Biometric vendors have found a new customer: America’s public schools. In Oregon, at least 40 school districts have bought into the fingerprinting system as infallible and unhackable. Jack Adams, the superintendent of the North Santiam School District, said the system does not take a student’s actual fingerprint. “It’s a string, not a fingerprint,” Adams said. [...]
So, Joe Torre thinks that the contract offered to him is an insult. He believes that, despite his performance with the New York Yankees over the past three years, he deserves a much bigger contract than one year at $5 million, plus incentives. With incentives, he had the potential to make $8 million. Without incentives, [...]
In yet more stupid news, Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois has banned hugging. “Last year we would see maybe as many as 10 students on one side (of the hallway), 10 on the other and then, going in opposite directions, would sort of have a hug line going on and you could [...]
