These laws only apply to libraries & schools that have to use federal funds to get on the internet. My solution: give the school or library of you choice an older cheap 586 or so with Juno or whatever free access you can find. Viola! Instant non-federally funded internet access. They can't put there mits on it.
....if you are allowed to control content viewed, then doesn't that make you responsable for the content viewed? In that case if I saw something that was supposed to be filtered out and wasn't, and I was offended, then I could hold the school / library responsable for content that was supposed to be blocked. If this is the case I see a lot of lawsuits in the future. Any/. lawyers with input towards this?
One more bad thing about filtering software is that the people who are creating this software are using it to promote thier own moral and political beliefs to the people that are using it. For example the "Christian Right" spends some money to develop a filtering program, well along with the porn sites that they are supposed to block out, they are also blocking out sites like the ACLU, the Blue Ribbon Foundation, Different Democratic Party sites, any site that has to do with reproduction, F**kmicrosoft.net also comes to mind, as does anything else that fits their definition of subversive. If you would like more information on this go to http://www.aclu.org they have links to lists of sites that different "babysitting" software programs are blocking.
....they own Wizards of the Coast also i.e. Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons.....I hate to see what crap they are going to pull with this "third edition" AD&D (we need more money so lets change the rules so people will buy the same books again)
...will be just fine...they are emulators i.e. no code was changed...either way they aren't selling Mame to make a profit....Hasbro still sucks though
Jaysyn
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I would love to see this law make it through....these guys are too much into CYA (cover your a$$) for it to ever happen though.
This is true! My fiance' Tabitha (23 yrs. old) will whip your a$$ in Tekken. She also rocks on Starcraft, Age of Empires etc, etc, ad inf.
These laws only apply to libraries & schools that have to use federal funds to get on the internet. My solution: give the school or library of you choice an older cheap 586 or so with Juno or whatever free access you can find. Viola! Instant non-federally funded internet access. They can't put there mits on it.
....if you are allowed to control content viewed, then doesn't that make you responsable for the content viewed? In that case if I saw something that was supposed to be filtered out and wasn't, and I was offended, then I could hold the school / library responsable for content that was supposed to be blocked. If this is the case I see a lot of lawsuits in the future. Any /. lawyers with input towards this?
It does my friend, it does.....
Sure, but he isn't claiming anything....otherwords, use at your own risk....
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One more bad thing about filtering software is that the people who are creating this software are using it to promote thier own moral and political beliefs to the people that are using it. For example the "Christian Right" spends some money to develop a filtering program, well along with the porn sites that they are supposed to block out, they are also blocking out sites like the ACLU, the Blue Ribbon Foundation, Different Democratic Party sites, any site that has to do with reproduction, F**kmicrosoft.net also comes to mind, as does anything else that fits their definition of subversive. If you would like more information on this go to http://www.aclu.org they have links to lists of sites that different "babysitting" software programs are blocking.
....they own Wizards of the Coast also i.e. Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons.....I hate to see what crap they are going to pull with this "third edition" AD&D (we need more money so lets change the rules so people will buy the same books again)
...will be just fine...they are emulators i.e. no code was changed...either way they aren't selling Mame to make a profit....Hasbro still sucks though Jaysyn