Rather than explaining, you could try using hosts files to block what you don't want them to get to. I've tried Pollock's hosts file and it seems to do a decent job while not blocking useful pages. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
This reminds me of a story I saw in the mid to late 90's. It was just local news but it made me laugh and got strange looks from my parents who thought it was a good story. Basically, there was some woman that was saying how when you dispose of an old computer, you should destroy it so data can't be recovered from it. For demonstration, she drilled holes through the motherboard and then picked it up to the camera to show the damage and with this smug look said "No one will get my personal data, now." I LOL'd. The hard drive was untouched.
Anyway.. Point is, most general news sources don't have a clue what they're talking about and their information should be taken with a grain of salt. Unfortunate that anyone ever blindly believed that crap from the 80's/90's.
I've been liking portable apps a lot.
its versions of Open Office, Pidgin(gaim), Thunderbird, Firefox, pretty much any app and it all runs on a flash drive.
http://portableapps.com/
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Rather than explaining, you could try using hosts files to block what you don't want them to get to. I've tried Pollock's hosts file and it seems to do a decent job while not blocking useful pages. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
This reminds me of a story I saw in the mid to late 90's. It was just local news but it made me laugh and got strange looks from my parents who thought it was a good story. Basically, there was some woman that was saying how when you dispose of an old computer, you should destroy it so data can't be recovered from it. For demonstration, she drilled holes through the motherboard and then picked it up to the camera to show the damage and with this smug look said "No one will get my personal data, now." I LOL'd. The hard drive was untouched. Anyway.. Point is, most general news sources don't have a clue what they're talking about and their information should be taken with a grain of salt. Unfortunate that anyone ever blindly believed that crap from the 80's/90's.
They were immortals! Everyone knows they can only be killed by decapitation.
I've been liking portable apps a lot. its versions of Open Office, Pidgin(gaim), Thunderbird, Firefox, pretty much any app and it all runs on a flash drive. http://portableapps.com/