School

[omega329]

How's your school life going? Had any tests? Wipeoutzone been blocked by the filter? Post you school stories, problems and rants here.

I broke my nose at school on thurs, got in a fight in the middle of a lesson, other kid got a 5 day suspension... Best part is, I got off scott free and started the damn thing!

[RJ O'Connell]

Going into college this year. I'll be staying in Florence for at least the first year, then I'm thinking I could transfer to another college further down the road. I'll be majoring in Communications and Speech at North Alabama.

Oddly enough, WipeoutZone isn't blocked at Florence High School. Mostly because no one except for a handful of people besides me know this game even exists. XD

[mdhay]

OLSJ blocked it.

[Hellfire_WZ]

WipeoutZone's blocked at my school too. LGFL is a right pain, all my message boards and games sites are filtered, and even the ones where I might find useful stuff for my work. A site for a plot summary of Macbeth was filtered under the category "Encourages criminal activity". Work that one out if you can.

Oh, I'm a member of staff by the way ;)

[mdhay]

No password override?

[Hellfire_WZ]

Nope, the filter smashes everyone, students and staff alike. It's not run by the school, it's an independent entity

[mdhay]

Just like websense.

[Darkdrium777]

The filter at the school I went to blocked Wipeoutzone too.
It may be because it is advertised as a "Game" website that it is blocked automatically. If Rob were to change that it probably would not be blocked anymore (hint hint ;))...

[RJ O'Connell]

Florence City Schools filters "game" websites as well. It's just that they have a problem with people playing Kitten Cannon and other flash games in the computer lab. The Zone gets by without notice. And it was good. :D

[mdhay]

Kitty Cannon? heh.

[omega329]

Our school had a blanket filter on games websites, notdoppler got through, just this once, 2 solid hours of Boxhead 2play tournaments, it was epic, until the next day, when Notdoppler had been blocked >.<

[rdmx]

Encourages criminal activity
I think they are referring to 'cheating' and essay stealing or something like that. People may become predisposed to relying on cheating in the future, and hence fraud?

Anyway, my school hasn't blocked WipeoutZone yet, probably because I'm the one of the few people here who can race phantom class and not squirm. There are other people who've played wipeout before, but I don't they are as *ahem*passionate about it.

This is odd though, considering the majority of message boards are blocked. I don't post from school though.

[mdhay]

"encourages criminal activity"

Plagiarism?

[omega329]

Possibly, although, there are also companies out there that will write reports/essays for you, for a small fee of course...

First day back with my broken nose (TBH, "chipped nose" would be more accurate) The stories of my health after the incident ranged from a minor nosebleed, to flat-out on the floor with a broken nose and 3 lost teeth, along with a days suspension... XD
Apparently the other guy's got a black eye...

[Darkdrium777]

Fighting at school... :naughty

Over what? It couldn't have been "for fun" or else I think you would have stopped before injuries...

[omega329]

The Story:
we have a "New Teacher", no-one has any respect for her, which really irks me, she left the lesson for 5 mins, so everyone decided to mess around...
Someone gave me a wedgie, I was fed-up with the stupid attitudes of the class, so I turned round and punched him in the face/eye (Ironic, I know). I then let him punch me to make things equal, he did, three times, third attempt hit my nose :rolleyes:, I didn't realise I had a nosebleed until this girl said, "Adam! your nose is bleeding!" I looked down, at the pool of blood on the table, said: "oh... right then.." and walked out the class. On my way, I passed someone with a paper towel, asked if I could borrow it, they just stared at my blood-covered face, so I pulled it out of thier hands and proceeded to the medical bay with the head of science worrying that I was going to faint...
All-in-all, it was a pretty eventful last lesson! :g
NOTE: This is the kind of thing which I NEVER do, the closest thing I'd had to a fight before this was playing sumo wrestling in the playground three years ago...

[Hellfire_WZ]

I think they are referring to 'cheating' and essay stealing or something like that. People may become predisposed to relying on cheating in the future, and hence fraud?


Plagiarism?

Nope, the filter isn't that clever. It only picks out specific words and classifies sites based solely on that. So in this case, it's because of the descriptions of the murder scenes in the play :P

Actually, I found out I CAN get on WipeoutZone at work, but I can't get on the forums... :(

[omega329]

Tried a proxy? Bringing in firefox/opera/browser of choice on a flash drive?

[Chrono]

If I didn't have Gamefaqs in high school, I would have probably punched people too. I was on the newspaper staff at school, which meant I sat and surfed the internets for a couple hours a day, then went to Sonic for lunch.

Another side note: My high school and another used to play each other in Tribes during their Computer Science class.

[mdhay]

So Charlie, if I was to write "blue tit" in google it wouldn't let me?

[omega329]

But "melons" would be ok? XD

[Lance]

Re: fighting in school:
I have read the opinions of one or two psychologists in the field of human development who say that children are essentially self-centered barbarians until they have gained enough experience to teach them to be more civilised.

