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On Thursday 31 July 2014 11:21:19 Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:23:45 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > Am Mittwoch 30 Juli 2014, 15:44:28 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: |
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> > > Hello, |
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> > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:28:32 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote: |
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> > > > On 30/07/14 09:26, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > > > 3. the use of group 'games' to control access to games can be |
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> > > > > deprecated and needs not to be enforced, |
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> > > > I would like the council to consider removing this group altogether, |
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> > > > and fixing all ebuilds to not use it. |
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> > > |
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> > > Please carefully consider this matter. Having a dedicated group is |
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> > > quite convenient to limit users from using games on workstations |
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> > > and is also handy as a parental control feature. Of course, |
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> > > a dedicated group is not an ultimate solution and can be evaded by |
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> > > technically skilled users, but it nevertheless helps. |
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> > https://www.google.com/search?q=browser+games |
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> > nuff said |
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> This may be filtered by a proxy. |
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If you're playing those thought games - users could even run qemu to boot a |
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whole OS! Or write a Tetris clone in Python!11 |
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There's no way to fix a social issue like this with technical means properly, |
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so I'd suggest not spending so much time on trying to figure out a corner case |
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that is relatively irrelevant. |
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