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"From North Carolina comes a report that a State Senator wants to erase all game applications from state workers' computers. His belief: that preventing government employees from playing Solitaire and Minesweeper will recoup millions of dollars worth of productivity for the state."

Score one for the Senator. Erasing these games would be an inexpensive way to gain productivity at the workplace. I guess the real shame is that these games would be played on company time in the first instance.

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read the article - i list several reasons why the Senator's initiative makes no sense whatsoever. bottom line: unmotivated, unsupervised and untasked personnel will find ways to waste time. more and more of those channels exist today: think internet games, cell phones, PSPs, gameboys, etc. what's the real problem here? it's not the fact that minesweeper's installed...