ArchieRoni said:
For the sake of argument, did you mean that the student was using Netflix on a school computer? It is somewhat different to be, say, at the library streaming video instead of studying (especially if there's a limited amount of computers and anybody else who wanted to do research had to wait) compared with simply using Netflix on one's home computer during free time. It's even possible, depending precisely on the school's computer use policy, that it could be technically illegal to use Netflix on a school computer do to the way that many nation's unauthorized computer access laws are worded. I'd have to look up Australia's law in that area and see the school's exact written rules to be able to tell for sure.
It's a bit of a grey area, but the way he was saying it, made it seem like it was illegal to use all together.
because technically when a site isn't blocked, and you're not using a proxy, it's not breaking any of the rules, because the IT guys are generally idoits sometimes you have times where you can access facebook by typing
https://m.facebook.com without even using a proxy.
The blocking policy there is practically a 5 year old protecting his toys, you aint getting what yah want with him lol....
The blocking policy is that bad, that it's a well known fact that 99% of the students use a proxy anyway, because practically the only thing unblocked was wikipedia, and there like oh it's blocked do the research at home, keep in mind not everyone has a internet connection at home, I'm a lucky few who has. so they rarely do anything about it, other than block them.
To give you an idea of how bad it is, this is a sample list of sites blocked.
Yahoo Answers, Google Images, (90% of wikipedia) and anything related to the school work you actually want to do, it was that bad you practically NEEDED a proxy to do your work, because teachers love to pull the, oh you can't use Wikipedia for research, practically rendering you unable to research anything at all, when that is practically the only thing unblocked, everything else is hit and miss, you got a 1 in 5 chance of it actually being unblocked. Wikihow, Youtube (90% of the time) though you can get your way around that by putting it into a html page, JB-HI-FI, list goes on and on.
One of my assignments in year 12 was to review and find cameras on the internet ahaha, it got to the point that I never actually finished the assignment and failed during a time my mother didn't pay the net, half the class struggled with it, because you guessed it, the sites you needed were BLOCKED. though weeks later the fucking sites were unblocked, how useless is that.
Meanwhile, a lot of porn sites haven't been blocked, and you can practically play games all day, but research baaa we will block that for shits and giggles.
Don't forget that time I had bing open doing research and got told off by this teacher for "playing games" or "that doesn't look like research" so wait I use a search engine you aren't familiar with, and I'm suddenly playing games, does this look like a game to you?
*Sigh* yes I use bing sometimes, google at the school is generally shit and bing just looks better, google at the school looks like its from 1995, plus images work, and I found a lot more information I needed.
The cool thing about my old IT teacher is, he knew this and often "turned a blind" eye when it came to proxies, only teacher who didn't dob you in for using one lol.
Even the USA Wikipedia page is blocked under "wiki",
(I once wrote a entire torrent site by scratch because I was bored) so yeah I've got a decent understanding of the entire protocol, enough to implement it at least. I was trying to come up with a solution to a problem I had, but ended up writing a torrent site (the scraper was written in python and used as a cgi script) wrote it by scratch for some reason, there was a good library for it, but didn't do what I wanted.
