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I'm at school and this is one of the only websites i can get on without it filtering it :banghead:
Anyone else have such strict filters?
Anyone else have such strict filters?
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I agree with school filters. I don't think kids should be spending their time looking at crap websites or checking their personal emails when they're at school. Yes, that is miserable but I don't care. :razz:
That never gets old.
:yes: same here.
But at schools I can understand it, they have less pc's than uni's do and they have younger kids to protect from the nasties of the internet.
in our library we have to book slots to use the computers so it shouldnt matter what you do aslong as you booked the slot.
in my day, we didn't have internet access at school, so had to make our own fun by writing 'cock' on the blackboard before the teacher came inand seeing how long it would take for them to notice, and passing notes and stuff.
Also, we have a lot of computers here and the amount of times people are waiting for computers when theres kids playing games is incredible. Let me catch em as i throw the little buggers out
In my day we used to put chalk into the grove in the board so when it was rotated they would fall causing a mess and much fun.
there weren't enough pc's at my 6th form, although I don't think I actually even set foot in the pc rooms at 6th form, then again I was rarely there anyway. But I think we had 60 pc's at 6th form, which between 400 students wasn't very many. Lower School we had 100 pc's between 600 students although we only had net access on 3 of them.
But theres never a high demand for them as people are either in lessons, at home or not needing computers in there free period.
Who looks at porn in a 6th form college?? :eek2:
And at my school we have a couple of hundred computers (i think about 200) for about in total about 800 students.
You'd be surprised...I knew people who did (yes they soon put filters in). And anyway, fairly regularly when you do searches you come up with the odd porn site that you might visit by mistake even.
I would have assumed (perhaps wrongly) that most people would be mature enough to hit the back button. I suppose you always get the one kid who starts crying and phones up his mum who then sues the school for emotional and mental damage.
16-18 yo lads matture when it comes to sex and the likes? Not in my experience. Hitting the back button doesn't protect the network always though from viruses.
At least you have the internet. In one of the IT rooms in school, we have to ask to go on the internet, even then they'll only do it if you tell them what you're doing...
Get them to use firefox
My friends were doing some chemistry AS coursework earlier, on the topic of oxidation amongst topics like explosions etc. And loads of sites were blocked that could have helped them with their work..that was annoying.
I think they need filters at college though, because I get WAY too distracted WAY too easily by things like here, LJ and my forum.
So yeh, THEY NEED FILTERS AT COLLEGE.
Stop complaining about them