Comments on: High School junior gets detention for using Firefox in class — or does he? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kiltak http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127100 Kiltak Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:29:20 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127100 LOL! Progressive? That's really an understatement. :) LOL! Progressive? That’s really an understatement. :)

]]> By: Chip http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127097 Chip Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:18:47 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127097 Where's your school? Sounds pretty progressive. Where’s your school? Sounds pretty progressive.

]]> By: Fann http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127089 Fann Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:33:23 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-127089 Was that teacher a paid Microsoft emploee ? Because in my school , IE is not allowed to be launched. Only FF and Opera. If you launch IE , the controlling system sends a popup to the teacher , and you are told to close it or leave. But anyway , why not Linux? Such as Ubuntu with a LTSP server? Was that teacher a paid Microsoft emploee ? Because in my school , IE is not allowed to be launched. Only FF and Opera. If you launch IE , the controlling system sends a popup to the teacher , and you are told to close it or leave. But anyway , why not Linux? Such as Ubuntu with a LTSP server?

]]> By: Chip http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38878 Chip Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:51:03 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38878 Hey Blacksheep, do you have a link to this latest development? Hey Blacksheep, do you have a link to this latest development?

]]> By: Ryan Red http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38873 Ryan Red Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:29:18 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38873 yes, firefox.exe is blocked from running, we also have another block in place so users can't rename it to firefox1.exe and run that. I'm not totally sure how the fingerprint blocking work but it works really well. yes, firefox.exe is blocked from running, we also have another block in place so users can’t rename it to firefox1.exe and run that. I’m not totally sure how the fingerprint blocking work but it works really well.

]]> By: Blacksheep http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38872 Blacksheep Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:24:17 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-38872 Now the kid is being suspended for all of the hate mail being sent to the teacher and the school. Supposedly someone sent a virus and crashed the schools mainframe and they had to hire a special IT team to fix it. I guess they don't have a good enough IT team already(or no team at all). I probably could have fixed the problem (i mean c'mon) and, anyway, the kid didn't do anything after the initial punishment so this is unjust and wrong! Now the kid is being suspended for all of the hate mail being sent to the teacher and the school. Supposedly someone sent a virus and crashed the schools mainframe and they had to hire a special IT team to fix it. I guess they don’t have a good enough IT team already(or no team at all). I probably could have fixed the problem (i mean c’mon) and, anyway, the kid didn’t do anything after the initial punishment so this is unjust and wrong!

]]> By: Pool http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-36216 Pool Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:51:19 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-36216 Well my college does have Firefox on the system, but it’s version 1.5 so I decided to install 2.0 (and quite a few extensions) on my pendrive. No complaints and half the class has got me to copy it on to their pendrives Well my college does have Firefox on the system, but it’s version 1.5 so I decided to install 2.0 (and quite a few extensions) on my pendrive. No complaints and half the class has got me to copy it on to their pendrives

]]> By: Chip http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35205 Chip Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:23:55 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35205 Hey zane, we encourage comments on this site. Please don't instruct other commenters to "shut up". Hey zane, we encourage comments on this site. Please don’t instruct other commenters to “shut up”.

]]> By: zane trance http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35203 zane trance Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:18:58 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35203 would a portable firefox, on a pendrive, pass this up? the blocking of firefox i mean. would a portable firefox, on a pendrive, pass this up? the blocking of firefox i mean.

]]> By: zane trance http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35202 zane trance Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:14:58 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-35202 shut up! the teacher was probably rude. saying something like foxfire in quotes is key to mean, the mocking of the student and FIREFOX shut up! the teacher was probably rude. saying something like foxfire in quotes is key to mean, the mocking of the student and FIREFOX

]]> By: bob http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-34247 bob Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:52:06 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-34247 Even if this turns out to be true I don't think that this was an effort by the teacher to stop the student using an alternate browser. I don't know about you, but in my school we sometimes had non-IT teachers take us to do some work on the computers. If they aren't very computer literate they wouldnt necessarily know that IE isn't the only browser available. And most teachers don't let you mess about in class so any program the teacher didn't recognise would be construed as an attempt to mess about. Hence the detention. Even if this turns out to be true I don’t think that this was an effort by the teacher to stop the student using an alternate browser.

I don’t know about you, but in my school we sometimes had non-IT teachers take us to do some work on the computers. If they aren’t very computer literate they wouldnt necessarily know that IE isn’t the only browser available. And most teachers don’t let you mess about in class so any program the teacher didn’t recognise would be construed as an attempt to mess about. Hence the detention.

]]> By: mrrix32 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-34206 mrrix32 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:23:51 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/12/17/high-school-junior-gets-detention-for-using-firefox-in-class-or-does-he/#comment-34206 Well my college does have Firefox on the system, but it's version 1.5 so I decided to install 2.0 (and quite a few extensions) on my pendrive. No complaints and half the class has got me to copy it on to their pendrives :D Well my college does have Firefox on the system, but it’s version 1.5 so I decided to install 2.0 (and quite a few extensions) on my pendrive. No complaints and half the class has got me to copy it on to their pendrives :D

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