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[friskykillface]

I didn't get shit in high school , I had to use Microsoft word trials every year lol since I was a poor kid , and this was in 2004 lol

And your complaining about not going on reddit , smh do your homework


Lol at taxes , what taxes are you paying 0_o

 

[sirap]

Chromebooks are awesome, I've fapped to hundreds of hours worth of porn on them.

 

[Rktk]

Hack the system lad.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

Hack the system lad.

That's the only way to dress when your on the computer

 

[Messofanego]

Oh no you can't access Reddit, that haven of nice guys.

 

[VanWinkle]

When I was a senior in high school, I had to share a terrible computer with four of my brothers. I would have been ecstatic to have had something like a Chromebook at the time, even with restrictions.

 

[diaspora]

Why even mention the taxes? Do you pay them?

 

[mackattk]

Yea... wait wha?

It is THE penis, not YOUR penis. I thought every class had a school supplied wooden penis for class. As it gets used, it needs sharpening.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

It was good I guess

Are the other kids nice? Did you learn anything new?

 

[stufte]

Oh no you can't access Reddit, that haven of nice guys.

I like the artistic sensibilities of that video a lot.

But I also think that generic hate for Reddit is lazy.

Spoiler

Redpillers are awful people though.

 

[ksan]

Let's completely disregard the egalitarian point of not having restrictions.

Seems like school has always been shit anyway.

 

[Messofanego]

I like the artistic sensibilities of that video a lot.

But I also think that generic hate for Reddit is lazy.

Spoiler

Redpillers are awful people though.

There is not a single good person on Reddit. Not a single one ever in existence. Even those people who did something nice for someone else to help, they just did it for points.

Spoiler

 

[stufte]

There is not a single good person on Reddit. Not a single one ever in existence. Even those people who did something nice for someone else to help, they just did it for points.

Spoiler

Karma is the great decider. All hail Karma.

 

[DoktorEvil]

Let's completely disregard the egalitarian point of not having restrictions.

Seems like school has always been shit anyway.

Did someone not do their homework?

 

[spindashing]

what the fuck is going on here

 

[Princess Viola]

I wish my school gave us free stuff.

And I'm only 19.

 

[btrboyev]

couldn't you just switch out the hdd?

would you switch out a work laptops hdd? No.

Secondly, the devices are managed with a license. If it's wiped or a drive is swapped, it will just re-enroll itself to the google mdm. When the device hasn't been checked in for a long period of time, some is going to notice.

 

[segasonic]

reserve the right to monitor you remotely through the camera on the pc

WHAT?

 

[iamblades]

would you switch out a work laptops hdd? No.

Secondly, the devices are managed with a license. If it's wiped or a drive is swapped, it will just re-enroll itself to the google mdm. When the device hasn't been checked in for a long period of time, some is going to notice.

This is what USB boot sticks are for.

If you can get the thing into developer mode(usually a physical switch in the battery compartment or somewhere), you can boot a full linux image without messing with the chromeOS install.

 

[optimiss]

What education software does your school use on the Chromebooks?

 

[RionaaM]

*shrug* I remember a mod saying it wasn't a hard rule. Like if a junior member PMed a mod about becoming a member after reaching that threshold they would probably laugh.

Holy shit, my whole life has been a lie! What other things am I believing in that are fake? Now you're going to tell me that avatars disappearing when someone is banned aren't a sign that it's a permaban?


(it isn't, that's a bug in GAF's code)

 

[NH Apache]

This was my computer in middle/early high school and it was the late 90's.

You're gonna be ok.

 

[Robot Pants]

????? Oh god I have just .... Just so many questions but at the same time don't care at all

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Don't worry op, as long as mom doesn't make you eat broccoli you're in the clear

boom

 

[Miles Quaritch]

The webcam snooping sounds suspect as fuck.

Electric tape that shit as soon as.

 

[DarkFlow]

My 5th grader has a iPad to take home. I think it's a waste of money really.

 

[btrboyev]

This is what USB boot sticks are for.

If you can get the thing into developer mode(usually a physical switch in the battery compartment or somewhere), you can boot a full linux image without messing with the chromeOS install.

The management can disable usb if they choose to.

Also, what part of school owned property do you guys not get? It's not his to modify.

