Posted on 06/06/2007 7:36:37 AM PDT by RileyD, nwJ
A tip: If you are ever blocked from FR immediately test the DU and dKos sites.
Nah, I’m usually Denied because it’s on the Crime list.
You could try accessing FR by the IP address rather than the DNS entry. That may work .....
Are not!
Clueless, maybe. And that would be only some.
>>China 2005 and 2006: Free Republic blocked on hotel computer in Beijing as “Objectionable Site.”<<
Couldn’t be much of a conservative site without being objectionable to Beijing.
Sign up for an encrypted VPN service like HotSpot VPN and bypass all those jack-booted censors - and protect your privacy and your identity from local WiFi sniffers in the process.
Maybe they’re afraid of the naked truth!
In that case, it sounds like the IT weenies working for NY are doing their job. Those working on the public dime shouldn't be on non-work related sites.
I recently installed a Squid proxy server with SquidGuard content control at my daughter's school. (The little crumbcrunchers weren't allowed Internet access before we installed the proxy.) The teacher and I agreed that no forums should be accessible to the students. There's no schoolwork related reason for them to visit any forum site. The URL blacklist I used blocks this site and all of the others you mentioned. It was politically neutral. This is as it should be. There are other lists, however, that show clear political bias. For example, one blocks NRA sites, but not Brady/HCI sites. I'm betting that what the original poster experienced was the result of such bias.
>>My biggest complaint is the hot linking. That is bandwidth theft to begin with.
All I am trying to say is... stop knocking the filters. They are accurately doing their job. If you have a problem with them blocking FR then clean house internally over the hot linking issue.<<
I don’t share your concern about hot linking because if someone makes a web page freely available to the public I don’t think they have the right to require people to look at all of it.
But I generally don’t hotlink for another reason - its too easy for the picture to disappear or change. I would also rather not help some web sites capture the IP addresses of fellow Freeper. If I list a link to Consumption Junction, Freepers can decide whether to visit the site but with a hot link I take that choice away -their browser visits consumption junction before they even read my post.
So instead I repost the photo on photobucket.com. Occasionally that site is blocked but since they don’t allow porn its as safe as any photo hosting choice. Its free forever, easy to do, they generate the HTML for you and you never reload the page and find they replaced your picture with ttub girl. That is no fun at all.
"If this be porn, don't speak; hisses are all that's needed."
Or time-consuming, like eBay and Livejournal and, yes, FR. The fact that the rule cited is "block pornography" may just mean that the administrator added sites to an existing rule rather than bother setting up a new one.
What I expect from my employer is an assignment and a deadline. Tell me what to do and count on it getting done. In between, if I want to spend a little time doing some personal Web surfing or e-mailing at my desk -- especially over lunch, which I've eaten at my desk nearly every day for 12 years -- back up out of my face.
In exchange for that flexibility, I'm willing to come early, stay late and work at home, within reason. If there's a lot of stuff going on, enough that I have to work 24 hours straight, it won't be the first time. If nothing's going on, there's plenty of staff and it's a pretty day, let me knock off early. Basically, all I ask of my boss is that he act like a person.
Of course, many employers don't see it that way, and limit their employees' access to sites that don't relate to their jobs, treating their employees like children who need Daddy to remove distractions. These tend to be the same officious a-holes who are sticklers for when people arrive and leave, the number and duration of breaks, and the overuse of office supplies.
I know that some jobs require that someone be there, and that some companies don't have a lot of redundancy; you've got to get there on time so the last guy can go home and stay until the next guy comes on. I'm not talking about that. Not am I talking about assembly line-type jobs -- both blue collar and white collar -- where there's a fairly steady and predictable stream of work coming in that has to get done. But there's no sense in a policy that makes you stare at the wall or do busy work instead of reading FR or listening to some music or writing a letter to your mom or going home.
I got fired from one temp assignment for flipping through a magazine at my desk for a few minutes. I politely explained that they, not I, chose the slow computer and printer I was using, which made it impossible to do anything else while printing. Nor was it my fault that in order to use the faster printer, I would have had to boot a coworker off of his computer -- something that I, as a temp, had a problem doing to an employee -- and then we'd both be idle while waiting for the print job to finish.
If I'd sat with my hands on the keyboard, facing front, doing an equal amount of nothing, that would have been no problem; but reading a magazine, I didn't look busy.
At one job, back in about 1992-93, my boss actually told me informally during new employee orientation that it was a good idea to look busy. I worked in the art department, and Rod -- my boss -- knew full well that it was a feast-or-famine work environment. He understood the downtime. But some of the suits who occasionally walked through our area didn't understand that, and if they saw anyone looking idle they were sure to bring that up when we asked for more people and equipment.
I had the good fortune to have a modem and a dedicated line, and I had AOL and Compuserve accounts. So I could go on the message boards and sit there, peering intently at the screen and typing like mad, and boy, howdy did I look busy.
Just another bunch of leftist trying to suppress dissent.
You forgot Michelle Malkin.
Please note that hot linking is bandwidth theft. It actually hurts the victim. Plus it’s lazy and stupid.
Now grabbing a photo and re-hosting it may still be “theft” but I don’t see where it actually hurts anyone so I have no problem with it.
Try an astronomy site- naked eye magnitude gets blocked all the time.
It’s all pissant’s fault! ;-)
LOL, I just posted the same thing. I wonder if he’ll get a complex.
I can’t even load the first page of this post. Second page loads fine.
Drives me crazy. Not sure if it is foul language that is slipping through the moderators.
Is your software up to date? All I can think of is that if you have an old Flash plug-in, it might be barfing on the ads. If you can get to other major sites like Google and Yahoo, and other news sites like CNN and NYT, and you can get to FR, that's very odd.
You could also try flushing the cache. There might be something in there that's choking the browser. On a fast connection, I run the smallest cache the browser will allow.
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