"The initiative will make use of technology provided by Project Sunblock - a firm used by major brands to stop adverts appearing alongside questionable content such as pirated material or pornography."
"Neither the police or Project Sunblock [are paying the website in question to display the police message." --
These are guidelines, rather than rules, and I suspect they reflect existing policies at individual schools. Unifying standards between institutions is a good thing.
Social media can be put to constructive use through formal pages, groups and so on (as reflected by the guidance) but befriending students online is really not very professional.
Child protection guidelines are fundamentally there to protect children, yes, but let's not forget that they are as much about protecting adults from allegations made by nefarious (or simply misunderstanding) kids by making it difficult for teachers to put themselves in compromising positions.
It's partly for this reason that schools and youth organisations have internal rules and regulations that say, for example, that driving a student home on your own is something you really shouldn't plan to do. Guidance covering responsible use of the Internet is just an extension to this
That said, I think that telling teachers to have "no expectation of privacy" really oversteps the mark.
It bothers me that this is modded "Funny".
It really is the common man, through whistle-blowing facilities like Wikileaks, who watches for this kind of abuse of position.
I was pleasantly surprised a few years ago when I noticed that HSBC support Links for their online banking service (at least in the UK). A quick check confirms they still do.
I wish I could say the same for NatWest and I don't know about other UK banks.
There is a lot to be said for a text-only, script-immune interface. And whilst nobody could say that Links is impervious to attack, it's obviously not going to be on the radar of most cross-site/browser-exploiting evil doers.
"Observations on entangled states naively appear to conflict with the property of relativity that information cannot be transferred faster than the speed of light. Although two entangled systems appear to interact across large spatial separations, no useful information can be transmitted in this way, so causality cannot be violated through entanglement. This is the statement of no communication theorem."
I used to have a pen and notepad and swore by it for a while. Then I upgraded to a Palm Zire 21.
It cost 46 GBP delivered (eBay) lasts weeks on a charge and is generally extremely useful.
I use it for my to-do list (*so* handy to have it sort itself!), university schedule, contact list, friends' tea preferences, birthdays (HappyDays), (slow, emergency) web-browsing via my mobile phone (using EudoraWeb), SSH (TuSSH), a London Underground map (MapMap Lite), a dictionary (Noah Lite - not great but very handy and only 2MB), a juggling simulator (JMPalm) and a scientific calculator among various other things. All of the software I use on it is free (much of it is open-source).
Keeping it synced (and charged) via USB with JMPalm on Linux (or whatever Windows software the thing comes with) means that, unlike a notepad, I can lose or damage it and not mourn the loss of the data (and be only slightly annoyed at the loss of "only" 50 quid's worth of kit).
Get yourself a nice, cheap, robust PDA like the Zire 21 that does what you want it to without killing its battery in 5 minutes.
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From TFA:
"The initiative will make use of technology provided by Project Sunblock - a firm used by major brands to stop adverts appearing alongside questionable content such as pirated material or pornography."
"Neither the police or Project Sunblock [are paying the website in question to display the police message." --
UK residents can sign a petition against this for the government to dutifully ignore.
These are guidelines, rather than rules, and I suspect they reflect existing policies at individual schools. Unifying standards between institutions is a good thing.
Social media can be put to constructive use through formal pages, groups and so on (as reflected by the guidance) but befriending students online is really not very professional.
Child protection guidelines are fundamentally there to protect children, yes, but let's not forget that they are as much about protecting adults from allegations made by nefarious (or simply misunderstanding) kids by making it difficult for teachers to put themselves in compromising positions.
It's partly for this reason that schools and youth organisations have internal rules and regulations that say, for example, that driving a student home on your own is something you really shouldn't plan to do. Guidance covering responsible use of the Internet is just an extension to this
That said, I think that telling teachers to have "no expectation of privacy" really oversteps the mark.
Fortunately 1975 home computers were invulnerable to inadvertent DDOS attacks so there's no chance this site will be slashd.... oh never mind.
It bothers me that this is modded "Funny". It really is the common man, through whistle-blowing facilities like Wikileaks, who watches for this kind of abuse of position.
Romulan Ale is alcoholic, not sythoholic and a cocktail recipes are available at that link to those with no sense of self-preservation.
A great example? With a sample size of one?
There are surely very many factors which could influence the development of arthritis.
... did they decide that evil is male? There are some girls I want them to meet.
There are clear shenanigans in play, that or (more likely) methodological errors.
The type of paste you use has very little difference. Let's not forget this comparison which includes toothpaste.
When Pronto condoms (or the rights/designs for them) make it to Europe and the USA it will be a Good Day.
These things can be applied in less than one second
+1 Insightful
I'd do it myself if I had modpoints.
Don't forget CC All Your E-mail to Jacqui Smith Day.
I was pleasantly surprised a few years ago when I noticed that HSBC support Links for their online banking service (at least in the UK). A quick check confirms they still do.
I wish I could say the same for NatWest and I don't know about other UK banks.
There is a lot to be said for a text-only, script-immune interface. And whilst nobody could say that Links is impervious to attack, it's obviously not going to be on the radar of most cross-site/browser-exploiting evil doers.
"Observations on entangled states naively appear to conflict with the property of relativity that information cannot be transferred faster than the speed of light. Although two entangled systems appear to interact across large spatial separations, no useful information can be transmitted in this way, so causality cannot be violated through entanglement. This is the statement of no communication theorem."
-- Wikipedia article on Spooky Action
: For example, they can't vote
I suspect that this guy wouldn't have any problems on that front...
Didn't you see the link in the post?
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http://www.imagireal.com.nyud.net:8090/gallery/fo
I used to have a pen and notepad and swore by it for a while. Then I upgraded to a Palm Zire 21.
It cost 46 GBP delivered (eBay) lasts weeks on a charge and is generally extremely useful.
I use it for my to-do list (*so* handy to have it sort itself!), university schedule, contact list, friends' tea preferences, birthdays (HappyDays), (slow, emergency) web-browsing via my mobile phone (using EudoraWeb), SSH (TuSSH), a London Underground map (MapMap Lite), a dictionary (Noah Lite - not great but very handy and only 2MB), a juggling simulator (JMPalm) and a scientific calculator among various other things. All of the software I use on it is free (much of it is open-source).
Keeping it synced (and charged) via USB with JMPalm on Linux (or whatever Windows software the thing comes with) means that, unlike a notepad, I can lose or damage it and not mourn the loss of the data (and be only slightly annoyed at the loss of "only" 50 quid's worth of kit).
Get yourself a nice, cheap, robust PDA like the Zire 21 that does what you want it to without killing its battery in 5 minutes.
You won't look back.
That's 1,000,000 potential people annoyed with Slashdot's dodgy rendering in Firefox.
Surely somebody here could fix it?
I really hope you guys elect Dubya again
"Again"? They didn't elect him the first time...