My high school had a no hat policy too. But one day every year the SCA would sponsor a "Hat Day" and students would actually spend a buck for a ticket that said they could wear a hat on that day. Until my senior year when a student got caught cheating on a test during hat day. Apperently he had the bright idea of writing the answers on the underside of the bill of his baseball cap.
Not exactly... Each student has the RFID tag implemented in their student ID card that they have to wear around their neck so if the student is abducted from the playground all that would need to be done is to remove the id card from around their neck. Plus they claim that the chips can only be read from about 20 inches away from the reader anyways. There are simply no benefits to this invasion of privacy.
Does this actually surprise anyone? I mean these are the same people who have been decieving consumers for years with hard drive sizes.
Do you actually think they're going to tell you the device doesn't work the way it should by labeling it as such? The record industry doesn't label crippled crap. Why should the computer industry?
Why do consumers actually trust producers that constantly try to implement new technology that assume that the consumer is the one that can't be trusted?
Does it make me angry that the producers keep doing this kind of crap? Yes. Does it surprise me? Not in the least.
While in my opinion this is the most likely reason neo could stop the machines, remember that soon after neo stops the machines another hovercraft comes up... So what if the hovercraft fired an EMP? This wouldn't be likely because of the fact that neo went into a coma and they would have to explain that as well. But it's a possibility.
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My high school had a no hat policy too. But one day every year the SCA would sponsor a "Hat Day" and students would actually spend a buck for a ticket that said they could wear a hat on that day. Until my senior year when a student got caught cheating on a test during hat day. Apperently he had the bright idea of writing the answers on the underside of the bill of his baseball cap.
Not exactly... Each student has the RFID tag implemented in their student ID card that they have to wear around their neck so if the student is abducted from the playground all that would need to be done is to remove the id card from around their neck. Plus they claim that the chips can only be read from about 20 inches away from the reader anyways. There are simply no benefits to this invasion of privacy.
So that makes it ok? It's scary that parents allow this.
Does this actually surprise anyone? I mean these are the same people who have been decieving consumers for years with hard drive sizes. Do you actually think they're going to tell you the device doesn't work the way it should by labeling it as such? The record industry doesn't label crippled crap. Why should the computer industry? Why do consumers actually trust producers that constantly try to implement new technology that assume that the consumer is the one that can't be trusted? Does it make me angry that the producers keep doing this kind of crap? Yes. Does it surprise me? Not in the least.
Yeah and did anyone else find it funny that sshnuke just happened to be installed on the system?
While in my opinion this is the most likely reason neo could stop the machines, remember that soon after neo stops the machines another hovercraft comes up... So what if the hovercraft fired an EMP? This wouldn't be likely because of the fact that neo went into a coma and they would have to explain that as well. But it's a possibility.