Why the jokes? Because people get them. All the time. I find it odd as a developer that you've never made an error where OS didn't eventually just go, "Oh, for f***'s sake."
If you've ever had a driver that wasn't written just perfect, you have definitely seen the dreaded BSoD
And won't until Front Side Bus speeds increase. That and data access speeds (from Hard Drives) are still and will continue to be ginourmous bottlenecks in a system.
One think you have to say for Apple, a 1.25 GHz bus is nothing to balk at compared to Intel/AMD...
Just FYI, it does not always vary by state, the same revocation can occur when convicted of a federal crime, and only an application to get those rights back or an expungment or a pardon can change that.
Frankly, I don't want the police having the ability to track my car at will, especially given the new freedoms under the Patriot Act to surveil poeple without a warrant under certain circumstances.
If you want to do that, that's fine, but making it mandatory in cars is extreme, and I doubt I'm the only person that doesn't have complete faith in the authorities to use it only for my protection.
Personally, I don't see a problem with these devices, especially since the RFID chip itself no critical data. We're talking about a 15 digit student ID number.
I think the major problem is the lack of communication between the school and the parents. If all you heard was, "Your child's movements are going to be tracked the whole time he is at school," you might react negatively. I doubt the vast majority of these parents even understand the nature of the tracking system used.
Futhermore, it is unlikely the school staff members that explained the technology to the parents thoroughly understands it either. I remember that in high school (which is rather recent for me) that even the supposed "IT" staff had no more than the most basic understanding of the technology for which they were responsible.
As for how effective this will be, I have enough faith in the ingenuity of an eighth grader that they will quickly find ways to bypass this system should they so desire.
It's my experience that many of the people that bitch the most about their job are the ones that deserve to get fired the most, anyway. C'mon, there's is always that one whiney co-worker that you always ask, "Why is s/he even WORKING here?"
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And start scribbling how a few hundreds lines of by hand...
Will you post it? I'd read it =)
Because the concept of a British nanny and boarding schools for young ages came from American society...
Why the jokes? Because people get them. All the time. I find it odd as a developer that you've never made an error where OS didn't eventually just go, "Oh, for f***'s sake." If you've ever had a driver that wasn't written just perfect, you have definitely seen the dreaded BSoD
And won't until Front Side Bus speeds increase. That and data access speeds (from Hard Drives) are still and will continue to be ginourmous bottlenecks in a system. One think you have to say for Apple, a 1.25 GHz bus is nothing to balk at compared to Intel/AMD...
Just FYI, it does not always vary by state, the same revocation can occur when convicted of a federal crime, and only an application to get those rights back or an expungment or a pardon can change that.
Frankly, I don't want the police having the ability to track my car at will, especially given the new freedoms under the Patriot Act to surveil poeple without a warrant under certain circumstances. If you want to do that, that's fine, but making it mandatory in cars is extreme, and I doubt I'm the only person that doesn't have complete faith in the authorities to use it only for my protection.
Personally, I don't see a problem with these devices, especially since the RFID chip itself no critical data. We're talking about a 15 digit student ID number.
I think the major problem is the lack of communication between the school and the parents. If all you heard was, "Your child's movements are going to be tracked the whole time he is at school," you might react negatively. I doubt the vast majority of these parents even understand the nature of the tracking system used. Futhermore, it is unlikely the school staff members that explained the technology to the parents thoroughly understands it either. I remember that in high school (which is rather recent for me) that even the supposed "IT" staff had no more than the most basic understanding of the technology for which they were responsible.
As for how effective this will be, I have enough faith in the ingenuity of an eighth grader that they will quickly find ways to bypass this system should they so desire.
...this is NASA we're talking about, here....
It's my experience that many of the people that bitch the most about their job are the ones that deserve to get fired the most, anyway. C'mon, there's is always that one whiney co-worker that you always ask, "Why is s/he even WORKING here?"
Who cares about clients when gmail gives you a gig of storage?