I have about had it with my stupid school district. They are the most strict bastards I have ever heard of. I am tired of their stupid rules that are litterally pointless and just there to make our lives miserable. Today, my favorite site of all time, has been blocked at school, http://www.massassi.net I sware I must be the only one for sure that accesses this site in the Plano, Texas school district. When I tried to load up Massassi, it gave me a message saying "This website has been blocked due to: Games." I was like WTF! I can understand them blocking game websites, and I understand pornography, but you do NOT block my Massassi. AHHHHH!!!!!!

Please comfort me

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www.the-cloak.com, or try going to massassi via the IP.


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I don't really see a problem with your school blocking massassi. You can do that on your own time, you know?

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I'm taking BCIS, we learn how to bold things in Microsoft Word...I have lots of spare time..

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Maker of the Levels:
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Sand Trap (Night)

Writer/Author of the fanfic: Dragonball Aftershock

_.~'AKA DBF_SuperSaiyan'~._

There are usually really simple ways around those blocks. You can quite often get to the forums using the forum address even if the main site is blocked (depending on the software being used). Anyway, you're in the clear it seems.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

/me laughs.

I had to put up with garbage like that last year. And I'm not just refering to Massassi. The system litterally blocked so many sites the internet wasn't worth using. They blocked EVERYTHING. If it got too many hits it was blocked. It didn't matter if it was educational. They blocked CNN.com for the love of God.

Our solution?

http://nosensor.citizenlab.org/#4.5

Try a link. If it doesn't work, try another.

See, I don't have a problem with them blocking web sites. That's all well and good. What gets me, is they block things that shouldn't be blocked at all. Massassi is up there. Is there any reason to block it? This site would rank near the bottom of any list I came up with of sites to block. It's harmless. They don't look at what they're blocking and censoring, they just do it.

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
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My old school was always behind on their block list because I think they had to do it manually. When they blocked the site everyone was going to, we all just found another one. They also didn't even account for the Google Cache.

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Massassi's been blocked at my school for about 2-3 years now.

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I'm with BobTheMasher. School is for school stuff not personal stuff. Especially since I'M paying for your education.

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My old high school had similar blocks in place. Doing research on certain subjects, say baseball for instance, was nearly impossible. Many baseball sites mention Babe Ruth, but because of the word "babe", they were blocked.

One of the librarians (namely, the one with a particular hatred of students) used to spend a great deal of her time slowly circling around the bank of computers in the middle of the library, carefully studying the computer monitors and asking each student exactly what kind of site they were looking at. One day I was browsing through the editing board of this site, and literally got yelled at: "NO FORUMS!!".

Naturally, nearly every imaginable free email site was blocked, too. Back then I had Massassi mail, but since nobody in the school district had ever heard of it (and thus couldn't block it), I was still able to check it through the library computers.


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Yeah, http://www.massassi.net was blocked at my school, too. But http://massassi.net wasn't. Try that.

the cloak is blocked at my school.. oh well it restarts today, maybe i can get myself onto the computers and see what's blocked this time around...last year it was blocked because people found Flash games finnally


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PROXY TIME!

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sucks to be you lot... the 90's were a whole load better

teacher: is that porn?
me: no, Quake 2 websites
teacher: oh ok, carry on.

and that was the stricter of the two computer classes

I don't know, 2004 was still pretty cool for me.

Teacher: Is that Doom?
Me: Yes.
Teacher: Ok carry on.

In my high school, we werent allowed to type anything on the computers that were for internet research, except to enter a url in the address bar. Yeah, the rule didnt make that much sense... but in a few years, you'll look back and wonder why you were making such a big deal about this. School is for education, if you have free time, go read a book or play a sport outside. When you look back on the time you spent in school, do you really want to remember it as being time spent in front of a computer?

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It aint that bad, with my english teacher its totally crap

Teacher: Is that the net?
me : Yes
Teacher : Oh my god! Phaedofile! Kill it!

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I never really had much in the way of computer classes at school, in fact I rarely used the computers at all except for the occasional need for a printer.

Altavista translator can get around most filters that aren't Server Based. Google cache can get you any text, but no pictures.

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I've never been stopped from doing anything on the computers, and I really don't know THAT much about getting around security. I've always simply disabled the security in one of the simple ways you disable any other program.

But then again, I only do these things when it prevents me from doing something education related. I see no reason to need to read massassi at school.

