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Posted: Nov 15 2011 12:24 pm

For those of you who don't know what iPrism is, it's a program used to block selected content on a web browser. It's typically used by schools and work places.
I'm actually surpirsed that my school hasn't cuaght me on this site.

iPrism sucks.

I can't get on most forums, can't play games or get on YouTube. Seriously, we're high school students, why the hell do we have iPrism. Though I know how to turn it off, I'm not an admin.

The point of this thread: I hate iPrism, it needs to die!

Posted: Nov 15 2011 12:49 pm

I think it'll go something along the lines of this:

*Remove iPrism*
Admin: I doubt these kids will do anything wrong on school servers

ten minutes later

Admin: Let's see, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, death threats, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, porn, your body and you, porn, porn, porn, addicting games, porn, porn, porn.

Seriously you are in fucking school for a reason, if you want to do that shit, skip school stay home and sit at your sticky computer desk.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

There was no YouTube when I was in high school, go do some goddamn math problems.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Nov 15 2011 01:03 pm

Izaya Orihara wrote:

I can't get on most forums, can't play games or get on YouTube. Seriously, we're high school students, why the hell do we have iPrism. Though I know how to turn it off, I'm not an admin.

Maybe because school computers are supposed to be used for...oh, I don't know...schoolwork?

Seriously. You're high school students. You're the most untrustworthy demographic on the planet. That's why the hell you have blocking software.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

My high school uses a proxy server based method of blocking websites. Therefor, all I need to do set up a proxy server at home, and then use that to surf the web at school instead of the school's proxy. And yes, I do currently do that.

U mad, Izaya Orihara?

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Mr. Satire wrote:

My high school uses a proxy server based method of blocking websites. Therefor, all I need to do set up a proxy server at home, and then use that to surf the web at school instead of the school's proxy. And yes, I do currently do that.

U mad, Izaya Orihara?

You're just as bad. Stop looking up Zelda fan fiction and do some goddamn school work.

Posted: Nov 15 2011 06:12 pm

I dunno, I can kind of relate, at least in regards to the youtube thing. It would always piss me off in high school when I'd be doing research for a project in the computer lab, and I'd try clicking on a youtube link on an article relevant to the topic of the project, only to have EVERYTHING EVER BLOCKED AND FUCK YOU.

I also remember the forums being blocked by the high school computers for "pornography". Laughing

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Heh, I loved being in highschool and being one of the only few kids that could get on facebook, youtube, and whatever.

When I got bored I'd even jump on and look at the schools cameras. I had a principal show me the IP for it and then I just kinda guessed which part of the IP needed to be changed to see the other cameras.

That being said.
Izaya be careful, I never got caught getting around the blockers on the laptop I took with me and hooked up to the school's WIFI, but I did get caught with other stuff and being banned from the computers isn't fun.

On a side note even though I was banned from all the school districts computers for the last term of my senior year I still managed to pull A's in my net+ and computer programming classes :3
I also got the highest score on the networking final and one of the higher scores on my programming final.

Now with THAT said.
Izaya, stop with the pointless threads.
Nobody cares about a piece of blocking software that takes two seconds to get around.

Posted: Nov 15 2011 06:33 pm

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

Posted: Nov 15 2011 06:37 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

This. A thousand fucking times this.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

atomjacked wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

This. A thousand fucking times this.

Odell Lake made my life.

Posted: Nov 15 2011 07:54 pm

Back in my day we used microfiche!

Posted: Nov 15 2011 07:56 pm

I'm gonna invent a school that blocks anything educational and only allows porn.

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

Hacker wrote:

Heh, I loved being in highschool and being one of the only few kids that could get on facebook, youtube, and whatever.

I'm one of the few (read: just myself) people in my school that could make their own proxy server to get past filtering. Everyone else just uses a website for bypassing censorship that adds three adverts at the top of the page and is glitchy and slow as hell.

Posted: Nov 16 2011 05:27 am

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

This, yep.

Posted: Nov 16 2011 08:16 am

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

We only had Oregon Trail and Mental Math games (which only had one game that was worth while because you could play it with about twenty other people on the school's server)

Posted: Nov 16 2011 08:51 am

We had Apple Sliding Puzzle. Then they found a way to restrict access to it through admin settings.