{note that there are still many adults who have either never gained enough experience or have not drawn the best [by my value system] conclusions from it.}

>end intrusion on school thread<

[Hellfire_WZ]

Haven't tried them to be honest, I'll let you know ;)

It's really hard to work out exactly what it blocks. For example the Games page on Play.com is blocked, but I can happily get on both GameFAQs and its forums.

[omega329]

Well, I am usually quite civillised, I was called "one of the true gentlemen" of the school, I was actually apologising to the caretaker who was cleaning up the blood :?
Allthough, I do see their point, looking at the behaviour of other children/teenagers. More like a creche than a college our school somedays...

WOO! I'm going on a two week summer course about maths and it's real-world implications at Warwick University!
I'm wearing my ThinkGeek.com T-Shirts!

[rdmx]

Nope, the filter isn't that clever. It only picks out specific words and classifies sites based solely on that. So in this case, it's because of the descriptions of the murder scenes in the play :P


Oh - our filter blocks these sites under 'school cheating information' :|
They block the 'C-4' article on wikipedia too :(

[Asayyeah]

Here in the center , there's a proxy ruled by the tech guys : actually there's a way to bypass it but it's pretty hard and you need to know the good relation to let you open an anonymous back door.

To answer your question about browsing WZ or else ( game, sex and so on), you can use this link : http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html .
It's working like a charm here ;)

[Darkdrium777]

Except when the filter also block proxies, like the one at my old school xD

[omega329]

Today, someone decided to type "gif" into photobucket, try it for yourself and see what comes up ;)
WARNING: It's NOT work or school freindly!
Rather surprising, seeing as we have two seperate internet filters going...

[Linchpin]

Finished school and college/university .
I am now an unemployed 3D animator that specifies in texturing , lighting , rendering and with a particular interest in environment art .
There arnt many jobs for my field in South Africa , so working on one UBER demo reel , and then looking for work abroad , problem is NO countries want South Africans at all , so its hard :(...
Someone help! , hire me ahhhhhh!!!!

[Darkdrium777]

Come to Montreal and get in the Ubisoft studio here :)

[Rapier Racer]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/howitworks3.gif

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense

[RJ O'Connell]

I don't know what's more surprising, the Maddox plug here at WipeoutZone or the fact that that diagram is only 41KB in size. O_O

[Linchpin]

Come to Montreal and get in the Ubisoft studio here :)
:O
Do you work at ubisoft ??

[Darkdrium777]

No. Just saying there is a studio here, and it's pretty good (Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell among others.) ;)
I would love to though.

[rdmx]

Actually, the ubisoft forums say otherwise - the montreal studios have been pushing out sequels which are basically expansion packs - take r6v2 for example. Some of the problems in it haven't been fixed from the first r6vegas.
Maybe if new people work there the studios will change though :p

[Darkdrium777]

Well there is always EA too... :P Right in downtown Montreal. It's a very nice place.

[mdhay]

(Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell among others.)

And Assasin's Creed?

[Darkdrium777]

Sure. How I forgot about this and the beautiful Jade Raymond.
I should jump off Jacques Cartier bridge just for that. :paperbag:brickwall

[Lance]

coffSchoolcoff

[omega329]

Back on topic, School Reports, how was yours?

[mdhay]

I broke my nose at school on thurs, got in a fight in the middle of a lesson, other kid got a 5 day suspension... Best part is, I got off scott free and started the damn thing!

Hmm... wonder who that sounds like...

http://www.solarnavigator.net/media/media_images/george_bush_president_united_states_of_america_sad _face.jpg

In other news that doesn't involve cheap puns, I'm starting Work Experience soon.

[Velocitar64]

Wipeoutzone is blocked at my school. Otherwise i'd visit more often ;)

But yeah, it's fine. My coat got banned though. Stupid :(

It's not that bad D: (http://www.attitudeclothing.co.uk/product_17536-63-805_Dead-Threads---Messiah-Coat.htm)

[omega329]

I want that coat.
(allthough, it wouldn't suit me... :( )

[Velocitar64]

Wanna see me in it?

[yeldar2097]

Back on topic, School Reports, how was yours?

well mine was **** but isn't everyone's?

couple of A-levels coming up which should be fun.
who's taking what?

I love internet filters. Ours is proper stupid though. If you set IE not to work and use firefox then nothing is blocked. Random-ass :P
Internet also gets turned off at 23:00 but we have ways around that ;)

[Velocitar64]

My report is pretty good.

[archman]

My school...I just failed yesterdays one, and found that I'll really need to prepare it to hell good. ;)

[omega329]

Wanna see me in it?

hell yerr

[Mu5]

Someone help! , hire me ahhhhhh!!!!

Wheres your demo reel? :)

[omega329]

He's still working on it, from what I've seen, it's F**king awesome!