Posts by Synkrox

iPhone 6: Most exquisite MOBILE? No. It is the Most Exquisite THING. EVER

Thought I'd stumbled onto The Verge........

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

Re: Sense at last

Thanks for being so pedantic, however the website to which I am referring is asssmoothie (dotcom)

The internet doesn't care where you live, so yeah, its an american spelling, of an american website.

Re: Sense at last

>if you think your 11 year old won't be doing that in a few years time

You said it yourself:

A few years time.

So my 8 year old will be in a few more years time.....

Which is pretty much what I would anticipate.

My 11 year old will be drinking in a few years time too. Doesn't mean she will be getting her hands on the booze today.

Kids are born innocent and develop maturity in line with understanding and responsibility. The fact they can get something at 18 is not an excuse to give it them at 7.

Re: Sense at last

You will be pleased to know your sarcasm isn't wasted on me :-)

Re: Sense at last

>Parents /should/ realise what their children are up to

Good luck educating the parents of the UK, I look forward to hearing your proposal for that scheme. Ever seen Jeremy Kyle? There are 50,000 kids in the UK that have had to be placed in foster care, and those are just the ones bad enough to be taken from parents entirely. Your happy 2.4 home might not be one of them, congrats. turn off the filter and have the relationship with your kids you describe. But next door little Mercedes could be watching an ass smoothie and wondering if its normal.

>Anyway, if your kids are 8 and 11 they should not be on Facebook

They aren't, thanks for your concern,despite their protests because "their friends are"- but as a NM at a secondary school I think I can give a pretty good insight into what's going on with young people from 11-18 as I have around 1000 to look after on a daily basis.

>Seriously? You think that social networking sites are the big evil for such videos?

They dont make the videos, but they should be more responsible for dealing with what is posted on there and preventing it redistribution. Should we allow the BBC to show beheadings too?

>Maybe you just like to live with the illusion of safety? After all that's all these filters really are.

In your opinion, because you read the Reg and know how to get round them. I don't want my kids, or anyone else's kids stumbling across stuff by accident. That's the point of this. Noone is claiming it to be an undefeatable firewall.

Re: Technically Literate Children

My 8 year old son doesn't know about porn on the internet so he wont go hunting for ways to access it. When he is older, maybe, but by then he should be closer to understanding what it is. We all drank and smoked younger than we should have, but within reason.

My kids know about booze, but it doesn't mean I steaming drunk around them and leave glasses of vodka around.

Lets try and do whatever we can, however small to preserve the innocence of childhood (whats left of it)

And then turn it all off to go make a rope swing , fall off a bike, and fix the car with dad :-)

You expect to teach all parents how to filter the internet and enforce fine-grain control over each device?

Yes, parents SHOULD take responsibility for their kids, but a lot don't know/understand/care and its the kids that suffer when they come across stuff that they shouldn't.

Honestly if you are that bothered about looking at filth then turn YOUR filter off. Hardly a big deal and some protection is better than no protection for those that do need it.

Sense at last

Finally, some sense. I'm a NM at a secondary school for girls in Birmingham.

I wholeheartledly agree with everything you have said. It's all very well Reg readers going "pah! DNS based blocking!?" but most people have no idea what DNS is, let alone how to change it.

Yeah there will be how-to guides springing up, but my 11 and 8 year old kids that are encouraged to use the internet for homework wont be looking for that. No system is infallible, but this is a great idea. A lot of parents simply don't realise what their kids are up to and the kids certainly don't realise the wealth of gross stuff that's on the net even by "adult" standards.

Next stop - social networking sites, they need to take responsibility for keeping their house in order. I don't see why FB and the like should be letting kids see beheading videos.

SkyDrive on par with C: Drive in Windows 8.1

Re: The one time....

It can store a local copy if you want and are going in areas like that. what about if you "really needed to check your email" ? Or "really needed to make a phone call" in a tunnel?? - sometimes, you gotta accept that you can't have everything all the time. Fact is its a nice feature to have and I will use it.