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Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-science-gets-dirty dept.

schwit1 writes "The Washington Times reports, 'The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.' One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer, records show. The cost to taxpayers: up to $58,000. Why aren't they running a product like Websense?"

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  1. Best Intentions by bugeaterr · · Score: 5, Funny

    It all started out as innocent research on "Black Holes" and "Uranus"...

    1. Re:Best Intentions by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 5, Funny

      I believe they were actually looking for items with the tag "National Science Foundation Website" (nsfw), but found things they hadn't planned on.

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  2. NSFw by drenehtsral · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess they'd better create an internal division called the National Science Foundation Watchdog, or NSFW for short...

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  3. Re:Not too surprised by tempest69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your friend has a "supervisor of porn"? I'm envious

  4. Re:This article is misleading at best by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot's headline "Porn Surfing Rampant" is exactly the kind of exaggeration that the Washington Times was hoping secondary media would slap on this story.

    Aren't you an editor?

  5. Re:bad idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds to me like he was tugging on something else.

  6. Re:bad idea... by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Porn causes phych issues).

    Citation & spellchecker needed.

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  7. Re:This article is misleading at best by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, you should be an editor here or something!

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  8. Re:bad idea... by etenil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree with you. Each company should have its official pr0n sites list, all malware-proof and everything!

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  9. Re:bad idea... by amplt1337 · · Score: 4, Funny

    it usually causes a physiological response

    Well, um, yes, that's the idea.

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  10. Re:bad idea... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are these scar inducing youtube videos you speak of?

    Boy, you are really asking for it. (Safe for work as long as you have your goggles on).

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