Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread John Moser
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Andrew Sayers wrote: > To be honest, I never really understood the focus on technological > solutions to this problem. The user being monitored will always try to > fight their way out of the box, and will often succeed (e.g. by > downloading a live CD and using t

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 29.01.2009 um 13:19 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > I suggest instead taking up this issue with the companies that sell > computers with Ubuntu on it. If enough customers demand parental > control features, those companies may invest in implementing them, > precisely because they know vol

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vasilis Kalintiris wrote on 28/01/09 03:31: >... > I believe that it would be very nice to offer the ability to parents to > monitor theirs children activity on PCs in a simple and easy way. After > all Ubuntu is a distribution that offers simplicity a

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Brian Curtis
Parents rely too much on other parties to protect their kids, when they can do it themselves by checking logs and histories. If you really want to know what your kids are doing on the internet. Check out the history provided by firefox (the default browser in Ubuntu). If you want to know what yo

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Fergal Daly
2009/1/28 Mackenzie Morgan : > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:56 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: >> >> > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family >> > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:56 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family > > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as letting > > everyone spend more t

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread richard
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:56:06 + Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the > > family living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well > > as letting everyone spend more

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Tony Brijeski
hing to do with Operating Systems or the internet. Stuff these kids are doing with their cellphones with texting and sending pictures and videos is far more damaging than the internet. --- On Wed, 1/28/09, Scott James Remnant wrote: > From: Scott James Remnant > Subject: Re: Internet-Te

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as letting > everyone spend more time together. > And when you go out, your child will still head straigh

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Sayers
To be honest, I never really understood the focus on technological solutions to this problem. The user being monitored will always try to fight their way out of the box, and will often succeed (e.g. by downloading a live CD and using that). When you start locking down every avenue for "unauthoris

Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-27 Thread Vasilis Kalintiris
First of all, *excuse* me for my English... I just watched a short documentary that was describing the dangers that Internet hides for many children-teenagers. Many teens are watching cruel videos related to drugs, alcohol, sex, crime, death and so on... Most of these videos are really hard and