifier "exceedingly intrusive" is introduced. Would you not conclude that this is an exceedingly intrusive search that must be based on a reasonable suspicion that there will be evidence of a crime revealed after search is complete?
The second case further defines minors' protection under 14th amendment and confirms that school entities specifically are not above the reach of Constitution and further acknowledges that they often behave otherwise.
How is TLO applicable here? We are discussing whether such a search would be legal. We establish that any school representative does NOT have parental exemption from 4th Amendment, henceforth any search must be done on the grounds of reasonable suspicion that evidence uncovered will prove either violation of a law or a violation of a school rule. And you can probably get inappropriate rules declared unconstitutional in court.
This is far away from the "minors have no rights while in school" argument and also refutes the implied assertion of parental exemption to the 4th Amendment.
Reasonable cause is not a hunch, it's not a guess. The test for reasonable cause is expressly defined in the TLO case.
So we know they have the right to do this, the question is under which circumstances. I do not believe that it needs to be in a school policy and I believe that a subpoena should be used instead. I think at the point where they will have established reasonable cause for drug-related charges the police will be involved already. All you are doing is requesting a snapshot of that person's phone bill. I would expect that request in the form of a subpoena and not something that a school would be involved in.
Therefore, would you not agree that this policy is redundant? Any search results of a random phone without reasonable cause and without consent I'd expect thrown out of court. That is provided that the phone was not handed over after a search request is made, which would imply consent and thus make it legal.
Based on that, would you not consider that denying this request to search and requesting a meeting with an attorney would be the most prudent course of action protected by 4th and 5th amendments?
Do you know the kid?
That's an illegal search unless he authorized it. He needs legal representation.
They tell you they have that assumed right to take your property, but ask for it in writing and see what happens. I don't think you'll get it in writing.
Not according to Supreme Court that is not. Read the TLO case, which is quite applicable here.
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Now, I made a Google query for you. Please confirm your statement that minors waive their constitutional rights. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GSPA%2
There is your proof that kids do have rights - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
The following is just my opinion of a reasonable person who read the text of findings of the Supreme Court. I think the article I am replying to misleading in general, and FUD specifically.
:-). Rights are being stripped daily, and something must be done to stop it. Ironically, it seems like kids will have to read some Supreme Court rulings and get familiar with http://www.flexyourrights.org/
Let me make it abundantly clear SCHOOL IS GOVERNMENT. All restrictions against government apply except as limited by the Supreme Court.
Here is the text of the 4th Amendment - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment04/
I've been looking into general causes for the failure of US Education system, and found quite a few interesting references a couple of days ago, so this is not totally new. My goal is to entice some reforms once I can afford to do so.
Now, I've been upset about this policy and its potential impact for several hours since I got back from a nightclub... so thanks for giving me some Supreme Court cases to read. Since you likely haven't read them, I'll post the relevant parts. The TLO case is pretty thorough by itself, but I also think that your "free speech is moot" argument not confirmed by the Hazelwood case. Please read it in your spare time. It concerns limited special circumstances school censorship and disruptions to classroom, but it doesn't waive the 1st Amendment. In case of 4th Amendment, the TLO case reduces "probable cause" to a lower standard and does not require a warrant but doesn't change much else. It doesn't authorize a random baseless search.
Citing the cases is all well, but let's include full quotations omitted from this text with regards to special circumstances as it's quite key
Looking at New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?n avby=CASE&court=US&vol=469&page=325
Here is the full paragraph related to 4th Amendment from TLO:
1. The Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to searches conducted by public school officials and is not limited to searches carried out by law enforcement officers.
Nor are school officials exempt from the Amendment's dictates by virtue of the special nature of their authority over schoolchildren. In carrying out searches and other functions pursuant to disciplinary policies mandated by state statutes, school officials act as representatives of the State, not merely as surrogates for the parents of students, and they cannot claim the parents' immunity from the Fourth Amendment's strictures. Pp. 333-337. [469 U.S. 325, 326]
2. Schoolchildren have legitimate expectations of privacy. They may find it necessary to carry with them a variety of legitimate, non-contraband items, and there is no reason to conclude that they have necessarily waived all rights to privacy in such items by bringing them onto school grounds. But striking the balance between schoolchildren's legitimate expectations of privacy and the school's equally legitimate need to maintain an environment in which learning can take place requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. Thus, school officials need not obtain a warrant before searching a student who is under their authority. Moreover, school officials need not be held subject to the requirement that searches be based on probable cause to believe that the subject of the search has violated or is violating the law. Rather, the legality of a search of a student should depend simply on the reasonableness, under all the circumstances, of the search. Determining the reasonableness of any search involve
While it may be funny, it may make sense.
Anything you write is copyrighted by default. DMCA has some fun provisions...
School == government. If you wondered why they are so bad, well, clearly that is a normal function of its being a government agency. The school board is an elected government office. All of the school staff members are government agents. Thus, all restrictions related to government apply. You have more rights against government at any age than you do against any private person. Do not advise other people to waive their rights. Ideally - the student should say nothing besides the "I do not consent to any searches" line. Let the school be forced to call the police at which point the student should invite a lawyer. Worst case scenario would probably be unlawfully obtained evidence and $500 or so lawyer bill for time. This article is purely an opinion.
This is really a terrible policy and I felt compelled to write a letter.
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I wrote to the Superintendent Mr. Martes and CC'ed Mr. Welch.
