You've missed the point. None of those things allow someone to know exactly where someone is located in real time. If a school administrator fancies one of the students, this system enables knowing exactly where a student is and if any other students are nearby. And then what happens when students start building readers. This goes downhill quickly.

A visibile id card is a sign of a place I'd never want to work. I've been at places that tried that. Thankfully unlike this poor girl I wasn't alone in my opposition.

Adding crazy to the argument does not prevent the general argument from being correct. Also, tracking kids in a classroom that is designated is one thing. Knowing that little Suzy is in the locker room by herself and late for class is completely different.

How about predatory school administrators with access to the tracking system? Why would we place so much trust in them?

You must be British or something, but you have it wrong. School is mandatory to 16 years of age as a minimum while some states including Texas are at 18. The one part that does fit your argument is that because it's a magnet school it's not the standard public school and she always has the option to attend there instead. However, the badges are likely to turn up there as well once the pilot program ends.

This was always said about Clarence Thomas. I hadn't heard we're more disgusted by Alito. Although that isn't much surprise.

No, we don't need those data centers today. We don't need near instant access to caturday videos. The amount of reactionary nonsense here is depressing. If the article placed blame on anyone, it's users demanding unnecessary access to meaningless data. They did an excellent job of explaining how data centers get to be energy hogs and frankly this article could be the catalyst that convinces CIOs to move to virtualized data centers rather than the one server one application wastefulness that many places still employ today. Better tech is around the corner and this is how we shift thinking.

Grasping for straw...

Reporting is bad these days? Was it better at some previous point? And at which paragraph does the journalist clue the reader into his superior tech knowledge?

I've read the article and no where is it doom and gloom. You don't have to read your own personal biases into the story.

My thoughts precisely. Thanks for spelling it out so nicely.

Soap operas have public executions? I might have to give the genre another go!

Artificial scarcity makes Time-Warner more money right now. Plus they might be able to pull off some huge win copyright lawsuits. They'll wait for someone else to create a successful business model before they change.

What do you think the last mile people have to do with this? Cable companies have no love of bundling. They have to do it or they lose large swathes of content. If you're like me and won't pay for a cable subscription just to watch Game of Thrones blame Time-Warner, owners of HBO, and the people that ensure you are paying a cable company for all their other channels before you get HBO.

As the GP pointed, he's time-shifting. Nothing illegal here.