Title: Comic Author Joined: Dec 12 2008 Posts: 1179

We had some kind of typing tutor in 4th grade that kids had to spend time on each week, but since my dad got us a computer when I was in 2nd grade, I was already pretty damn good at typing... So I got to play Operation Frog during that time instead. Very Happy

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

It's worse these days, honestly. If the teacher arbitrarily decides they don't like the site you picked, they'll dock you for it (right or wrong). Not to mention the fact that it feels like there is no real generally agreed-upon MLA format for citing websites. Hell, my cousin sent in a report that was 25% of his grade came back as an F. The teacher's reasoning was that since the URL's were too long, she couldn't check them herself (he was citing news sites with shitty archives that were like 50+ characters long), so she just decided to call him a liar, and herself lazy and flunk him. My aunt reported it to the school, and the principal actually sat behind the woman as she checked the news sites herself.

Computers can be a valuable teaching tool if teachers actually bothered to learn how to use them. It'll be interesting to see some of these old fogies die off so we can get a better handle on just how to use them for our kids.

Posted: Nov 16 2011 07:03 pm

Greg the White wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

When we were on the Computers at school we were playing Number Munchers/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake on Apple II's. We didn't have the internet for term papers, and actually had to take and cite books. They probably just plain stopped using Annotated Bibliographies nowadays. Cry me a river you little bitches.

It's worse these days, honestly. If the teacher arbitrarily decides they don't like the site you picked, they'll dock you for it (right or wrong). Not to mention the fact that it feels like there is no real generally agreed-upon MLA format for citing websites. Hell, my cousin sent in a report that was 25% of his grade came back as an F. The teacher's reasoning was that since the URL's were too long, she couldn't check them herself (he was citing news sites with shitty archives that were like 50+ characters long), so she just decided to call him a liar, and herself lazy and flunk him. My aunt reported it to the school, and the principal actually sat behind the woman as she checked the news sites herself.

Computers can be a valuable teaching tool if teachers actually bothered to learn how to use them. It'll be interesting to see some of these old fogies die off so we can get a better handle on just how to use them for our kids.

i agree to a certain degree.

my nephew didnt know how to rip youtube videos. so he asked me to help him. i asked him what he needed and he wanted to rip a youtube video about the pyramids or some shit and embed it onto a powerpoint slide show & call that his presentation. oh yeah, it also had a title slide and an ending slide. that was it. so, i told him to 'fuck off' (not in those exact words) but to do the actual research and do the work himself.

so, the internet helps a lot, but it also makes people lazy as fuck.

Posted: Nov 16 2011 07:07 pm

They shouldn't even have research papers anymore, instead they should just have opinion papers. What can you possibly find that isn't already documented and posted on numerous websites.

Posted: Nov 17 2011 12:28 am

Actually, one of the only reasons I'm still around is the fact that my high school's filtering software never blocked this site's articles, forums, or webclients. I lurked for a year or so before making an account on the forums using a school computer, and I think that was the time I posted the most, really.
Although I did get my account shut down when they realized I was installing oblivion on one of the computers

Don't bash the filtering software for blocking youtube and such, rejoice that it at least allows you to get on here. I do get your hate for it, but hey.

Also, I completely stopped giving a fuck about teachers filtering school internet after I graduated high school.

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joshwoodzy wrote:

Mr. Satire wrote:

My high school uses a proxy server based method of blocking websites. Therefor, all I need to do set up a proxy server at home, and then use that to surf the web at school instead of the school's proxy. And yes, I do currently do that.

U mad, Izaya Orihara?

You're just as bad. Stop looking up Zelda fan fiction and do some goddamn school work.

But I like that Zelda fan-fiction! Razz

Being serious, I only really use it so that my school can't monitor what sites I go to, and to be able to browse the these forums and occasionally Twitter or stuff like that. I even play Minecraft when I get the time to do so (obviously not during class, honest) I also do it just in case my school decides to block iCloud (which would completely screw up my workflow, since I store my schoolwork on it).

Posted: Dec 02 2011 08:44 pm

YES! I totally remember playing Number/Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, Odell Down Under (I liked being the shark and eating everything in site) and this trippy adventure puzzle game that I can not remember the name of for the life of me. It's on the tip of my tongue too.

I remember it starting out at a carnival and you immdediately get thrown into a shooting gallery. Once you finish that segment, you drift off into this dream world sequence on a island where you must collect certain items and complete certain puzzles......THE SECRET ISLAND OF DOCTOR QUANDARY!

That's it!! Ahh, the memories. 1993 DOS gaming.

Posted: Dec 02 2011 08:58 pm

The Secret Island of Doctor Quandary was so badass when I was a kid. I'll have to find it and play it again sometime.

I remember that the game's opening featured a carnival game which included the Troggles.