A for execution

A for computer learning

F for getting caught you idiots

Of course, the school reacted by installing a padlock on the fire alarm handle so it wouldn't work any longer. I always wondered what we were supposed to do if there was an actual fire after that.

Kids could get away with that stuff in the days before the surveillance state had cameras everywhere! They never padlocked ours but they had janitors and everyone available patrolling hallways on test days.

I never did it. I like tests. I know. Weird. But I know who it was as did just about every other kid in school. It's funny how people can keep common knowledge from crossing the generational divide.

was putting the school on call block. All lines. It was one of those old * codes on the landline. That way the school couldn't call my house when I was skipping, or call my parents when I was in trouble (usually for skipping school, lol!)

Told my Mom about it several years ago and she was equally split between laughing and smacking at me while exclaiming, "You little shit!"

no wifi, no exam. We had our wifi go out on exam day after several hours. Those who hadn't finished had to start completely over. It was a nightmare.

IMO, it's the equivalent of internet voting or gambling. Paper is just mandatory in some situations. Relying on technology for everything has some very dangerous downsides.

I don't like it either but it is what it is. My math 3 kids take a 60 question test for 4 hours on the computer.

.

Your neighborhood kids are probably all over your shit, since they have all the time in the world. . .

and you don't know about it.

=======

WPA-2 is not secure anymore. WPA-3 is coming out, with one Netgear router is offering support for it.

Most routers can support WPA-3, with a flashing.

.

Likely on purpose, IMO.

I used to believe technology was a force for good. I no longer believe that.

.

The NSA thought they were being slick, to force US computer systems to have NSA backdoors, because who would know or use them, except for the NSA? While Intel has their side OS built into their chips, AMD has something similar.

Well, like any secret, it leaked. Now, almost every computer in the US can be accessed in seconds without leaving any footprints. It kind of explains how Hillary's server was hacked so easily. Well, that and it did not use a 3-tier server/firewall construct. A lone server is open for hacking.

Right before Obama left office, he expanded the government's ability to search computers on a single warrant to one million. Just ask yourself, how does the government hack into 1 million computers so easily??? Backdoors.

.

What the hell, I don't have a smart phone. I think I'll buy a Huawei. Can't be any worse than the rest. It just depends on who you want to give your entire life to. Or can we stop any of them now? No. We can't.

pencil/pen and paper have been adequately studied. We are talking about a technology that has been used for a very long time. A Scientific American article from several years ago talked about the importance of tactile feel for early readers.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/

Also computers are very cumbersome for math, science, and engineering exams. Chemistry is a nightmare. Showing methodology in engineering problems is more important than the final answer.

Also, I think something is to be gained by composing in long hand for at least some writing assignments.

because I write in cursive, and they cannot read cursive!

I've read that GPS is destroying the basic function of mapping out our environment!