"Hey, you! Yes, you! I see you have been hanging a lot with that troublemaker Smith lately! I am warning you, you better stay away from him, or you are gotta get it!"
Last I checked, Teachers already have a pretty good idea of who hangs out with who. In fact, a very good sense. Why? Teachers are there at lunch. Administrators walk around at lunch. At school events.
The one thing I could think of your point being valid is in possible drug deals, if the school noticed 2 (or more) students going to one remote place every [few] weeks/days. However, I highly doubt they'd be doing real analysis from the data collected.
Also, kids could easily block the RFID's signal with aluminum foil.
A few machines in the past have had SSD's and the manufacturer did nothing to limit the Input and output of the operating system, therefore limiting the longevity of the drive.
With Asus' eeePC just launched, I'm not sure what they've done as they do use a SSD.
Does anyone expect we will see a rise in both development and popularity of Linux distributions that will limit input and output access to the drives by some means?
Does anyone think Microsoft would do anything to this extent within the near future?
On the linux front, as far as I know, only live CDs and their frugal installs (that support saving to a save file) and maybe (probably?) Asus eeePC's OS have options to limit the input and output of a drive, by default.
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Last I checked, Teachers already have a pretty good idea of who hangs out with who. In fact, a very good sense. Why? Teachers are there at lunch. Administrators walk around at lunch. At school events.
The one thing I could think of your point being valid is in possible drug deals, if the school noticed 2 (or more) students going to one remote place every [few] weeks/days. However, I highly doubt they'd be doing real analysis from the data collected.
Also, kids could easily block the RFID's signal with aluminum foil.
A few machines in the past have had SSD's and the manufacturer did nothing to limit the Input and output of the operating system, therefore limiting the longevity of the drive. With Asus' eeePC just launched, I'm not sure what they've done as they do use a SSD. Does anyone expect we will see a rise in both development and popularity of Linux distributions that will limit input and output access to the drives by some means? Does anyone think Microsoft would do anything to this extent within the near future? On the linux front, as far as I know, only live CDs and their frugal installs (that support saving to a save file) and maybe (probably?) Asus eeePC's OS have options to limit the input and output of a drive, by default.
If logging in via POP, that should count as logging in, right?