Design the exams like university level exams, where a cheat (equation) sheet is allowed, but you actually need to understand the material to finish the exam in time. regurgitation based exams are stupid.
Only after the US makes speed limits on freeways reasonable, not designed for cops to be revenue collection agents. 25-30 mph in populated areas is fine, anything below 70 mph on rural freeways is idiotic.
No VPN needed. Browser location services reports location based in your IP. Spoof the location without changing your IP, and it will still likely work.
Don't install Firefox, definitely don't install a location spoofer, don't even think of setting location to fixed/NYC. It appears to go by location services, not IP.
Just require students to keep them in their lockers (existing tech) for the duration of school. Privacy concerns can be addressed by locked/encrypted phones. Theft may be a problem, but that's an argument for not buying Buffy and Brittany a $1000 e-leash. But... what about an emergency? Students survived for decades without phones in class...
100% tax on devices with glued-in batteries that can't be changed by the user in under 10 minutes. Same with soldered-in non-upgradeable storage. Donesky!
Problem is that governments can just buy the data from private companies, unless forbidden to do so. Or private entities associated with government can mine private data to find "dirt" on people the government doesn't like and blackmail them. It doesn't have to be evidence of crime per se, just of something that the moralizers don't like... i.e. "toe the line or we'll publish video of you with someone who's not your spouse."
Because people in authority tend to become abusive if allowed unlimited power. They need to be restricted to keep from getting uppity. What's your obsession anyway, posting the same anti-freedom tripe on many threads on here? Did your wife run off with an illegal immigrant or something?
The rule can be written to cover contractors, or simply forbid the use of evidence gathered using such technology in court. (Making the use of the tech uneconomical.)
The tools that government agents use ARE in fact restricted by law. A nuclear bomb is a hell of a countermeasure against a riot, yet local police agencies aren't permitted to own nuclear weapons. Same goes for things like nerve gas.
Indeed -- if it destroys the Big 4 of Tech (Google, Amazon, Apple, and MS), so much the better. The world was better off when they didn't have as much power.
Yep, the removal of a random (and varying) length would work nicely for not matching cell phones to actual house/building locations. Problem is that this can still be removed, by seeing how the data change from day to day and/or matching the traffic flow against a map of the road without random error.
Is it anonymized to the point where they can't see who's parking in which driveway or walking into which home? It may be technically "anonymous", but if locations are sufficiently accurate, any POS with a mind to it can "deanonymize" it relatively quickly.
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Design the exams like university level exams, where a cheat (equation) sheet is allowed, but you actually need to understand the material to finish the exam in time. regurgitation based exams are stupid.
Only after the US makes speed limits on freeways reasonable, not designed for cops to be revenue collection agents. 25-30 mph in populated areas is fine, anything below 70 mph on rural freeways is idiotic.
No VPN needed. Browser location services reports location based in your IP. Spoof the location without changing your IP, and it will still likely work.
Don't install Firefox, definitely don't install a location spoofer, don't even think of setting location to fixed/NYC. It appears to go by location services, not IP.
Simpler than that -- on the desktop, it appears Firefox (or other browser's) Location Services, which can trivially be spoofed.
They do, just HS kids don't use them as much. However, they still generally exist and can be used to store phones.
Just require students to keep them in their lockers (existing tech) for the duration of school. Privacy concerns can be addressed by locked/encrypted phones. Theft may be a problem, but that's an argument for not buying Buffy and Brittany a $1000 e-leash. But ... what about an emergency? Students survived for decades without phones in class...
DDR2 is still being sold new, warranteed. So is DDR3 for that matter.
100% tax on devices with glued-in batteries that can't be changed by the user in under 10 minutes. Same with soldered-in non-upgradeable storage. Donesky!
2010 Macbook Pro? The battery is child's play to replace (~5 min) compared to Crapple's more recent products...
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/M...
EBay for RAM. You can get a new 32GB PATA SSD for about 35 bucks if you need PATA storage (the system can't boot from a SATA card).
The app is actually written in Brainfuck++.
If we didn't waste trillions on military homicide sprees and wars on moral panics, we would have quite a bit of money for services.
Problem is that governments can just buy the data from private companies, unless forbidden to do so. Or private entities associated with government can mine private data to find "dirt" on people the government doesn't like and blackmail them. It doesn't have to be evidence of crime per se, just of something that the moralizers don't like... i.e. "toe the line or we'll publish video of you with someone who's not your spouse."
Because people in authority tend to become abusive if allowed unlimited power. They need to be restricted to keep from getting uppity. What's your obsession anyway, posting the same anti-freedom tripe on many threads on here? Did your wife run off with an illegal immigrant or something?
I prefer freedom to technocracy. Better to NOT have governments tracking everyone's movements, even if that means some criminals go free.
The rule can be written to cover contractors, or simply forbid the use of evidence gathered using such technology in court. (Making the use of the tech uneconomical.)
The tools that government agents use ARE in fact restricted by law. A nuclear bomb is a hell of a countermeasure against a riot, yet local police agencies aren't permitted to own nuclear weapons. Same goes for things like nerve gas.
"Terrorism" have been an excuse for every petty invasion of privacy and civil rights since 9/11. Time for us to stop being fucking cowards.
The problem is that publicizing HIV+ people's names and info would discourage people at risk from being tested.
Indeed -- if it destroys the Big 4 of Tech (Google, Amazon, Apple, and MS), so much the better. The world was better off when they didn't have as much power.
Yep, the removal of a random (and varying) length would work nicely for not matching cell phones to actual house/building locations. Problem is that this can still be removed, by seeing how the data change from day to day and/or matching the traffic flow against a map of the road without random error.
Is it anonymized to the point where they can't see who's parking in which driveway or walking into which home? It may be technically "anonymous", but if locations are sufficiently accurate, any POS with a mind to it can "deanonymize" it relatively quickly.
Yep, hope he chokes to death on his smug-ass words.
Exactly. Except it's not "abusing" as much as "invading" or "raping."