It wasn't a secret that there was security software on the laptops. Parents and students knew about it, they just weren't required to sign an acknowledgement
3. Were students and families explicitly told about the laptop security system?
No. There was no formal notice given to students or their families. The functionality and intended use of the security feature should have been communicated clearly to students and families.
I suspect you are the editor of a publication in competition to InfoWorld. Your arguments are carefully thought out, your written English is impeccable, your paragraph construction is correct, you are careful with names...
Based on your acute observations I suspect he meant to post on a sight other than/.
but the guy who can make your shiny new weapon which is better than your old weapon is someone you have to pay attention to.
You also need to pay attention to the guy who got your old weapon. He may attack you while you're admiring yourself in the reflection of your shiny new weapon;-)
... if the USPTO had a '1-click' accept/reject option for their patent/trademark approval systems. Unfortunately either Jeff Bezos or Peter Calveley beat them to it.
I really think that the issue here should be intent - do you really think they did this to just be self-satisfying perverts or does it seem more reasonable to assume that they just had no common sense?
They may not have intended to create child pornography but they almost certainly did create it simply by turing on a camera.
Assuming they had no common sense means we'd also have to assume that no one at all involved ever questioned whether or not this could be used, or misused, for spying on students, or inadvertently observing and/or recording a student in some state of undress or involved in other behavior that could be regarded as 'extremely personal' in nature. That list includes those involved in:
the decision making process
the installation & implementation
the monitoring and observing of students
the review of recorded or otherwise documented activities
If, in fact, all of those people never considered or questioned the possibility, then those people have absolutely no business being involved in the care or education of children.
As stated in previous communications, insurance will be $55 per student with a $100 deductible for theft or damage. Families who participate in the Free and Reduced lunch program will have the option to forgo the insurance cost yet still have their student(s) laptop covered under this insurance agreement. However, families in the Free and Reduced lunch program will be required to pay the deductible charge of $100 for each theft, loss, or damage claim.
Parents/guardians are encouraged to pay the $55 insurance premium prior to the start of the school year through Paypal. This account can be accessed at http://www.lmsd.org/insurance. No uninsured laptops are permitted off campus. If a student without laptop insurance takes the laptop off site and it is stolen or damaged, full replacement or repair cost is the parent/guardians responsibility.
Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.
Based on this Laptop Capabilities at Home info from the LMSD website, they do expect the kids to take the laptops home.
The fee would apply to radio devices that operate in license-free spectrum, which includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and UWB technologies. ...
Japanese consumers already pay a yearly 420 Yen fee for each mobile phone. So they'd have to pay an additional tax for using a Bluetooth headset on the mobile phone they already pay a tax on?
6 months seems even more fair considering the poor quality of these kind of recordings after engineerings spent so many hours creating the "pretty" graphics. I agree. Let's make it 6 months in jail and then an hour in a locked room with everyone who bought a crappy quality pirated DVD.
Slashdot Mirror
... now they can pump out crappy movies that have quality CG faster than ever before?
Should I address that to "Mr Superintendent" or "Ms Assistant Principal"?
Not since I 'applied with a gentle but firm hand'. Why, am I supposed to check on them or something?
It wasn't a secret that there was security software on the laptops. Parents and students knew about it, they just weren't required to sign an acknowledgement
From LMSD Superintendent's post @ 2/19/10
3. Were students and families explicitly told about the laptop security system?
No. There was no formal notice given to students or their families. The functionality and intended use of the security feature should have been communicated clearly to students and families.
I suspect you are the editor of a publication in competition to InfoWorld. Your arguments are carefully thought out, your written English is impeccable, your paragraph construction is correct, you are careful with names ...
Based on your acute observations I suspect he meant to post on a sight other than /.
Maybe he wasn't lying about the Windows 7 memory issues? Maybe Windows 7 uses all that memory when his Devil Mountain Sh!tware is installed?
I wonder what his motivation for lying like about it was.
I'm not sure, but Craig Barth is an anagram for Hair Grab Ct, which is obviously the location of the next clue.
... just had a memory problem of his own?
I thought that was the definition of crisis.
You're thinking of Crisitunity.
Imagine a touch screen that can sense a real hover - as in your finger positioned slightly above the surface ... how's that for a solution?
I'll let you know after my iPhone starts registering 'hovers' while it's in my front pocket.
Based on this Laptop Capabilities at Home info from the LMSD website, they do expect the kids to take the laptops home.
Telling a little bit of the truth every day is still lying. They should just get it out in the open now and let the chips fall where they may.
but the guy who can make your shiny new weapon which is better than your old weapon is someone you have to pay attention to.
You also need to pay attention to the guy who got your old weapon. He may attack you while you're admiring yourself in the reflection of your shiny new weapon ;-)
In the end, your post is the perfect example of a troll.
Hello, Pot. I see you've met Kettle ...
Knowing Adobe they'd rebrand it as iPhone CS 1 and want to charge $379.99 for it.
... oy carumba!
I suppose Adobe Download Manager would soon follow
I think you forgot: ...
5.
6. Profit!
... if the USPTO had a '1-click' accept/reject option for their patent/trademark approval systems. Unfortunately either Jeff Bezos or Peter Calveley beat them to it.
I really think that the issue here should be intent - do you really think they did this to just be self-satisfying perverts or does it seem more reasonable to assume that they just had no common sense?
They may not have intended to create child pornography but they almost certainly did create it simply by turing on a camera.
Assuming they had no common sense means we'd also have to assume that no one at all involved ever questioned whether or not this could be used, or misused, for spying on students, or inadvertently observing and/or recording a student in some state of undress or involved in other behavior that could be regarded as 'extremely personal' in nature. That list includes those involved in:
If, in fact, all of those people never considered or questioned the possibility, then those people have absolutely no business being involved in the care or education of children.
I don't see the need for all this. There's insurance against theft and using proper full disk encryption, there's no risk of data loss for companies.
They do require insurance for most students Laptop Insurance
Insurance Information
Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.
Based on this Laptop Capabilities at Home info from the LMSD website, they do expect the kids to take the laptops home.
... letting me try assembler with my level of dyslexia.
Isn't the best thing to do image it, rebuild it, get it running, restore the image on duplicate test hardware then do forensics?
Based on your question it's pretty obvious you don't watch CSI: Norfolk.
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Japanese consumers already pay a yearly 420 Yen fee for each mobile phone. So they'd have to pay an additional tax for using a Bluetooth headset on the mobile phone they already pay a tax on?
Maybe he was setting up a competing screen in the lobby next to the popcorn vendor?