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Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School 426

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @10:19AM from the watch-how-you-play dept.

mernilio writes "According to UPI: 'A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval. North Brookfield School District interim Superintendent Gordon Noseworthy said Wendy Scott, one of two sixth-grade teachers at North Brookfield Elementary School, did not get approval from administrators before sending the memo to all sixth-grade parents, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Thursday. The memo said students would no longer be allowed to bring writing implements to school. It said pencils would be provided for students in class and any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials 'to build weapons.'"

Comment a more effective approach to PE class (Score 1) 950

by benjamin_scarlet on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @08:35PM (#29434253) Attached to: Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class?

Heart rate monitors can and have been used in PE classes to grade students on their exertion rather than their capabilities. In stereotypes: the idea is to reward the nerd busting his ass rather than the jock breezing through, even though the jock might jog faster than the nerd can run.

Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio 270

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @09:57PM from the pay-the-man dept.

S-100 writes "SoundExchange has reached an agreement for royalty rates with a consortium of Internet radio broadcasters. The parties are ecstatic that the issue is finally resolved, and that the new rates are below the previous 'death to Internet radio' levels that had previously been imposed by the CARB. According to NewsFactor, Pandora founder Tim Westergren proclaims that 'the royalty crisis is over!', and other large broadcasters are equally pleased. One unheard-from group is less likely to be pleased: small Internet radio broadcasters. Buried in the details are a new minimum royalty payment: $25,000 per year. So say goodbye to all of the small Internet radio stations that you have been listening to, as they will no longer afford to operate legally."

Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption 311

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday November 06, 2008 @11:50AM from the now-they'll-know-my-secrets dept.

narramissic writes "Researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck 'have just opened the box on a whole new hacker playground, says Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec conference. At the conference, Tews will show how he was able to partially crack WPA encryption in order to read data being sent from a router to a laptop. To do this, Tews and Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes. They have not, however, managed to crack the encryption keys used to secure data that goes from the PC to the router in this particular attack. 'Its just the starting point,' said Ruiu."

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