| We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Talk about stupidity and ignorancy... | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 3 2005, 09:05 PM (1,290 Views) | |
| OcelotJay | Feb 4 2005, 11:06 AM Post #16 |
|
<3 mine [big]Miaow[/big]
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
I can kinda see why they would hand out a suspension for that, quite light compared to things I've seen happen. I'll have to explain why. The entire computer system of our college failed one day. Nobody could access anything. It came on very suddenly and without any warning, needless to say the other staff weren't happy and I was one annoyed kitteh -_- Eventually, after we convinced our sodding tech staff to fix it, they found the problem to have been a few pretty nasty viruses. How it got into our system was beyond us. We use pretty good protection...for a college anyway or at least we'd thought so :/ Turns out some muppet had downloaded a "harmless" game and brought with it a host of viruses. After a lot of arguing, the student responsible was expelled from using computers ever again on college grounds and ultimately thrown out because he was taking a course than needed computer access. :/ He's back, unfortunately, but doing a different course. Everyday people get away with downloading things because it's near impossible to moniter them but when they do I can tell you I hand out pretty harsh punishments. Why? Because there is no such thing as a harmless download when it comes to the internet and a business. I think some of the restrictions they have is rediculous (but understandable) but when a muppet tries to download somethng that he shouldn't be he puts us at risk - as did the student I mentioned - and deserves some form of punishment. Anyhoo, that might be the reasoning behind it. You could have put the school system at risk of a virus leak, even if you think the link was reliable. :/ Kinda harsh punishment for a school kid btu I can see where they are coming from. They could have just suspended you from using computers for the day/a while like we do if it's something that didn't result in any harm. I can see why you are upset but saying "I did not intend this to happen" doesn't quite make a defense as generally most people don't intend for certain things to happen, like the kid I spoke about earlier didn't intend for any viruses to get in...but it happened. Meh, I'd just suck it up and accept it. If their rules say you were in the wrong (for downloading games and putting them at risk of spyware or worse) then you were in the wrong. I agree it was the other student's choice to play the games and cause the 'disruption' but you provided the source when you downloaded it and thus are held responsible. I think I've spent far too long in my job :unsure: |
![]() |
|
| AndrewF31 | Feb 4 2005, 11:12 AM Post #17 |
![]()
Otorrinolaringologista
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
^------- wise words.
|
![]() |
|
| Seth | Feb 4 2005, 11:30 AM Post #18 |
|
I has a pony
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Indeed <_< suck it up, you knew you weren't supposed to be doing that. |
![]() |
|
| primexx | Feb 4 2005, 01:33 PM Post #19 |
|
Primexx - A Member Of InvisionFree
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
actually, legally, intended and unintended has a huge difference. thats why i put it in. btw, sadly, the school act does eixst, it's a provincial legislation... and yes i was suspended for a year from the computers.... |
![]() |
|
| Daniel Talbot | Feb 4 2005, 01:38 PM Post #20 |
|
Semper Fidelis
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
at least you didnt get exspelled (sp) from school for doing it |
![]() |
|
| primexx | Feb 4 2005, 01:44 PM Post #21 |
|
Primexx - A Member Of InvisionFree
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
no im far from being expelled...they dont expell people that easily. |
![]() |
|
| Angeleyes2391 | Feb 4 2005, 04:12 PM Post #22 |
|
Let's naked be, oh yes!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
That's pretty crap. They should ahve a more secure system/network/thing if they want to prevent things like that, and it's not like you damaged it at all. They should thank you for finding it because now they'll probably make it so you can't access the drivers to save games or whatever. The choices the other students made about playing games was nothing to do with you, even if you did provide another option. Was still their decision. |
![]() |
|
| OcelotJay | Feb 4 2005, 04:18 PM Post #23 |
|
<3 mine [big]Miaow[/big]
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
You were suspended, not sued :rolleyes: Yes whether you intended or not can make some difference but in a matter like this (non-legal) it makes no difference at all because you knowingly broke the rules. And now you're punished. Why try to make it worse rather than accept it? :/ You weren't at all innocent. You did something wrong that could have caused a major problem, it's not like they suspended you for no reason. |
![]() |
|
| FusedFox | Feb 4 2005, 04:26 PM Post #24 |
|
The End Has Passed
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
They do at my school. Had you done it there, you'd already be long gone. |
![]() |
|
| Logik | Feb 4 2005, 05:10 PM Post #25 |
![]()
it's not sparkly enough
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
Meh, I would never do tha5. ![]() Usually I simply play the games via the browser, but then if you wanted to download something, a pop- up would come out and say "NO DOWNLOADING". :ph34r: If you did it, blame yourself. Personally, I never went deeper than H: drive.
|
![]() |
|
| Zach | Feb 4 2005, 05:19 PM Post #26 |
|
Missjayness
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
seeing it from a teachers point of view, I can understand better why the suspension was put in place. Now I'm indifferent about the whole thing. I obviously see it from a students point of view, being unfair and to harsh. Yet I also see it from the teachers point of view, you could have compromised the school security system with unknown downloads. |
![]() |
|
| Deleted User | Feb 4 2005, 07:09 PM Post #27 |
|
Deleted User
|
our comps at school are so poorly protected. we telnet with them as well as VNC with them all the time. we have access to basicly everything due to this magical device known as the comand prompt and the ru command that...and the administrator login is admin and has no pass....
|
|
|
| primexx | Feb 4 2005, 09:15 PM Post #28 |
|
Primexx - A Member Of InvisionFree
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
thats even worse than my school's security.... |
![]() |
|
| Aaron | Feb 4 2005, 10:01 PM Post #29 |
![]()
A blast from the past.
![]()
|
you should warn them about that or something before some one gets "mad" at the school and does something evil. :ph34r:
|
![]() |
|
| Brandon | Feb 5 2005, 07:07 PM Post #30 |
![]()
|
:rolleyes: |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
![]() Join the millions that use us for their forum communities. Create your own forum today. Learn More · Register Now |
|
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · Community Chat · Next Topic » |
| Track Topic · E-mail Topic |
3:07 PM Jul 11
|


![]](http://b1.ifrm.com/0/1/0/p601690/pipright.png)



wise words.


that...and the administrator login is admin and has no pass....




3:07 PM Jul 11