Mr Martes,
I would like to focus your attention on http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/08/0
This concerns a policy being implemented in your school district regarding searches of students' mobile phones. My opinion is that it will result in great costs to your school district due to legal expenses. Modern cell phones are computer systems, hence they will likely be covered under the unauthorized access to computer systems act in the event of forced search.
Typically, once news of a local event involving blatant violations of US residents' rights relating to the use of computer systems appears on the front page of Slashdot, which is a publication that has close to a million registered readers, other organizations whose sole mission is to protect the privacy rights may likely get involved.
I urge you to educate Mr. Welch on the long-term implications of this policy as well as review our discussion on why it will be ineffective and to consult an attorney familiar with the implications on unauthorized access of computer systems.
Please understand that we have encryption capabilities in the more advanced cell phone devices and we do have removable memory cards. We also have removable SIM cards. If a student swaps a SIM card, the phone's entire identity is stored on such a card. They may have one handset with an infinite number of identities.Cingular and T-mobile are two major carriers that use SIM cards in their GSM phones. There are also prepaid SIM-based cards that are virtually untraceable. As a matter of fact, there is an HBO show called "The Wire" where the only way they were able to get accurate data from such phones was to pre-tap the phones prior to selling them to drug dealers. Obviously, that is purely a fictional scenario. That, Mr. Martes, is how futile this policy is. It will further alienate the students from the school and contribute to the existing tension.
If I had something to hide, I'd store my data on an encrypted volume on a removable storage card with a 256bit key. It is impractical to break that kind of a key in less than a lifetime. Additionally, I'd use multiple SIM cards with an unlocked phone. An unlocked phone enables the use of SIM cards from other carriers. That means that a student with a T-mobile device may in fact also be able to use a Cingular SIM card. That situation is uncommon for most people, but can be easily achieved for those who need it done for just a few dollars or some minor online research. By the way, the above description is how I store my data today on a removable miniSD card because I can legally control all of my customers' networks directly from the device and I need a secure way to transfer data as necessary. I can't afford to have some of that data fall into wrong hands. The cost of software to achieve this is insignificant.
I can also opt to store my data on remote web site that leaves no traces on my mobile network access device. They are not just phones anymore. Even many of the phones you wouldn't expect to be smart, such as the free Nokia phone model #6010 are capable of running Java applications, which can also enable encryption. You may find this list to be of interest http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
In summary, Mr. Martes, the technological battle is already lost. Today's mobile network access devices are no longer just phones. They are sophisticated network-enabled computers that can be used as the students to greatly assist in their scholarly progress.
A public school is a government institution.
You do not give up that right. My opinion is that your rights are protected stronger precisely because it's a government institution, which is squarely under the jurisdiction of the Constitution.
The Constitution does not contain age limits on the Bill of Rights, if I recall. I'd demand that the school call the police and obtain a search warrant. "So you want to look through my phone, and probably also my e-mail on this computer? Please, call the police and have them get a warrant. And that warrant must have my name on it. If you choose to ignore this request and access my data without a warrant, I'll consider your actions as unauthorized access of my computer systems, which is a federal felony and call the police immediately myself. This device is a Windows Mobile 5.0 computer system where my data is stored on an encrypted volume so that law will apply. Additionally, the school district will be sued by my family's attorney. Do you wish to continue with your line of inquiry now?"
I was watching a Fox show "So you think you can dance" that was recorded on my Comcast DVR. There is a hack to add a 30-second skip feature. The show was completely destroyed and didn't even start properly for 45 minutes, which apparent with a secondary host introduction. I skipped literally 30 minutes of commercials. I rewind for the commercials I haven't seen yet and that looked interesting.
I don't think that requring me to sit through 45 minutes of irrelevant garbage is a good idea. Same with races. I record them and then I have a pre-race show for an hour that I don't care about.
ABC doesn't have me as a customer anyway as I never watch any of their holdings, but this is a terrible idea.
I don't drink Starbucks.
I have a t-mobile account that allows me to use Tmobile's Wifi at any equipped Starbucks location. So I usually access it from half a block away as a paying customer of T-mobile but not of Starbucks.
Cue Starship Troopers
"Service guarantees citizenship" - would you like to know more?
You should become a teacher only when you can afford to do so. It's a volunteer position that has a modest salary along with substantial time requirements and a not so modest budget for out of pocket expenses.
Attempting to survive on those miserable salaries leads to a miserable educational experience for the students. That's why we wind up with energetic young teachers become disillusioned and on the picket lines in a fairly short order. The best teachers whom I had the pleasure to learn from could afford to teach for free. Poor teachers really made my time in school miserable. The correlation was simply too direct not to notice it.
Make your money in a successful career, then become a teacher. That will allow you to inspire students to break free of the boundaries of paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. Your job is to teach them to be successful. That does not mean preparing them to follow corporate orders.
Instead of that second job, figure out how to set aside 10-20K by living very frugally initially and start investing in things that generate real returns, such as REITs for example. Let your friends laugh at you that you have an older car (and no payments) and a tiny apartment for a couple of years. Once you have 10-20K, you can start to make real money by increasing your wealth through investments. Yes this approach does work. It took us a couple of years before we started seeing real returns on that initial sacrifice. And yes it does take a lot of time that is consistent with having a second job.
I love to teach, but I am not yet at the point where I would be comfortable to essentially retire to volunteer as a teacher for a lousy 30K.
Same as I do today ;-)
;-)
Start -> Run [OK]
net use * \\server\share (Sir, Backslash is not on the same key as the ? is)
Note the new drive letter.
Oh, you meant the GUI way that changes with each release?