There has already been an incident where the school people were using the laptop's camera to spy on the kids. Somebody said they wanted to be able to do that to try to find one if it disappeared, but there was some allegation that they were using it without any good excuse.
"Why the hell would you trust sending your kids to a school if you thought the officials would even consider such a thing?" We send our kids to school because the government will take them away from us if we don't, and send them to live with the Jukes's and the Kallikaks. And we send them to the school that they are assigned to, because there is no school choice. And I agree that the chances are very slim that my school will have people like that with access to the computers, but we should not assume things will be OK when we have no way to know until afterwards. I like your idea of disabling the camera, although it's too bad we have to even think about that.
"For many years, Canada has strongly resisted US-style copyright laws, despite tremendous pressure to do so. Watching them cave on ACTA is certainly a disappointment." I am sure there must be some mistake here. Only the paranoid, venal and mendacious National Rifle Association could come up with a crazy idea like having an international organization interfering with our freedom and sovereignty. Remember what then-candidate Obama said, some people are so stupid that they cling to their guns and religion. Are you watching out for black helicopters hoovering over your server farms? OK, back to the real world: It would be nice if we didn't have to be concerned about everybody in the bleeping world trying to cause trouble for us, but that seems to be the nature of human beings; if we want to keep any freedom we will have to keep right on kicking them in the whatever, slow them down as much as possible.
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There has already been an incident where the school people were using the laptop's camera to spy on the kids. Somebody said they wanted to be able to do that to try to find one if it disappeared, but there was some allegation that they were using it without any good excuse.
"Why the hell would you trust sending your kids to a school if you thought the officials would even consider such a thing?" We send our kids to school because the government will take them away from us if we don't, and send them to live with the Jukes's and the Kallikaks. And we send them to the school that they are assigned to, because there is no school choice. And I agree that the chances are very slim that my school will have people like that with access to the computers, but we should not assume things will be OK when we have no way to know until afterwards. I like your idea of disabling the camera, although it's too bad we have to even think about that.
Blue helicopters:-)
"For many years, Canada has strongly resisted US-style copyright laws, despite tremendous pressure to do so. Watching them cave on ACTA is certainly a disappointment." I am sure there must be some mistake here. Only the paranoid, venal and mendacious National Rifle Association could come up with a crazy idea like having an international organization interfering with our freedom and sovereignty. Remember what then-candidate Obama said, some people are so stupid that they cling to their guns and religion. Are you watching out for black helicopters hoovering over your server farms? OK, back to the real world: It would be nice if we didn't have to be concerned about everybody in the bleeping world trying to cause trouble for us, but that seems to be the nature of human beings; if we want to keep any freedom we will have to keep right on kicking them in the whatever, slow them down as much as possible.