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WebSense Patents Censorware System

Posted by timothy on from the ones-and-zeros dept.

Matthew Skala writes "As reported in SiliconValley.internet.com, filtering-software vendor Websense has received US Patent 6,606,659 on a "System and method for controlling access to internet sites". The new features in the patented system seem to revolve around using time limits instead of filtering sites out entirely; offering users a choice of viewing a site and having it logged, or not viewing it; and a scheme for automatically categorizing sites that looks very much like the "Bayesian filters" we've heard so much about in recent weeks. You may be interested in the filtering company's press release about their patent, or my own view."

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  1. Who are you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And why would I be interested in reading your view, giving you page hits, or otherwise allowing you to spew your nonsense everywhere?

    I've heard of shameless self-promotion, but Christ, you take the cake, and I am now putting an entry in my hosts file for your site that resolves to goatse.cx. I'd rather see that than your ramblings.

  2. wow by mOoZik · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'm surprised this was even granted. sometimes i wonder if the people who do this actually have a fucking idea of what granting a patent entails.

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  3. It's not about cock cycles, it's about talent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    One of the things that a lot of people involved in the censorware movement seem to ignore is that their suck Cess has nothing to do with how fast their systems are, but on whether or not the talent behind the softwre is really there. Seth Finklestein would have you believe that he has the talent to decipher most censorware, but in reality it's coders like Michael who make all the difference to the battle. Of course, it also depends on what side of the battle you're on. I am always appalled at how many people seem to think that they can take a shit piece of code like Websense and run it on the fastest boxes to improve performance. Give me a nice HP-UX box with a custom bash script and grep and I'll show you a better web contempt filter than Websense could shit out in ten years. So remember folks, you can have as many cock cycles as you want, but it's not going to help piss poor coding.

  4. How come Micheal Sims never posted this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder...! ;-)

  5. Re:wouldn't be nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck you. Asshole. Don't mark me as a foe.