Sorry for the car analogy but this seems quite relevant. A lot of the arguments being thrown around claim that the filters are being implemented to stop people accessing illegal content. Illegal content that if you are caught accessing you can be prosecuted and sent to prison with or without the filters in place.
Driving a car on the road above the speed limit is illegal (which also potentially endangers kids) and to enforce those laws we have police with "fricken lasers" patrolling the roads.
Cars have been around a long time. Why don't we have government mandated speed restriction modules installed. Something that would read speed signs as you drive, and limit your speed accordingly. Of course it would only be 90% accurate, so speeding in school zones would still be possible.
At 9:30 one morning a customer asked me to reboot their server and that it was urgent, (that was all the details they gave me) So I stated to try and narrow it down a little. I eventually worked out that he wanted to me powercycle the colo server he has labeled Server2 (great server labels could be a whole new topic) I arrange for the reboot to be done, and 10 mins later the customer ring back and the conversation went like this
Customer: "Dont restart my server, I've fixed" Me: "Ummm I rebooted it 10 mins ago, its probably working cause of the restart" Customer: "No you didn't restart it" At which point they hung up and I closed the ticket.
I thought at this point that no one could beat the "Muppet of the day" award, so I promptly gave it to him.
I was wrong. At 1630 another customer phoned, they asked me to use ethereal to capture all the traffic their server did yesterday because they noticed an increase in traffic and didn't want to pay for anything thats not theirs.
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checkmate!
Sorry for the car analogy but this seems quite relevant.
A lot of the arguments being thrown around claim that the filters are being implemented to stop people accessing illegal content. Illegal content that if you are caught accessing you can be prosecuted and sent to prison with or without the filters in place.
Driving a car on the road above the speed limit is illegal (which also potentially endangers kids) and to enforce those laws we have police with "fricken lasers" patrolling the roads.
Cars have been around a long time. Why don't we have government mandated speed restriction modules installed. Something that would read speed signs as you drive, and limit your speed accordingly. Of course it would only be 90% accurate, so speeding in school zones would still be possible.
I guess you see my point
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Hey baby, I have a Large Hardon Collider in my Pants, and it wants to look into black holes. Heh.
There, fixed that for you
At 9:30 one morning a customer asked me to reboot their server and that it was urgent, (that was all the details they gave me)
So I stated to try and narrow it down a little. I eventually worked out that he wanted to me powercycle the colo server he has labeled Server2 (great server labels could be a whole new topic)
I arrange for the reboot to be done, and 10 mins later the customer ring back and the conversation went like this
Customer: "Dont restart my server, I've fixed"
Me: "Ummm I rebooted it 10 mins ago, its probably working cause of the restart"
Customer: "No you didn't restart it"
At which point they hung up and I closed the ticket.
I thought at this point that no one could beat the "Muppet of the day" award, so I promptly gave it to him.
I was wrong. At 1630 another customer phoned, they asked me to use ethereal to capture all the traffic their server did yesterday because they noticed an increase in traffic and didn't want to pay for anything thats not theirs.