Had to bust a dude for looking at gay porn on the library computers...

[KAYNE]

CAS

YOU SHOULD HAVE LOUD CAPPED HIS ASS AND EMBARRASSED HIM.


KAYNE

 

[ungbygger]

Because its tough as shit to block EVERYTHING, I have a tough time filtering email or bad websites, you ALWAYS end up blocking legit stuff and letting some bad through.

Yeah, its hard to block everything, while not blocking legit sites, but one of the _best_ programs to do so is "Websense". - www.websense.com . Has to be installed on a separate server though, but it has got a _huge_ database, and updatet manually/autmatically every day. Costs a few $$, but at EIM ( Employee Internet Managment) its simply the best..

 

[Pimp C]

Yeah, its hard to block everything, while not blocking legit sites, but one of the _best_ programs to do so is "Websense". - www.websense.com . Has to be installed on a separate server though, but it has got a _huge_ database, and updatet manually/autmatically every day. Costs a few $$, but at EIM ( Employee Internet Managment) its simply the best..

Thats what we use at my job. Luckily this site isn't blocked (yet).

 

[bigguns7]

So casavant, you're a bouncer and a librarian? I'll bet you were a hall monitor in middle school.

 

[john937]

Luckily this site isn't blocked (yet).

I'm torn both ways on this one. I'm all for appropriate descrete behaviour in public,
but also I hate censorship.
Pimp C makes a good point for all you encouraging filtering software.
You set up a censorship program, and this site will probably get axed too.
I wonder why the library set up the computers so everyone can look over his shoulder in the first place.
How about a little privacy while you're browsing?
I could pick up "Catcher in the Rye" or other accepted "literary novels" off the stacks and read lurid descriptions that are just about as pornographic as anything on those sites,
and do it in complete privacy, without a librarian telling me what I can and can't read.
Seems to me the library created this "problem" (tempest in a teapot) in the first place, by making everything you browse viewable to everyone around, and probably did so on purpose.
Not so surprising considering most libraries are organized and managed by "little old ladies" that haven't gotten laid in ages.

 

[casavant]

So casavant, you're a bouncer and a librarian? I'll bet you were a hall monitor in middle school.

 

[casavant]

I'm torn both ways on this one. I'm all for appropriate descrete behaviour in public,
but also I hate censorship.
Pimp C makes a good point for all you encouraging filtering software.
You set up a censorship program, and this site will probably get axed too.
I wonder why the library set up the computers so everyone can look over his shoulder in the first place.
How about a little privacy while you're browsing?
I could pick up "Catcher in the Rye" or other accepted "literary novels" off the stacks and read lurid descriptions that are just about as pornographic as anything on those sites,
and do it in complete privacy, without a librarian telling me what I can and can't read.
Seems to me the library created this "problem" (tempest in a teapot) in the first place, by making everything you browse viewable to everyone around, and probably did so on purpose.
Not so surprising considering most libraries are organized and managed by "little old ladies" that haven't gotten laid in ages.

This is a campus library where a large part of the ground floor is taken up with computers that students can use to find books in the library, check e-mail, do research, and work on papers. I don't see how putting all those computers in a location where the screen was not viewable by others would be logistically practical.

 

[Doktor Bollix]

This is a campus library where a large part of the ground floor is taken up with computers that students can use to find books in the library, check e-mail, do research, and work on papers. I don't see how putting all those computers in a location where the screen was not viewable by others would be logistically practical.

Guess who the jizz mopper would be.

 

[casavant]

Guess who the jizz mopper would be.

LOL.