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Week-Long Internet Ban, Camp, Dog

April 8th 2008, 01:41 AM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
So, why have I not been active for the past week or so? Well, my Father banned me from the Internet for a week last Monday. You see, he uses Internet filters and stuff, as most of you already know, but he also has specific computers set up for Internet use only. He also forbids to give us all access to the Internet on our own PCs. So, what I did, I figured out what his IP was, and the port, and managed to get to it on my PC.

He found out, and banned me for a week.

On another note, a happy one, we got a dog today. She's 7 weeks old, and we got her for free from some church friends. I'm fairly sure we're naming her Jess. She's small, black and white and that's about all I can say.

On yet another note, we went camping. It was fun.

April 8th 2008, 02:55 AM
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Striker
Noble She/Her United States
Daniel, there are clowns. 
Finding work-arounds to parental passwords and filters is a time-honored geek rite of passage. Next time, don't get caught.
April 8th 2008, 03:08 AM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
He tricked me, you see. I recently download Deskspace. An amazing program which turns your desktop into a 3D cube whenever you press Left Ctrl-Alt-Shift. Then, you use your arrow keys and the mouse to rotate the cube and switch between desktops and different programs.

I was on the Internet, on forums and stuff, then he walks in. I quickly minimize it, and pretend to be working on my D-Mod. Then, I act all calm and such, and switch to another desktop, where Windows Media Player is running, and begin fiddling with it. He'd already seen it before, but asked if he could have another look at it. I decided to let him, carelessly, and he clicked the Deskspace icon on the taskbar. When you do that, it pops up with all the desktops and programs running. He saw Firefox running and blocked my IP using DansGuardian. However, I may plan on changing my IP secretly while he's out of the house and accessing it, then changing it back to my old one, as a new IP wouldn't be blocked. But, meh...
April 8th 2008, 03:30 PM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
Back from the ashes 
Your father is stupid. 'nuff said.
April 8th 2008, 05:43 PM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
Phoenix, I'm happy to know I can always count on you to cheer m up when I feel down.
April 9th 2008, 06:15 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
I don't get why your father's doing this. I mean, what's there to be afraid of? If you visit your usual sites and innocent topics, nothing.
April 9th 2008, 06:47 PM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
He just overprotective, I doesn't want us seeing anything bad acccidentally (or purposefully).
April 9th 2008, 07:56 PM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
The best remedy to that is seeing tons of bad stuff, getting used to it, and still realizing it's bad. It works for me at least, if someone posts something weird or disgusting I can just click it away calmly.

...Okay, maybe that won't work for everyone.
April 10th 2008, 02:10 AM
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Phoenix
Peasant He/Him Norway
Back from the ashes 
Wow, that was an excellent reply. I'm in fact unable to tell whether or not you're serious. Wonderful. I love it when people are able to be 100% ambiguous. Man. Congratulations.

Disclaimer: Seeing how the Internet is emotionless, I feel I need to say that this post was intended to be serious.
April 10th 2008, 05:07 PM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
Oh yeah! Score one SlamDinker95!

I finally outsmarted Phoenix! ... I think.
October 1st 2019, 02:22 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
moronic parenting. sheltering kids is an awful thing to do.