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Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

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Re: Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

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A good example of how describing something people don't use in their life allows them to believe in magic.

The lack of cord changes the way people think and puts them in magic zone.

Without a cord everything you'd normally pick up on, like they have to type on a phone in class, they have white things in their ears, is lost.

It just works because of the magic of a missing cord.

Advertisers use this all the time.

Works well with VC's

It's a good skill to know to get funding.

Re: Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

#22

Before we had cellphones, we used to use the windows terminal “net send” command to send each other messages in classes we had computers.

You can build pretty good "spam viruses" with that commans and a simple shell script forcing someone to confirm thousands of messages or reboot the computer

Re: Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

#23

Before we had cellphones, we used to use the windows terminal “net send” command to send each other messages in classes we had computers.

You can build pretty good "spam viruses" with that commans and a simple shell script forcing someone to confirm thousands of messages or reboot the computer

It’s a good thing I never realized that, although at the time I was fascinated with self-modifying code. I did figure out that our home economics budgeting game stored it’s data as base64 encoded json - it was pretty funny watching my teacher trying to understand how I suddenly became a millionaire.

Re: Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

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post #9

I'm confused as to why kids are allowed to have airpods in their ears in class at all? It's really not difficult to figure out when a kid is trying to hide it. (source: I'm a teacher of adolescents) I can only assume that this is either allowed (implicitly or explicitly) or this is in schools where teachers are so overloaded that any sort of message passing would probably go unpunished anyway.

Many classes aren't lectures, rather you're sat there completing work. On the face of it allowing headphones isn't unreasonable.

Re: Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can build pretty good "spam viruses" with that commans and a simple shell script forcing someone to confirm thousands of messages or reboot the computer

It’s a good thing I never realized that, although at the time I was fascinated with self-modifying code. I did figure out that our home economics budgeting game stored it’s data as base64 encoded json - it was pretty funny watching my teacher trying to understand how I suddenly became a millionaire.

haha very nice - but some devs out there still believe today that base64 is encrypted - think I've seen entire websites around it warning.that it is not...think teachers should be trained to find people like you and me and realize how much of worth is behind those early hacking skills
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