Totally physically impossible. Of course,
the religious right is used to lying and manipulating, because they can't ever show proof (like where's this God dude, anyway?)
I had to fix a computer like that one time. When it was time, I went out and bought a pair of yellow rubber gloves (normally for washing dishes) before touching the guys' keyboard and mouse. The boss said "Aren't you exaggerating a bit?" I said "You touch it then! I'll talk you through it."
The rubber gloves stayed on...
The guy was a filthy pig, in the physical sense. Stay up all night clubbing, doing ecstacy, then come in, drench himself in aftershave to hide the smell, my eyes would water from 100 feet away... I finally told him to stop with the cheap aftershave, he was using so much. He said it was something like $75/bottle. I told him to try 50 cents worth of municipal tap water and a nickel of soap for a change.
Yeah, right - from their site - "Surf Control - URL- and keyword-based Internet filtering and blocking proxy...
... before making any specific charges, he'd have to verify by actually looking, right? After all, you can't tell just by keywords whether someone is looking at porn.
Look at the problems with names like Middlesex (sex), Scunthorpe (cunt), Experts-exchange.com (s-ex), ArkensasExtermination.com (sEx), The Vagina Monologs (vagina), Sussexx (sex), Anti-Kinderporno.de (an anti-porn site) (porn), SpornGroup.com, (porn), PartsExpress.com (sEx), ALittleGirlsBoutique.com (a stay-at-home mom's dress business), GirlsSchoolOfAustin.org... Georgy (orgy), DuckpenIsland (penIs), Dildo (a town in Newfoundland), Woodpecker (pecker), Prickly heat (Prick), Smash-It.com (sh-It), Nosegay (gay) homogenized (homo), cumberbund (cum), cummin (cum), scum (cum), Bottled in bond aged 12 years (bond age)...
Gee, look at all those "evil" words.
The ONLY way to verify was to actually LOOK at the sites.
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Re #1: Its only an ethical problem if you think its an ethical problem. Most of it is pretty harmless/lame/stupid, so why not let people spend a few minutes once in a while looking at something they find easy on the eyes. Better than looking at this.
Re #3: He didn't report the kiddie porn to the police... they're the ones who you report kiddie porn to, not your boss.
I can understand his frustration to a certain extent. Ever try to report child abuse? You'd better have a squeeky-clean past, because you can be sure that whoever you report is going to try to smear you. Its the same with accusing someone of holding kiddie porn. "Invasion of privacy" "You planted it - that's how come you knew where to look" etc.
If you're working in IT, its expected you'll take a break once in a while and it slashdot or some other site, just to keep up to date.
Lets face it - would YOU hire someone who's supposed to be "clued in", but when you ask "Who is CowboyNeal", says "huh?" Or has a grand total of 1 post? Or tricked into clicking on a link to the goat guy or tubgirl?
"they're paying you to do work, nothing else, and certainly not to look at porn."
They're not payimg ME to look at porn, but they ARE paying a few of my co-workers to... its a nasty job, but someone has to do it... In case you haven't heard, the porn industry is hyper-competitive, and you'll see emerging tech and techniques used there before almost anywhere else, so if you want to stay on top of things, you WILL have someone check what the pr0nmeisters are doing.
Come off it... 70% of ALL porn-viewing is during working hours.
Your boss does it. Your coworkers do it. Get over it.
As long as you get your work done, who gives a shit? Better they look at pr0n than some site that advocates that "Jebus is comiong soon" and they start putting bible tracts on your keyboard... THAT is a real invasion of a person's "space".
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"Bryan, the IT director for the U.S. division of German company, discovered an employee using a company computer to view pornography of Asian women and of children."
And how did he know this, if he wasn't LOOKING at the damned stuff himself?
1. Someone looking at adult porn is not an "ethical problem", unless you got your ethics from the bible belt.
2. Someone looking at kiddie porn isn't an "ethical problem" either - its a legal problem! Like in "against the law".
3. Not reporting it because you would have to admit you were snooping on other people - priceless AND retarded.
"I am doing personal stuff on BOTH monitors! And my laptop is for work.... And I am on a phone meeting at the same time.
Now that's what I call multitasking!"
... but are you getting anything DONE? Sounds to me like you're always just "swapping processes."
