State-Sponsored Solitaire?

jefu writes "According to this story the state of North Carolina may be considering banning solitaire on state owned machines. It seems that state workers are now perceived as having replaced leaning on brooms with playing solitaire or minesweeper. The story provides coverage of both sides of the issue, noting that playing solitaire (or other games) may provide workers with a way to burn off some stress, but that this kind of activity is likely to be perceived as time wasting. My favorite bit (especially as April 15th draws ever closer) is where the author notes that fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling."

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...and justice for all

[Toby The Economist]

John Stuart Mill;

"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."

--
Toby

Incompetent admins

[kmeister62]

It all boils down to incompitent admins. Simple to remove all games from Windows systems. The process takes a few minutes when the machine is delivered. One nice thing about Windows Group Policy objects, you can enforce security policies where they can't be changed. You can also rescan machines as they log onto the network and re-apply the policy if the tech savy person manages to circumvent it.