Arstechnica: Teacher faces jail time for porn pop-ups

This is simply insane:

Who is responsible for keeping the computers at school clean and child-safe? A Connecticut court is siding with the school system in the case of substitute teacher Julie Amero, who has been convicted for four counts of "risking injury to a child." Amero now faces up to 40 years of jail time for pornographic pop-ups that appeared on a computer she was using in a classroom—pop-ups that she and her lawyers argue were a result of spy and adware on the computer, out-of-date virus software, and an expired firewall license—the perfect storm for pornographic pop-ups, all on a Windows 98 machine running Internet Explorer 5.

I'm stunned! Great way to attract new good teachers to the school...

Russian schools move to Linux

A school in Russia has been cought using pirated software from Microsoft. Whether the school knew it was pirated software or not is unclear, but according to the article, the school will switch to using Linux to avoid this happening again. Not everyone is happy about this though:

Teachers are not that happy about it. Apparently not many of them know much about Linux and there are no specialists around to teach them.

I guess they will have to learn it now, which you could say is what you're supposed to do in a school. You know, learn stuff ;)