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 01-11-2009, 04:21 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: ---, Tasmania Posts: 112 |  work internet filter
Well hi to everybody, i have not been around for a while. The reason is that work has installed a new web filter which has Firearms listed as a prohibited category :-( I think it is disgraceful myself but there is not much more I can do about it until I get a home connection which is now on my to do list. Until then I won't be around here much... __________________
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| 01-11-2009, 04:23 AM | #2 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,180 |
Well at least you have a job.  __________________ .
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| 01-11-2009, 04:42 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
Talk to your IT guy and see what he can do for you. Sometimes it is just the way it comes. Talk to him or her and say you would like to view it on your break. It may work. | |
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| 01-11-2009, 04:56 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: ---, Tasmania Posts: 112 |
Might have a go at that. I will be getting a home broadband service soon though. And as for having a job, that will depend on if we can sell another boat in the next few months or else we will be in receivership before long. __________________
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| 01-11-2009, 01:38 PM | #5 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,180 |
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Originally Posted by CARNUT1100
Might have a go at that. I will be getting a home broadband service soon though. And as for having a job, that will depend on if we can sell another boat in the next few months or else we will be in receivership before long.
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Colt, everything else is stamp collecting! - cane
"Given ten days for a project, a good engineer spends nine days figuring out how to finish it in one day."
Resistance is not futile.
It's voltage divided by current (R=V/I).
"If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it on a large scale." | Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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| 01-11-2009, 02:19 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 294 |
my work had the same issues, anything like "gun, firearm, ammunition, hunting" or the like would set of bells and whistles. WARNING DANGER WILL ROBINSON.
It used to peeve me, as we were allowed small amounts of casual use, such as reading CNN and such. But whoever programmed the filters had it set that anything even remotely related to guns was blocked 
Hence my acquistion of a laptop with a wireless card. Now I can buy ammo or post on this forum from anywhere  | |
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| 01-11-2009, 03:28 PM | #7 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,558 |
Google for online free web proxy sites. You might be able to get to one of those from work and from there, you can go anywhere in a pseudo-anonymous fashion; your IT department won't pick up that you're on a firearms-related site.
I don't want you to engage in anything that might get you fired or which might be against any laws in your area, but more often than not, IT folks just apply a broad list of sites and/or keywords to filter software without giving it much thought. __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | Likes Given: 3
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