High School Student Gets Detention for Using Firefox

[Deleted member 24505]

I got suspended for having a beard,i went to school when i was nearly 16 with a beard,and they told me to go home and shave it off,i said no.I told the teacher it was'nt in the rules,oh and i turned up on a honda cx500 motorbike,which i guess did'nt help.

By the time i was 16 i had a full beard.

 

[Scrizz]

ok.........

 

[DaMulta]

Someone needs to make a FF IE skin!!!

 

[Skrabrug]

my teachers back in college tried to ban students from installing any software (including firefox) but another one of our teachers who support firefox gave us a bootable CD called ERD commander which had a locksmith tool and would allow us to gain an admin account on the computer we were using so we could install and remove firefox if we wanted to use it lol.

 

[DaMulta]

I have a copy of ERD commander!!!

Man that soft is the bomb.

 

[niko084]

Bleh teacher should be fired for being stupid and uninformed.

 

[0V3CHKiN]

I just noticed something.

The school that this happened at. I've actually done work for them.

 

[pt]

I got suspended for having a beard,i went to school when i was nearly 16 with a beard,and they told me to go home and shave it off,i said no.I told the teacher it was'nt in the rules,oh and i turned up on a honda cx500 motorbike,which i guess did'nt help.

By the time i was 16 i had a full beard.

all that text just serves to say you're a old fart

 

[Steevo]

Local school got caught with their pants down, I was invited by a friend to go into a computer lab and fix a computer, however the main IT guy there was being a jerkoff,, but left after I started in on him. They had these nice firewalls that I am very familiar with, and he never changed the Admin login, or only allowed certain IP's to connect to the management console. So all his porn surfing was forwarded to the supervisor every time the log was full, it took him almost a month to actually have another guy in to look at "these wierd e-mails I keep getting" Time, Date, Offending IP, User, and sites visited. He was asked to look a few times but didn't know how to stop them from coming to the superintendent and the super never deleted or would allow them to be deleted.


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.

 

[imperialreign]

man - back in da day when I was still in HS - everyone was running WIN98. Some of the older sytems were still on WIN95.

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 . . .

 

[snuif09]

at our school we are making lan partys i mean 100 computers 150 people and unreal 2004
thats life(my shool rocks)

 

[Dangle]

Good to see a fellow Avant user.



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.

I love Avant. I especially like how it uses the IE rendering engine. 80% of web surfers are using IE. Almost all websites are designed to work primarily with IE because that's what the business is. I've just gotten too used to the mouse gestures to use any other browser. Also, I love how it's impossible to open a link in another browser window - they're all in the tabs!

 

[btarunr]

Someone needs to make a FF IE skin!!!

Here you go:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4988

this comes close.

 

[btarunr]

To whomsoever it may concern:

Source

 

[cdawall]

bah just use opera cause FF/IE are shit

 

[newtekie1]

To whomsoever it may concern:

http://img.techpowerup.org/071218/brow_sh.jpg

Source

Who in the **** is still using IE5! Those people need to be shot.

 

[cdawall]

Who in the **** is still using IE5! Those people need to be shot.

my school wont update past IE6

 

[newtekie1]

my school wont update past IE6

Neither will my old college, and there are some good reasons in certain instances. Mainly because at my college they use a lot of software that relies on IE's rendering engine, and IE7 breaks a lot of it. Even though I think enough time has gone by since its release for the software manufactures to update the software to work with IE7, the software manufactures are still dragging their feet, and the administration at the college is going even slower with giving us the go ahead with installing the updates.

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.

 

[btarunr]

Who in the **** is still using IE5! Those people need to be shot.

those people who are clingling to Win2k/WinNT/Win9x. Those who use the browser more for intranet purposes like keeping databases, records that they could access using SQL.......just a guess.

 

[Scrizz]

at our school we are making lan partys i mean 100 computers 150 people and unreal 2004
thats life(my shool rocks)

that's how my highschool was UT2k3, tacops, cs1.5, TF, quake 3, aoe2, warcraft, gta3. HS was fun

 

[imperialreign]

Who in the **** is still using IE5! Those people need to be shot

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

 

[cdawall]

only problem with that idea is from what it sounds he would likely spend a fortune in a pawn shop and get the same computer back

 

[aznboi123]

Wow my school lets us use firefox...

 

[effmaster]

Hoax

lol'

This kids an idiot. Im sorry but this makes me feel like lemonadesoda made that rant for almost nothing

 

[chron]

FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE!

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.