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Comment your content, how proprietory is it? (Score 1) 121

You need to make sure that there is a clear demarcation between your content and the wikipedia content and this will limit your integration. The last thing you want is for one of your users to upload confidential information onto wikipedia in the mistaken belief they are putting it on the in house wiki.

Comment Re:Google already came up with a better way (Score 2, Informative) 200

Sorry, I wasn't being clear. My network proxy which I run on the network of an enterprise storage company allows me to block pages when safesearch is off. That means that the users can do whatever they like in google images but as soon as they turn off the safe search the results pages are blocked until they turn it back on. I know there are a lot of the "mom's basement" sorts around on slashdot but please don't assume I am one of them.

Comment I guess the first thing to try... (Score 1) 902

The first thing to try is actually being good at your job, the respect pretty much goes along with that. I moved into an internal IT role after several years in a field engineer position so I have been lucky enough to experience lots of different environments and deal with lots of different industries. I have worked in some places that I would never go back to and I have dealt with some people I could happily punch but now I have found a pretty sweet gig and I'm pretty set to stick about.

If the users are being rude and aggressive towards you then either you need to be able to have a quiet word to senior management about this or you're best off out of there. If the company has no respect for IT then it could just be a product of the industry you are in (a lot of manufacturing type companies see no value in IT and so don't give it any resources, compare that with industries like transport and finance who are more likely to have someone very senior responsible for IT).

Who's your line manager? Who do you report to? Surely it would be an idea to have a word with that person and try to gain some support for what you do amongst senior management. They can then come down on anyone who treats you like $h!t. The only time I ever had someone be particularly rude to me was a lass in the training department who was a little bit full of herself. I had a word with the IT director who then had a word with the HR director who then had a quiet word with the girl in question who bucked her ideas up pretty quickly and was never rude to me again. If it's a small company and you are reporting directly to the MD then you could have a chat with them and ask if they could have a chat with department heads or just generally jump on anyone who gives you attitude, companies have an interest in making sure that people like you are kept sane!

And if all else fails just mark out your problem users and work to rule with them. They'll pretty soon see that a smile and a please gets them a lot further than shouting and screaming and jumping up and down (just make sure you are firm but fair and do the bare minimum for them to satisfy your responsibilities but be warm and helpful to those who make the effort to be polite to you).
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Submission + - Brazilian Pirates Hijack US MIlitary Satellites (radioreference.com)

blantonl writes: "This article in Wired explains how Brazilians all over the country are using modified amateur radio equipment to communicate with each other using US Military communications satellites — effectively creating their own CB radio network on the backs of the US Military. Recent efforts to crack down have resulted in arrests of some of the users, however the behavior still continues today."

Comment This is not a freedom of speech issue (Score 1) 528

This is a personal privacy issue. This site was posting personal details of a judge who put away some nasty and violent criminals. I don't care where you stand on the animal testing debate but it's a debate and not something that can be solved by terrorising people because of where they work. The judge who put them away deserves the right to have his family protected in the same way that the personal details of a judge taking on the mafia would expect to have his family protected. Let's all calm down and put this in perspective, if the site hadn't published something it knew it shouldn't have published then it wouldn't be in that situation. Trashy home made media outlets need to learn some responsibility for their actions.

Comment Re:Prosecute the parents (Score 1) 504

Well for a start the game is an 18 certificate in the UK and M in the US. While it's not technically illegal in the US to sell this game to a minor, Rockstar themselves have admitted that the target audience is late teen and adult. A good parent might actually let their kids play this game if such a thing went hand in hand with frank and open discussion about the issues raised in the game but these people don't sound like they are taking their role as parents very seriously.

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