Posts by Clare (web specialist) 44 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2011
No I don’t understand, it is just so unfair. It is making me nauseous having read John’s comment, and looked up the US Patriot law and realised what they are doing.
The emails between me and my girlfriend are personal. The thought of some male pervert leering at our pictures fills me with disgust. Why isn’t somebody trying to do something to stop this.
Just looked this up on Wikipedia and it is disgraceful. Appropriate tools to intercept and obstruct terrorism, but they can legally look at all my emails and what I done on the internet.
I don’t want them seeing this, my girlfriends and I share a lot of intimate stuff, it’s just not right that other people can see it. What can I do now?
I absolutely agree it is appalling that these people monitor credit card information. There are some things you buy that you just don’t want anybody to know about but I usually use money.
I might be a lot more upset if I thought these perverts were looking at detail of emails, or god forbid Facebook.
Just because you and your male friends sit around swilling port talking about this sort of thing, does not make your anecdotes my life experience. You might want to have a think about it. At times I have been on a journey with life, but all too often it is your way or the highway!
Your accusation that I am stereotyping men makes me far angrier than the original stereotype. It is not a stereotype that would make me prefer my relationships with women it has been my consistent experience, and on top of that I have some good friends who are men. I work in a male dominated environment and every day consists or trying to prove that I am as good as them. I have no desire to carry on that struggle at home.
How dare you accuse me of stereotyping when I was, validly objecting to a classic male stereotype. What do you mean anecdotal when this has been my experience? Every time I get involved it has been a total disappointment, unfulfilling and frequently painful! Men are just a pain in the arse.
Every time one of my female friends admits to no longer wanting men in their life, it is the same old comments. We aren’t super models just average looking. But there is absolutely no call for those sort of insults
Whilst I find the description of this mans private life appalls me, I have to applaud his efforts to do something about the worst aspects of the internet. Thumbs up from me it is a shame there aren't a few more politicians who are keen to sort out the more disgraceful bits of the internet.
OMG. These are the young people of our society trying to make a difference. On top of this many of them seem to have all sorts of disenfranchisement issues.
You seem to be suggesting at best that they are hanged, and at worst suffer many years of anal rape. What planet are you people from?
Again your puerile personal attacks detract from any point that you are trying to make.
In response to the one technical comment you have made in the 21st century IT professionals need to take a more holistic perspective on the full life cycle of services supplying business functionality. The objective is that IT delivers services to the business. It is the means to an end not some sort of hobby for the ‘IT Staff’. With Microsoft Windows systems the complex architecture of the Operating system doesn’t need to be considered.
On your other point about the riots I don’t support all of the actions of the people involved, but you have to sympathise. Listening to the stories from the protestors they clearly identified themselves as being socially excluded youths who have been disenfranchised by the rest of society.
I don’t follow your argument about this support being contrary to my attitude towards porn. Do you know many women that don’t consider porn to be sexual objectification? Given the rest of your comments I guess the question should be do you know any women? You get no respect from me at all!
Just because you choose to code in out of date languages from the last century does not give you the right to be so insulting. If you could communicate effectively people might take your opinion a bit more seriously. If it is any of your business I have a lot of coding experience, and a higher education qualification to prove it. The college however chose to teach programming a 21st century language.
@CD001 Why do you think it is appropriate to insult people on comment boards? I have never been chased down the streets by Dominic Littlewood. Perhaps you should stick to factual arguments rather than personal attacks.
@Cyberspice As a woman yourself I am astonished that you would wish to persist with the age old stereotypes of IT, it is complicated, needs some bizarre code, or should be developed in arcane technology. If you google Unix systems it was developed in 1969…………… need I say more!
On your point with regard to Ubuntu maybe Technophobe is your ….. Anyway I take exception to you describing my course as an ‘M$ "learn which boxes to click"’ course. Code like javascript has to be written and have the correct syntax to work well!
Because innovations introduced in the Microsoft software won’t be available on Windows 7. It never ceases to amaze me that you non-technical staff seem to want to your retain old-fashioned and obsolete software.
Working on the leading edge of technology, as I do, every day I am surprised by the massive advances in both functionality, and performance of the new software. As the technological leader of the software industry much of this is produced by Microsoft. Clearly windows 8 will be a huge advance.
@Titus I have heard the only reason that companies use Ubuntu is because they are trying to save money, much the same reason as people who install Linux. At the end of the day this is a false economy, and they always end up getting a proper Windows OS in the end.
