That is definately true. As far as losing one kid- most schools could probably care less depending on the size, but they obviously don't want to step on too many toes.
I didn't post anything anybody couldn't look up for themselves, and did not post it with any evil intentions. I would hope people only use that to send well worded and cool-headed emails, otherwise it will make him unresponsive to even the well written ones.
I do hope he gets an overwhelming amount of email (all well intentioned).
private schools have far more authority, granted by the parents, and are generally far more restrictive on what is allowed at school AND at home. They have the leverage to say, you can't do that unless you want to keep going here. As long as they don't push too far, the parents usually cave. In some cases, kids have been kicked out of public schools and private schools are their last chance. Parents also don't want to stir up their child's environment unnecessarily.
I'm not saying private schools are bad, but don't sign on because you think your kids will have more rights.
While I am not from your state, I would hope that I could convey some concerns regarding your school's policy of cell phone searching.
For a school that purports that it teaches students Respect (as in your emblem/motto), it offers its students none. Cell phones, while not desirable in schools, are the property of the students' parents, though perhaps with the exception of students over 18 years of age. Aside from that item, why stop at cell phones? Why not PDAs, laptops, diaries, class notes, or for that matter, body cavity searches?
Your idea of preventing terrorism and/or drug activity makes every student into a terrorist and a drug addict, and in the process invades not only the reasonable privacy of students and potentially their families.
Unless the persons conducting the search have probable cause for each cell phone searched, possess the authority (warrant) and capability to find, classify and research the data contained in the students phones, I would argue that you have no business searching the phones. As I questioned above, where does your purported authority end?
Bottom line, you are promising to teach respect, but are instead giving lessons about living in and running a police state that has the will and the right to do as they please. Provided that these students' parents don't step up to the plate, they will not step up for their children in turn and so begins the decline of society. While sounding oversimplified and amplified, you must admit the reality of your actions- and this all leaves out the simple fact that the students do not possess the legal knowledge or ability to grant you permission to search their parents property. You might as well ask their six year-old what the pin code to their alarm is, and they'll tell you if they know but won't know that they shouldn't.
Again, I don't vote in your district, or have any say in how you do your job. I am merely writing as a concerned parent from another state. I hope you do consider this and any other notes you may receive.
Michael J Welch, Principal Mailing Address: 115 A Street Framingham, MA 01701-4195 Phone: (508) 620-4963 FAX: (508) 877-6603 E-mail: mwelch1@framingham.k12.ma.us
One thing though, if they are asking for roughly 2 years (from dec, 2004 to ??) at 2.4m/day = 730 days * 2.4m = 1,752m = $1,752,000,000
so it would be more like 1/13th of their budget.. I guessed at 2 years, since they'll probably continue to pay fines for some amount of time into the near future when they can become 'compliant' with the ruling.
Good point, and I neglected to mention that it's entirely feasible that the US could have had the same idea if the premise of the original statement were true. Both the EU and US have discussed fines at one point or another.
Funny, in one sentence it says it will prevent you from calling anyone if you're drunk and in the next says you should call a cab if you're drunk. How does that work again?
some people are naturally adept multi-taskers- professional drivers (especially school bus drivers) are trained and in the regular practice of having extremely distracting activities going on and still being good drivers.
Personally, whenever I've been on the phone (not too often, I avoid it if possible) and something has gone on, without even thinking about it, my mouth stops and I'm 100% tuned into the road, I don't even notice I was talking to someone until things settle down. I'm used to having a bus full of drunk adults (bachelor parties) and rowdy kids.
I think they should test the subjects general multi-tasking ability and come up with a statistic that correlates multi-taskability (or inability) to accident+phone rates.
The problem for you is because you were still convicted of something. While this may not be entirely fair, you still comitted a crime which, though originally charged as a felony, still resulted in a conviction.
I don't know what you did, but my first thought would be "oh, so you only hit her with your hands, not a bat.." or "it was only your first robbery", etc.. considering this is slashdot, could have been hacking.. but so, you weren't convicted of felony hacking, you were only convicted of misdemeanor hacking..
None of this may be anything like it happened, but employers see you as a liability.
If you'd gotten off scot-free, perhaps this wouldn't still be following you around so badly.
Note: I'm not criticising, nor do I pretend to understand, I'm just saying how I'd see it as an employer.
Go to walmart or target, they have a 'camera' every 10 feet.. do you honestly think they have 1000 cameras around the store? The bubbles are high enough no one can tell. One store manager told me that only about 1 in 10 are real at his particular store. I don't know what target/walmart's official count/stance is, but I imagine thats about right.
When you lower the tray table, the seatback in front of you is a screen. Flip over your tray to reveal a keyboard and mouse. The computer in the seat is a thin-client that does RDP, and has a builtin webbrowser or somesuch for people without a machine to remote into. You give it a ground IP to connect to and you're good to go.
This wouldn't take care of everyone, but would eliminate all but two items from my nuisances list- though obviously would cost more. Perhaps the next generation airplane could do something like this? Business people could get their work done, be able to get up in a hurry (for bathroom, emergency, whatever) just by flipping their tray back up, and would eliminate the possibility of your laptop getting crushed when the guy in front of you puts his seat back, reduce RSI from typing in wierd positions, etc etc..
