[haloboy100]

We're not even allowed off-campus without explicit parent permission, period, until we're in 10^th!

Same with my school. Up here in Canada

[colecampbell666]

We're not even allowed off-campus without explicit parent permission, period, until we're in 10^th!

That's what I said.

We're not even allowed off-campus without explicit parent permission, period, until we're in 10^th!

Same with my school. Up here in Canada

Do you guys have to put up with NetSweeper? And can you install anything on the PCs?

[blackhole]

We're not supposed to install anything on the PCs, but since we're AP Comp Sci students... Halo, anyone?

We have a very nasty filter called Websense. It filters Hard-light... and youtube... and myspace... and every single other one of those sites, except google video because they of course can't block google

Whats interesting is that it filters http://www.newgrounds.com, but not http://blackhole12.newgrounds.com, same thing happens with sheezyart - but it blocks deviantart. Also, for some reason it only blocks "f-ck" and not any other swear word o.O;

[haloboy100]

And can you install anything on the PCs?

Yeah, we can do anything on the computer, such as change resolution (which i always do, cause they always put it in ****ty 800X600), install fonts, games, firefox to use youtube, and backgrounds and such. The problem is everything you installed on the computer, as well as personal settings, is deleted every single day, so i gotta change the resolution every time i use a computer 
Thankfully, they don't delete my mindsweeper scores . fun game, that

[blackhole]

Bahahahaha, thats better then ours. The school tried to install some kind of sync software, but it got blocked by windows firewall. We just install Halo to C:\Halo and always make sure we get the same computers each day in the lab

[BloodEagle]

How in the Hell do you people get around to learning anything? 

[haloboy100]

I read a lot of space books as a little kid

[karajorma]

In the sixth form, we even used to go with them, though only for the pint, not the cigarette

So in other words you joined them for the one you were underage for but ignored the one you could legally do? How rebellious of you.

[Admiral_Stones]

We're not even allowed off-campus without explicit parent permission, period, until we're in 10^th!

That's what I said.

We're not even allowed off-campus without explicit parent permission, period, until we're in 10^th!

Same with my school. Up here in Canada

Do you guys have to put up with NetSweeper? And can you install anything on the PCs?

Yes. Our school informatician is the very incarnation of n00biness.
Out of pure boredom, I stumbled upon the system preferences
Patrick: "Hey, Andreas, look! We've all got admin accounts!"

[Flipside]

In the sixth form, we even used to go with them, though only for the pint, not the cigarette

So in other words you joined them for the one you were underage for but ignored the one you could legally do? How rebellious of you.

I know, ironic isn't it?

That's what you get for having about 5 Welsh teachers, my Religion teacher in particular had a famous statement :-

'In this school we teach all the major religions, Hindu, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and, of course, Rugby.'

[colecampbell666]

And can you install anything on the PCs?

Yeah, we can do anything on the computer, such as change resolution (which i always do, cause they always put it in ****ty 800X600), install fonts, games, firefox to use youtube, and backgrounds and such. The problem is everything you installed on the computer, as well as personal settings, is deleted every single day, so i gotta change the resolution every time i use a computer 
Thankfully, they don't delete my mindsweeper scores . fun game, that

We can do all of that stuff, except install programs, and they deleted the preinstalled games. They probably used NetSweeper to block internet stuff, try tor-proxy.net . Install programs to your personal save folder, probably the H:/ drive or aabonato or something.

[Stealth]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080128/195457100.shtml

Rich Kulawiec writes in to let us know about a ridiculous situation in Florida, that has some similarities to the ridiculous Julie Amero situation. Basically, a bunch of school officials and local newspaper folks are freaking out about the potential for students to access porn and are blaming the wrong people while displaying stunning levels of ignorance.

The basics of the situation are pretty straightforward. A cop who works at a middle school in Florida has a MySpace account, that he set up with the approval of the police department and the school, hoping it would allow him to connect with the kids he's supposed to be protecting. One of his many, many friends on MySpace happened to link to a porn site on their own profile. So, because one friend out of a huge list of friends happens to link to a porn page, the cop is now under investigation with the local paper dramatizing the situation by noting that students could (gasp!) get to porn "in just three clicks." Apparently, they're investigating whether the officer is criminally liable for exposing children to inappropriate content -- yes, because someone on his friend's list linked to porn. Under that definition, an awful lot of people are probably guilty.

Ah, but the story gets better (or worse, actually). You see, after some investigation, people noticed that the school's own website actually linked directly to a porn site itself -- which would seem a lot worse than what the police officer did. In this case, the school had a list of "resources" and one of the links was on a domain that had expired and was taken over by a porn site. Now, using the logic that the school used in having the police officer investigated, shouldn't the school officials also be investigated? Apparently not. Instead, they're angry about the changing domain and are looking at "legal recourse."

So, to summarize: If you happen to work at a school and have a MySpace profile where one friend of many links to a porn site via his own MySpace page: potentially illegal exposure of porn to children. If you work at a school and set up a website that directly links to porn: you're a victim who should be suing the website in question. Very logical.

Um. What? 

[karajorma]

Your loss.

[Stealth]

LOL sorry... actually, i did read all of it, but i was just looking for an excuse to post that image, which i'd seen on another forum somewhere, and got a kick out of

[haloboy100]

We can do all of that stuff, except install programs, and they deleted the preinstalled games. They probably used NetSweeper to block internet stuff, try tor-proxy.net . Install programs to your personal save folder, probably the H:/ drive or aabonato or something.

Nah, they use this weird catholic school district page to block webpages. It's just a page with a big fancy banner and a huge stop sign on it with Calgary Catholic School District on it. other times, like on youtube, you get a "url cannot be recieved" message

[colecampbell666]

We can do all of that stuff, except install programs, and they deleted the preinstalled games. They probably used NetSweeper to block internet stuff, try tor-proxy.net . Install programs to your personal save folder, probably the H:/ drive or aabonato or something.

Nah, they use this weird catholic school district page to block webpages. It's just a page with a big fancy banner and a huge stop sign on it with Calgary Catholic School District on it. other times, like on youtube, you get a "url cannot be recieved" message

They do the same for us, but in the bottom-left there's a "Powered by Netsweeper" thing. I've read that it's  all over Canada, so you probably have a customized splashscreen, like us.