OT: Got a laptop with a built in camera?

That is correct. There is no constitutional right to bear arms, or for that matter constitutional protection of property rights, in Canada

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Dave Balderstone
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that "allegedly" stuff:

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is one of those times when the school administrators really ARE the cause of the problem.

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Steve

And if you are paranoid, duct tape or a sticky label is cheap. A little less reversible - finger-nail polish or magic marker.

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clare

Then how do you expect to move upstairs if there isn't anybody to take your place?

------------------------------------ Basic rule:

Always hire two apprentices, never just one.

Basic CYA.

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

Sorta like that eggs & basket thing?

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Dave Balderstone

Bingo! If you can't be replaced ... you can't be promoted.

Reply to
Doug Miller

Exactly so. Indiana takes a lot of heat for being "backward" but that's one thing this state got right in our Constitution:

"The people shall have the right to keep and bear arms, for the defense of themselves and of the State." -- IOW, the right to armed self-defense is explicit.

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Doug Miller

Of course, we did have a state legislature that tried to pass a law defining the value of pi as 3.0, so the "backward" image has some basis.

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Steve

3.2, actually -- and it was only the House that was taken in, passing the bill 67-0 with little debate. Wiser heads prevailed in the Senate, though, where "the bill was brought up and made fun of. The Senators made bad puns about it, ridiculed it and laughed over it. The fun lasted half an hour." and consideration of it was "indefinitely postponed."

Full story:

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too, that this occurred in 1897, some considerable time after the Constitution was written.

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Doug Miller

The only rights you have are those that you can take and hold by yourself. Tom

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tom

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Yep. Because, after all, all of the IT admins and anyone else with admin authority are absolutely pure of heart and would never do anything to abuse that policy. /sarcasm

Imagine the concern if you were the parent of a high school student (especially a daughter).

This really falls into the "what were they thinking?" category. It is one thing, if as an owner of a laptop, you enable this kind of security feature and have control of when it's activated. It's an entirely different animal if this feature is present on a computer issued by someone else with a remote IT staff.

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Mark & Juanita

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>>>> If you search the news archives you will find articles where people > used

Which the school put on the machines, and then apparently used as spyware.

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J. Clarke

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is one school that has screwed itself by the numbers.

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J. Clarke

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Neil Brooks

------------------------------------------ And here I was always told it was their Republican leanings.

Live and learn.

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:hlnmcm$huq$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

When I went to school in Indiana, it was always Ohio that had defined PI to be 9. A few quick search queries don't turn up anything, though.

Puckdropper

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Puckdropper

snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:hlnl82$huq$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

You can teach your apprentice everything he needs to know to get the job done properly (and make yourself replacable at that task), but still not teach him everything. After all, it was Darth Vador who searched the galaxy for Luke Skywalker and not the emperor. (The signature is based off of Star Wars.)

Puckdropper

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Puckdropper

Oh no. Much as I hate to admit it, that was my state, Indiana.

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Doug Miller

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:15:47 -0800, the infamous "DGDevin" scrawled the following:

He can't! Schools are gun-free zones, as afforded us by the libtards. They can't even carry them in their vehicles to school in most states.

-- "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow

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Larry Jaques

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:27:15 -0800, the infamous "DGDevin" scrawled the following:

The nice thing about Canada is the wide open space in which to hide the bodies. ;) (just kidding)

Yeah, if you must defend yourself, do it right the first time, with the first shot or two.

-- "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow

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Larry Jaques

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