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Old 23-09-09, 01:19 PM   #28
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Default Re: The site's U rating

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Originally Posted by -Ralph- View Post
My wife wouldn't know what "locking your workstation" was, never mind how to do it, and since most home computers are set to log in a user automatically and go straight to the desktop, if people were to lock it, they wouldn't know the password to unlock it again as they haven't used it since the day they took the machine out of the box. Say that you have to lock your workstation at home, just isn't in the real world IMO.
Presumably you may have done things like put gates on your stairs to stop your lad going skiing, plastic blanks in the plugs to stop him electrocuting himself, you don't leave pots / pans on the edge of the stove...

Setting a password so that they can't access the computer without you saying seems like hardly any inconvenience, especially given how concerned you appear to be that he's going to be harmed by something he might find online
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