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
what if i put opera?
would it be called a music player?
lol
im tempted to partition it and put linux live on it :D
You can quote me on that.
Edit: I wish I was in high school again...
I cant remember how it was done, but every computer was actually ghosted or something so that it didnt actually use its hard drive other than for the OS. No way of accessing the hard drive either, command prompt was also completely locked out. The way they install software is install it on the server and then every pc can access the software.
i mean you wouldn't even get icons if you couldn't run explorer.exe...
the best thing i ever did at school was this
set COMPUTERNAME=GOD
netsend * insert witty remark here
shutdown -s
and saved it as a .bat file on the server under the shortcut to halo :roll:
as for getting admin priv login as workstatioin only then go into novell and login under reg account gives you full admin privs
tbh firefox is probly safer and better than internet exploerer but its to customisable and not really school friendly
they even blocked google images and we had to constantly find proxy servers everyday it was ridiculous all we could do was go onto wikipedia for a laugh :shadedshu
basically one step better than the netuser approach.