Sorry if this is a stupid question... but does California have the power to do this? I'm sure there are ways around it, but I thought states couldn't regulate interstate commerce...
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Conventional "kick me" signs can be removed and even stuck to someone other than your intended target... but with the world's smallest printer*, you can permanently etch "KICK ME" on to any article of clothing, or even your victim's skin! It's so quiet your victim will never notice, and it prints at the lightning-fast speed of 60,000 cm^3/s!"
*Warning: may not actually be the world's smallest printer.
"Gee, that's odd... Mrs. Perelli's 6th period site has had over 1.5 million hits in two days... even though the site has no content whatsoever... and school is all but over..."
If you've accessed suspecious internet content, the police can just deliver a subpoena to your ISP, and get all sorts of great info on your surfing habits. Even if you find a way to make the data on the server or drive 'self-destruct', those logs will still be there.
The site asks for a student ID and pin number, not last name and SSN - now of course, the district may use your ssn as the student id, but I'd doubt it (since there would be obvious legal issues if the info was leaked). I hate to sound skeptical, but there's no evidence from the site that it uses your SSN. And I think there is good reason to doubt it, for the various reasons that have already been posted (most notably, what if you don't have a SSN? I didn't have one until a few years into elementary school.)
Furthermore, unless you knew who you were looking up, the privacy of your infomation is pretty much safe - even if you go looking through the browser cache, the site clearly states that no identifying information is displayed on the pages the site generates - basically you could see somebody's grades, but not know who they were. This is basically equlivent to most classes I take, where they post all of our grades on a spreadsheet, identified by the first 4 digits of our student id (NOT SSN).
I think the district should be commended for making good use of the internet (even though I'm not a huge fan of the marquee, and how they make every sentence a different color.;)
I bought the XP Home upgrade, installed it, and used it for about 3 months. Then when I was at my campus bookstore I saw that I could get the XP Pro upgrade for $40 through the university, I decided to go for it, and give XP Home to my parents.
So, I installed the XP pro upgrade, activated it, and tried to install XP Home at home - of course, it told me there was an 'error' and to call Microsoft. I did, explained that XP home was no longer on the computer I originally installed it on, and after I swore on the M$ bible, they finally gave in and either gave me a new activation key or added an activation to my existing key (I can't remember which).
It took a little bit of tooth pulling, but they let me do it. ("Are you SURE it's not on the old computer?... So it's not on any other computers right?" etc)
Well my good ol' HP 952C survived having the case melted by a halogen desk lamp (don't ask), yet still works as well as the day I bought it! (Well, except for the strangely-shaped reminants of the plastic case...)
From dictionary.com:
TERRORISM: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. [Emphasis added]
Why is this important? Giving up our right to privacy could result in the government using that information to intimidate or coerce groups or individuals - essentially we're (supposedly) helping to prevent terrorism to prevent this, but the government could easily abuse that information and do the same thing.
Furthermore, this means the creation of huge databases filled with all sorts of information on us. Now, unless the government has figured out a way to prevent hacking [snicker], it's quite possible someone could hack into their computers and steal that information to use for their purposes (which could be, ironically, terrorism). Basically, I don't want to have my information anywhere it doesn't have to be, for that reason.
"We are Borg... shut down your OS and surrender your hard drive - your technological distinctiveness will be infused with bugs and security flaws and added to our own. Resistance is futile."
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Well, there's a simple solution to the stolen goggle problem, ala Get Smart: "These goggles will self-destruct in 10 seconds..."
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Sorry if this is a stupid question... but does California have the power to do this? I'm sure there are ways around it, but I thought states couldn't regulate interstate commerce...
Telemarketing companies plan to move to Canada on Sept. 30th.
MSN may think it's ready to take down Google, but will it offer it's search page in a wide enough variety of languages, such as:
Bork Bork Bork
Klingon
Pig Latin
and
Elmer Fudd?
I can imagine the Penfield webmaster now...
"Gee, that's odd... Mrs. Perelli's 6th period site has had over 1.5 million hits in two days... even though the site has no content whatsoever... and school is all but over..."
Good thing they don't have a message board.
If you've accessed suspecious internet content, the police can just deliver a subpoena to your ISP, and get all sorts of great info on your surfing habits. Even if you find a way to make the data on the server or drive 'self-destruct', those logs will still be there.
The site asks for a student ID and pin number, not last name and SSN - now of course, the district may use your ssn as the student id, but I'd doubt it (since there would be obvious legal issues if the info was leaked). I hate to sound skeptical, but there's no evidence from the site that it uses your SSN. And I think there is good reason to doubt it, for the various reasons that have already been posted (most notably, what if you don't have a SSN? I didn't have one until a few years into elementary school.)
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Furthermore, unless you knew who you were looking up, the privacy of your infomation is pretty much safe - even if you go looking through the browser cache, the site clearly states that no identifying information is displayed on the pages the site generates - basically you could see somebody's grades, but not know who they were. This is basically equlivent to most classes I take, where they post all of our grades on a spreadsheet, identified by the first 4 digits of our student id (NOT SSN).
I think the district should be commended for making good use of the internet (even though I'm not a huge fan of the marquee, and how they make every sentence a different color.
I bought the XP Home upgrade, installed it, and used it for about 3 months. Then when I was at my campus bookstore I saw that I could get the XP Pro upgrade for $40 through the university, I decided to go for it, and give XP Home to my parents.
... So it's not on any other computers right?" etc)
So, I installed the XP pro upgrade, activated it, and tried to install XP Home at home - of course, it told me there was an 'error' and to call Microsoft. I did, explained that XP home was no longer on the computer I originally installed it on, and after I swore on the M$ bible, they finally gave in and either gave me a new activation key or added an activation to my existing key (I can't remember which).
It took a little bit of tooth pulling, but they let me do it. ("Are you SURE it's not on the old computer?
Well my good ol' HP 952C survived having the case melted by a halogen desk lamp (don't ask), yet still works as well as the day I bought it! (Well, except for the strangely-shaped reminants of the plastic case...)
Why is this important? Giving up our right to privacy could result in the government using that information to intimidate or coerce groups or individuals - essentially we're (supposedly) helping to prevent terrorism to prevent this, but the government could easily abuse that information and do the same thing.
Furthermore, this means the creation of huge databases filled with all sorts of information on us. Now, unless the government has figured out a way to prevent hacking [snicker], it's quite possible someone could hack into their computers and steal that information to use for their purposes (which could be, ironically, terrorism). Basically, I don't want to have my information anywhere it doesn't have to be, for that reason.
"We are Borg... shut down your OS and surrender your hard drive - your technological distinctiveness will be infused with bugs and security flaws and added to our own. Resistance is futile."
Well, there's a simple solution to the stolen goggle problem, ala Get Smart: "These goggles will self-destruct in 10 seconds..."