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| Thread ID: 110070 | 2010-06-02 05:05:00 | Do you think this is unethical? | The Error Guy (14052) | PC World Chat |
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| 1106044 | 2010-06-02 10:04:00 | Arrrgh!!!! I started in the slate era. We used that and chalk in new entrants, then once we were able to write numbers 1 to 10 and the letters of the alphabet we graduated to paper and 'Black Beauty' pencils that wrote lines as thick as a politician's skin. Cheers Billy 8-{) :horrified The slate era lasted longer in the colonies so you can remember it and not be 60 yet :D |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1106045 | 2010-06-02 10:07:00 | Arrrgh!!!! Are you trying to age me Terry? Bad enough that it's my birthday tomorrow, that bungs another 365 days on the clock. :( I started in the slate era. We used that and chalk in new entrants, then once we were able to write numbers 1 to 10 and the letters of the alphabet we graduated to paper and 'Black Beauty' pencils that wrote lines as thick as a politician's skin. Cheers Billy 8-{) :horrified Wasn't intending to age you, I was thinking of first form in secondary school, but you are right, I had forgotten, we also had slates in the first class or two of infants school. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1106046 | 2010-06-02 10:17:00 | Slide rules were also frowned upon as we were supposed to show all the 'workings' not just the answer. But to use a slide rule you still need to understand the maths involved unlike calculators. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1106047 | 2010-06-02 10:21:00 | banning forums is abit to far. what happens if you need to fix your laptop, thats where pressf1 comes in handy | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1106048 | 2010-06-02 10:26:00 | Maybe Google will come in handy too. ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1106049 | 2010-06-02 10:30:00 | yes but their is some wonderful and experienced people here too. does this software block bittorrent or p2p? (just wondering). and just be thankfull that they arent making you install nortons on them otherwize your laptops would fall over and crash |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1106050 | 2010-06-02 11:43:00 | My eth detector came up blank, so I suppose that makes it unethical. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1106051 | 2010-06-02 20:15:00 | My ethical detector must be broken its never given any indication of ethicality at home or work. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1106052 | 2010-06-02 20:44:00 | What if you run Linux / MacOS? Then what do they do? they die in a hole (thats what I did) |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1106053 | 2010-06-02 20:57:00 | Ok so its probably not unethical but the fact that we MUST comply and have no other option is a bit extreme in my views. I understand the school has a legal obligation to look after us but they refuse to unblock sites such pressf1 because it is a forum, I don't quite understand why they wont let us access it, it seems they don't either because they refuse to tell me why. I can understand them blocking sites related to piracy and pornography but some of the others are a bit far, almost all the boarders agree with this. I wouldn't expect a completely un-restricted connection at all incase some people got that Idea For the other Questions: I have an SSH to my computer at home, now running Ubuntu and 7 and we are definitely not allowed ANY 3G internet connections (and we don't get vodafone reception only telecom) The teachers don't manage the internet connection (through SINA by Editure) we have about 3 dedicated staff for that and they sure as hell do know how to change it. All you other sadistic sad sacks who tell us "children" to deal with it obviously have the inability to understand where I was coming from and have successfully defeated the whole point of this discussion so I assume you agree with us that the school having the ability to track EVERY key stroke and stalk you out on the 3 sites that they let us use is ok. point taken about BT, it did, I stopped it. They took my laptop for a year. |
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