This law was much more far reaching than just Facebook; it effectively prohibited ALL online communication between students and teachers. My mom is a high school teacher, and after the law was passed, they were prohibited from using their school provided email accounts to communicate to students via their school provided email accounts.
My mom is a high school teacher in Missouri, and this law has far reaching effects, not just with regards to Facebook.
For one, the school district provides students and teachers email addresses in order to facilitate school related communication between the two in regards to homework, etc. My mom would have students email their papers and assignments regularly. Not anymore, according to this law.
What about school clubs wishing to create a Facebook page or other online presence? If it's a school-sponsored club, the school can be held liable for anything put online, yet the faculty sponsor would be putting him/herself at risk by accessing the page to ensure that everything's ok.
Our legislators need to stop trying to legislate for every little thing, and start ensuring that our government has the resources it needs to enforce the laws we already have.
Actually, they changed their name because the stores in Detroit were failing miserably. Turns out, they opened during the hockey season, and there is a big rivalry between St. Louis and Detroit...so they made up a new name, and have slowly changed all their stores to Panera, with St. Louis being the last to change...
there was a big thing about it in the Riverfront Times one time...
More than likely, as has been said many times before, is that the person who's name is on the account would be held accountable for the data downloaded...an even more interesting question is what if more than one person is on that account...
My roommate and I both have our names on the ISP account (cable internet). They charge $5 for each additional IP address, but the AUP allows the use of a router running NAT, as long as you're only allowing access within your house/apt/etc...
And yet still another complication in the matter is if you're a technologically inept user (but how many/.ers are) and you decide to run wireless in your house/apt instead of 10baseT...And since you're (theoretically) a technologically inept user, you leave the default SSID, and no WEP or anything...what if your neighbor starts using your connection over that wireless without your knowledge...hmmmmmmmm....something to ask one of my law professors about....
those bloated money-grubbing corporations need to spend more time working on putting out quality products that we'll pay for instead of working on DRM...
As far as music and video is concerned, if you can hear it, and you can see it, you can copy it...Even if they had cd's with DRM, what's to stop you from using the speaker output on the cd-player/stereo to run the audio into a casette deck (for those 80's types) or a cd-recorder or the sound card of your computer and copy it!
some DVDs have copy protection that makes them behave retarded if the output goes through a VCR before it goes into the TV...that's what RF modulators are for...
Like I said, if you can see it and hear it, you can copy it...
I was just kidding with my post...I loved that TI...the built in BASIC interpreter...the ability to save data on to a cassette tape, and that text to speech converter was pretty cool. My mom has pictures of me in my diaper when I was two, playing some alphabet game...
Hunt the Wumpus was my favorite game...
I did eventually get my nintendo, and the combination of the nintendo and the TI is what got me interested in computers in the first place...
today's video-game systems just aren't the same...the days of Galaga, Mario Bros, and the original Zelda...the 80s were (in my young opinion) the height of the console...
he he he...sweeney37, you sound like me...I'm 22, and have had 8 accidents, gone through 4 cars, dozens of speeding tickets (if video games are supposed to help you track more objects, why wasn't I able to see the cop?), more stitches than a retired hockey player...thank god for health insurance....
hmmm...(light bulb)...
maybe the result of all my accidents, speeding tickets, and stiches comes from the influence of all these violent video games on my youthful mind
I know games like Test Drive and Need For Speed contribute to my continued defiance of speed limits...whenever I play one of those games, I try to make the engine of my Hyundai Accent explode...
If someone would've told my mother that video games helped improve visual skills, I probably would've gotten a nintendo when I was 5, instead of having to live with that TI-99/4A computer...instead, I learned to program in BASIC...
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According to the legal counsel for the school, probably... This law had a lot of unintended consequences.
Your solution for a mailing list wouldn't have worked; ALL online communication was prohibited, regardless of the medium or format.
