Students Tracked By RFID

TheMeuge writes "The New York Times is reporting a new development in the unrelenting progress of the RFID juggernaut. The school district of Spring, Texas has adopted RFID as a way to track students' arrival and departure. Upon being scanned, the data are transmitted to both the school administrators, as well as city police. I guess cutting class is no longer an option."

barcode

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to track people, why not just tattoo a bar code on the forehead.

Tin foil hat

[Xeo 024]

They won't be able to scan me as long as I hvae my tin foil hat on, right?

Ah the prisoner

[pklong]

Where am I?
In the School

What do you want?
Information

Whose side are you on?
That would be telling . . .

We want Information
You won't get it

By hook or by crook . . .
We will

Who are you?
The new Number Two

Who is Number One?
You are Number Six

I am not a number . . .
I'm a free man!
(Mocking laughter)

Beating up nerds?

[exeme]

Pretty freaky "Big Brother" stuff, but I guess its a good way to track students. But then I remember school being better when the trouble makers wern't there beating up us nerds..

Re:barcode

[DenDave]

yeah beats having to say: Sorry teacher but the dog ate my RFID tag...

Not the student, the badge

[jamesl]

RFID as a way to track students' arrival and departure.

RFID is a way to track students' ID badge arrival and departure. Imagine the possibilities: Send security! The whole football team just walked into the girls' locker room. Again.

The Police?

[955301]

And I suppose the RFID's of the criminal element of the school will transmit data with the Evil Bit turned on? Shouldn't it be a word, or at least a few more bits?

000 - Nothing to see here.
001 - normal kid with mischevious mind. Watch for changes. May be intimidated back to 000 with minor police brutality.
010 - Thief. Arrest if lingering in the parking lot or around school supply cabinets.
011 - Fighter. Arrest if having an animated discussion with any 000's they don't normally congregate with or other 011's.
100 - Stabby. Arrest when outer perimiter metal detectors are set off. Notify cafeteria to dispense plastic silverware to the 100 and immediately surrounding 000's. Exhibits 011 behavior, follow guidelines accordingly.
101 - Brandisher. Arrest when outer perimiter detectors are set off and body mass = yesterday's + #g of any known gun + various # of bullets/magazines.Exhibits 011 behavior, follow guidelines accordingly.
110 - Shooter. Arrest immediately. If no gun is found, plant one or make an announcement that arresting them was the right thing to do.
111 - Dealer. "Accidently" shut fire doors on 111's crushing them to death. Accompany disposed of body with a 110, some stray bullets, and drug paraphenalia.

Yeah, they definately need more Evil Bits...

Re:Sorry, this is good....

[Anonymous Coward]

i just don't understand why people are convinced that because RFID tags are acccepted in some areas, means that they'll be forced upon them as citizens.

I know! I know! Is it because of the terrorists?

Re:Cutting Class

[themaidtricks]

Right, and once kids figure out where the tags are, they'll start showing up to school with missing fingers, arms, and legs.

Re:barcode

[SunPin]

If you want to track people, why not just tattoo a bar code on the forehead.

Because the barcode tattoo is _so_ 1984.

And horrified expressions

[Omni-Cognate]

As they realise that:

• They're at a boring lecture
• They've cut off their own body parts
• And they're going to be in trouble because the authorities think they're still at home.

Oops!

Re:Ah the prisoner

[AnswerIs42]

And if you cut class and try to get away... a giant bouncing ball comes and hunts you down...

Re:allergic reaction

[Anonymous Coward]

No Poison Ivy in Australia?!?
Hold on, I'll FedEx you a bunch. Along with some toads, rabbits, and cats. If you cannot use the toads, rabbits, and cats...just let them loose in the countryside as I'm sure they'll just go away and die.

Re:Your not as smart as you're brain thinks it is

[plog]

The AC, in its exuberant urge to aid the flailing grammarian, doesn't have a grasp on basic comma usage, forsooth, as the AC itself left out a necessary comma, and demands the removal of a comma that is nestled snugly into its proper syntax. Go read Faulkner, sheesh.

Re:Cutting Class

[Anonymous Coward]

You just put a tinfoil leave over the subdermal patch and leave the premises.

And still some people think that tinfoil hats are of no use.

Tightens his tinfoil hat.

Re:excelent alibi

[Mojojojo Monkey Inc.]

oh yeah dude? well i watched a movie once where a wacky gang of (mostly) american criminals used an EMP to knock out las vegas' power system for 30 seconds and used the ensuing chaos to break into a casino and steal a lot of money! but they hacked into the security system so it looked like they were somewhere else and fooled the evil casino owner, and george clooney stole his girlfriend!

do i see george clooney coming to michgan to steal my girlfriend?! i think so! that is why i'm covering my apartment in tin-foil and using pin-hole cameras, to make it EMP- and clooney-proof.

It would be great fun to try a D-DOS attack.

[ayjay29]

At lunch break, get 500 kids in a big group to run in and out through a few times. This is gonna create a LOT of traffic on the RFID system. Better still, get all the schools in the area to do the same thing at the same time.

I have no problem with this

[ShadyG]

My daughter is home-schooled. When the time comes, all of your children will be appropriately conditioned to submit to her every whim.

Re:Cutting Class

[ikkonoishi]

And "cutting" class takes on a whole new meaning.

Re:And horrified expressions

[themaidtricks]

They're at a boring lecture They've cut off their own body parts And they're going to be in trouble because the authorities think they're still at home.

That was the first day. They were too groggy from the anesthetic to realize they didn't have to go to school anymore. The next day they put all their fingers in the smart kid's backpack as he waited at the bus stop.