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How To Configure Real PC Parental Controls?
Orange Crush writes "As the resident computer geek in an office full of accountants, my boss recently asked me how she could reasonably keep her teenage son from using the family computer to 'access inappropriate sites.' I of course responded 'Give up now. There's nothing in this world that can keep a determined teenager from acquiring porn.' Sadly, she was dissatisfied with this answer. I mentioned that there was in fact software available for this purpose, but that all of it was trivially easy to bypass for a clever young mind. I really can't think of another answer. She could password protect the BIOS to prevent booting a different OS, but that's easily defeated with a screwdriver at most. The only solutions I can think of involve upstream firewalls/proxies/etc to which I gleefully redirected her to her ISPs tech support number. As much as I disagree with her reasoning — and ignoring the obvious 'go to a friend's house' loophole — is there really any other way (on a home budget) to netnanny a household computer?"
Move to china they are good with censorship :)
to suck your dick, and film it. Sprinkle liberally around the intertubes. That way, when her kid goes looking for porn, (s)he is scarred for life.
Take away the video card so Jr can't see the hot action? Or sit there with the computer so Jr can be monitored at all times. Cancel internet access. Encrypt the hard drive so that Jr can't use the computer at all. Put a picture of Jesus over the monitor.
Poke out his eyes, problem sovled
Have the only computer in the house hooked up to a 50" plasma or LCD screen in front of a window facing the street.
You, Fine Sir, must be unfamiliar with the wild world of braille porn. It's especially nice if you learn how to read it with the correct digit.
"Otherwise I shudder to think what happens when he can have porn and booze and no sense of self control."
The time is college, and the answer is 50% dropout rates.
"I had a bunch of friends who had ssh servers... "
Chances are you needed the pr0n 'cos i get the feeling you weren't hanging out with any chicks...
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>It's not exactly true. You can very well do so. To expect a determinable result is to court dissapointment, however.
Or as Scott Adams put it (01/23/1996):
(Dilbert is working on a "new technology to prevent kids from seeing smut on the Internet")
Dogbert:"So, you're pitting your intelligence against the collective sex drive of all the teenagers who own computers?"
Dilbert: "What is your point?"
Dogbert: "Did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball it can last a long time in hell?"
As long as the US Government doesn't go insane in the next ten years . . . .
No risk of that, I assure you. However, I think it likely to remain in that state for at least that long.
If fate makes you a motorcycle, you become a motorcycle.
The ones that try to reenact porn in real life without any regard for the consequences generally do get in trouble.
Make your kids watch you in a porno. They'll be put off porn for life...
Only my Linux box in the basement has internet access. It'd dual-NIC'd; one port goes to the DSL box and the other to a switch where all the house computers are connected. The only way they can do websurfing is via the dansguardian filtering proxy on the Linux box. You can tune it to how much or how little you are willing to tolerate. If you set it ridiculously strict, it'll even block all .zip and .rar files "just in case".
But! The best side benefits is the logging. My son does all the hard work of trying to find good porn sites, and then all I have to do is check the log for autoblocked sites to go look at every now and then!
Who needs a porn aggregator site when you have a 15 year old lad hunting them out for you?
Your dad's stash of Playboys didn't have people dressed up as Squirrels having sex with people dressed up as Nuns in orifices that should not be penetrated smeared with what looks like a mixture of feces and vomit.
Not that I disagree with the point you're making, just don't even think of comparing the interweb with a typical softcore magazine from your childhood.
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
Umm, link please.... ?
I read Usenet for the articles.
Lynx
yeah, but you didn't have tubgirl.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
I think if there is one post in this entire discussion that needs to be read, it's yours.
Oh, and this post telling people to read your post. I think if there are two posts in this entire discussion that need to be read...eh, you get the idea.
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