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Re:Should gifted students go to a separate school? on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:43PM (#13488286)
I agree w/ dagw. Schools need to have extra classes, extra-curricular classes, etc based on set of similarly gifted students' abilities, or based on set of similarly non-gifted/regular students' lack-of-abilities to improve their abilities. If needed, eligible volunteer or paid teacher should be arranged on specific time. A separate school for gifted students or a separate school for regular/non-gifted students is very-bad/non-gifted idea w/evil & ineffective motives.
An alternative choice for Android KitKat users with non-rooted phones/netpads, is to use/try the "NoRoot Firewall" app by "Grey Shirts", imho its one of the best firewall, which uses kitkat-specific internal-VPN-routing module to process & filter network trafffic packets. VPN network traffic filtering process works locally inside the device, no external servers/cloud etc are used. It allows to create multiple (outbound) TCP protocol based rules for each app, based on outbound external/remote domain-names, domains with wildcard subdomains, IP-address, some IP-Net ranges, specific single port, etc. Can show reverse domain names of outbound traffic IP-address, etc. It does not use any excessive or Privacy violating or intrusive Permissions. And, it does not support IPv6 net-pkt filtering, cannot handle ICMP, UDP, MultiCast, etc packets, cannot set inbound specific rules, cannot handle multi ports in same rule, etc. It does crash sometime too often, if there are too many outbound traffic. All mentioned features (and limitations) included & available for use, for free :)
NetPatch website still isn't using a public-CA based SSL/TLS-cert, at the time of this posting. And not showing checksum/digest code for the apk/installer file, in primary-domain website.

developer is in the process/stage of adding those soon.

I downloaded via HTTPS link.

v1.0 apk is 13.1 Mbytes.

Calculated/checked checksum via HashDroid / HashStamp, and it matched.

Allowed "unknown sources" installation, installed it, disallowed "unknown sources".

Its using 51.42Mbytes. Uses 2 Permissions: "Full Network Access", "Control Vibration". So it seems to be not intrusive, inside device.

But it fails to run on Android KitKat ! :(

If it could run, then we would know, where its connecting.