 

[btrboyev]

My 5th grader has a iPad to take home. I think it's a waste of money really.

That's because it's an iPad and yes, (5th graders have no business taking expensive shit home).

 

[oneils]

Probably been said already but I think banning YouTube is kind of dumb. It's a great educational resource.

It was banned at my work for the past 9 years or so until recently. I complained to anyone that would listen that whitelisting YouTube could reduce calls to our help desk.

I would call my help desk all the time to resolve simple things I may have been able to sort out with video instructions. After 8 years of that behavior, calling the help desk is still my default. It's silly.

 

[fluffydelusions]

This was my computer in middle/early high school and it was the late 90's.



You're gonna be ok.

That looks like the computer I used in the 80s in middle school lol

 

[Intheflorsh]

WORTHLESS

 

[iamblades]

Probably been said already but I think banning YouTube is kind of dumb. It's a great educational resource.

It was banned at my work for the past 9 years or so until recently. I complained to anyone that would listen that whitelisting YouTube could reduce calls to our help desk.

I would call my help desk all the time to resolve simple things I may have been able to sort out with video instructions. After 8 years of that behavior, calling the help desk is still my default. It's silly.

Banning any website is kind of dumb given how trivial it is to unblock stuff.

 

[DarkFlow]

That's because it's an iPad and yes, (5th graders have no business taking expensive shit home).

Yeah, plus she already has a Galaxy Tab 4 of her own to use.

 

[Slavik81]

There is no way the school wound be allowed to "snoop" on you with the camera in any situation.

Are they allowed? No. Should you be concerned that they have the ability? Yes.

The lawsuit was filed after 15-year-old high school sophomore Blake Robbins was disciplined at school, for his behavior in his home.[5][13] The school based its decision to discipline Robbins on a photograph that had been secretly taken of him in his bedroom, via the webcam in his school-issued laptop. Without telling its students, the schools remotely accessed their school-issued laptops to secretly snap pictures of students in their own homes, their chat logs, and records of the websites they visited. The school then transmitted the snapshots to servers at the school, where school authorities reviewed them and shared the snapshots with others.[14] In one widely published photo, the school had photographed Robbins in his bed.

Over [...] 15 days, the school district captured at least 210 webcam photos and 218 screenshots. They included photos inside his home of Robbins sleeping and of him partially undressed, as well as photos of his father.[48] The district also snapped images of Robbins' instant messages and video chats with his friends, and sent them to its servers.[48] Those 429 images, however, only reflected the number of images later recovered—during the ensuing litigation the district conceded it had been unable to recover a week's worth of images that it had taken. "

Note that the school's original statement on this matter was:

[T]here is absolutely no way that the District Tech people are going to monitor students at home.... If we were going to monitor student use at home, we would have stated so. Think about it—why would we do that? There is no purpose. We are not a police state.... There is no way that I would approve or advocate for the monitoring of students at home.

I suggest you take a breath and relax.

(source)

EDIT: I see this was already mentioned, but hey, I pulled quotes for you guys.

 

[Zoe]

Probably been said already but I think banning YouTube is kind of dumb. It's a great educational resource.

It was banned at my work for the past 9 years or so until recently. I complained to anyone that would listen that whitelisting YouTube could reduce calls to our help desk.

I would call my help desk all the time to resolve simple things I may have been able to sort out with video instructions. After 8 years of that behavior, calling the help desk is still my default. It's silly.

Just because it has some education content doesn't mean that the majority of it isn't crap to a student.

Banning any website is kind of dumb given how trivial it is to unblock stuff.

Not that trivial when you don't have the proper rights on the device.

That's because it's an iPad and yes, (5th graders have no business taking expensive shit home).

Neither do high schoolers. Apparently it's been a big issue with our district and iPads and laptops.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

My 5th grader has a iPad to take home. I think it's a waste of money really.

Well, there are all kinds of activities done with them in the class that get the kids into it. I do wonder why they are letting 5th graders take them home though.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

you can not access reddit youtube facebook twitter even when your not at school.

That's the only way to dress when your on the computer

OP, please learn the difference between your and you're. You're a senior in high school I believe you said, so you should know this. Proper grammar can increase your chances of employment in a competitive marketplace.

 

[Cheebo]

I wonder if the OP realizes that everyone else GAF saw him as a child soon as he mentioned he was in high school.


