On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Lutes wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Creating a complete ontology[1] of Web site classifications is not so > > trivial as you assume. > > > > It seems that web filters like BlueCoat and DansGuardian already do a pretty > good job of classifying content and restricting access to the categories a > particular person finds offensive. I think the trick is installing the > software in a way that prohibits folk getting around it that are truly keen > to.
Correct, but those are solution the run on the client side of the equation. Clients can reasonably be expected to optimize for a specific users preferences. Brad was advocating a server side requirement, a wholly unreasonable position. As for locking every door and window, it's a losing battle. All your doing is creating an environment where people learn to hide information from you. Put another way, making it possible for parents to buy screen doors to keep their children inside is reasonable. Requiring that every home be built with bank vault doors to keep teenagers from sneaking out is ludicrous. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
