The Internet will be safe again!!!!
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Well, maybe. The new XXX domain should help to move some of the porn stuff and make it easier to segregate things. It won't help with the SPAM stuff, but it's a start. And one that should have been taken a long time ago. It still has some issues, mostly because everyone wants to get paid. After all, the porn sites certainly do 🙂
Whether you like porn or not, shielding kids from it is something that most of the world agrees with. It should be up to parents to decide if and when they'll allow their kids to know about porn, but it should also be easy.
With most of the world not being that technologically savvy, at least not yet, those of us that are have a responsibility to help educate as well as make it easy for everyone to protect themselves. Too often we go for the cool or interesting solution without taking into account the ways people will misuse things.
I bought a router that supposedly would implement parental controls for our network. However the subscription piece didn't work well and it was a continuous fee, and I didn't have control over the filter. That's not exactly what I had in mind. I know things are getting better and I may have to upgrade to another one.
Right now, all computers in the house, and there are quite a few of them, are either disconnected from the Internet, or password protected to keep the kids out. We have one that runs Content Watch, which seems to work well on the porn/gambling stuff.
Too bad it can't protect from the spyware/malware 🙁
Steve Jones
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Ok, try this again but won't type as much. If i weren't lazy i'd always use notepad and paste in for those times your post or update just seems to vanish.
MS spyware product seems to work very very well. I don't know if it's just been a coincidence but i've not had anything show up with spybot/adaware combo since i loaded it. I also had spywareblaster running but when i loaded this MS beta tool, it immediately found a few major IE bars that the others had been missing through many updates. It doesn't do cookies and it's track eraser that allows you to just erase them and many other tracks than cookies, which is cool and keeps me out of the registry that much more, doesn't allow for selective deletions. It's all or none with any of the tracks. The active agents number 59 I believe and the list of areas being monitored is impressive, although i have no idea how well it does this. I can only say- "knock on wood" - that i've been pretty clean since. Before loading it I was finding stuff constantly it seemed. And I do very little searching outside of known sites. If any! But it was getting so bad I would get a new service showing up weekly that needed removed. Scary.
A program update loaded yesterday and that fixed a bunch of gui issues and what else i do not know. But it's cool to see detail on running services and other processes without going to liutilities.com et al.
I know everyone knows about this product but so many ppl are religious about software which I find very non productive. Anyway, some of the reviews I've seen were misguided and did not understand portions of it and made it sound somewhat defective. I noticed what seemed like the same review at several places...such as techrepublic.
So far I feel memory usage has been worth it. I highly recommend.
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Steve,
Why not just put msde on your computers at home ( i can direct you to the URL for the free down load
) and popualte your hosts files with your acceptable url's for the kids and set content filter under internet tools .....My kids just listen, 'dont surf pron'. I, to be honest were I truly concerned about what the kids see would not let them browse the internet without a parent present or more extremely take control of the mouse as it were.
Edward W. Stanley
Have a great weekemd and happy lacrosse playing!
Now if all my brilliance would help me answer the q of the d more often.
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Whether you like porn or not, shielding kids from it is something that most of the world agrees with. It should be up to parents to decide if and when they'll allow their kids to know about porn, but it should also be easy.
This would not 'make it easy'. Many adult sites already voluntarily register with the various filtering product companies, these are the ones that are the most likely to voluntarily go there.
There are many others; amateur and professional photographers who work with nudes, or nudist groups, for example, who would absolutely NOT want to be ghettoized with the porn industry (this could be especially threatening if, after seeing that there is not much change, Congress decides it must 'do something' and attempt to make people legally liable for not classifying their material as porn).
There is stuff that is very specifically 'porn'. There is stuff that is truly trivial (like the Janet Jackson incident) that still seemed to upset a lot of people beyond reality, and there is a whole universe in between. Any division able to satisfy the loudest screamers would put a whole lot of legitimate material (if only for legal safety reasons) in the 'porn' world.
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In general I would agree with the xxx domain but agree with jay about some content may not wish to be there.
If this is to be voluntary then it would never work the way content ratings do not. The only way to restrict porn is to make it enforceable by law with heavy fines, imprisonment and closure of sites (can you imagine that world wide
 . Obviously the time and cost of policing would be a down side but then if it was enforced properly then surfers would do the policing.Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.
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