.....your posts suggest that you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Those of us who aren't as privileged have to deal with children going to see their friends (where they go on the Internet anyway), doing homework using the Internet (as an example a simple query, homework for WW1, on 'The Hun' leads to a web site with content that you don't really want a 12 year old to see) , etc.
I now view the Internet, far from being educational, as a blight on the 21st century. It is only your privileged location that allows you to make these sort of statements. The rest of us do not have the time to supervise teenage children 24/7, somebody has to clean up, cook etc. etc. This is doubly hard when you have to hold down a job as a single parent.
As a parent and somebody who understands the web I have to approve of this application.
It is a bit of a start, it is all well and good other childless commentators on here saying that children should be supervised at all times, etc, etc. This just doesn't happen, and isn't realistically possible, particularly when they have smart phones anyway. You switch on all the child protection in windows, and Norton and still the kids find objectionable content.
I do feel that the authorities should do far more to either remove or block this content at source. It is nice to see an article where the author at least acknowledges the problems that parents experience.
I for one applaud this award. Janice has show tremendous courage in the face of extreme adversity.
It must be terrible to have a son accused of crimes by a hostile foreign power, but doubly so when he is mentally retarded as well. The only thing he seems to be guilty of is looking for evidence of UFO's where do these people get off?
@Lee
The fact that Scarlett Johannson has previously released pictures isn’t relevant. The fact that somebody has released these pictures on her behalf is a disgusting violation of her rights. It is the same argument that because a woman walks about in a short skirt ………
@AC 15th September 2011 22:26
I will be reviewing the position within my team with regard to these points. Hopefully we will be able to at least close these down.
Another young man's life is ruined because a few organisations can't run their web sites properly.
I have no doubt that this lad will have psychological problems as well. The police reaction to this sort of thing is appalling. He does seem to have been undertaking a valid protest, and when was that made illegal?
So no just because he 'attacked' PayPal twice he doesn't deserve this sort of heavy handed police brutality. He can't of done that much to PayPal it seemed to be working fine last night.
I have to second your comments. It is disgusting the way that commentators are suggesting knee jerk reactions like shooting people (some of these protesters are kids). I would also point out that this is a generation that have been and are deprived of the opportunities that most other people take for granted. It is hardly surprising that, as well as protesting, they take a few of the things that they see other people enjoying.
What have the preceding generations, as you say people in their 50’s and 60’s, actually done? The poverty gap has widened over the last 20 years. These young people are entitled to a massive investment in social, employment and educational opportunities. The rich might have to pay a bit more tax to allow this to happen but to my mind that is only fair.
These are the young people who simply haven't been provided with the educational and employment opportunities that they deserve. The generation of children and young people who have been let down by this and previous governments.
Comments above about National service, and worse are simply barbaric, you should be ashamed for these suggestions. You forget that these disaffected youth are also citizens of the UK.
As a parent I am appalled that a vulnerable individual should be dragged all that way just because a few organisations can't run their web sites properly.
Knowing something about web sites I'll bet they were running really insecure open systems not proper Windows web sites. Probably just trying to save money as well.
I program Microsoft FrontPage 2002. I have never seen the problems you mention, maybe this is more secure than what you use for your web sites?
The other things you mention cause physical harm, I have seen stories on here about companies with very poor security surely they are equally to blame for losing data?
How can you be so selfish. These are clearly kids with psychological problems. To my mind the authorities are overreacting to this.
As a parent my heart goes out to the mothers. To have a son is hard enough but to have them arrested for simply messing about on the Internet is just dreadful. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a disturbed child, and then worse have to cope with them being arrested.
1 Billion dollars to buy Zynga does seem a lot of money, but may be they are worth that much? Since the arrival of Face book the whole web experience seems so much better. I look back to 5 years ago and all the pages from Internet explorer just seemed so boring, whereas now it is like the whole Internet is alive, and vibrant.
Speaking as a Web programmer I really respect Zynga all of their games seem brilliant. Farmville and Café World are just in a different league. I only wish I could produce web pages that were as good. What better way is there to spend a weekend than getting a load of credits, and really trying to get somewhere in Farmville, money well spent to my mind.
Whereas Microsoft were the top internet company of the last decade, just may be Zynga and Facebook will be the ones to watch in the next few years?
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