I wasn't sure where to post this, but when I attempt to access this forum from school it is blocked by the transparent proxy for Pornography. I can access valhallalegends.com fine, but not the forum.. is there something in the keywords that it is catching?  :(

What proxy? Or is it a private school blacklist?

I find it highly amusing. :) I guess your school just can't stand how sexy Grok is, or something.

Its Jigsaws Wang picture.

Probably has something to do with the, "How many vaginas have you seen?" thread in the Fun Forum.

Those filters are downloaded automatically from companies that track sites that have pornography warez, hacker tools, and what happens is programming sites get included in it as well.  There are countless legitimate programming tools sites that are on those lists.  From where I work, I have to use the internet without the proxy or I cannot get to tools I sometimes need for the job.

The sites probably get on the list by keyword searches and sufficient hits.  Since forum.vahallalegends.com likely has a thousand hits on programming subjects, I am not surprised it makes those lists.

The cheaper lists only work via keywords and humans do not doublecheck the list.  You'll find cheaper lists used by schools and most smaller companies.  Larger companies can afford the expensive lists, which have sites reviewed by persons so that legitimate sites do not make the restricted list.

[quote author=Grok link=topic=14305.msg146501#msg146501 date=1140445408]
Larger companies can afford the expensive lists, which have sites reviewed by persons so that legitimate sites do not make the restricted list.
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What's odd is at my school (I beleive Novell is in use still) forum.valhallalegends.com is permitted but lacrosseforums.com is not. The lacrosse forum is much more tightly moderated and even a thread about torrents was closed, so it's interesting to me.

Last I heard about the Las Cruces Public Schools they blocked all sites & prior to visiting the computer lab you had to submit a list of sites you would like to visit then the approved ones would be unblocked.

I don't think that would work out very well if they ever actually did implement it, how do you do a reasearch paper already knowingly what sites you want to look at?

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Last I heard about the Las Cruces Public Schools they blocked all sites & prior to visiting the computer lab you had to submit a list of sites you would like to visit then the approved ones would be unblocked.
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That's the only "good" solution to content filtering: whitelisting.  They could block all sites, then unblock all sites that are "safe".  They could provide their own search engine which only searches within "safe" sites.  That would be a lot of work, but it's the only way to stop people from getting around filters.

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[quote author=CrAz3D link=topic=14305.msg146511#msg146511 date=1140450357]
Last I heard about the Las Cruces Public Schools they blocked all sites & prior to visiting the computer lab you had to submit a list of sites you would like to visit then the approved ones would be unblocked.
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That's the only "good" solution to content filtering: whitelisting.  They could block all sites, then unblock all sites that are "safe".  They could provide their own search engine which only searches within "safe" sites.  That would be a lot of work, but it's the only way to stop people from getting around filters.
[/quote]Word.

@ a local mid school the kids (for w/e stupid ass reason) were provided with laptops for personal/school use.  The kids were all up in these porns sites & school admins found out, I dont know what happened to them, though

xD same @ ma school but all u do is go to google language tools and translate a website but dont translate it 2 another language just make it 2 like french 2 english and since it acts like a proxy it SHould work 0.o

www.spellcheck.net

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xD same @ ma school but all u do is go to google language tools and translate a website but dont translate it 2 another language just make it 2 like french 2 english and since it acts like a proxy it SHould work 0.o
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Speaking of language translation, can somebody translate that to English?

[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=7501.msg146614#msg146614 date=1140490365]
hey look! hes a little midget parrot who cant keep his mouth shut flying around wit jafar (evil guy) lets kill prince ali! (alladin)

da only reason i like alladin is cause im jafar in ma schooo play
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[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=14267.msg146613#msg146613 date=1140490208]
i can help ya! 10 X 10 is 100 :O beat dat
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[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=14171.msg146612#msg146612 date=1140490052]
i guess some religions h8 each oder but not all religions.. cause the more population doent.. we all <3 yoni
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[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=14319.msg146582#msg146582 date=1140479390]
ZerG 4 Life
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[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=14299.msg146580#msg146580 date=1140479147]
ty i spelt getting rong o.O
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LMAO!
[quote author=n2o.Jamakl link=topic=14260.msg146457#msg146457 date=1140398844]
xD MySpace ownz
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I'll try the Google Translate idea, thanks.

my school used some shitty software. It blocked tons of useful sites like maddox.xmission.com but we are able to quickly get around it by just packeting the crap out of any blocked server, it would overwhelm the proxy and we could then access the site like there was no block in place until the proxy was reset. But then they upgraded their stuff and the only way to get at the content I wanted was by SSH.

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my school used some shitty software. It blocked tons of useful sites like maddox.xmission.com but we are able to quickly get around it by just packeting the crap out of any blocked server, it would overwhelm the proxy and we could then access the site like there was no block in place until the proxy was reset. But then they upgraded their stuff and the only way to get at the content I wanted was by SSH.
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Did you try Google's cache?  That's how I check maddox's site from work where it's blocked under the content category "tasteless."

Interesting. Now, every blocked site just doesnt load.. I try to go to like poopreport.com and MSN will come up saying [quote] We couldnt find 'www.poopreport.com' please try blah blah' [/quote]. If I try to come here, it just doesnt load (I get the error screen, the usual IE one [I think it was  a timeout, I didnt read it]). Also, tried the google thing, I got to google translate fine, but the page just timed out.. very strange  :-\ Also, the admin caught us fucking around with cmd today lol, I put a .bat file on this kids computer which worked something like..
(test.bat)
[code]
:a
start http://www.yahoo.com/
start z:\test.bat
goto b
:b
start http://www.google.com/
start z:\test.bat
goto a
[/code]
Unfortunately, he walked by as the cmd screens were spawning like hell, so I don't think he likes me anymore  ;D Thanks for attempting to help guys  :)

cmd.exe?  Heavens no, we can't have people learning how to use the command line.

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cmd.exe?  Heavens no, we can't have people learning how to use the command line.
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Yeah, that's basically hacking. 

At least your school's firewall doesn't have www.wikipedia.org blocked as "tasteless".

You might try using en.wikipedia.org. If it isn't smart, it might let you use it.

Oh well, I guess theres no way around the Sentian pos. I tried the google idea, it caught it as P2P/Loophole, same with all cgi proxies. Damn my school!  :)

Try making your own domain that points to vL.  Register a .no-ip.com domain and tell it the same ip address as vL.  I don't think it will work well, since this forum software doesn't like different DNSes, but who knows?

I thought that for the easiest installation, it was all relative to index.php, so it wouldn't matter?

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Try making your own domain that points to vL.  Register a .no-ip.com domain and tell it the same ip address as vL.  I don't think it will work well, since this forum software doesn't like different DNSes, but who knows?
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My school blocks that under 'Free Host'.