High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox

cdawall · Dec 17, 2007

wazzledoozle said:
Hoax

thats amazing o well this has still spawned a pretty funny thread

PVTCaboose1337 said:
There are tutorials everywhere of how to do what I did...

basically one step better than the netuser approach.

o i thought u did something a little more insane!

PVTCaboose1337 · Dec 17, 2007

cdawall said:
thats amazing o well this has still spawned a pretty funny thread

o i thought u did something a little more insane!

I tried the netuser approach, it failed, so I came up with a better way which makes windoze trick the computer into giving you admin.

Basard · Dec 17, 2007

How bout this for a title? "Kid gets detention for disobeying/disrespecting his teacher." Oh, the POOOOR kid, he shoulda got the crap beaten outta him with a yardstick.

cdawall · Dec 17, 2007

Basard said:
How bout this for a title? "Kid gets detention for disobeying/disrespecting his teacher." Oh, the POOOOR kid, he shoulda got the crap beaten outta him with a yardstick.

bad idea!!!! those days are gone we shouldnt start them back up i would have welts after day one!!!

Basard · Dec 17, 2007

"one laptop per child" more like "one more way to screw off in school" LOL... ^^ you'll think twice before opening ff, if you get the crap beaten outa you with a yardstick.... :laugh:

1c3d0g · Dec 17, 2007

lemonadesoda said:
Teachers should not be allowed to use resources they dont know how to use. Whether it's a PC, chemistry equipment, electrical equipment, or firearms. The school should fire the teacher, or command the teacher to adopt a lesson method he/she is actually competant in.

You can quote me on that.

Well f*cking said! :toast:

cdawall · Dec 17, 2007

Basard said:
"one laptop per child" more like "one more way to screw off in school" LOL... ^^ you'll think twice before opening ff, if you get the crap beaten outa you with a yardstick....

that makes me think my school gave out MSI laptops to anyone in chem 2 AP

guess what i did for them the 1st week they got them

....mind you these are locked down to the point were they couldnt run anything not on the windows boot up screen ctrl+alt+dlt and the start menu were blocked

they all got a nice custom linux distro for there usb drives :roll:

it ran beautifully god bless linux

btarunr · Dec 17, 2007

IGNORANCE.

What else can I say?

I guess the off-beat name "FireFox" is to blame. The admin at my high-school first thought FF was a game (off-beat name + icon). We had to later take a class on the Netscape story.

theonetruewill · Dec 18, 2007

Wait a minute- this could be a perfectly valid argument by the teacher. When he orders the teenager to get back to doing the work, then this does not mean that the work requires the internet. I take this a different way; I reckon the stupid child was mucking around on games and decided to use this firefox argument to baffle the teacher and get out of trouble.

btarunr · Dec 18, 2007

True, but in the shoes of a kid, you've to think in that angle, but usually school kids want to always try new things you know? I got kicked for trying to OC a system by tightening its memory timings....POST fail. So did I in that day's session.

Had the teacher known what Firefox was, I bet all this wouldn't have happened. What if he just used plain old IE? Would he have been punished? The letter shows the kid being kicked for using an off-beat application more so than using the internet.

btarunr · Dec 18, 2007

Okay Wazzle did the job...it was phoney :eek:

theonetruewill · Dec 18, 2007

btarunr said:
True, but in the shoes of a kid, you've to think in that angle, but usually school kids want to always try new things you know? I got kicked for trying to OC a system by tightening its memory timings....POST fail. So did I in that day's session.

Had the teacher known what Firefox was, I bet all this wouldn't have happened. What if he just used plain old IE? Would he have been punished? The letter shows the kid being kicked for using an off-beat application more so than using the internet.

But think of the logic here. Firefox does not look so massively different from IE that the teacher would not have understood that he was browsing the internet. I suspect this has more to do with the student being a smartarse, and he wasn't supposed to be on the internet at all.

PVTCaboose1337 · Dec 18, 2007

I OC'd a school computer once... Basically it still runs today at the CPU speed of 1336.6 mhz.

GLeN · Dec 18, 2007

mrw1986 said:
Meh, I got suspended for sending a message to every single pc in my towns school system (about 500-600 PCs) using NetSend...lawl the principal walked into the classroom because they traced the pc it was from right to me. All the message said was "Hello"

Edit: I wish I was in high school again...