"We even have this retarded timesheet system where you itemize every 15 minute block of your day to some project."
I have a friend who's stuck in the same situation. Unfortunately, there is no way to be honest under such a system, because it doesn't allow for such things as research that may or may not be applicable to more than one project, but can't really be attributed specifically to one, time spent on general office and management issues, etc.
".as long as you aren't looking at "innappropriate material" (porn and such) "
[X] My job requires me to look at internet porn, you ignorant clod!
[X] In Soviet Amerika, pr0n looks at YOU!
[X]... what is this "and such" you're talking about?
Its funny, we don't allow nude bodies, but we allow depictions of people being decapitated, etc.
That's why you need dual monitors, multiple desktops on each monitor, and your own proxy server:0)
Seriously, dual monitors allow people to work and play a lot better than a single-monitor setup. That's probably one reason why people are more productive with 2 monotirs - you can shove all the "personal stuff" to one side, and keep an ey on it without actually having to stop working on what you're doing.
"My defunct publication list (all of which I still have),"
(extensive list)
Sounds like having you as a subscriber is the magazine equivalent of the "click of death!" Could you do us a favour and subscribe to all those *wonderful* government publications, like tax notices, etc? And Bush's speeches?
"If I typo an email address, I damn well better be getting an NDR from the recipient domain,"
And if your typo matches a real person's email, you won't be getting an NDR. Heck, I've gotten tons of email from people who have sent their stuff to the wrong person - including the new password for someone whose name misses mine by one letter.
If the mistake originated with you, don't expect someone else to take responsibility for fixing it.
> >"Never shopped there in my life, never will.
> If you've never shopped there, how can you know its a worthless store? I'm not saying it isn't worthless (or that it is), just curious how you can claim that without experiencing it for yourself.
We're all awaiting your report on how it felt to try doing this, as well as your experiences wrt beastiality.
"Actually more likely is the services which handles media getting more cpu time is doing just that, prioritising the audio over the network. Or, it could be HD sound they're playing which is clogging up the limited bandwidth on the PCI bus."
... even when sound output is *paused*?
If a plain duron from the turn of the century could handle 100mps ethernet and play mp3s, there's something seriously wrong with Vista not being able to do the same on modern hardware.
"However, if those more efficient servers cost twice as much to purchase per unit of work, not to mention the energy used in manufacturing, the savings are reduced."
I think you missed something obvious - the cost of the servers includes the cost of the energy used to make them.
That said, they could help reduce everyone's energy consumption by posting their stuff as plain html instead of pdf. Less data to transfer, no need to open up a pdf reader, etc.
"The records also have directions on how to find Earth if the spacecraft is recovered by something or someone."
I hope they don't show up any time soon - the way we're running things into the ground here on earth, it would be like getting hit by a bus without wearing clean underwear.
Well, for sure nobody's patient beyond a certain point. However, in times past, and even today, in rural settings, home schooling, or immigrant families with parents whose schooling is sub-par, children DO teach.
I think the best example of this is a Scientific American article that explored the home life of asian children wrt why they were doing better in school, despite the cultural and language barriers. They found that in may cases, the kids would go home and teach the parents. This reinforced what they learned at school, certainly better than "rote learning".
We make too many excuses nowadays for being a bunch of underachievers. Kids make great teachers. If you don't believe it, try taking a 3-year-old somewhere new, and watch how much you yourself can learn just by observing.
We're not patient because we don't *want* to be patient. 10-second sound bites. 22-minute sitcoms, a quick fix solution to everything... it even shows in stuff that we KNOW we should take our time with, because rushing will ultimately take longer. A pertinent example, that many slashdotters can relate to - code.
Anyhow, if ordinary 8-year-old kids can teach their parents and older siblings, gifted 12, 14, or 16-year-olds can certainly teach the more challenged.
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Totally physically impossible. Of course, the religious right is used to lying and manipulating, because they can't ever show proof (like where's this God dude, anyway?)
I know what you mean.
I had to fix a computer like that one time. When it was time, I went out and bought a pair of yellow rubber gloves (normally for washing dishes) before touching the guys' keyboard and mouse. The boss said "Aren't you exaggerating a bit?" I said "You touch it then! I'll talk you through it."
