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Kinda depends, really... If I'm using it to research an issue at work... Kinda? But let's be real. We work in schools, for the most part. There's no pay for off-the-clock time used for work. So even if I do class it as work, I'm not going to get paid for it. But sometimes I'm just here for the social aspect, so in that case, no, not really.

Be prewarned: Supposedly it shows the actual videos of the cat murders. Not for the squeamish.

The Outer Worlds never looked interesting to me. I mean it doesn't look bad but it just looks.. Eh. Now Outer Wilds? With an I? Oh yes. Very much my jam. I'm for the Epic Games bovine excrement to timeout and for it to hit Steam.

The Mrs. and I decided to pick something random on Netflix we hadn't seen before and ended up watching Fractured. An utterly predictable movie with an obvious plot. It's clearly supposed to be a slow-burner, but they give the plot away far too much in the early stages of the movie (and with the title..). Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, Avatar) played the lead role incredibly well, but was let down terribly by the lack of any real substance. Overall I feel it wouldn't been much better as a book, where the lack of visual information probably wouldn't have spoiled the plot so much. Wouldn't recommend.

I watched all of last season, and after Ep1 of this season I don't really find myself inclined to continue. I remember seeing a post on Reddit that summarised quite well, but I'm rewriting from memory and expanding from my own personal bias.. Take Matt Smith for example. In the very first episode we learned that: He's a bit quirky (fish fingers and custard) He's very good at probing questions and figuring out situations, even if it appears he's sidetracked (box falls out of sky, man falls out of box, man eats fish custard, and just look at you.. so it must be a really scary crack in your wall) He's good at breaking down situations, figuring out what's 'wrong' and investigating why it's wrong (figuring out the perception filter in the house, noticing Rory videoing the old man rather than the sun going dark) He sets himself up as a bit of a 'joker' (chiding the laptop guy about his browsing habits) But also immediately conveys he is the authority in the room (providing the equation for light-speed travel(I think?)) Before immediately going back to being a 'joker' by sending a joke. He then shows his intelligence again by programming a virus that lures the Atraxi to Prisoner Zero, as well as displaying his selflessness by putting himself in harms way to do so. Finally, he displays his darker side by using his authority of being a Time Lord to threaten the Atraxi and send them packing, never to return. And what do we learn about the companion, Amy? We learn she's afraid of getting married and settling down, she dreams for more, she's ready to charge head-first into adventure, she's resourceful and smart (using the police kiss-a-gram outfit). In comparison? After an entire season of Jodie and friends, what do we know about them? The Doctor is toothless, constantly confused, and doesn't really know all that much. She's constantly flapping about and whilst she admittedly does have a few brilliant notes, it's mostly much of nothing. She made the screwdriver, which is awesome since usually they're provided by the TARDIS, but then she never really used those ghetto-jury-rigging skills again? Oh, and letting a bunch of mutant spiders starve to death in a panic room is better than finding a way to take them to another planet to live. There's that? Graham's grieving the loss of his wife. So is his step-grandson. They eventually share a bit of a bond, which is a really heartwarming piece of character development, but that's kind of it. Ryan dispatches the space-racist to no consequence. Okay, Bradley Walsh's performance in the mirror universe episode was absolutely phenomenal, and his willingness to kill Tim Shaw was believable, but that's kind of it. And he's the best companion out of the three. Ryan doesn't like him, then slowly does. But that's about it? Okay he's funny sometimes (We don't serve Mexicans.. Well that's OK, 'cause I don't eat them) but he doesn't really display much of the 'urban youth' he's obviously portrayed as. And his dyspraxia that was shown in Ep1? Where's that gone? It was set up like a large plot point and then... nothing. And Yaz? Er.. She's a cop? But she doesn't really do much cop-things like investigating? And that's kind of it? Oh, and she implied she was Muslim in one episode, so there's that. So that's basically my beef with Jodie so far. I really like Jodie as The Doctor. The style is right, and she's shown she really could do it 'properly' if she had the writing to back it up. But she doesn't. So I blame the writers, through-and-through. (Ooops, this ended up being a significantly larger rant than expected...)

Ah, must have glossed over the app name bit. Yarp, a Google search comes up with a lot of negative news too. ⛔️ Safeguarding ALERT: UNICO LIVE App ⛔️ - Safer Schools Unico Live - police warning over 'unmonitored inappropriate content' in video app aimed at kids - Birmingham Mail Police warning to North Staffordshire parents over children's app with 'inappropriate content' - Stoke-on-Trent Live

This is probably the most likely, I'd suspect. My initial thought was an amateur team of 'paedophile hunters' (A quick Google search finds a myriad of them! PH Balance, Phoenix Predator Hunters, Elite Predator, Dank Dragon, Predator Exposure, Wolf Pack Hunters UK, etc). Dealing with one member of a team isn't particularly unusual, though. I expect you'd find you do the same with your suppliers The photograph is, as @TechMonkey said, most likely to actually mean 'screenshot'. Either of a chat log, or some kind of social media feed. But it also might not be, so keep your wits about you. How they've identified the child remains a mystery. If I had to guess at specifics, judging from the content of the e-mail, I'd hazard that the child in question is posting to TikTok, possibly in their school uniform, or perhaps just being a bit loose-lipped about information. Regardless, if you choose to proceed, do so in line with the Police and DSL's guidance and with him/her stood over your shoulder at all times. Edit: Just seen your post. Fair enough. You might still need to be called on for your tech expertise depending on how clued-up your DSL is about the interwebs.

