This is something I would have gotten in trouble for in high school as well. The way I read the document is that the student received the detention for disobeying the teacher for not doing his classwork. However, as we all know, he was doing his classwork using Firefox. Now, without knowing more details...the teacher was in the wrong here. He saw a process that he was unfamiliar with (Let's assume the student did not install it on the local PC, but was running from a usb drive one of the portable versions of the program) and made the idiot assumption of "student must not be doing his work and is playing a game." The correct course of action should have been to take a walk over to the student and see that he was in fact doing his schoolwork. The detention was then given because the teacher was embarrassed, and in classic form of many high school teachers (many, not all) a student is not allowed to know more than the teacher.
I stole a red swingline stapler. They kept moving me around, but I kept the stapler. They switched to the bostitch, which I didn't like very much....
But I love the swingling
Thanks for the heads up, but as far as know, there is no policy like that...
And since I'm not actually installing software, I get around the usage agreement.
and i'm already branded a 'rebel' since i ran a ping and tracert on aweb site that was down and was checking to see if it was external or internal.
Hell, i think i just want firefox for the tabbed browsing alone.
Now I can use firefox at work where the I.S. Nazi's only allow I.E. morons..
I was actually just talking about this with a co worker to see if I could do it... looks like it was done for me!
As a college student, I am against this. They know enough information about is with just our SSN. That's all they are gonna get.
What about the thousand other privacy advocates that do not want to be included, where is the provision for that?
Back when I was in High School, teachers knew who was doing well and who wasn't. The good teachers took it upon themselves to help the students who needed it. the bad teachers only helped the good students, in order to make themselves look good. It's sad that most teachers just aren't what they used to be...but who's to blame, the individuals, or the teachers who teach them?
Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows?
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This is something I would have gotten in trouble for in high school as well. The way I read the document is that the student received the detention for disobeying the teacher for not doing his classwork. However, as we all know, he was doing his classwork using Firefox. Now, without knowing more details...the teacher was in the wrong here. He saw a process that he was unfamiliar with (Let's assume the student did not install it on the local PC, but was running from a usb drive one of the portable versions of the program) and made the idiot assumption of "student must not be doing his work and is playing a game." The correct course of action should have been to take a walk over to the student and see that he was in fact doing his schoolwork. The detention was then given because the teacher was embarrassed, and in classic form of many high school teachers (many, not all) a student is not allowed to know more than the teacher.
I live in the garage now; I moved out of the basement years ago.
I stole a red swingline stapler. They kept moving me around, but I kept the stapler. They switched to the bostitch, which I didn't like very much.... But I love the swingling
Thanks for the heads up, but as far as know, there is no policy like that... And since I'm not actually installing software, I get around the usage agreement. and i'm already branded a 'rebel' since i ran a ping and tracert on aweb site that was down and was checking to see if it was external or internal. Hell, i think i just want firefox for the tabbed browsing alone.
Now I can use firefox at work where the I.S. Nazi's only allow I.E. morons.. I was actually just talking about this with a co worker to see if I could do it... looks like it was done for me!
As a college student, I am against this. They know enough information about is with just our SSN. That's all they are gonna get. What about the thousand other privacy advocates that do not want to be included, where is the provision for that? Back when I was in High School, teachers knew who was doing well and who wasn't. The good teachers took it upon themselves to help the students who needed it. the bad teachers only helped the good students, in order to make themselves look good. It's sad that most teachers just aren't what they used to be...but who's to blame, the individuals, or the teachers who teach them? Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows?