Monday, December 17th 2007
High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox
Apparently, the Firefox crowd needs to raise awareness of what exactly Firefox does. A high school student was doing his assignments using the internet browser, and got this note home from the teacher...
Source:
The Inquirer
To the Parent(s)/Guardian(s) of [Redacted], Grade 11The teacher who issued this letter is proof that Firefox simply needs to step up their advertising campaign. The teacher that issued this detention had no idea how to even spell the program name, let alone what it did. Granted, the teacher probably gave this detention out of safety protocol. After all, if you saw a foreign program running on a lot of expensive computers you didn't own, wouldn't you want it out of your systems?
This is to inform you [Redacted] has been assigned a(n) Detention.
Today in class [redacted] had a program launched called Foxfire.exe [sic]. I had told [redacted] to close the program and to resume work but he told me that it was just a different browser and that he was doing his work. I had given him two warnings but he insisted that it was just a 'better' browser and that he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had then issued his detention
74 Comments on High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox
Man that soft is the bomb.
The school that this happened at. I've actually done work for them. :twitch:
Plus his "security" was shit. As if no one has ever heard of RDC, to the domain server. Again, no Administrative lockdown. From what I was told later he blamed the outside source, the firewall manufacturer and was asked to leave when the super found out what it all meant.
Oops.
DOS Console FTW!!! Or, better yet, reboot in DOS mode for any "tweaking" Hell, I could navigate DOS so friggin fast from years and years of typing, sometimes I could get older systems to hang.
IE5 was a lot easier to bypass filters and all, though. Mostly because the MS spaghetti code was crap and easy to workaround. Biggest drawback during those days was that we were still running dial-up, so connecting online was loud, even then we weren't allowed online without someone's permission (and the browsers were all passworded). But if the coast was clear . . .
my old trick was having my home computer acting as a internet gateway, and then I'd dial my rig's address instead of the local access numbers and - boom. Instant, unrestricted, unpassworded access . . .
thats life:rockout::rockout:(my shool rocks:rockout:)
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4988
this comes close.
Source
However, still using IE5 is insane, and those people should be punished. Though, in reality, most of them are probably just little old ladies that have no idea what Windows Update is.
funny!
Although, TBH, btarunr has a point there. But, I think it's motsly just companies being cheap. Our shop computer, for example, still runs WIN98 and IE5 - the shop owner is too cheap to upgrade the system . . .
. . . even though it takes 5-10 min for the PC to open up files on our Repairs DVDs, and the PC locks up once a day because of very low sys mem available - oh, yeah, rebooting takes a good 10min in itself . . .
sometimes, I consider sabotaging that rig just so we can get something newer to work with
This kids an idiot. Im sorry but this makes me feel like lemonadesoda made that rant for almost nothing:laugh::laugh:
First of all, there have been like 3 different stories in the past few weeks about kids getting detention for the most simplest of things, and then portraying the teacher as a power hungry tirant who's only real issue is authority. Its all fake.
I can't believe this made it to the front page.
btw, ytmnd.com is a place where I've seen this sort of thing.