RFID to track punk school kids

[SoulRiser]

I know this is old news, but still....

this is the exact text of the page where i found this: http://www.brianbehrend.com/archives/200...rack_p.php

The NY Times is reporting that schools in the US have finally started using RFID technology to monitor student arrivals and departures. Pretty sweet. Spring ISD (near Houston) is issuing ID badges with RFID technology built in so they can track the little boogers.

I really could've used this when I was teaching, I wouldn't have had to pay any attention when taking attendance. Not that I really ever did, I always screwed that up and marked everybody present. But maybe now the little shits will actually get in trouble when they skip.

More likely? Shithead kid number 1 gives his ID to kid number 2 and then the system thinks number 1 is here. Too much fun and mischief is available to probably make this useful. We just need to get around to embedding the chips in their freaking skulls.

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here's a piece of the NY times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/techno...ner=rssnyt

In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye

In front of her gated apartment complex, Courtney Payne, a 9-year-old fourth grader with dark hair pulled tightly into a ponytail, exits a yellow school bus. Moments later, her movement is observed by Alan Bragg, the local police chief, standing in a windowless control room more than a mile away.

Chief Bragg is not using video surveillance. Rather, he watches an icon on a computer screen. The icon marks the spot on a map where Courtney got off the bus, and, on a larger level, it represents the latest in the convergence of technology and student security.

Hoping to prevent the loss of a child through kidnapping or more innocent circumstances, a few schools have begun monitoring student arrivals and departures using technology similar to that used to track livestock and pallets of retail shipments.

[ANAL_FROST!!!]

"...More likely? Shithead kid number 1 gives his ID to kid number 2 and then the system thinks number 1 is here."
What the hell?

[Rebelnerd]

same technology as livestock and retail packages. that's all we are too them.

[Abandoning Ship]

bungalow Wrote:"...More likely? Shithead kid number 1 gives his ID to kid number 2 and then the system thinks number 1 is here."
What the hell?

Too true..

[Abandoning Ship]

Rebelnerd Wrote:same technology as livestock and retail packages. that's all we are too them.

Too true.

[Z?]

just wait until we all have them so that they can track us anywhere.

[Rebelnerd]

yeah, if they do the whole manchurian candidate thing on us we should all EMP ourselves.