JediKirby

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Live on, Adam.

At my school, they don't let you on any sites for non-school related stuff... that includes email, unless you're sending research info to yourself. BUT we don't have any filters or anything; if I wanted, I could go anywhere. And actually, they're kinda slack with the non-school part; as long as it's not porn or an all-out gaming site (like battle.net), they'll let you on.

The 4 minutes between classes at my school isn't enough to do anything. I can't go to the bathroom and my locker without running to my next class all the way downstairs. WE NEED MORE TIME DANGIT!

The moral, there's something wrong with EVERY frigging school.

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[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited September 01, 2004).]

When I'm not doing anything in a class I whip out some homework from the previous class, somedays, I can get away with no homework by doing that...

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who the hell invented homework? When you're in school all day, the last thing you need is more work when you get home. What kind of stupid little prick made us live like this, anyway?



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Palm Beach County has a firewall that blocks it too. It would be funny if it was the same firewall page. The firewall list got cleared once, and then massassi was unbanned, but then they added sites and it was banned once more. Wierd thing is that other community game sites are unblocked. I used a proxy site to get to massassi and it worked fine and everything except today the proxy was blocked, so was the one I used last year. They do watch what you do, but apparantly they care more about the proxy than blocking all the other game sites I've been on. They also block translators, cause they are somewhat of a proxy.

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No, cruel, stupid, people who don't realize that you should have free time.

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try editing your HOSTS config file if you are using winxp.

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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

66.208.97.18 is the IP for massassi.net, but Massassi does not have a dedicated ip so it does not work.

However, if you get a blocked site to work by IP, but the IP is blocked too... here's a trick you can use with windows.

Convert the IP to a 32-bit integer and enter it in the url bar in any browser. Windows will treat the 32-bit integer as an IP address.

Here is how you do the conversion:

Open calc.exe and switch to scientific mode.

For each of the four parts of the ip, convert it to hexidecimal.

66 -> 42
208 -> D0
97 -> 61
18 -> 12

Put 'em all together to make your 32-bit integer in hexidecimal, and convert back to decimal:

42D06112 -> 1120952594

Add your http tags and you're done! http://1120952594/

Note it goes to the same error page as the ip.

Oh, and it doesn't seem to work behind the squid proxy (just tried it now). Dumb proxy. -_-

If you need a site to try it out on, try google.com. You can get the ip of a site by doing a WHOIS lookup, or by pinging it with ping.exe, which will resolve the domain name automatically.

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Free time?
Heh, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (US), they passed a law that says that for summer reading assignments must NOT require the student to read more than one book because otherwise it takes up too much free time.

At least *someone* has *some* common sense. Of course, by the time it spreads down to where I live, it'll be too late.

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I tried http://1120952594/ in firefox and it returned an error.

'No site is configured at this address".




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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

Use the site I provided. It's a freaking list of about 30 or 40, maybe 50 different proxies. Last year, they'd block one of the proxies on that list, and we'd find another that same day. For some reason, they never blocked the site itself. That thing is updated all the time with new ones too.

So, unless your IT security people are smarter than ours were last year, that site should last you a long, long time.

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Well thats nothin. I downloaded GTK radiant from the proxy at my school and took up 90% of the COUNTY districts bandwidth on my single computer. I almost got banned from the lab and that would have failed me from two classes. Luckily the computer baninators a good guy who let me slip cause im good with computers.

But they wont get massassi!

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Well thats nothin. I downloaded GTK radiant from the proxy at my school and took up 90% of the COUNTY districts bandwidth on my single computer. I almost got banned from the lab and that would have failed me from two classes. Luckily the computer baninators a good guy who let me slip cause im good with computers.

But they wont get massassi!

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Does the entire county share one T1 line or something?

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Frogblast the Vent-Core!

Yup, if you try the ip address for massassi.net you get the same error. Thus it works.

Anyways, try it on google.com, and that 32-bit integer will work.



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My own sorrowind.net CGI proxy > * school filters

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[This message has been edited by Jedi_Goon (edited September 02, 2004).]

Sorry for reviving a dead topic but...

I tried Cool_Matty's sorrowind.net and it said this:

"This page has been blocked due to internet clubs and or message boards. (Code Violation #678)"

I find that amusing.

I NEVER get any homework, and I'm a Junior, The last time i had home work was in 7th grade!!! I feel so privaleged.