This law was much more far reaching than just Facebook; it effectively prohibited ALL online communication between students and teachers. My mom is a high school teacher, and after the law was passed, they were prohibited from using their school provided email accounts to communicate to students via their school provided email accounts.
My mom is a high school teacher in Missouri, and this law has far reaching effects, not just with regards to Facebook. For one, the school district provides students and teachers email addresses in order to facilitate school related communication between the two in regards to homework, etc. My mom would have students email their papers and assignments regularly. Not anymore, according to this law. What about school clubs wishing to create a Facebook page or other online presence? If it's a school-sponsored club, the school can be held liable for anything put online, yet the faculty sponsor would be putting him/herself at risk by accessing the page to ensure that everything's ok. Our legislators need to stop trying to legislate for every little thing, and start ensuring that our government has the resources it needs to enforce the laws we already have.
Big auroras? Coronal mass ejections? not sure if this is safe for work.
being a web developer, this frightens me.
_____|\_____\o/_____ oh noes!! SHARK!!!
actually, in the City Manager form of local government, the City Manager is hired by the Mayor and city council to administer the government...
Actually, they changed their name because the stores in Detroit were failing miserably. Turns out, they opened during the hockey season, and there is a big rivalry between St. Louis and Detroit...so they made up a new name, and have slowly changed all their stores to Panera, with St. Louis being the last to change... there was a big thing about it in the Riverfront Times one time...
More than likely, as has been said many times before, is that the person who's name is on the account would be held accountable for the data downloaded...an even more interesting question is what if more than one person is on that account... My roommate and I both have our names on the ISP account (cable internet). They charge $5 for each additional IP address, but the AUP allows the use of a router running NAT, as long as you're only allowing access within your house/apt/etc... And yet still another complication in the matter is if you're a technologically inept user (but how many /.ers are) and you decide to run wireless in your house/apt instead of 10baseT...And since you're (theoretically) a technologically inept user, you leave the default SSID, and no WEP or anything...what if your neighbor starts using your connection over that wireless without your knowledge...hmmmmmmmm....something to ask one of my law professors about....
for those that didn't minor in sociology: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
that's all I have to say.
those bloated money-grubbing corporations need to spend more time working on putting out quality products that we'll pay for instead of working on DRM...
As far as music and video is concerned, if you can hear it, and you can see it, you can copy it...Even if they had cd's with DRM, what's to stop you from using the speaker output on the cd-player/stereo to run the audio into a casette deck (for those 80's types) or a cd-recorder or the sound card of your computer and copy it!
some DVDs have copy protection that makes them behave retarded if the output goes through a VCR before it goes into the TV...that's what RF modulators are for...
Like I said, if you can see it and hear it, you can copy it...
I was just kidding with my post...I loved that TI...the built in BASIC interpreter...the ability to save data on to a cassette tape, and that text to speech converter was pretty cool. My mom has pictures of me in my diaper when I was two, playing some alphabet game...
Hunt the Wumpus was my favorite game...
I did eventually get my nintendo, and the combination of the nintendo and the TI is what got me interested in computers in the first place...
today's video-game systems just aren't the same...the days of Galaga, Mario Bros, and the original Zelda...the 80s were (in my young opinion) the height of the console...
he he he...sweeney37, you sound like me...I'm 22, and have had 8 accidents, gone through 4 cars, dozens of speeding tickets (if video games are supposed to help you track more objects, why wasn't I able to see the cop?), more stitches than a retired hockey player...thank god for health insurance.... hmmm...(light bulb)... maybe the result of all my accidents, speeding tickets, and stiches comes from the influence of all these violent video games on my youthful mind I know games like Test Drive and Need For Speed contribute to my continued defiance of speed limits...whenever I play one of those games, I try to make the engine of my Hyundai Accent explode...
If someone would've told my mother that video games helped improve visual skills, I probably would've gotten a nintendo when I was 5, instead of having to live with that TI-99/4A computer...instead, I learned to program in BASIC...