Run everyone through a proxy. At the end of every week, print out the name of every user and every site they have visited. Display the printout in the lunch room.
Benefits: 1) Accountability. Nobody's going to visit LesbianMidgetAmputeeFisting.com if they know everyone in the office will know about it. 2) Information Sharing: People will learn of other (hopefully work related) sites and tools, and will know with whom to discuss them. 3) Reduced bandwidth. Nobody wants to be accused of wasting time at work, so people will naturally reduce their casual web browsing.
Total cost of implementation: A few reams of paper and a few minutes a week.
We tried this in an office of 50 people who were fed up with a content filtering firewall that thwarted legitimate work. First week's results were a little off-colour (we kinda forgot to remind people we were doing it) but subsequently almost every bit of web browsing was work-related, relevant and minimal. Facebook use at work all but vanished. However, staff didn't feel they were being treated like children by a machine controlling where they surfed.
As someone who spends more than a few hours a week at Westfield's Bondi Junction centre, I can tell you more about it.
1) The technology is from this company and the technology is already in use (in varying forms) at US malls. It's primary purpose is to help people find a parking spot quicker and for that it works *very* well.
2) A downside of the system is that it doesn't seem to record imagery from all the cameras, besides the number-plate data. A friend had her car damaged in the parking lot and was unable to find any camera footage to assist.
3) Yes, it helps you find your car (or anyone else's).
4) It also stops people taking advantage of the free 2 hour parking by exiting the carpark and re-entering. Although they have not enabled this yet, it's expected that the second time you drive in after expending your free 2 hour ration, you'll be charged for time on-site.
My biggest fear about ANPR cameras, is when local government start using it for parking enforcement and riots break out which will make the LA and London riots look like a playground scuffle. The companies who sell this stuff will have the blood of parking officers on their hands...
Dunno if it's a bad sentence, but if ""Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots" I would be flattered if it took one million robots to replace me.
She won't be so smug when Mola Ram is trying to rip her heart out or she awakens Imhotep and people like Indiana Jones and Rick O'Connell have been put out of a job.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say "never mind human rights abuses in the Middle East, can we please get back to vilifying the only democracy in the region".
SHAME ON YOU!
If people like you had spend a bit less time obsessing over the Jewish state, and a bit more time focusing on the Arabs, the Egyptians wouldn't be in the situation they now are.
Now watch how many replies this comment attracts, whilst people are being locked up, tortured, beheaded, stoned and oppressed in other Middle Eastern countries about which nobody seems to care, because they aren't Israel.
Is "friends" who give away my privacy by adding my private details to their own Facebook account (or whatever).
It's like those who click on the "Send this page to a friend" button on a web page and volunteer my private details to a third-party.
I don't have a Facebook account and take my privacy quite seriously. However it is increasingly threatened by careless morons. AKA my friends and family.
I never set one up in the first place. Besides the huge amount of time it wastes, frankly, there's a reason I wasn't friends with people I went to school with and I have no desire to be online friends with them now.
Privacy is like virginity. It's tempting to give it away, but you never ever get it back.
Slashdot Mirror
Or three, if it's cloudy.
suicide bombers are rarely repeat offenders
Rarely?
Why not? Each office could have its own notice-board. It would be easy enough to try for a few weeks and the cost of changing your mind would be zero.
Run everyone through a proxy. At the end of every week, print out the name of every user and every site they have visited. Display the printout in the lunch room.
Benefits:
1) Accountability. Nobody's going to visit LesbianMidgetAmputeeFisting.com if they know everyone in the office will know about it.
2) Information Sharing: People will learn of other (hopefully work related) sites and tools, and will know with whom to discuss them.
3) Reduced bandwidth. Nobody wants to be accused of wasting time at work, so people will naturally reduce their casual web browsing.
Total cost of implementation: A few reams of paper and a few minutes a week.
We tried this in an office of 50 people who were fed up with a content filtering firewall that thwarted legitimate work. First week's results were a little off-colour (we kinda forgot to remind people we were doing it) but subsequently almost every bit of web browsing was work-related, relevant and minimal. Facebook use at work all but vanished. However, staff didn't feel they were being treated like children by a machine controlling where they surfed.
As someone who spends more than a few hours a week at Westfield's Bondi Junction centre, I can tell you more about it.
1) The technology is from this company and the technology is already in use (in varying forms) at US malls. It's primary purpose is to help people find a parking spot quicker and for that it works *very* well.
2) A downside of the system is that it doesn't seem to record imagery from all the cameras, besides the number-plate data. A friend had her car damaged in the parking lot and was unable to find any camera footage to assist.
3) Yes, it helps you find your car (or anyone else's).
4) It also stops people taking advantage of the free 2 hour parking by exiting the carpark and re-entering. Although they have not enabled this yet, it's expected that the second time you drive in after expending your free 2 hour ration, you'll be charged for time on-site.
My biggest fear about ANPR cameras, is when local government start using it for parking enforcement and riots break out which will make the LA and London riots look like a playground scuffle. The companies who sell this stuff will have the blood of parking officers on their hands...
Sheldon Cooper commentary track.
Diplomatic Immunity...
Dunno if it's a bad sentence, but if ""Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots" I would be flattered if it took one million robots to replace me.
They just have a German sense of humour.
And whatever you do, don't mention the war.
Perfectly safe.
As the description says... Nobody died.
I patented the act of clicking "Reply to this".
She won't be so smug when Mola Ram is trying to rip her heart out or she awakens Imhotep and people like Indiana Jones and Rick O'Connell have been put out of a job.
No. You forgot the bit where another clueless dude watches movie and thinks he knows everything. Still is clueless.
North Korea FTW.
Seems like a whole lot of trouble just to know when it's time to go home each day...
Not without offending al-Qaeda.
I prefer this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
With a big rack.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say "never mind human rights abuses in the Middle East, can we please get back to vilifying the only democracy in the region".
SHAME ON YOU!
If people like you had spend a bit less time obsessing over the Jewish state, and a bit more time focusing on the Arabs, the Egyptians wouldn't be in the situation they now are.
Now watch how many replies this comment attracts, whilst people are being locked up, tortured, beheaded, stoned and oppressed in other Middle Eastern countries about which nobody seems to care, because they aren't Israel.
Is "friends" who give away my privacy by adding my private details to their own Facebook account (or whatever).
It's like those who click on the "Send this page to a friend" button on a web page and volunteer my private details to a third-party.
I don't have a Facebook account and take my privacy quite seriously. However it is increasingly threatened by careless morons. AKA my friends and family.
Amen.
I never set one up in the first place. Besides the huge amount of time it wastes, frankly, there's a reason I wasn't friends with people I went to school with and I have no desire to be online friends with them now.
Privacy is like virginity. It's tempting to give it away, but you never ever get it back.
Standby for reports of missing children named Rick Astley being broadcast over Facebook.
Set yourself on fire. I promise not to give a shit.
Let's send the hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants and telephone sanitisers.