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Lo-Jack for laptops. (District plus: tips and ideas for successful district leadership). Trusting teenagers with their own $2,500 laptop computer A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. can be a little less stressful with an anti-theft device. Just ask the folks at Episcopal High School Episcopal High School is a common name for high schools affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, including: Episcopal High School (Alexandria) of Alexandria, Virginia Episcopal High School (Baton Rouge) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana , a private school of about 600 students in Houston. Every student has their own laptop, a program that started five years ago. Since the school installed ComputracePlus, a software service from Absolute Software that tracks stolen devices through the Internet, in every laptop about three years ago, eight laptops that were reported stolen were recovered, according to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. Steve Eisenberg, the school's technology director. "Really the most amazing a��maze?v. a��mazed, a��maz��ing, a��maz��esv.tr.1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise.2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex.v.intr. thing was that as soon as the program was implemented the kids became attached to their laptops," says Eisenberg. "We provide them network space to back up all their work, but they often don't. So if a laptop disappears they are really in trouble." When a laptop is reported stolen and the thief hooks up to the Internet, a signal that is normally sent to the company once daily is sped up so the center gets a signal every 15 minutes, alerting the center it is stolen. From there, the stolen PC's location can be discovered in two ways: through the Automatic Number Identification or IP address. The ANI allows the company to identify the phone number and corresponding street address of any call in North America North America,third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , even unlisted numbers. In addition, all Internet communications are based on an IP address, which is a unique fingerprint fingerprint,an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been for every PC. When a PC's IP address is captured by the company, it is traced to the IP domain's owner. The company then contacts the domain administrator to find who is using the computer. www.absolute.com