Great, you develop a standard to limiting connections to NEW hosts. Then the virus just simply needs to poll this database of ip addresses local to this machine rather than just tring every ip address it's ip address guessing algorithm uses. Wow! now we can get complete virus converage in an efficient manor!
In a school setting, electronic devices w/o proper use control have the following problems
Distracts students
Students with an affinity for electronic toys can spend thier time programming/tinkering w/o paying attention to the class being taught
games
can makes sounds etc..
Makes it easy to "cheat"
can copy your "friend's" work
"electronic crib sheets" for tests
computer does the work, the student does not understand the concepts behind the subject
Computers would need to have programs which suppliment the class.
Since I was a guinea pig in my public schools trial use of Programming calculators (some 10 years back), I experienced first hand most of the mentioned problems. A laptop computer has much more room for these kind of problems. Really, this makes it harder for a teacher to stop a student from inapropriate behavior. If a teacher sees a student doing something inapropriate, the teacher can remove that element for an indefinate period of time. With a computer, the teacher would not know if something wrong was happening. They also would not know how to stop it. One needs true studies and tests. We need proof that an electronic system is viable before one throws it at students and makes thier education suffer.
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Great, you develop a standard to limiting connections to NEW hosts. Then the virus just simply needs to poll this database of ip addresses local to this machine rather than just tring every ip address it's ip address guessing algorithm uses. Wow! now we can get complete virus converage in an efficient manor!
- Distracts students
- Students with an affinity for electronic toys can spend thier time programming/tinkering w/o paying attention to the class being taught
- games
- can makes sounds etc..
- Makes it easy to "cheat"
- can copy your "friend's" work
- "electronic crib sheets" for tests
- computer does the work, the student does not understand the concepts behind the subject
- Computers would need to have programs which suppliment the class.
Since I was a guinea pig in my public schools trial use of Programming calculators (some 10 years back), I experienced first hand most of the mentioned problems. A laptop computer has much more room for these kind of problems. Really, this makes it harder for a teacher to stop a student from inapropriate behavior. If a teacher sees a student doing something inapropriate, the teacher can remove that element for an indefinate period of time. With a computer, the teacher would not know if something wrong was happening. They also would not know how to stop it. One needs true studies and tests. We need proof that an electronic system is viable before one throws it at students and makes thier education suffer.