Crazy right? Once upon a time, people thought flying was crazy too.
What scares me is- GPS works fairly well if you're at the window-- so you could easily be transmitting coordinates of the plane with only a 100ms delay to someone on the ground. Send the packets with time-code off of the GPS, and the ground station could figure out exactly where the plane is, regardless of the lag by calculating the averaged speed/time/etc.
With the removal of Selective Availability and 12 channel GPS's w/ WAAS and DGPS, you then have a resonably accurate fix which for someone with the means to launch the right kind of weapon, wouldn't have much of a problem with the lag.
I'm all for people playing their WoW and checking their business mail but a few things about WiFi bug me
1) clickity clickity all over the plane 2) "hey, could you two pick up your laptops and get up so I can use the restroom?" 3) the GPS issue I just mentioned 4) increased cost of already expensive flights- the $30 usage charge can't entirely encompass the costs they incurred setting up the WiFi and the rest of us most definately are paying for it to some degree
and minimally: 5) there is something to be said for the energy usage- whether people are using laptop batteries or the planes fuel (to generate the electricity) - worse if using airline power. Ultimately every power cycle of the battery is one step closer to its demise and disposal and needing a new chemical filled battery housed in dino-based plastics. If using airline power, you're making the turbines work harder and burning more dino-fuel.
personally, Id rather have the seats come with Bose noise cancelling headphones builtin.
You -do not- want to fly with a 21" laptop. It takes everything you've got to type with a 15". I had a screen on an old Dell inspiron 7000 crushed because in order to type, I had it wedged where the tray table usually goes, and then angled up onto my stomach where I was typing rather uncomfortably. The jerk in front put his seat back, compressing my laptop against the tray and shattering the screen.
I quit carrying laptops at that point, mostly because even if you do wedge it under the tray lip, it's still rediculously uncomfortable. If you can afford first class, go nuts, but anyone in coach should be using a VAIO or something.
I can't imagine figuring out how to type or even watch a movie with a 21".
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That is definately true. As far as losing one kid- most schools could probably care less depending on the size, but they obviously don't want to step on too many toes.
I didn't post anything anybody couldn't look up for themselves, and did not post it with any evil intentions. I would hope people only use that to send well worded and cool-headed emails, otherwise it will make him unresponsive to even the well written ones.
I do hope he gets an overwhelming amount of email (all well intentioned).
private schools have far more authority, granted by the parents, and are generally far more restrictive on what is allowed at school AND at home. They have the leverage to say, you can't do that unless you want to keep going here. As long as they don't push too far, the parents usually cave. In some cases, kids have been kicked out of public schools and private schools are their last chance. Parents also don't want to stir up their child's environment unnecessarily.
I'm not saying private schools are bad, but don't sign on because you think your kids will have more rights.
While I am not from your state, I would hope that I could convey some
concerns regarding your school's policy of cell phone searching.
For a school that purports that it teaches students Respect (as in your
emblem/motto), it offers its students none. Cell phones, while not
desirable in schools, are the property of the students' parents, though
perhaps with the exception of students over 18 years of age. Aside from
that item, why stop at cell phones? Why not PDAs, laptops, diaries,
class notes, or for that matter, body cavity searches?
Your idea of preventing terrorism and/or drug activity makes every
student into a terrorist and a drug addict, and in the process invades
not only the reasonable privacy of students and potentially their families.
Unless the persons conducting the search have probable cause for each
cell phone searched, possess the authority (warrant) and capability to
find, classify and research the data contained in the students phones, I
would argue that you have no business searching the phones. As I
questioned above, where does your purported authority end?
Bottom line, you are promising to teach respect, but are instead giving
lessons about living in and running a police state that has the will and
the right to do as they please. Provided that these students' parents
don't step up to the plate, they will not step up for their children in
turn and so begins the decline of society. While sounding oversimplified
and amplified, you must admit the reality of your actions- and this all
leaves out the simple fact that the students do not possess the legal
knowledge or ability to grant you permission to search their parents
property. You might as well ask their six year-old what the pin code to
their alarm is, and they'll tell you if they know but won't know that
they shouldn't.
Again, I don't vote in your district, or have any say in how you do your
job. I am merely writing as a concerned parent from another state. I
hope you do consider this and any other notes you may receive.
http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/home.asp?mode=so&ot=5 &o=636&so=649-6
Michael J Welch, Principal
Mailing Address: 115 A Street
Framingham, MA 01701-4195
Phone: (508) 620-4963
FAX: (508) 877-6603
E-mail: mwelch1@framingham.k12.ma.us
unless your cellphone is a .380, no.
She turned me into a newt!
my statement was mostly tongue in cheek, but you are 100% correct.
One thing though, if they are asking for roughly 2 years (from dec, 2004 to ??) at 2.4m/day = 730 days * 2.4m = 1,752m = $1,752,000,000
so it would be more like 1/13th of their budget.. I guessed at 2 years, since they'll probably continue to pay fines for some amount of time into the near future when they can become 'compliant' with the ruling.
