Donviti PSA #29

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When letting a friend borrow your laptop besure to clear the browser history

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    Spill it, what did your friend find?

    Or, alternately,

    What did you find on your friend’s laptop?

    My husband has a similar story. When he was in grad school, his advisor asked him to look for a file on a computer disk that a recently graduated student had left (the professor was writing a paper). When FR looked on the disk, there were files and files of porn. Yep, this former student (now a Ph.D., no less) had mixed his porn files with his work files and left them with his former advisor.

  2. jason330 says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Rookie mistake.

  3. HarrisonBergeron says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    I had a friend watching my house while I was on vacation. I had made a limited access guest account for him on my PC – theoretically, he shouldn’t have been able to really “break” anything.

    I come back from vacation to porn popups everywhere, to the point that I just reinstall Windows to be done with it.

    Yeah, that friend doesn’t watch my house anymore.

  4. Dorian Gray says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    No offense UI – but that isn’t that shocking. This may or may not come as a big surprise… but everyone looks at porn, everyone masturbates, etc. Ph.Ds, judges, CEOs, priests… oh especially priests!

    If this post is about a friend finding porn on your browser or vice versa, I’m calling bullshit because it’s very lame.

  5. jason330 says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    …everyone looks at porn,

    Mike Castle does not look at porn.

  6. Unstable Isotope says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    DG,

    I don’t think it was as much shocking as it was incredibly stoopid. Kidz, don’t store your porn with your work files, it’s just asking for trouble.

  7. anonone says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Now you’re creeping ME out!

  8. Dorian Gray says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    OK, maybe not today, but I assure you that at one point Mike Castle looked at porn.

    My point is that if this has to do with porn I guess we need to pretend like it is a big deal and watching attractive people having sex isn’t hot.

    No offense Harrison, but your friend doesn’t watch your house any more because she or he watched porn on the internet.

    I guess I just have different sensibilities.

  9. Dorian Gray says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    UI – It’s careless if it’s work related, yeah. But it’s hardly shocking.

  10. Kilroy says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Come on people ! Look once your friend is done borrowing your computer go into DOS then at C:/ del *.* then say yes! Problem solved! But to pay it safe slide the computer case open and attach a heavy duty magnet to the top of the hard-drive. This process is called magnetic defragmentation. LOL LOL LOL

  11. Joanne Christian says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    WOW–You guys went right for the crotch–and here I was worried about his credit, or itinerary mishandling.

    But to you Dorian–no, not everyone looks at porn. Not everyone needs to or wants to. It’s a choice.
    With consequences for some. Not acknowledging the consequences, normalizes the choice–and then I would question the sensibility. OK with that?

  12. anonone says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Saw some hot stuff today, eh, Joanne? 🙂

  13. Reis says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    If I’m in it, I consider it ‘art’.

    Had to make money somehow in college.

  14. RSmitty says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Out of the box, people!!! DV puts up this post and you immediately assume it is porn and DV is embarrassed!

    HELLLLLLOOOO? It’s DV! Every one of his friends probably EXPECTS porn!!!!

    I think what they found was his frequent visits to biblical-based teaching and live-like-a-good-Catholic web sites.

  15. HarrisonBergeron says:
    May 6, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Dorian – I have no problem with him having looked up porn. Being a young guy, I’ve indulged in my fair share myself. He doesn’t watch my house any more though, because he got my computer infested with so much crap that it took me an entire afternoon to get it reinstalled and fixed. This particular friend was between homes at the moment, so I was doing him a favor by letting him stay at my house just as much as he was doing me a favor by watching it. That’s all fine – just don’t break my stuff while you’re there 🙂

  16. Unstable Isotope says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Yeah, HB, porn popups windows, not cool.

  17. Brian Shields says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Mike Castle still watches reel to reel stag films.

  18. anon says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    Donviti once again proving the Douglas Adams definition of a learning experience:

    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.””

  19. Kilroy says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Brian Shields

    “Mike Castle still watches reel to reel stag films.”

    That’s sick ! Don’t bring animals into this mess!

  20. Dorian Gray says:
    May 6, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Shields – Hilarious. When I said he watched in the past that is the exact image that came to mind.

    Joanne – OK you don’t look at it out of choice. I agree, nobody needs to… there is not much people “need” to do. But it is very normal and needn’t be stigmatized… you’re puritanical notion is quite dated.

    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”

    -H.L. Mencken

  21. Rich Boucher says:
    May 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Don, I’ll recommend abbywinters.com to you.
    Really hot, all-natural girls. One would be proud to have a visit to that site on their browser’s history: no implants or fake anything.

  22. Joanne Christian says:
    May 6, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Puritanical notion? I’ll let that slide for a bit and see if UI picks up on that from here.

    However, back to browser history and consequences. Do you realize the jeopardy you can put a person’s career in over those sites? Anyone with any higher level security clearance is at risk for loss if discovered frequenting sites you suggest. So while you’re addressing basic, carnal instinct in your “laptop”, higher order thinking is distracted. Oh, and ever work with children? Consider it over, if that ever became an exposure. I didn’t make those rules, but that’s the consequences.
    So while you wax cavalier on the discovery of porn in your world, it is devastating to many. But again, I may be using higher order reasoning here–not Puritanical–unless of course you were referring to work ethic?

  23. rhubard says:
    May 7, 2009 at 8:39 am

    “I didn’t make those rules, but that’s the consequences.”

    Sounds to me like you’re OK with that. Anyone who views porn can’t be trusted with children? You’re really OK with that?

  24. Brian Shields says:
    May 7, 2009 at 10:44 am

    I dunno, Rich, you have a thing for Flo from those Progressive commercials, and I still don’t see it.

    When you say “natural” do you mean “beastly?”

  25. Dorian Gray says:
    May 7, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Wow I was waxing cavalier and you were using a higher order of reasoning… neat. I did agree that there were professional consequences, I guess those could be devastating… unless everyone just grew up… but maybe I’m just not using a higher order of reasoning… what a insult!

    No I don’t work with children and I don’t have any either, nor will I. Your notion that porn is low-class and “higher” thinkers can control their carnal impluses… were to begin. That’s fucking arrogant. Sounds like the words of a blue blooded old prude.

  26. Rich Boucher says:
    May 7, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    Brian –

    what I’m suggesting is that I would TOTALLY buy Playboy the day is has Progressive’s Flo in it. 🙂

    And no, lol, “natural” in my post didn’t mean “beastly” – it just meant hot girls with no “augmentation” of any kind.

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