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School pupils hack out each others eyes for an extra portion of chips

 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
17:07 / 10.01.03
Well, as near as dammit!

UK school plans retinal scans in the dinner queue
By John Leyden

Retinal scans are to be used by a Sunderland school to identify pupils.

From next September, the Venerable Bede Church of England Aided School is to use the technology on school kids withdrawing books from its library or obtaining meals at the school canteen.


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w1rebaby
17:39 / 10.01.03
I suspect that they mean iris scanning, since retina scanning is not a very good technology and AFAIK has been pretty much abandoned right now.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
12:02 / 11.01.03
Hmmm, is the retina the bit that would change if you had a late night out partying while the iris is constant unless you get some nasty ocular disease?
 
 
w1rebaby
13:10 / 11.01.03
That's the one. Retinas aren't stable enough.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
01:18 / 12.01.03
It's nice that jounalists bother to check basic facts like that before filing their stories. Otherwise, who knows what kind of shite we might be reading?
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
12:39 / 12.01.03
One might contend that this is also something of an attempt to exercise a pre-conditioned acceptance of Big Brother mentality for later dominant generations.

Today's retinally scanned kids will be come tomorrows ID carded happy workers etc.

That of course would be an outlandish theory though.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
16:51 / 12.01.03
Better my great grand children then me, Potus.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
17:03 / 12.01.03
I would like to know the reasons the school is bringing this technology in. In the short term the iris scanning technology is going to be expensive, and how much data storage space do you need for each pupil (I presume the technology isn't 'photographing' the eye but breaking it down to some sort of code but that's still going to be fairly big surely)? When I worked at a school the cost of buying new library cards each year wasn't vast, so I'm interested that a school has the money for all this equipment but can't afford plastic cards instead. And if there's a problem with kids stealing one anothers cards at the moment then this seems rather extreme as a way of dealing with the problem.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
22:43 / 12.01.03
the strange synchroniciting between eye-scanning and the word "pupil" in this context is making the whole thing sound very punny indeed.
 
 
gingerbop
21:25 / 14.01.03
if they scanned my eyes at lunch, i wouldnt eat!
 
 
grant
14:58 / 15.01.03
Schools seem to be used to test this sort of ID-tracking technology fairly frequently - I remember reading that the high school in Celebration was using some wireless ID card good for paying at the cafeteria and checking books out of the library.

Schools = microcosms of the work environment.
 
  
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