OMG, so THIS is the real secret of Amazon's success, and now it's out? I've just bought Nile.com so watch out Bezos!

And? Human, you make it sound as if you're not happy with your future role!

Dude, what's up with the scrollbars?!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#School_speech
This is what I mean. Free speech is one thing ( expressing an opinion using speech, clothes, drawings etc). But if a system is put in place by a school for whatever reasons (and I'm sure they can easily prove increased eficiency of various administrative activities by using these tags) and you choose to not follow it I could call that undue interruption.

Ok, I'll explain.
Is she forbidden to exercise her religion by wearing the number of the beast? IS there a number of the Beast? What is this beast? Can you name the existing and recognized religion where it is a known and universally accepted fact that that RFID tag is the identification mark of said Beast? Reading the bible in your own way is not exercising religion. Always doing what the bible says might be exercising religion but do you want me to get into the bible telling people to kill homosexuals?
So using the first amendment I can get out of anything by saying it's my religion?
Is the term so vague?

Regarding the free speech part in the first amendment... If she would have just told people that the rfid tag IS the number of the beast that would have been fine and punishing her for this would have been wrong.
But she chose to act. And that makes her in the position to PROVE she is exercising her relgion, she would need to describe that religion.
Can you please answer these questions before calling me an idiot?

In my opinion having the word religion in the Constitution is tricky and these times it will lead to this. Religious and ignorant people using their imaginary system of beliefs as leverage to bend the socitety around them except the other way around.
You should be free to exercise any religion. But once YOU decide you NEED and WANT to be part of a multicultural and diverse society it's your responsibility to obey those rules, because no one forces you to be a part of it.
If you want in don't force us to bend the already existing rules for your own personal reasons and most of all it should be mandatory that you're not supposed to feel offended in your religious beliefs because of a
NON-RELIGIOUS act! You cannot decide by your self what is a religious act. I really don't see how this is discrimination.
The school making you wear RFID tags is not a religious act so you shouldn't be able to bring up that argument. The modern state shouldn't care about people's religion. It's their right, but that shouldn't make the state responsible to tip-toe around 200 million religious views when they decide what colour should roads be, for example. Freedom of speech doesn't mean the other party you're criticizing has ANY obligation to obey what you say.

Does the first amendment allow you to interpret anything in your own way based on YOUR beliefs and then decide that someone else is evil because they don't follow the same interpretation? This is what I understand from what you're saying.
I agree on the privacy concerns.

Yes, our "society" has "functioned" for ages without basic commodities too.
So possibility of living without a certain comfort or rule doesn't make that rule wrong or that comfort a whim.
Again, did anyone care to look into this school's reasons and rules to implement this program?
I'm not from the US so I don;t know, is this a public or a private school? If it's a public school, were they notified in advance of what will the campus life involve?
Are they free to join another school?

Replying my own post here...
TFA only presents the father's opinion which, I'm sorry to say so, seems to be very subjective. I seriously doubt that the school literally asked the girl to proudly wear the tag around her neck. Something in the way he "sais" it makes me think he's a bit ... well, subjective.
Why isn't TFA presenting the schools reasons for implementing this systems, what are it's goals, what was the process by which this solution was chosen, how were the students informed about this etc.
Oh, blogs are not journalism (not that journalism is real journalism this days anyway).

Had she mentioned the invasion of privacy in the first step and the "the number of the beast" maybe they would have listened and people would have given her more credit.

The problem with religion is that people who believe in certain things will always argue that it's their right to belive in something and that the value fo truth of the said religion it's a matter of personal belief, hence it cannot be proved correct or otherwise from outisde nor do they want to listen to those arguments (granted, it's their right to do so).
Then why is some form of authority guilty of infringing those beliefs from outside buy implementing something that one religion interprets in some way inside it's system of beliefs?
Trying to explain, in this case, that the RFID tag is not the number of the beast is a dead-end (and I don't even care if IT IS the number of the beast) but in this way a religion could reject anything.
Some parts of the society can decide that they cannot function unless they implement a certain mechanism and some individuals will decide unidirectionaly that those mechanisms be dropped because some scriptures can be interpreted in such a way. (The Christian church has not decided in it's totality that barcodes and rfid tags are the mark of the beast nor are they unequivocally identified as such in the Bible.)

I always thought that the Get More Coverage option meant that people that have NOT subscribed to my page will get my post, as an ADVERTISEMENT, based on some algorithm where at least they target people with that interest (as my page).

Are you sure you don't mean that facebook will ask for money so that your post stays longer and higher on people's newsfeed?
So now my posts won't reach all my 150 friends you're saying? Is this documented somewhere?

Facebook doesn't inject ads into YOUR facebook page.
The newsfeed is not YOUR page, the PROFILE page is and they are not adding ads to that.
The newsfeed is just what it sais, a list of "news" from the sources you chose, kinda like choosing a tv channel and watching their news. Where they inject ads into your... time spent there.

EdgeRank, really? To determine what posts reach which users? So you change 2 letters and you're trying to position yourself as a tech company that uses algorithms to better serve your users?

On the other hand either Cuban is overreacting or I'm missing something.
Facebook didn't "asked" for $3000 so that he can message 1mil friends. Facebook proposed that he paid $3000 so that his posts can sit higher on people's newsfeeds, for longer and maybe for people not even on his list. He could have said no and just posted to his 715,237 (I checked) subscribers. Each method has it's ups and downs, the one facebook proposed was just going to be, well, promoted more (with a small text next to it saying "Advertising" or something. ).

I was thinking of the other Q and was wondering just how much of what Q from Star Trek (TNG) could do can you achieve today in real life, aside dressing in a starfleet "pijama".
So the article was a bit disapointing. Plus there were 2 videos about DotCom autoplaying at once on that page.

That's the Coanda Effect.