You get a bondage gear website. Most of the mis-typed domain names are already porn.
It's as if you were walking down the street looking for "Bob's Hardware" and on either side of the actual "Bob's Hardware" were hundreds of porn stores and strip joints with various names like "Bob'z Hardware" and "Bop's Hardware", "Bob's Gardware", etc... imagine the hijinks that would ensue!
The next big thing in biometrics: the piss test signature! Your own personal bouquet is chemically analyzed and stored electronically. Then, when you need to make a purchase or sign for a package, just piss on it.
Of course, should any unauthorized substances be detected, the fine will be conveniently included on the bill, and a detective squad will be dispatched with a search warrant to your home address.
I think the biggest problem with computers in the classroom is the way they're being used, in the traditional, indivudual interaction with a computer terminal. This is fine for a course on how to use a computer, research, programming courses, etc., but as another poster mentioned, that should be dealt with in a 2-hour-a-week computer lab class. The problem is that the computers are seen as a goal of education, not as a tool for educating. The first approach is fine if you want to train little sysadmins or tape monkeys (or hackers and gamers), but not every kid (very few are) is going to go down those paths, and this type of instruction becomes boring and pointless to most children.
I think rather than training all students how to use computers proficiently (basic computer literacy should be promoted), the emphasis should be on training teachers to use computers as effective teaching tools. Instead of having each student use the computer individually or in small groups, the teacher (or a technology teaching assistant specially trained to do so), should be using a computer, preferablly with a large display (schools should be able to get projector displays donated by corporations as new large flat-screens become popular and cheaper), and guide the class through a computerized lesson. The effect would be to use the computer as an electronic chalkboard.
A chemistry lecture could include a projected animation of the 3-D structure of molecules, history lessons could be highlighted with montages of images of important people and places and animations showing how the territory of various nations has grown or shrunk over ages; music class could be enlivened with MP3 recordings of compositions, along with a display of the notes on the staff coordinated with the music. Some districts could provide students with individual tablets for viewing closeup detail and interacting with the teacher, for instance playing quiz games (like the electronic triva games played in taverns).
The possibilities are only limited by the imagination, it is only for apprehensive school boards to take an initiative, and the people to provide the funding.
That is a good idea, especially for users onboard the planes. There is a similar idea for setting up cars and even individual phones and other devices to be capable of forwarding network packets, thus turning every wireless device into a network router.
But consider if there is another situation like 9/11, and all the planes are grounded - you wouldn't want to be relying on the planes as the only aerial network platforms, would you?
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It's as if you were walking down the street looking for "Bob's Hardware" and on either side of the actual "Bob's Hardware" were hundreds of porn stores and strip joints with various names like "Bob'z Hardware" and "Bop's Hardware", "Bob's Gardware", etc... imagine the hijinks that would ensue!
Of course, should any unauthorized substances be detected, the fine will be conveniently included on the bill, and a detective squad will be dispatched with a search warrant to your home address.
I think rather than training all students how to use computers proficiently (basic computer literacy should be promoted), the emphasis should be on training teachers to use computers as effective teaching tools. Instead of having each student use the computer individually or in small groups, the teacher (or a technology teaching assistant specially trained to do so), should be using a computer, preferablly with a large display (schools should be able to get projector displays donated by corporations as new large flat-screens become popular and cheaper), and guide the class through a computerized lesson. The effect would be to use the computer as an electronic chalkboard.
A chemistry lecture could include a projected animation of the 3-D structure of molecules, history lessons could be highlighted with montages of images of important people and places and animations showing how the territory of various nations has grown or shrunk over ages; music class could be enlivened with MP3 recordings of compositions, along with a display of the notes on the staff coordinated with the music. Some districts could provide students with individual tablets for viewing closeup detail and interacting with the teacher, for instance playing quiz games (like the electronic triva games played in taverns).
The possibilities are only limited by the imagination, it is only for apprehensive school boards to take an initiative, and the people to provide the funding.
I tried one of those white light thingambobs at a rave once, just gave me a headache.
That is a good idea, especially for users onboard the planes. There is a similar idea for setting up cars and even individual phones and other devices to be capable of forwarding network packets, thus turning every wireless device into a network router.
But consider if there is another situation like 9/11, and all the planes are grounded - you wouldn't want to be relying on the planes as the only aerial network platforms, would you?