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Feb 18, 2010 14:30

School issues laptops to teenagers... after installing software to let school administrators remotely and silently activate the webcam and microphone. Such as when the students are home, on their own time.

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autobotsrollout February 18 2010, 21:04:15 UTC
Somewhere Cory Doctorow is getting a blowjob while he screams "THIS IS JUST LIKE IT WAS IN MY BOOK!"

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mmexlibris February 18 2010, 21:32:39 UTC
The only way this comment could get better is if you somehow managed to work Warren Ellis into it.

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cuddlycthulhu February 18 2010, 21:50:38 UTC
"Somewhere Cory Doctorow is getting a blowjob while he screams 'THIS IS JUST LIKE IT WAS IN MY BOOK!' while Warren Ellis complains that no one reads his website anymore."

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mmexlibris February 18 2010, 21:52:49 UTC
~snort~ Right.

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sorchawench February 18 2010, 23:06:06 UTC
Now see, I was the kinda kid who'd deliberately go researching whale phalli because my creative writing course required I write a sequel to a novel of classic literature. Moby Dick in Love sounds fun.

Imagine all of the horrible, legitimate, things one could research. As far as video goes....if I knew about it in advance, it might take some doing, but I'd do my level best to give the observer nightmares.

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missysedai February 18 2010, 23:25:20 UTC

Imagine all of the horrible, legitimate, things one could research.

I don't need to imagine, I do that for a living.

First is was Google Answers, then Google's Human Eval, and now Microsoft's Human Eval. There's a reason I keep copies of my contracts in my laptop bag. If my computer were subjected to a search and I didn't have that, I could go to jail.

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opaqueplanet February 19 2010, 03:02:11 UTC
You're my hero

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missysedai February 18 2010, 23:23:32 UTC
As I noted over at Lenore's, if it was my kid issued one of those laptops, the Principal or Vice Principal would find it crammed sideways somewhere very uncomfortable.

Part of the reason so many people have difficulty handling their kids is that they forget to treat them like ACTUAL PEOPLE. They don't need us to spoon feed them every fucking thing and shelter them from the tiniest speck of dirt.

They. Are. PEOPLE. If you don't get that through your head right quick, you're going to have horrible problems. I say this not as WonderMom or any of that bullshit, but as someone who learned the hard way and is now four months from having a legal adult on her hands.

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ladyfox7oaks February 19 2010, 23:11:46 UTC
WOW- this has now become a Federal case ( ... )

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