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Hey Brett, |
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I already point my router at these guys. Is there something more I |
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could be doing? |
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I've decided that for the most part this is probably a futile |
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undertaking. It turns out some of his online classes are using Flash |
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and certainly a lot of video media as port of how they teach. With |
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that in mind it's pretty difficult for me to block the technologies |
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themselves as a 'policy' decision. That leaves me with trying to block |
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web sites which turns me real-time policeman which I'm unwilling to do |
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so I've let him know that I'm watching how he uses the machines. It |
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hasn't worked in the past though... |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Brett Freer <brett@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Hi Mark, |
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> |
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> Why don't you try www.opendns.com? |
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> |
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> Kind regards |
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> |
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> Brett |
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> |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:markknecht@×××××.com] |
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> Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2008 3:35 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user? |
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> |
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM, <emailjp79@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]: |
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>> |
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>>> On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: |
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>>> ... |
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>>>> |
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>>>> In that case, isn't putting |
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>>>> |
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>>>> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED |
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>>>> |
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>>>> into /etc/hosts easier? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Or just set up a proxy. |
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>>> |
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>>> No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites |
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>>> with pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and |
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>>> worse still the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such |
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>>> problems seldom have foolproof solutions. |
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>> |
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>> Well, at least there is "mvps" [1] with a nice host-file, blocking |
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>> mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble. |
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>> While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I |
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>> stumbled upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one of |
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> |
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>> them entirely for porn-sites. |
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>> |
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>> The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian |
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>> Qiao before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides, |
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>> using an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there |
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>> anyway. You would have to block those, too. |
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>> My opinion: If children are to be "protected" from that kind of |
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>> content, seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a better |
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>> way (in conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But |
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>> as soon as one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to |
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> stop. |
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>> |
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>> JP |
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> Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly. |
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> Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not |
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> using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with |
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> 'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a |
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> matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of |
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> Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking about |
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> it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing |
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> technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a bit. |
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> Thanks again, |
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> Mark |
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