HAHA! To funny, after I posted that I actually thought I should of said "I'm gonna contact MG or Bob to ban you"!!
Just to be sure no one thinks anything else...that IS a joke
ranting about websense
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Just to be sure no one thinks anything else...that IS a joke
Keep in mind that the primary reasons sites are blocked is to protect the assets. Not everyone is internet savvy enough not to go where they shouldn't, the secondary reason is to "protect the students". If we did not take measures to protect the assets, you would have no internet or network of any fashion as it would be too congested to use. Not to mention that 90% of it would be porn and viruses.
I think they should censor the hell out of it, and punish harshly for repeat offenders. The internet at school is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT. Keep in mind that you're using the SCHOOL'S property, not your own. I wouldn't want acne riddled hoodlums surfing through the internet on my laptop (excluding myself of course), downloading and visiting all kinds of wonderful things.
Totally agree. But in this case he summed up my sentiment wonderfully.
My only other thought was to blurt out "Wow, when did all you kids become such whiners?" but that sounded too much like my grandfather.
or... "Whatever will you do when you have to get a job and produce results?" but that just sounded too snarky.
Ahhh, but when his thoughts match yours....thats when you really need to watch your back :Angel:
try middle school lol... you can't even get on some EDUCATIONAL sites. our teachers rely on the kids that know how to crack the code so they can get into youtube to show us educational videos. they block everyone. i can get on AC though... so it's all good. but i wish they would give us a little bit of freedom. (of course someone would screw it up, but still.) it's just pointless. just cause it's blocked nowadays means nothing. simply ask the kid next to you to hack in, and it doesn't matter what the teachers do... kids will get in. kids know where they want to go and it's scary how far ahead of the game they are. i understand what teachers are trying to do, i just don't see a point in trying if they can't even keep up with the kids.
but i wish they would give us a little bit of freedom. (of course someone would screw it up, but still.) it's just pointless. just cause it's blocked nowadays means nothing. simply ask the kid next to you to hack in, and it doesn't matter what the teachers do... kids will get in. kids know where they want to go and it's scary how far ahead of the game they are. i understand what teachers are trying to do, i just don't see a point in trying if they can't even keep up with the kids.I see your point. Our school has the same thing. The wifi for students has less things blocked. It is really nice because I can bring in my own laptop (about 3x faster than the schools) and work on stuff for the science team. They were nice enough to leave youtube unblocked, and it comes in very handy with the science team to watch videos of different designs and stuff. Of course, I am doing all of this after school, on saturdays, and sometimes during study hall if I dont have any homework to do. I think my school set up the student wifi because they know that students will bring in stuff to utilize it and they will be faster than the schools stuff. Plus at about $300 to set the entire school up with wifi, it was a lot cheaper than upgrading to newer computers. It really pisses me off that they just upgraded the mac lab to 2011 i macs ON LEASE for $14k for 3 years, but teachers are dealing with 7 year old pcs that are very low end to start with. I have some teachers that just gave up on doing anything other than attendance, grades, and a PowerPoint or two with their computers. But yet the school can invest 14k in a single room full of macs (about 10 or so pc labs, and somewhere around 230 teachers with a pc) and the mac lab is used for 1 class. Photography.
sorry to rant, but this seemed like a good place to do it at.
It is pretty pathetic. I can crash a whole computer lab by pressing control alt delete and holding down the enter key. (of course, the computers reboot within a few min and run fine) There is an unused but all hooked up 24 port (maybe more, I havent counted) switch in my study hall room. I can host computer games over the school network by pressing a single button. An old student (in college now) got over 500gb of pirated movies on one of the district servers. The tech guy at the school claimed that the student broke into the school at night like ninjas (undetected) and did that. But he was able to do it all from an innocent computer in his study hall. That guy no longer works at the school. I am glad we got a new tech guy. I get along with him just fine and so does the computer club. We even got a hold of one of the old macs and installed xp on it just to do it. He is even going to show us where the rj45 connections in the computer club room lead so we can install a 24 port switch in that room along with a game server. The counter tops have little boxes built in with power outlets and rj45 connections. It normally takes us about an hour to get everything set up at a computer club lan party. But when we get those things wired again, it will take about 5 min.
sorry to rant, but this seemed like a good place to do it at.
It is pretty pathetic. I can crash a whole computer lab by pressing control alt delete and holding down the enter key. (of course, the computers reboot within a few min and run fine) There is an unused but all hooked up 24 port (maybe more, I havent counted) switch in my study hall room. I can host computer games over the school network by pressing a single button. An old student (in college now) got over 500gb of pirated movies on one of the district servers. The tech guy at the school claimed that the student broke into the school at night like ninjas (undetected) and did that. But he was able to do it all from an innocent computer in his study hall. That guy no longer works at the school. I am glad we got a new tech guy. I get along with him just fine and so does the computer club. We even got a hold of one of the old macs and installed xp on it just to do it. He is even going to show us where the rj45 connections in the computer club room lead so we can install a 24 port switch in that room along with a game server. The counter tops have little boxes built in with power outlets and rj45 connections. It normally takes us about an hour to get everything set up at a computer club lan party. But when we get those things wired again, it will take about 5 min.
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