In my school, they've just put in a wifi network. The ssid is "SRVUSD-STUDENT" (San Ramon Valley Unified School District), and the WEP password is the same. They haven't told anyone about it yet, and it's not hooked up to any modem, but I think they're going to set up some hotspots. We have a strict no-electronics no-abaci policy, and they (theoretically) confiscate anything they find (cards, games, etc). High school teachers don't seem to enforce this rule.
EDIT: I looked abaci up in the dictionary (paper, bound.) It's legit.
Best thing ever is to find a prof who uses MSN and leaves it set to auto-login. Then, during lecture, send him/her a custom emoticon of whatever you desire (goatse is a favorite) and watch it pop up in the bottom right of the projector. Always a hit.
I used to do something like that, I'd create two MSN accounts, one logged in on the classroom's pc called “I like cocks”, and another one called “I like cock-lovers” logged in on my pocket pc. Then wait for the teacher to turn on the projector and start the conversation. The teacher would go crazy for like 15 minutes trying to find out what the hell was going on.
Another great one was turning on the classroom's TV with the pocket pc, then waiting for the teacher to turn it back off just to turn it back on 5 seconds later, that got me and the rest of the class a chance to earn a 0 on a quiz, but it was worth it.
Best thing ever is to find a prof who uses MSN and leaves it set to auto-login. Then, during lecture, send him/her a custom emoticon of whatever you desire (goatse is a favorite) and watch it pop up in the bottom right of the projector. Always a hit.
I used to do something like that, I'd create two MSN accounts, one logged in on the classroom's pc called “I like cocksâ€Â, and another one called “I like cock-lovers†logged in on my pocket pc. Then wait for the teacher to turn on the projector and start the conversation. The teacher would go crazy for like 15 minutes trying to find out what the hell was going on.
Another great one was turning on the classroom's TV with the pocket pc, then waiting for the teacher to turn it back off just to turn it back on 5 seconds later, that got me and the rest of the class a chance to earn a 0 on a quiz, but it was worth it.
We had a prof who used a system called CPS, which is a glorified (and expensive) set of I/R remotes that you use to answer questions shown on a projector. Naturally, being engineers, we snagged a replacement remote for the model of projector that's used in all the lecture halls. We would keep switching the input over from the CPS display to the prof's laptop, which was running the teacher client - with the answer highlighted. After a week of this, we never used CPS again.
We used TABLES. Trig Tables. Log Tables. And when we couldn't find what we needed in the table, we had to interpolate! And we liked it.
In my first job at a firm, the older partner was talking about how he would "interpolate" a child support amount if the amount wasn't listed in the Guidelines Table. I thought that was pretty sophisticated for someone whose only undergrad degree was a B.A. in English, so I asked him to show me the next time he had to do it.
Then one day he called me into his office. He said, "See, this divorce deals with two kids. The child support amout from the Guidelines should be $150.00 per week, but our client can't pay that so I'm gonna interpolate and say that he should pay $100.0 per week." I looked at him and said, "Ummmm, that's not interpolation."
It reminded me of taking Tax in Law School. Everyone said, "Oooh, with a math degree you'll do okay in Tax. Tax is all about math."
I was hopeful that there might actually be some real math (like maybe some actuarial stuff), but it turned out that the most sophisticated math the course called for was addition and subtraction. The rest of the class was all yadded about how much "math" there was. Sigh. Oh well - What do you expect from bunch of greek system english majors?
How long until high schools get wifi in every building?
My school, being a bit over fifty years old, has so much steel, copper, insulated steam pipes and other metal pipework in the ceilings that naturally crushes any wireless signal. As for the newer buildings, theres a few antennae on each corner which seem to be signal dampers/jammers because devices like cell phones do not work in a forty-fifty foot proximity.
There's a strict no-wifi policy in effect for all schools up here. It's gotten to the point that a new school they just built downtown was designed with signal dampening in mind, to keep kids from setting up ad-hoc networks and from leeching signal from the nearby apartments. There's also plans to install active dampeners in existing schools too, which is being met with a lot of fuss over the legality of intentional signal jamming.
I'm not going to pretend to know the gist of it, but from what I always understood, active jamming is illegal...
I was part of the tech committee at my school, and if I remember correctly we bought a lotta Wi-Fi... stuffs. At least that's what we voted on, but I don't remember what exactly we got.
To be truthful, after a certain amount of time with the tables, we were allowed to use slide rules. I might very well be the only one here who owns a slide rule and who knows how to use it.
Not true, old man.
Although my main motivation for acquiring and learning to use one was to stick it to the man (in a silent, unnoticed, really very pointless way) by taking it into a maths exam where calculators were prohibited. In the end I only used it to draw some axes for some graphs. Since then it has remained in deep storage.
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You're right. We are spoiled.
EDIT: I looked abaci up in the dictionary (paper, bound.) It's legit.
I used to do something like that, I'd create two MSN accounts, one logged in on the classroom's pc called “I like cocks”, and another one called “I like cock-lovers” logged in on my pocket pc. Then wait for the teacher to turn on the projector and start the conversation. The teacher would go crazy for like 15 minutes trying to find out what the hell was going on.
Another great one was turning on the classroom's TV with the pocket pc, then waiting for the teacher to turn it back off just to turn it back on 5 seconds later, that got me and the rest of the class a chance to earn a 0 on a quiz, but it was worth it.
Another great one was turning on the classroom's TV with the pocket pc, then waiting for the teacher to turn it back off just to turn it back on 5 seconds later, that got me and the rest of the class a chance to earn a 0 on a quiz, but it was worth it.
We had a prof who used a system called CPS, which is a glorified (and expensive) set of I/R remotes that you use to answer questions shown on a projector. Naturally, being engineers, we snagged a replacement remote for the model of projector that's used in all the lecture halls. We would keep switching the input over from the CPS display to the prof's laptop, which was running the teacher client - with the answer highlighted. After a week of this, we never used CPS again.Then one day he called me into his office. He said, "See, this divorce deals with two kids. The child support amout from the Guidelines should be $150.00 per week, but our client can't pay that so I'm gonna interpolate and say that he should pay $100.0 per week." I looked at him and said, "Ummmm, that's not interpolation."
It reminded me of taking Tax in Law School. Everyone said, "Oooh, with a math degree you'll do okay in Tax. Tax is all about math."
I was hopeful that there might actually be some real math (like maybe some actuarial stuff), but it turned out that the most sophisticated math the course called for was addition and subtraction. The rest of the class was all yadded about how much "math" there was. Sigh. Oh well - What do you expect from bunch of greek system english majors?
I'm not going to pretend to know the gist of it, but from what I always understood, active jamming is illegal...
Although my main motivation for acquiring and learning to use one was to stick it to the man (in a silent, unnoticed, really very pointless way) by taking it into a maths exam where calculators were prohibited. In the end I only used it to draw some axes for some graphs. Since then it has remained in deep storage.