Good point, and I neglected to mention that it's entirely feasible that the US could have had the same idea if the premise of the original statement were true. Both the EU and US have discussed fines at one point or another.
"say, MS has been abusing their monopoly.. maybe we could uh, fine them. Let's put it to a vote and see if anyone else wants money from MS?"
still could use it for us in the US.. or come out with CD-TEXT2. The idea remains.
I just wish everyone would use CD-TEXT and rid us of the necessity for cd databases. I continually wish iTunes would burn CD-TEXT as well.
Are these things african or european?
Funny, in one sentence it says it will prevent you from calling anyone if you're drunk and in the next says you should call a cab if you're drunk. How does that work again?
clarification: I -never- talk on the phone when driving a bus- only on my personal time.
some people are naturally adept multi-taskers- professional drivers (especially school bus drivers) are trained and in the regular practice of having extremely distracting activities going on and still being good drivers.
Personally, whenever I've been on the phone (not too often, I avoid it if possible) and something has gone on, without even thinking about it, my mouth stops and I'm 100% tuned into the road, I don't even notice I was talking to someone until things settle down. I'm used to having a bus full of drunk adults (bachelor parties) and rowdy kids.
I think they should test the subjects general multi-tasking ability and come up with a statistic that correlates multi-taskability (or inability) to accident+phone rates.
The problem for you is because you were still convicted of something. While this may not be entirely fair, you still comitted a crime which, though originally charged as a felony, still resulted in a conviction.
I don't know what you did, but my first thought would be "oh, so you only hit her with your hands, not a bat.." or "it was only your first robbery", etc.. considering this is slashdot, could have been hacking.. but so, you weren't convicted of felony hacking, you were only convicted of misdemeanor hacking..
None of this may be anything like it happened, but employers see you as a liability.
If you'd gotten off scot-free, perhaps this wouldn't still be following you around so badly.
Note: I'm not criticising, nor do I pretend to understand, I'm just saying how I'd see it as an employer.
Go to walmart or target, they have a 'camera' every 10 feet.. do you honestly think they have 1000 cameras around the store? The bubbles are high enough no one can tell. One store manager told me that only about 1 in 10 are real at his particular store. I don't know what target/walmart's official count/stance is, but I imagine thats about right.
exactly, but you still have to point it in the right direction
Another 'crazy' idea- imagine this:
When you lower the tray table, the seatback in front of you is a screen. Flip over your tray to reveal a keyboard and mouse. The computer in the seat is a thin-client that does RDP, and has a builtin webbrowser or somesuch for people without a machine to remote into. You give it a ground IP to connect to and you're good to go.
This wouldn't take care of everyone, but would eliminate all but two items from my nuisances list- though obviously would cost more. Perhaps the next generation airplane could do something like this? Business people could get their work done, be able to get up in a hurry (for bathroom, emergency, whatever) just by flipping their tray back up, and would eliminate the possibility of your laptop getting crushed when the guy in front of you puts his seat back, reduce RSI from typing in wierd positions, etc etc..
Crazy right? Once upon a time, people thought flying was crazy too.
What scares me is- GPS works fairly well if you're at the window-- so you could easily be transmitting coordinates of the plane with only a 100ms delay to someone on the ground. Send the packets with time-code off of the GPS, and the ground station could figure out exactly where the plane is, regardless of the lag by calculating the averaged speed/time/etc.
With the removal of Selective Availability and 12 channel GPS's w/ WAAS and DGPS, you then have a resonably accurate fix which for someone with the means to launch the right kind of weapon, wouldn't have much of a problem with the lag.
I'm all for people playing their WoW and checking their business mail but a few things about WiFi bug me
1) clickity clickity all over the plane
2) "hey, could you two pick up your laptops and get up so I can use the restroom?"
3) the GPS issue I just mentioned
4) increased cost of already expensive flights- the $30 usage charge can't entirely encompass the costs they incurred setting up the WiFi and the rest of us most definately are paying for it to some degree
and minimally:
5) there is something to be said for the energy usage- whether people are using laptop batteries or the planes fuel (to generate the electricity) - worse if using airline power. Ultimately every power cycle of the battery is one step closer to its demise and disposal and needing a new chemical filled battery housed in dino-based plastics. If using airline power, you're making the turbines work harder and burning more dino-fuel.
personally, Id rather have the seats come with Bose noise cancelling headphones builtin.
You -do not- want to fly with a 21" laptop. It takes everything you've got to type with a 15". I had a screen on an old Dell inspiron 7000 crushed because in order to type, I had it wedged where the tray table usually goes, and then angled up onto my stomach where I was typing rather uncomfortably. The jerk in front put his seat back, compressing my laptop against the tray and shattering the screen.
I quit carrying laptops at that point, mostly because even if you do wedge it under the tray lip, it's still rediculously uncomfortable. If you can afford first class, go nuts, but anyone in coach should be using a VAIO or something.
I can't imagine figuring out how to type or even watch a movie with a 21".
you know what- just ignore me altogether- my adled brain thought you were looking for an embedded platform. RTFS I suppose. eek!
I should add- it runs uClinux which is the real answer.