http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/09/16427652-texas-school-can-force-students-to-wear-locator-chips-judge-rules?lite
I have to stop looking at the news at lunch hour.
Heh.
Nope, nothing wrong here. Just some safety conscious educators, teach American kids how to be Right and Good.
It's just chip, maybe they could just put it in the shoulder of each kid. That way they can't refuse.
FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckuf....... :crankey:
Not one mention of the MArk of the Beast?
The news is going downhill.
For a really great picture of the future in the direction we're headed in, read David Marusek. :lol:
Because recording the students who enter after the bell is so difficult as to warrant introducing a tracking system?
Quote from: Pæs on January 10, 2013, 12:41:18 AM
Because recording the students who enter after the bell is so difficult as to warrant introducing a tracking system?
It puts the RFID chip on the student or it loses $1.7 million a year!
QuoteTexas law counts a student present for purposes of distributing state aid to education funds based on the number of pupils in the classroom at the start of the day. Northside said it was losing $1.7 million a year due to students loitering in the stairwells or chatting in the hallways.
Quote from: ArsTechnica"What we have found, they are there, they're in the building and not in their chairs," Gonzalez said. "If they are on campus, we can legally count them present."
Why can't you count the students and add to that the number of students who turn up late?
Quote"Because budgets are tied to average daily attendance, schools lose cash—as much as $175,000 a day—if students aren't in their seats when homerooms do roll call in the morning. However, if the student is on campus, they're technically present," states the website ChipFreeSchools.com.
That's a stupid system. "You only get funding for students who are in their seats when you do roll call but you can also get funding for students who are not in their seats if you want."
Quote from: hunter s.durden on January 09, 2013, 10:32:47 PM
Not one mention of the MArk of the Beast?
The news is going downhill.
Quote from: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/texas-school-districts-rfid-tracking-of-students-goes-to-court/The tagging resembled the "mark of the beast," as Hernandez and her father told Info Wars in an interview on October 3.
Also WUT.
QuoteThe school had offered a compromise—a badge without an RFID chip. But when the Hernandez family declined
NO SIRREE, WE ARE AGAINST IDENTIFACTION OF ANY FORM.
More like "You can also get funding for the kids who are not in their seats if you contract with this company that manufactures RFID scanning systems which most of us making the decision-making are investors in, which is of course totally not at all in any way influencing this option."
It seems like the Hernandez family might be a little outside of their bounds of reason, by declining any form of ID, though.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 10, 2013, 01:52:39 AM
It seems like the Hernandez family might be a little outside of their bounds of reason, by declining any form of ID, though.
I'm getting mixed messages on that one. One article says they declined the non-RFID compromise, another said Andrea was already wearing an old ID badge without the chip in protest.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 10, 2013, 01:51:43 AM
More like "You can also get funding for the kids who are not in their seats if you contract with this company that manufactures RFID scanning systems which most of us making the decision-making are investors in, which is of course totally not at all in any way influencing this option."
Also this.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 10, 2013, 01:51:43 AM
More like "You can also get funding for the kids who are not in their seats if you contract with this company that manufactures RFID scanning systems which most of us making the decision-making are investors in, which is of course totally not at all in any way influencing this option."
:dream:
Some propaganda drops on RFID jamming may be in order for this area...
Quote from: Richter on January 10, 2013, 03:31:32 AM
Some propaganda drops on RFID jamming may be in order for this area...
Most things in Texas need fucked with.
QuoteThe software works only within the walls of the school building, cannot track the movements of students, and does not allow students to be monitored by third parties, Gonzalez said.
Of course it does.
Quote from: Suu on January 10, 2013, 03:02:19 PM
QuoteThe software works only within the walls of the school building, cannot track the movements of students, and does not allow students to be monitored by third parties, Gonzalez said.
Of course it does.
ROFL. How about we ask someone who actually knows what software is
Quote from: Suu on January 10, 2013, 03:02:19 PM
QuoteThe software works only within the walls of the school building, cannot track the movements of students, and does not allow students to be monitored by third parties, Gonzalez said.
Of course it does.
I'm sure that, as it's proprietary software, "third parties" are unable to legally monitor their RFID chips at this time. And I'm sure that the software that is licensed to the school will only be be used within the walls of the school building, per the site-license terms of agreement. So both statements are most technically true and legally factual.