<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">How do we deal with privacy please? spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">There is no way you can force people to alter the backgrounds in their homes, so I think that privacy is up to the students, who should be warned about that. What about nudist homes, where Mama might waltz through the house, naked as a rock? Up to them, but that particular example might be a misdemeanor - obscene (how is that women's bodies can be the most beautiful and desired thing and also be obscene? I will wonder about this till I die). bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
We don't know how the heck we are going to do this.<br>
<br>
Virtual learning at home starts tomorrow. The medium is either Zoom or<br>
Google Meets, teacher's choice. The students have ChromeBooks issued but<br>
they are not required to use them. They are required to either use the<br>
ChromeBooks or have a webcam so that the teacher can verify if the student<br>
actually present (motion, rather than a cardboard image to verify presence)<br>
<br>
<br>
What we don't know is how to deal with privacy in homes or how that will<br>
work. Virtual backgrounds are available, but we don't have the authority to<br>
compel the students to use them, because some students don't want to use<br>
those tiny school-issued ChromeBooks (for understandable reasons) but their<br>
own computers do not support virtual backgrounds.<br>
<br>
How do we deal with privacy please?<br>
<br>
And what if something bad happens while the camera is rolling. With<br>
distance learning, does this count a school shooting?<br>
<br>
<a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/domestic-shooting-in-indiantown-suspect-in-cust" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cbs12.com/news/local/domestic-shooting-in-indiantown-suspect-in-cust</a><br>
ody<br>
<br>
And what about that whole dress code thing? We get it on-campus, because<br>
high schools have always been a fashion show, and teenage girls have been<br>
teasing teenage boys since way back when teenagers were first invented,<br>
which was before my time. But the campus dress code doesn't apply to the<br>
home, and it is still summer. Of course these young ladies will figure out<br>
how to set those cameras at exaaaactly the right height, show up with bare<br>
shoulders and just bask in the virtual attention.<br>
<br>
And what if... some NRA supporter shows up to virtual class with gunracks<br>
and disturbing images on the wall behind her, and the other students claim<br>
she is breaking their concentration worse than the bare-shouldered young<br>
siren? And what if someone has a MAGA hat on the shelf in back there and<br>
mass insanity breaks out?<br>
<br>
We don't know what will happen tomorrow. Speculation please?<br>
<br>
spike<br>
<br>
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