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The case of a Philadelphia school allegedly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story263325.html"]spying [/URL]on students through webcams in their laptop computers continues to wend its way through the legal system, with more recently filed court documents alleging that as many as 56,000 pictures were taken. While attorneys for the school system [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/us/20brfs-SCHOOLDISTRI_BRF.html"]insist [/URL]none of the …

hey, to start with heres the backdrop; me and a friend from school have a year to create a fully working web browser and for this i think C++ would be best. heres where i need help, i have no experience with C++ and i need to learn it from …

I'm looking for some type of online training that will prepare me to work with Vbulletin & other forum software, and websites in general. I have a CS degree, [although that was back in '84], worked as a "network technician & admin" for several years on a very large Novell …

Hello. I am a High School student and am currently into engineering. I would like to use the student edition of autodesk inventor, but I do not have a school issued e-mail and none of my teachers have responded to my invitations. If any of you have a username and …

I am in school now for my masters. The school is college of information library science and technology. However, because of rules in place, we have to choose whether our degree will say Master of Library Science or Master of Information Science. Even though we are taking the courses for …

Scared that students taking an exam might cheat, teachers at the posh Harrow School in England took the unusual step of banning them from using the Internet and re-routing their email so it could be read by the headmaster. The irony of the exam being concerned with Nazi foreign policy …

Ah yes, another significant victory for Linux as the Russian government [URL="http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/22094"]decides[/URL] that there will be a national operating system based on Linux. This new operating system will be deployed in Russian schools sometime this year. The Russians plan to rid themselves of the capitalist opression of Microsoft--or something like …

In the run-up to Inauguration Day, just about has been everyone speculating on what changes our newly-elected president will bring to the table. Naturally, we talk a lot around DaniWeb about how Obama's plans will affect the tech sector. As long as everyone else is making predictions and suggestions, I …

Twitter users are a loyal bunch and few would argue that it's a useful networking tool. The one thing Twitter is not, however, is private. While that's not a big deal for most people, it certainly is in the world of academics where it's ill-advised to have children using communication …

Amazingly, according to [URL="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/20/teen-faces-years-hacking"]The Inquirer[/URL], an Orange County hacker is facing an incredible 38 years in prison if found guilty of several counts relating to hacking into his school computer. It seems that Omar Khan, 18, of Coto de Caza, California hacked into computer in order to change his grades. …

File under: shock, horror or perhaps irony. According to a press release from [URL="http://www.gss.co.uk"]Global Secure Systems[/URL] that I received today, it has "uncovered the alarming reality that UK school children are studying social networking websites during their lessons instead of what they should be concentrating on." In fact, the release …