Hmm... I asked our exams officer, and she came back with R###/## being the Component code and a J### as the Syllabus code. (Okay, full disclosure, it wasn't actually H&SC, that's just an exam that was also happening at the same time. But the other one that someone actually used EWP for is lesser-known but has the same code structure so I figured just use the more commonly known one because people might recognise it more) They were both OCR exams.

This has come up today for the Health and Social exam.. Can't put forward-slashes into the Syllabus or Component boxes (eg H&SC today was component R021/01)

Does browser F11 not prevent sleep?

I question your use of leisure time but I appreciate the update. Thanks

[Pedant]I did enjoy the first.. Robin Williams was great in it.[/Pedant] I notice the first of the reboot is on Netflix now. I keep telling myself I'll watch it at some point but keep not getting round to it.

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Gotcha, good to know, thanks

I'm honestly not so sure. It's anecdotal, but I'll try and explain from my view at least.. Since the exam boards bringing in new regulations about work needing to be printed with the pupil present etc, we're moving to giving them locked down as all hell exam accounts. These accounts will be networked machines. Because of this, we can implement all the usual restrictions like not giving them the right-click menu/removing 'new shortcut' from the ribbon bar, and stopping them browsing to C:, so as far as I'm concerned they can't get to the config file (nor %PROGRAMDATA%) in the first place. We're testing this setup with the mocks and it appears to be working very well, even as a pupil EWP can backup to %PROGRAMDATA%. The only hiccough is that the 'recover an exam' option either doesn't show up, or doesn't show up if they log off.

What exactly is your setup @itgeek? We map a drive via the Profile tab of the User object in AD (e.g. map Z: to \\File_server\path\%USERNAME%) and then use Group Policy to map documents/pictures/etc to Z:\Documents, Z:\Pictures etc. This gives them full control over their own individual folder (so user BloggsJ gets full control of \\File_server\path\BloggsJ) but it doesn't grant them any permissions on the root directory (\\File_server\path). The kids don't even have any permissions at all on the root folder, they don't even need folder traversal. Assuming their folder is named the same as their username, my script should still work no matter where you point it at. Just make sure you run it as a user that's able to see the User OU's and has permission to modify ACL's on the root directory. If you want to be SOOOPER safe, remove everybody's permissions (except yours) on the root directory and tell those permissions to propagate downwards. Then run the script. (In fact, that's exactly why I crafted the script.. Permissions were buggered, thanks CAPITA, and if you were clever you could traverse back to the root folder and into someone else's documents..)

Pfft. The trick is to put your secure off-site backups there. And then you fly out twice a year just for maintenance/upkeep/integrity checks/etc

Huh, interesting! I didn't realise you could modify multiple users at once.

As soon as you change something the 'Apply' button is enabled, so I usually just delete the first \, add it back in, then apply. It doesn't bother to check that the new path is different to the old one, it just knows 'something changed' and applies the change. It does give you a popup saying "Yo, this folder already exists, do you wanna give this user full control?" but doing that manually for every pupil would be a pain in the backside, I'd imagine.

I wrote a script to do this a while ago.. Assuming that their username is the same as the folder name (i.e. documents is mapped to \\server\path\%USERNAME%) Import-Module ActiveDirectory ForEach ($Folder in Get-ChildItem "[color="#FF0000"]YOUR ROOT DOCUMENTS DIRECTORY[/color]") { # For each folder inside that root directory $ACL = (Get-ACL -Path [color="#FF0000"]YOUR ROOT DOCUMENTS DIRECTORY[/color]\$Folder) # Get Access Control List for that folder $FullControlAccessRule = (New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule([system.Security.Principal.NTAccount]"[color="#FF0000"]YOUR DOMAIN[/color]\$Folder","FullControl", "ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit", "None", "Allow")) # Create an access rule granting the user full permissions $ACL.AddAccessRule($FullControlAccessRule) # Add new settings to current access control list Set-ACL -Path [color="#FF0000"]YOUR ROOT DOCUMENTS DIRECTORY[/color]\$Folder $ACL # Overwrite current ACL with new one, granting user full control }

It all looks bit too serious at a glance. I'm hoping the next trailer (because every film has to have multiple trailers, these days...) shows it as having a bit more of a comedic element to it. Production value looks high though. I'm tentatively hopeful.

I suppose the other option is that they've saved it, closed it, gone to re-open it, but instead of finding it through File Explorer they've re-opened the software, filled in all the details again, and then gone to Save instead of Open, and then not read the 'do you want to overwrite' prompt? That's a lot of 'doing things wrong' stringed together, but we get it every now and again with Word/etc so I could imagine it happening with any software.

With respect (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong) you cannot submit anything other than the final script. So if they've written a fifty page essay, got frustrated, and deleted it all, you can't submit the version before they deleted it? Same as if a kid gets frustrated and defaces/tears up their physical paper. The backups should only be used for recovery in the event of a system failure (power dies, etc) Granted, perhaps that's not really relevant for the mocks. I guess it depends on whether the school's focus is towards the red-tape side ("This is what your exam will be like. No leeway.") or the review-and-advise side ("Let's see what how well you do and we'll pick up on what you didn't quite manage") We try to strike a middle-balance here but I do lean towards "If the pupil [hands in] a blank script, that's what I have to go off."

We've had that a few times.. It's always been that the kid just didn't do any work at all For mocks we just print the cover sheet and the blank script and the it's for teachers/hods to chase up. The secret ingredient is exam invigilators that pay attention. That way at the end of the exam you can say "X has a blank sheet.. Did they actually do anything?" and get a definitive answer.

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