On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Reid Katan <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as a side note, assuming they probably had a pretty good idea who > *might* have had the laptop, couldn't they just call the 'rents and *ask* if > Jr. had the thing?
Actually, this suggestion of what the school could have done is not a "side note" at all, and is likely at the crux of the entire issue. It is what they should have done to begin with. Instead, they let the technology get in the way, to intrude, if you will, into normal human interaction. It isn't as though the school was overwhelmed with missing or stolen laptops to the point of being physically incapable of keeping up with the sheer numbers that were missing, therefore having to resort to technical means of locating them. It was that old adage, "If technology is available, it will be used." It reminds me of the controversy over tasers in the hands of police. They are supposed to be used only in instances wherein brute physical force would normally be necessary, but because they are handy and on the belts of most cops, they often tend to use them for the most minor of reasons, quite often simply because a subject did not respond quickly enough to a verbal command. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
