Maybe AOL has finally understood that their previous strategy was not optimal in the long run, if IE wins hands down(as it has almost done) so that there is no competition, will Microsoft then still play with the ISPs, or will they start requiring use of their server sofware and such "to be fully supported"
I did read that, but my commentary was on the fact that if the laws are written in the way that the schools primary activity becomes to track students and to make sure that they do not get into trouble instead of the basica idea of the school, teaching, then the schoolsystem as whole has definitely taken a wrong turn somewhere.
To put this in perspective. I do not have kids and I am out of school a long time ago.
But.. Why does that disqualify me from having opinins about schools or educational systems?
For one I know of many things what were wrong with the system when I was there, and listening to the arguments used currently, some of those things seem still wrong and some even worse, though some are apparently better too.
Your experience during school years is an importan part of your personality, as you form so much of who you are during those years.
So schoolis are important for the whole society and not only those that are directly affected.
Well, the thing is, actually tracking anything is with this technology is the scary part. The actual use by a school is just the tip of the iceberg. I am sure that in future every person will be tracked "for their safety". I think that some small town will probably go for something like this at some point "to fight crime"
In the case of a windows computer(as is the backbone of most botnets) there is normally no MTA configured. Instead the bots will install their own MTA, thus this stops such reasonably well.
Well.. you do have to remember that Currently US is very much a nation looking inward in many things. The only real looking outward is in the business sector and there are no immediate profits to be made from the space elevator.
Well, given that they go in middle of local summer, I do indeed see this as more of PR stunt than actual try to do much scientific. If they went in middle of the local winter on the other hand...
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Maybe AOL has finally understood that their previous strategy was not optimal in the long run, if IE wins hands down(as it has almost done) so that there is no competition, will Microsoft then still play with the ISPs, or will they start requiring use of their server sofware and such "to be fully supported"
I did read that, but my commentary was on the fact that if the laws are written in the way that the schools primary activity becomes to track students and to make sure that they do not get into trouble instead of the basica idea of the school, teaching, then the schoolsystem as whole has definitely taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Schools are not supposed to be Daycare or Prisons.
If you treat the kids in your care as Prisoners or Infants, no wonder there are more problems than needed.
So I pity the students and parents who might have thought that the idea of the school was to teach, not to "contain".
The schools job should be to Teach, not to be daycare.
But.. Why does that disqualify me from having opinins about schools or educational systems?
For one I know of many things what were wrong with the system when I was there, and listening to the arguments used currently, some of those things seem still wrong and some even worse, though some are apparently better too.
Your experience during school years is an importan part of your personality, as you form so much of who you are during those years.
So schoolis are important for the whole society and not only those that are directly affected.
the difference: no rfid YET. Just wait for the new and improved "Crime fighting Lisence plate"
Well, the thing is, actually tracking anything is with this technology is the scary part. The actual use by a school is just the tip of the iceberg. I am sure that in future every person will be tracked "for their safety". I think that some small town will probably go for something like this at some point "to fight crime"
In the case of a windows computer(as is the backbone of most botnets) there is normally no MTA configured. Instead the bots will install their own MTA, thus this stops such reasonably well.
Well.. you do have to remember that Currently US is very much a nation looking inward in many things. The only real looking outward is in the business sector and there are no immediate profits to be made from the space elevator.
Well, given that they go in middle of local summer, I do indeed see this as more of PR stunt than actual try to do much scientific. If they went in middle of the local winter on the other hand...