The rubber gloves stayed on ...
The guy was a filthy pig, in the physical sense. Stay up all night clubbing, doing ecstacy, then come in, drench himself in aftershave to hide the smell, my eyes would water from 100 feet away ... I finally told him to stop with the cheap aftershave, he was using so much. He said it was something like $75/bottle. I told him to try 50 cents worth of municipal tap water and a nickel of soap for a change.
"Sure it's an ethical problem! That's why it's against the law."
Ethics and the law are two different things. Ethics and JUSTICE, you might have a point.
"Every time Congress passes a joke, it's a law ..."
"Dude, what char major, minor numbers are you using for /dev/lsd??!?!"
D'uh! Its an imaginary numnber - rotate your printer 90 degrees from this universe and try again.
"Please won't someone think of the Asians!"
erm ... wasn't that the original problem ??? :-)
Yeah, right - from their site - "Surf Control - URL- and keyword-based Internet filtering and blocking proxy ...
Look at the problems with names like Middlesex (sex), Scunthorpe (cunt), Experts-exchange.com (s-ex), ArkensasExtermination.com (sEx), The Vagina Monologs (vagina), Sussexx (sex), Anti-Kinderporno.de (an anti-porn site) (porn), SpornGroup.com, (porn), PartsExpress.com (sEx), ALittleGirlsBoutique.com (a stay-at-home mom's dress business), GirlsSchoolOfAustin.org ... Georgy (orgy), DuckpenIsland (penIs), Dildo (a town in Newfoundland), Woodpecker (pecker), Prickly heat (Prick), Smash-It.com (sh-It), Nosegay (gay) homogenized (homo), cumberbund (cum), cummin (cum), scum (cum), Bottled in bond aged 12 years (bond age)...
Gee, look at all those "evil" words.
The ONLY way to verify was to actually LOOK at the sites.
Re #1: Its only an ethical problem if you think its an ethical problem. Most of it is pretty harmless/lame/stupid, so why not let people spend a few minutes once in a while looking at something they find easy on the eyes. Better than looking at this.
Re #3: He didn't report the kiddie porn to the police ... they're the ones who you report kiddie porn to, not your boss.
I can understand his frustration to a certain extent. Ever try to report child abuse? You'd better have a squeeky-clean past, because you can be sure that whoever you report is going to try to smear you. Its the same with accusing someone of holding kiddie porn. "Invasion of privacy" "You planted it - that's how come you knew where to look" etc.
If you're working in IT, its expected you'll take a break once in a while and it slashdot or some other site, just to keep up to date.
Lets face it - would YOU hire someone who's supposed to be "clued in", but when you ask "Who is CowboyNeal", says "huh?" Or has a grand total of 1 post? Or tricked into clicking on a link to the goat guy or tubgirl?
"they're paying you to do work, nothing else, and certainly not to look at porn."
They're not payimg ME to look at porn, but they ARE paying a few of my co-workers to ... its a nasty job, but someone has to do it ... In case you haven't heard, the porn industry is hyper-competitive, and you'll see emerging tech and techniques used there before almost anywhere else, so if you want to stay on top of things, you WILL have someone check what the pr0nmeisters are doing.
Come off it ... 70% of ALL porn-viewing is during working hours.
Your boss does it. Your coworkers do it. Get over it.
As long as you get your work done, who gives a shit? Better they look at pr0n than some site that advocates that "Jebus is comiong soon" and they start putting bible tracts on your keyboard ... THAT is a real invasion of a person's "space".
"Bryan, the IT director for the U.S. division of German company, discovered an employee using a company computer to view pornography of Asian women and of children."
And how did he know this, if he wasn't LOOKING at the damned stuff himself?
1. Someone looking at adult porn is not an "ethical problem", unless you got your ethics from the bible belt.
2. Someone looking at kiddie porn isn't an "ethical problem" either - its a legal problem! Like in "against the law".
3. Not reporting it because you would have to admit you were snooping on other people - priceless AND retarded.
They already have the market cornered on "Consent AND die."
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They're just embracing and extending their own prior art.
"I am doing personal stuff on BOTH monitors! And my laptop is for work.... And I am on a phone meeting at the same time. Now that's what I call multitasking!"