I remeber in first year I was on the pc and this box came up, it said "U R GAY!" I was like wtf :eek:

turned around and everyone had the same message then the admin came out shouting telling this senior to get out. The other time one of my mates used someelses account who was our mate too and we sent an mas email to the school saying hello me daryl :laugh:

oh and someone near got suspend for sending everyone in the school (1000) an email giving pie to a million decimal points :rockout:

Good times :pimp:

Our systems are completely blocked you guys would have a hard time doing anything.
exe from thumb drives are locked
start up safe mode hack is locked
bios passworded
etc
proxied out to the max, although you can get results by spreading the letters apart :roll:

P R O X Y
Pretty much bulletproof system

theonetruewill · Dec 18, 2007

I'm fine with someone getting in some serious trouble for overclocking school systems too. It's not their computer- so it's vandalism- as overclocking does reduce the parts life expectancy.

Sorry PVTCaboose1337

newtekie1 · Dec 18, 2007

Kid got what he deserved. He ignored the warning twice, he is lucky a detention is all he got.

I don't care if you do think it is 'better', don't use it on computers that aren't yours, and don't continue to use it on computers that aren't yours after you have been told not to. It isn't God's gift to browsers, you don't need it to browse the internet.

cdawall · Dec 18, 2007

GLeN said:
I remeber in first year I was on the pc and this box came up, it said "U R GAY!" I was like wtf turned around and everyone had the same message then the admin came out shouting telling this senior to get out. The other time one of my mates used someelses account who was our mate too and we sent an mas email to the school saying hello me daryl oh and someone near got suspend for sending everyone in the school (1000) an email giving pie to a million decimal points

Good times

Our systems are completely blocked you guys would have a hard time doing anything.
exe from thumb drives are locked
start up safe mode hack is locked
bios passworded
etc
proxied out to the max, although you can get results by spreading the letters apart P R O X Y
Pretty much bulletproof system

i doubt that the boot menu was blocked though which means you could boot from USB or CD

Dangle · Dec 18, 2007

I would have expelled him for not using a better browser - Avant.

pt · Dec 18, 2007

Dangle said:
I would have expelled him for not using a better browser - Avant.

that's so old
and it was just ie with tabs back in the old days, dk about today

Basard · Dec 18, 2007

Everybody is missing the whole point. It doesnt matter if it was Firefox, foxfire, or GOD's own personal web browser. The kid was supposed to be WORKING, not cruising the net... Even if he was supposed to be using the net, he broke the rules and installed firefox, then ignored the teacher when he was told to do something. How anybody can defend this kid in the least bit is beyond me. "Firefox is better" so who cares? "The teacher is dumb, she said 'foxfire'," yeah, who really gives a crap if she has half a brain, he was being disobedient. If he was in "my classroom" on "my computers" I would have sat his ass in the corner with a pen and paper, and a friggan dunce cap for the rest of the day, if not week.

How this story made it past the classroom and onto the internet is beyond me, but at least it gives me something to complain about. I'd rather my tax dollars not be wasted fixing computers that get ruined by kids like this. Not that he ruined THAT particular computer, but I'm sure this little hellion caused his fair share of damage to school property--and he probably had a lousy excuse for that too.

theonetruewill · Dec 18, 2007

Basard said:
Everybody is missing the whole point. It doesnt matter if it was Firefox, foxfire, or GOD's own personal web browser. The kid was supposed to be WORKING, not cruising the net... Even if he was supposed to be using the net, he broke the rules and installed firefox, then ignored the teacher when he was told to do something. How anybody can defend this kid in the least bit is beyond me. "Firefox is better" so who cares? "The teacher is dumb, she said 'foxfire'," yeah, who really gives a crap if she has half a brain, he was being disobedient. If he was in "my classroom" on "my computers" I would have sat his ass in the corner with a pen and paper, and a friggan dunce cap for the rest of the day, if not week.

How this story made it past the classroom and onto the internet is beyond me, but at least it gives me something to complain about. I'd rather my tax dollars not be wasted fixing computers that get ruined by kids like this. Not that he ruined THAT particular computer, but I'm sure this little hellion caused his fair share of damage to school property--and he probably had a lousy excuse for that too.

Agreed!

JacKz5o · Dec 18, 2007

wazzledoozle said:
Hoax

Heres the official statement from the school lol:

http://www.bigspring.k12.pa.us/news.php?action=view_article&article_id=2130

They received so much spam on that email that was on the letter, my friend even tried calling them up

newtekie1 · Dec 18, 2007

Dangle said:
I would have expelled him for not using a better browser - Avant.

Good to see a fellow Avant user. :toast:

pt said:
that's so old
and it was just ie with tabs back in the old days, dk about today

Its a good browser, still uses IE rendering engine, but it was never 'just ie with tab'. Saying that is like saying Firefox is just Mozilla or Netscape is just Firefox.

panchoman · Dec 18, 2007

OnBoard · Dec 18, 2007

PVTCaboose1337 said:
I OC'd a school computer once... Basically it still runs today at the CPU speed of 1336.6 mhz.

Nice

Except XP (don't remember what NT did) at least rounds to 2 decimals, cuts of l33t :/

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