Tracking Students Like Cattle

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HOUSTON — Two school districts in the Houston area have begun monitoring students' whereabouts on campus by issuing them identification badges with radio frequency identification technology — the same technology used to track cattle.

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When you're a student at a public school, you give up your rights, except for freedom of religion. Therefore, this tracking thing is a good idea. Just as long as the government doesn't start doing it with adults.

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"There's real questions about the security risks involved with these gadgets," said Dotty Griffith, public education director for the ACLU of Texas.

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What security risks? They had them on Star Trek the Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager and they generally worked fine, except that every now and then a crew member would go rogue and take his badge off and leave it somewhere as a decoy.

I'd be so pissed man. I'd never take that shit anywhere, or paint it with that stuff they paint hospitals with that blocks cellphones... That might not work with radio frequencies though.

Too big brother for my tastes.

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or paint it with that stuff they paint hospitals with that blocks cellphones... That might not work with radio frequencies though.

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Please never take a job as a physicist.

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Originally Posted by Bobmuhthol

Please never take a job as a physicist.

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Please never take a job as a motivational speaker.

Aluminum foil wallet, get!

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Originally Posted by Fallen

Please never take a job as a motivational speaker.

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Quit giving him shit, Bob JUST learned how to quote properly.

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Originally Posted by Bobmuhthol

Please never take a job as a physicist.

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What does having people lay on a couch and talk about their feelings have to do with radio waves?!

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Originally Posted by Bobmuhthol

Please never take a job as a physicist.

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The NaturalNano line of anti-cellphone paint only blocks certain frequencies. My Point: the frequency that is used to make phone calls (which this paint blocks); may not block the radio frequency that they are using on these ID cards.

K thx. bye.

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Originally Posted by Gnome Rage

The NaturalNano line of anti-cellphone paint only blocks certain frequencies. My Point: the frequency that is used to make phone calls (which this paint blocks); may not block the radio frequency that they are using on these ID cards.

K thx. bye.

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Are they actually using that paint yet? I thought it'd only been developed but wasn't in wide use. All the rebar and stuff used to enforce the concrete hospitals are made out of and shiz usually does a good job blocking cell phone reception.

In any case I'd still go the tin foil wallet route, a LOT cheaper!

I don't know if its being used in the U.S. yet but I think it is being used in Japan. Not 100% on that, at all.