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rhionnach ([personal profile] rhionnach) wrote2009-03-16 06:24 pm
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Viking pornography

I am somewhat puzzled at my work's "net nanny" software blocking this site http://www.jorvik.co.uk/ as "pornography"! Needless to say I looked at it as soon I got home to try to work out what could possibly be described as porn. I can't see it. Can you?
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[identity profile] sigrid-stallard.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What a great disappointment. I want my 10 seconds back. ;)

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[identity profile] pkmorrison.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh,it's those pornographic Vikings, at it again! They must be stopped!!

Yeesh. I didn't realize that "net nanny" parameters were so fierce.

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Snortle. Thou shalt not go a-Viking! (I have actually been a-Jorviking, tho' that was long ago. It was ... unexciting. It was supposed to have smell-o-vision, but that was not immediately apparent.)
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[personal profile] soon_lee 2009-03-16 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, couldn't see it. Site blocked.

[joke]

Honestly, it's another example of inherently flawed nature of 'adult-content' filters. Reminds me of the time some plant breeders I knew got blocked from accessing information needed for their research by company filters: they were looking for information on sex-linked genes.

[identity profile] morgaine-x.livejournal.com 2009-03-16 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not blocked by ours, which is a surprise, as half the bloody web is...

The first such software I ran into some years back wouldn't let me enter a client code - we used a "first three letters of last name + 3 digit number" identifier, so Mr Titterington was unacceptable!
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[personal profile] wolfette 2009-03-16 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if it's looking for certain shapes? If you *squint* at that helmet the nose-piece *could* look a bit like a gentleman's dangly bits.

[identity profile] heethen-crone.livejournal.com 2009-03-17 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
They blocked few nalbinding sites at work because ....... we never did figure out why. We used to be able to access them and then, the day we tried to print out instructions, we couldn't get on. I have no idea what the problem was.

[identity profile] silvermoonsnake.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, I wanna see Viking porn ;) Surprisingly our office have not blocked any site for my teams' pcs (other teams are different story) I have even watched soft porn on lonely nights :P Those blocking SWs are indeed strange...
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