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Lord Poe
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Post by Lord Poe »

Crayz9000 wrote:The best use of a web filter is basically to protect users from themselves in a security sense. Scan incoming HTTP/FTP/mail traffic for viruses, and presto, you've reduced one infection method. Better yet it can be done transparently without needing to run anything on the user's computer.
Actually, you're quite right. The geniuses I work with manage to misspell in Word documents! They have cameras in all the buses now, which must be downloaded nightly. The guy in charge of this was sent a fax, with a picture of the camera interface labeled 1, 2, 3. He had an "extra" cable he didn't know what to do with, and I told him it was a firewire cable. He asked me what it was, and if I put it there. I told him no...one end goes into the camera interface...and the other connects to the computer....
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Post by dworkin »

Two years ago my 7th formers (last year at high school to you aliens) had imense difficulty with their behaviour based research assignment.

The class had chosen native birds and their various behaviour patterns.

However accessing sites with phrases like 'hot young chicks' was tricky.
'Adolescents ready for mating' was another IIRC.

All the fault of those known arch-porn merchants DOC (Department of Conservation) :shock:
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