I started posting on GAF in 2005. The OP was 6 or 7 years old when I was making threads here. Holy shit.

 

[old manatee]

You go to a school that is well funded enough to send a laptop home with every student and you're gonna bitch because reddit is blocked.

 

[DarkFlow]

Well, there are all kinds of activities done with them in the class that get the kids into it. I do wonder why they are letting 5th graders take them home though.

I have zero idea, this is the first time they've done with. They've had iPads for class since she was in 3rd grade, but never took them home before. I live in San Diego btw. I have to go to a meeting about them next week, so I guess they will tell us.

 

[iamblades]

Just because it has some education content doesn't mean that the majority of it isn't crap to a student.



Not that trivial when you don't have the proper rights on the device.



Neither do high schoolers. Apparently it's been a big issue with our district and iPads and laptops.

You don't really need rights on the device to unblock websites, you just need a man in the middle(of course at that point just use the man in the middle to browse the net, but still. )

Shit, you can get around most of these software filters just by using a service that obfuscates the url, like tinyurl or even google translate, or just going off ip. It's not like a chromebook has the horespower to run realtime content filtering, so it's just going to be an url/DNS blacklist, which is trivial to overcome without any access to software.

If its locked down hardware with a software filter + network filtering, it becomes more difficult to get around them both, still doable, just a pain in the ass. Which is all filtering ever really is.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I have zero idea, this is the first time they've done with. They've had iPads for class since she was in 3rd grade, but never took them home before. I live in San Diego btw. I have to go to a meeting about them next week, so I guess they will tell us.

To be honest, I don't see either staff or students making very good use of the iPads at the schools I serve. There's nothing of value they do on them that a far cheaper Kindle couldn't do. They basically read their texts, and watch videos on them. Admittedly some of it may be due to the teachers not knowing how to utilize them, but I've worked directly with over 6 different schools and it seems pretty uniform. The one exception is certain special education students in which certain apps provide them a better way to communicate. Problem with that though is the apps have ridiculous prices. They're often $100 per app, and a few of them are nontransferable licenses. Not sure what students do with them at home other than break them and make my department shell out $100+ to get them repaired.

 

[Captain Europe]

The camera thing is fucking creepy, and it's pretty dumb they block Youtube cos there's a lot of useful material on there for studying.

 

[Slavik81]

You don't really need rights on the device to unblock websites, you just need a man in the middle(of course at that point just use the man in the middle to browse the net, but still. )

Shit, you can get around most of these software filters just by using a service that obfuscates the url, like tinyurl or even google translate, or just going off ip. It's not like a chromebook has the horespower to run realtime content filtering, so it's just going to be an url blacklist, which is trivial to overcome without any access to software.

If its locked down hardware with a software filter + network filtering, it becomes more difficult to get around them both, still doable, just a pain in the ass. Which is all filtering ever really is.

It helps teach children how the internet works, and provides a practical example of real-world problem-solving!

 

[Grimsen]

I remember getting to play Dark Castle before computer classes in middle/high school.

I guess I was luckier than OP.

 

[oneils]

Just because it has some education content doesn't mean that the majority of it isn't crap to a student.

That describes the whole internet.

 

[PInk Tape]

Honestly, I think you'll survive.

I wish school gave me a expensive piece of equipment to do home work with when i was in school.

We even had to buy our own calculators.

Those suckers weren't cheap.

I had to pay $100 for mine >.>

 

[DarkFlow]

To be honest, I don't see either staff or students making very good use of the iPads at the schools I serve. There's nothing of value they do on them that a far cheaper Kindle couldn't do. They basically read their texts, and watch videos on them. Admittedly some of it may be due to the teachers not knowing how to utilize them, but I've worked directly with over 6 different schools and it seems pretty uniform. The one exception is certain special education students in which certain apps provide them a better way to communicate. Problem with that though is the apps have ridiculous prices. They're often $100 per app, and a few of them are nontransferable licenses. Not sure what students do with them at home other than break them and make my department shell out $100+ to get them repaired.

I know she plays a lot of games on them like stack the states and shit like that.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

They gave you a Chromebook?

Monsters.

 

[keuja]

Go do your homework and stop complaining about stuff you got for free thanks to taxes you don't even pay.