Another technical fix for a social issue
Would the idiotard journalist read a paper porn mag in the church cafe or the childrens' section of a bookshop? Or a laptop or mobile device using mobile Internet?
Get off my Internet lawn.
Chester Cathedral has pulled the plug on its free Wi-Fi service after a fearless Chester Chronicle investigation revealed visitors could tap unhindered into online porn. The Chronicle cruised the city in search of hotspots and found that "shops, restaurants and cafes with free Wi-Fi were unwittingly allowing shoppers and …
"There were three gifts, not necessarily about three wise men."
I think you'll find the whole thing was made up about 100 years after whatever events actually happened (i.e., a normal jewish woman had a normal jewish baby in completely normal circumstances and about 30 years later it became a very successful jewish preacher who ran afoul of the local government and got strung/nailed up for his trouble).
People will watch other people copulating, it seems to be hard-wired. But as we deny our wiring it has to be discrete. Free WiFi allows the most discrete downloading of said Frankie Vaughan, so is bound to be used for such. Which puts bandwidth cost and pressure on the providers, as HD thrusting groins is lots of data. Worth banning on those grounds, TBH, can't say the social grounds make as much sense.
Would that be the one that spams you with featured ad's instead of a 404 for mistyped URL's?
Yup, not only that but because it responds with a web page rather than an error it meant that the "net lookup" command in my backup scripts was resolving to the OpenDNS web server rather than my backup server ... only discovered this when I did one of my periodic (but increasingly irregular since everything always seemed ok) scans of the backup logs to discover that my night backups for several weeks had been failing.
Sounds like you need to improve your backup scripts to detect failure and email you when there is an issue.
The command used to do the backup or copy to the backup server must have failed, easy to add checks for the return status of each command and alert you if they fail rather than rely on luck.
The DNS issue just highlights that your backup scripts rely on everything working rather than been written to expect failure.
"Would that be the one that spams you with featured ad's instead of a 404 for mistyped URL's?"
That would be the one used by Virgin Media. Just confirmed by going to 'aosfiawre.com' - it resolves to a fake IP, which in turn redirects my browser to... er, long address, but it's on advancedsearch2.virginmedia.com.
> The site could be viewed ... in Chester Cathedral cafe
Sounds like a cheap and highly effective way to attract exactly the kind of people most in need of the church's "guidance" into their fold.
Afterthought: or was this just a case of a reporter who got caught viewing smut at work and used the tired old excuse "it's for an article I'm writing" and then had to follow through?
Just stating the obvious (at least to anyone who thinks for a moment) and, as a bonus, letting many more people know about the existence of pornhub.com and where to access it from.
The only issue of note is the apparent failure of the Cathedral's IT provider to provide the agreed filtering.
Example from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-history-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-history-programmes-of-study
*the development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509-1745*
Renaissance and Reformation in Europe
the English Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Henry VIII to Mary I)
the Elizabethan religious settlement and conflict with Catholics (including Scotland, Spain and Ireland)
the first colony in America and first contact with India
the causes and events of the civil wars throughout Britain
the Interregnum (including Cromwell in Ireland)
the Restoration, ‘Glorious Revolution’ and power of Parliament
the Act of Union of 1707, the Hanoverian succession and the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745
Try researching that lot with the filters for weaponry, racially insensitive language, political bias, religious intolerance and sexual misconduct switched on...
...Meanwhile, my two sons (17 and 13) are unable to do their history research (Korean War and WWII) on school computers because both wars involved weapons and sites describing weapons are now banned...
Get them to write an essay with all paragraphs describing weapons or fighting-related issues redacted.
My $250 draytek router has a "block sex related sites" check box that would pretty well block every porn site your average british churnalist (IQ ~90?) could think of (playboy.com, hustler.com ? that about it?) Can someone get this message across to the powers that be running any public wi-fi access point, before they get hordes of pathetic brain dead churnalists outing them across the country, for christ's sake???