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Title: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Noreen on Feb 26, 2008, 17:58:54
QuoteA Microsoft executive told MPs today that forcing software companies to install internet content filtering technology with high-security settings as standard to all computers would send the UK back to the "dark ages"..............
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/26/microsoft.digitalmedia
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: madasahatter on Feb 26, 2008, 18:01:01
At last - someone talking some kind of sense  :)
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Rik on Feb 26, 2008, 18:03:00
For once (checks for bright star in the East), I agree with something said by Microsoft!
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: somanyholes on Feb 26, 2008, 18:38:14
if such a thing where to happen due to the fact usability would be be a nightmare, i would of thought companies/people would end up altering settings themselves to get usability back, due to this there would probably be a high chance that systems would end up being more open than they are now. Thats my 2pence anyway
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Rik on Feb 26, 2008, 18:40:14
Agreed. We'd all be getting hacked and unlocked copies of Windows, or moving to Linux, as fast as we can go. If kids need protecting, how about parents taking on a little responsibility!
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: madasahatter on Feb 26, 2008, 18:50:20
Quote from: Rik on Feb 26, 2008, 18:40:14
Agreed. We'd all be getting hacked and unlocked copies of Windows, or moving to Linux, as fast as we can go. If kids need protecting, how about parents taking on a little responsibility!

Parents taking on a little responsibility? Now there's a silly idea!! >:D

I'm calling the men in white coats now.  ;D
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Rik on Feb 26, 2008, 18:51:06
I'm on first name terms with them. :)
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: madasahatter on Feb 26, 2008, 18:53:21
Who? Thomas and Harry?

they're regular visitors at my house too  ;D
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Rik on Feb 26, 2008, 18:53:56
So that would make you a D...??  :o  ;D
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Broadback on Feb 27, 2008, 10:23:39
My father was what is now called a psychiatric nurse, he always said that anyone who had been certified insane, as it used to be, and were then discharged were the only people who could produce documentation certifying their sanity.  ;)
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: Rik on Feb 27, 2008, 10:34:55
I have one of those. :)
Title: Re: MPs get web filter 'dark ages' warning
Post by: madasahatter on Feb 27, 2008, 10:42:06
Quote from: Broadback on Feb 27, 2008, 10:23:39
My father was what is now called a psychiatric nurse, he always said that anyone who had been certified insane, as it used to be, and were then discharged were the only people who could produce documentation certifying their sanity.  ;)

That makes a certain kind of sense BB  ;)