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FullerH

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My office has ibeen updating its internet security and has banned BladeForums as, get this, a "Chat Room." :confused: I used to post during lunch or after work and in the occasional break in the work flow but now I must find time at home. :(

I guess that Ken Cox will catch up to my post count now if he hasn't already. :D
 
KeithH said:
try a http tunnel :D
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Most employeers have some policy that says something like, "Any attempt to defeat or bypass internet filtering mechanisms is subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination."

A better option would be to get a cellphone with internet access and use that.
 
Actually, Chuck, I have that if my techno-peon mind could wrap itself around getting the damned thing to work that way. As far as I am concerned, the cell phone is a tool of the devil and I would be only too happy to see them rendered inoperable by some natural event. All they seem to do is to impose some clots' personal conversations upon all of those around them while any time that I seem to need it, it can't find the signal. <Remainder deleted to avoid the wrath of the mods. :) >
 
FullerH said:
<Remainder deleted to avoid the wrath of the mods. :) >
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Too late. I'm reading your mind. You're toast.

Every cloud has a silver lining. At least, if you have to find time at home for BF, you'll lose out on eating and sleeping, and will probably lose a bit of weight.
 
Maybe there's wireless in your office that's not controlled by your office which you can tap into with a laptop of your own? A laptop capable of surfing the web isn't expensive.
 
Oh, no, Chuck. My building is shielded from outside electronic invasion of any sort. You didn't know that the SEC was a high security agency, did you? My cell will ring in the building, but I cannot get a connection that allows me to hear or talk on it.

Esav, in this, you may be correct and it would not hurt me to lose some, unfortunately.
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
send yourself a PM with email notification..follow the link and your online at work??? haha I am a genius..
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Doesn't work, Ren. I'm behind a firewall and had BF access until last month. We also had Ebay access. Well, they tightened up and now all we get is the "ACCESS DENIED" screen. I've tried the links from PM's and thread subscriptions. ACCESS DENIED.

My employer actually expects the employees to perform the work they are paid to do during work hours. How infuriating! I believe they are violating my rights. Don't they realize that the work they want me to do is interferring with my personal life?

It's time to bring in the Union. I WANT MY STEWARD! Oh wait. I am my Steward. Dang. I hate it when that happens.
 
Hugh,
The exact same thing happened to me last year; banned as "chat." My guess is that BFC came to the attention of the list makers because of the amount of traffic -- none of the other knife sites were blocked. Fortunately (not that I have time to surf BFC from work anymore), the filter stopped blocking BFC after a couple of months.
 
We have almost the opposite problem at the university; it's been hard to get the IT folks to even install basic protections, and the idea of "filtering" anyone's net access would cause all sorts of intellectual freedom alarms to go off...

I confine my surfing to lunch time, and have only a few BBS I look at. Just to be safe...
We are getting a mobile laptop for one of the police cars. Nice unit; a panasonic that looks a lot like the bulletproof models they sell to the military.
I have the car with the mount in it, so I'll get to play with the thing. The idea is to put REGIS on it, so that we can check license plates and do record checks out on the road. (Like we're so busy that the dispatcher can't cope....?????)
Hehe-anyway, these people have no clue. They stuck a Verizon wireless card in it, and told me to go out and check connectivity at sites around the university. First thing I did was check the security on the machine....None at all. No virus protection, no firewall.
Then I drove around and checked how many other wireless nodes I could connect to. Dozens. They are all over the university, as you'd imagine. Also, the friendly coffee shop across from our big parking lot has free wireless; sure enough all I had to do was park nearby and I could access their nice broadband connection.
I pointed this all out to my superiors, who seemed rather blank about it.
"Uh, we're going to have the same setup as the county police, I'm sure it will be allright..."
I'm waiting to see.
 
What a drag! I enjoy your posts very much, Hugh. I want more of them, not less. Time to retire--and you can post full time.
 
Totally Judy said:
...My employer actually expects the employees to perform the work they are paid to do during work hours. How infuriating! I believe they are violating my rights. Don't they realize that the work they want me to do is interferring with my personal life?
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It's a shame that you're not a supervisor like I am...That way you wouldn't have to "work", but still get paid.:D.:D.
 
glockman99 said:
It's a shame that you're not a supervisor like I am...That way you wouldn't have to "work", but still get paid.:D.:D.
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Glockie.......you didn't read my post correctly. I said that they "expect" me to work. I didn't say that I actually do work. According to labor laws, as long as I am at work, they are required to pay me regardless of whether or not I actually perform any work. Cool law, huh?

Unfortunately, my boss knows me way too well and ensures that I do a little work each and every day. So yeah, I do some work once in a while. And a lot of work once in a while. And now my boss is on vacation.... ha ha ha ha! Guess how much work I did today? Well, I cannot tell a lie. I worked the same as always. But I'll really work hard while he's gone so he can't bitch about work that still needs to be done when returns.

I still think there is something wrong when work interferes with my personal life......:mad:
 
Tell The Man that the ultra-complicated project will take 5 hours, then quietly finish 95% of it in the first hour. Proceed to take 4-hour coffee break. :D
 
DonTomas said:
Tell The Man that the ultra-complicated project will take 5 hours, then quietly finish 95% of it in the first hour. Proceed to take 4-hour coffee break. :D
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What if The Man, happens to be a woman, will the above still work? :confused:
 
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