You're right, there SHOULD be a foot icon there. Someone please tell me that CmdrTaco didn't actually <i>believe</i> the article, and missed the word "Satire" in bright blue letters right under the title? Or maybe he just posted about the URL without actually going and reading it for himself?
After glancing over the story, I see that it is rife with spelling errors and run-on sentences. His vocabulary is sufficient. While this story may be somewhat creative and perhaps even darkly humorous, there is simply no way that it should merit a 100. I'd give it a 70 or 75, which would be below average (or rather, below what we should accept as average). By seventh grade, this child really should be capable of better writing! It astounds me how society can lower its standards so far.
Cyber Patrol is not necessarily a voluntary product. In some cases there are persons working at companies, where Cyber Patrol has been installed, and the people working there might not even know until they try to access a page that is blocked and it comes up with an error.
In fact, that was exactly what happened with the headhunter at the agency trying to look at my resume. She didn't know why she couldn't get to the resume, and I had to get her to e-mail me the error message so I could figure it out!
You misunderstood; the person trying to look at my resume was a headhunter at a placement agency.
I'm more interested in: Since my ISP *knew* I was being censored and didn't tell me about it, are they liable to refund the money I've paid them for the time I've been censored?
The person who could not access the resume is a headhunter working for a placement agency. Apparently, this agency does not trusts its' headhunters not to look for porn during lunch break, and I told the agent as much. The agency wouldn't have been the company where I'd have gone to work. This particular headhunter didn't even realize that their company had installed blocking software - they just told me, "I can't see your web page. It gives me an error." I asked what error, and that was when I found out what was going on.
So you see, claims that it's the user's fault, or that it's a voluntary product, don't really hold up to this situation. I did tell the agent that I'd be concerned if I worked for a company that distrusted me so, as her company apparently does not trust her.
To be honest, most headhunting agencies aren't filled with the most technical people - they rarely understand the very jobs they are helping to fill - and so I wasn't terribly surprised.
A lot of people have said, "Don't blame your ISP."
Although it isn't the ISP's fault that Cyber Patrol is blocking my site, it is my ISP's fault that they KNEW ABOUT IT and didn't tell me, or any of their users! They just wanted to keep it hush-hush. I think that was wrong. It was a shrewd business move... As in: "Customers might leave if they know they're being censored, and we're not willing to do anything about it!"
Anyway, I'm figuring I should just ask my ISP for my money back for the whole time they've known my pages were being banned. That should be fair enough. I'm moving on to DSL anyway, so the account will be thing in the past by the end of August.
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You're right, there SHOULD be a foot icon there.
Someone please tell me that CmdrTaco didn't actually <i>believe</i> the article, and missed the word "Satire" in bright blue letters right under the title? Or maybe he just posted about the URL without actually going and reading it for himself?
Nah, he probably just picked the wrong icon.
After glancing over the story, I see that it is rife with spelling errors and run-on sentences. His vocabulary is sufficient. While this story may be somewhat creative and perhaps even darkly humorous, there is simply no way that it should merit a 100. I'd give it a 70 or 75, which would be below average (or rather, below what we should accept as average). By seventh grade, this child really should be capable of better writing! It astounds me how society can lower its standards so far.
Cyber Patrol is not necessarily a voluntary product. In some cases there are persons working at companies, where Cyber Patrol has been installed, and the people working there might not even know until they try to access a page that is blocked and it comes up with an error.
In fact, that was exactly what happened with the headhunter at the agency trying to look at my resume. She didn't know why she couldn't get to the resume, and I had to get her to e-mail me the error message so I could figure it out!
You misunderstood; the person trying to look at my resume was a headhunter at a placement agency.
I'm more interested in: Since my ISP *knew* I was being censored and didn't tell me about it, are they liable to refund the money I've paid them for the time I've been censored?
Some clarifications:
The person who could not access the resume is a headhunter working for a placement agency. Apparently, this agency does not trusts its' headhunters not to look for porn during lunch break, and I told the agent as much. The agency wouldn't have been the company where I'd have gone to work. This particular headhunter didn't even realize that their company had installed blocking software - they just told me, "I can't see your web page. It gives me an error." I asked what error, and that was when I found out what was going on.
So you see, claims that it's the user's fault, or that it's a voluntary product, don't really hold up to this situation. I did tell the agent that I'd be concerned if I worked for a company that distrusted me so, as her company apparently does not trust her.
To be honest, most headhunting agencies aren't filled with the most technical people - they rarely understand the very jobs they are helping to fill - and so I wasn't terribly surprised.
A lot of people have said, "Don't blame your ISP."
Although it isn't the ISP's fault that Cyber Patrol is blocking my site, it is my ISP's fault that they KNEW ABOUT IT and didn't tell me, or any of their users! They just wanted to keep it hush-hush. I think that was wrong. It was a shrewd business move... As in: "Customers might leave if they know they're being censored, and we're not willing to do anything about it!"
Anyway, I'm figuring I should just ask my ISP for my money back for the whole time they've known my pages were being banned. That should be fair enough. I'm moving on to DSL anyway, so the account will be thing in the past by the end of August.
- John