When your dad tells you to get off of Facebook and do your work, he's serious. You will log on the next day to find that he has subscribed to a web filtering program. To your horror, you will find that not only Facebook, but also Memebase and Collegehumor are blocked.
In other news, productivity shot up 9001 percent!
at least he hasn’t blocked your pron!
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!
^this………….is my text message tone.
i think i speak for everyone when i say that people dont use this often enough on the internet
Shut up and use a proxy!
Proxies don’t work for me
Barracuda at work is a B!tch…
on a related note, does anyone know a good way to get around a barracuda filter?
I am not sure about this “baracuda” ?
does it forbid programs directly from your computer? or is working on server and there it limits traffic?
if is it on your computer then little tweak here and little tweak there… boss wont notice ^^
and when its on main server then try using programs that encrypt your traffic: try VPN or something similar…
Or Tor browser.
Why wouldn’t you think he was serious? Did he say it while chuckling and wearing clown makeup?
my dad used to do this which is why i am now paranoid that clowns are going to find me and cut off my hands to feed to their pet aardvarks
The answer is quite simple.
Insert your windows disc and reinstall windows.
Problem solved.
Not necessarily.
There ARE network-based filters, filter-based DNSes, etc.
one word: VPN
…or something similar.
It screws all network based filters and whatever…
Uh huh, like a sysadmin on a secured network is going to let you install VPN software whenever you like over managed devices.
VPN: Very Persistant Nigga.
i got the branon browser app on my ipod touch, parental controls nullified. then i found the password to the unblocked wifi, so it didn’t matter. ( DO NOT download branon for the pc, when you try and uninstall it, it will come back, if you do it again, you receive mallware. have fun with that)
Learn to use the grey net
over 9000!!!!!!!!!!
Fail on you for not knowing how to bypass these simple things.
And now just think, you decide to get creative on a project, remember a meme you saw that would be great for it….but NOPE CHUCK TESTA it’s blocked. Great parenting.
Exactly how often are memes appropriate for use in academic work, pray tell?
I love how everyone here is advising the OP on how to get around the parent’s rule enforcement. Great advice, here. Let’s just teach the kid that breaking the rules in secret is just fine.
I’m a parent with four kids. I have to admit, the first thing I thought of when I read this lfmf was how to get around a filtering program (e.g. go through a proxy, use tor project on a thumb drive, using linux off a cd or reconfiguring the computer to dual boot and hide the second operating system).
Granted, I DID eventually start thinking that the kid really should have been doing his homework, but still, my first reaction to his dad’s “solution” was to take it as a challenge.
I think that may just be human nature.
I understand trying to think of a way around it. I agree, human nature. But NONE of the comments said anything about the kid needing to just listen to his/her parents and get the homework done. And it’s funny, if this had been posted on a different day, it might have been different. The internet is so fickle sometimes.
they’re going to learn it by example anyways
My son doesn’t get on the computer until he’s done his homework and chores. The account is password protected.
Yes, he figured out how to change the password -once. I told him that if I didn’t have the password, I would delete the account and he would have no access. I have yet had to carry through.
Thing is, I think he’s figured out that messing around is more trouble then it’s worth in the end. (The series of events leading to this conclusion was long, convoluted, and of doubtful interest to most.)
What if your son needs his computer to do his homework? Or what if it’s a great help?
SOLUTION FAILED
I think the best solution is just good parenting… teach them that homework comes first… sur you can play too, but you homework MUST be done in time.
parental controls are not for blocking. i call them “internet resourcefullness tests”
the object of parental controls is to do whatever you can to get around them, it encourages creative thinking, and teaches computer skills.
circumventors galore available at Peacefire.com
Productivity actually went up? I know for me that it would nosedive until I had figured out the best way to bypass the filter.
How lets all these children in?
You think that’s bad? My father enabled a very tight filter… Youtube is blocked, Facebook too, all of Membebase and Cheezburger (but for some reason not Failblog), Minecraft, LoL as well… Pretty much everything but (most) webcomics, Netflix, and Google