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"We even have this retarded timesheet system where you itemize every 15 minute block of your day to some project."
I have a friend who's stuck in the same situation. Unfortunately, there is no way to be honest under such a system, because it doesn't allow for such things as research that may or may not be applicable to more than one project, but can't really be attributed specifically to one, time spent on general office and management issues, etc.
".as long as you aren't looking at "innappropriate material" (porn and such) "
[X] My job requires me to look at internet porn, you ignorant clod! ... what is this "and such" you're talking about?
[X] In Soviet Amerika, pr0n looks at YOU!
[X]
Its funny, we don't allow nude bodies, but we allow depictions of people being decapitated, etc.
That's why you need dual monitors, multiple desktops on each monitor, and your own proxy server :0)
Seriously, dual monitors allow people to work and play a lot better than a single-monitor setup. That's probably one reason why people are more productive with 2 monotirs - you can shove all the "personal stuff" to one side, and keep an ey on it without actually having to stop working on what you're doing.
6. You show them your pr0n collection. Or you threaten to show them this dickhead or this and he hopefully goes blind ...
" Almost a fifth of those surveyed in a 2006 Israeli-American poll said they accessed online sex sites at work."
Yeah, riiiight ... only 1 in 5 surfs porn at work? Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Everyone knows the internet is for porn.
"My defunct publication list (all of which I still have),"
(extensive list)
Sounds like having you as a subscriber is the magazine equivalent of the "click of death!" Could you do us a favour and subscribe to all those *wonderful* government publications, like tax notices, etc? And Bush's speeches?
"If I typo an email address, I damn well better be getting an NDR from the recipient domain,"
And if your typo matches a real person's email, you won't be getting an NDR. Heck, I've gotten tons of email from people who have sent their stuff to the wrong person - including the new password for someone whose name misses mine by one letter.
If the mistake originated with you, don't expect someone else to take responsibility for fixing it.
After months an all-sugar diet, your Walkman becomes obese and sluggish, then you need to give it regular insulin injections, etc.
> >"Never shopped there in my life, never will.
> If you've never shopped there, how can you know its a worthless store? I'm not saying it isn't worthless (or that it is), just curious how you can claim that without experiencing it for yourself.
We're all awaiting your report on how it felt to try doing this, as well as your experiences wrt beastiality.
"Actually more likely is the services which handles media getting more cpu time is doing just that, prioritising the audio over the network. Or, it could be HD sound they're playing which is clogging up the limited bandwidth on the PCI bus."
If a plain duron from the turn of the century could handle 100mps ethernet and play mp3s, there's something seriously wrong with Vista not being able to do the same on modern hardware.
"However, if those more efficient servers cost twice as much to purchase per unit of work, not to mention the energy used in manufacturing, the savings are reduced."
I think you missed something obvious - the cost of the servers includes the cost of the energy used to make them.
That said, they could help reduce everyone's energy consumption by posting their stuff as plain html instead of pdf. Less data to transfer, no need to open up a pdf reader, etc.
FTFA:
"The records also have directions on how to find Earth if the spacecraft is recovered by something or someone."
I hope they don't show up any time soon - the way we're running things into the ground here on earth, it would be like getting hit by a bus without wearing clean underwear.
Well, for sure nobody's patient beyond a certain point. However, in times past, and even today, in rural settings, home schooling, or immigrant families with parents whose schooling is sub-par, children DO teach.
I think the best example of this is a Scientific American article that explored the home life of asian children wrt why they were doing better in school, despite the cultural and language barriers. They found that in may cases, the kids would go home and teach the parents. This reinforced what they learned at school, certainly better than "rote learning".
We make too many excuses nowadays for being a bunch of underachievers. Kids make great teachers. If you don't believe it, try taking a 3-year-old somewhere new, and watch how much you yourself can learn just by observing.
We're not patient because we don't *want* to be patient. 10-second sound bites. 22-minute sitcoms, a quick fix solution to everything ... it even shows in stuff that we KNOW we should take our time with, because rushing will ultimately take longer. A pertinent example, that many slashdotters can relate to - code.
Anyhow, if ordinary 8-year-old kids can teach their parents and older siblings, gifted 12, 14, or 16-year-olds can certainly teach the more challenged.