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seveneyes

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25. No problem

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 01:01 PM

Sep 2013

As long as they can still use it for the function the school intended. If they broke it to the point where it's no longer useful for school work, then send them to remedial hacking or somehow make an educational moment out of it.

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Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week [View all] Recursion Sep 2013 OP

They knew this was going to happen, didn't they? Shrike47 Sep 2013 #1

Sounds like a good way to teach systems administration... (nt) Recursion Sep 2013 #2

Giving students iPads is all about Apple's bottom line! Coyotl Sep 2013 #3

And inculcation- look at the result of all the Apple IIe's then macs in the 80's X_Digger Sep 2013 #8

Utterly and completely false frazzled Sep 2013 #12

None of which actually address what I said. X_Digger Sep 2013 #13

I did reread it , and its still false frazzled Sep 2013 #14

What makes you think that 'market share' is somehow a representation of a generation? X_Digger Sep 2013 #23

You know, just when you think American schoolchildren are lazy, with no ambition, always msanthrope Sep 2013 #4

Thank you Recursion Sep 2013 #6

Porn and cat videos. I am heartened that these kids found a way. nt msanthrope Sep 2013 #9

LIFE finds a way. n/t leeroysphitz Sep 2013 #21

You know, when the folks say the country is going to hell... rrneck Sep 2013 #22

A network bypass is an easy thing, regardless of the device bhikkhu Sep 2013 #5

Deasy is an idiot. nt bemildred Sep 2013 #7

kids are clever, so they will patch. A great thing for our students to have ipads.easy book upgrades Sunlei Sep 2013 #10

That's too bad - my daughter's school-issued iPad is very useful michigandem58 Sep 2013 #11

How about rewarding kids who hack it? Recursion Sep 2013 #16

iPad becomes a NSA recruitment tool. Downwinder Sep 2013 #15

So basically they spent $30m so students could view porn and play games? LittleBlue Sep 2013 #17

And this is bad why? wildeyed Sep 2013 #18

I personally don't think it is. Recursion Sep 2013 #19

And I am a small business owner. wildeyed Sep 2013 #20

If you can't open it, you don't own it. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #24

No problem seveneyes Sep 2013 #25