I used to Heart Radio
 

I wonder why I can't get any sound from I Heart Radio anymore?

All the other sites with sound come in clearly. I like to listen to radio when I'm engrossed in crunching some numbers. :(

Well crabnuts. IT must have just blocked it.

Effers.

Now what?

SOMA FM or Pandora?

They've blocked a lot of them I guess. I'll need to check the PDF.

So now I'm listening to Stevie Wonder top tracks on youtube. Ribbon in the Sky right now.

That's funny. IT probably blocked them because that audio uses so much bandwidth. And now you are switching to audio and video to get your fix. Kinda backfired on them.

They are systematically making it impossible to go anywhere. Pogo for games at lunch? Nope!

back in the day, I was the IT department. And the reasoning for blocking stuff like that wasn't the impact on bandwidth, it was the perceived impact on productivity. The PHB co-owner decreed that there was to be no non work browsing whatsoever, no radios or mp3 players in workspaces and that cell phone calls of a personal nature were to be made/taken on scheduled breaks only and not in the building.

I don't miss that insanity.

eta:

They're watching and noting all the computer / browsing / internet activity for all users at all times. I'd bet lunch on this. In case you weren't jaded/paranoid/cynical enough already.

Yeah, we used to make fun of the uptight barely-man who would send out emails about his precious bandwidth, back at my old job. I think his real issue was with his dickwidth. But they can't block bacefook because schools are on it. Makes no sense.

I've had conversations with our head IT guy at my fairly big firm, and he hates spying on people. So he doesn't do it. Unless you make him, by impacting the ability of the network to be used by others. So video and audio streaming is a bad idea here. You don't want to draw attention to yourself. I'll occasionally watch a short youtube video, but I need to stop doing that. We have about 1000 employees in this office and if they all jumped on youtube or opened spotify, the system would screech to a halt. Our pipe is big, but not that big.

I've had to have conversations with people in my department who got caught downloading and/or streaming entire feature length movies. IT freaks out when people do that. They especially freak out when you save a few of them to a network drive. :facepalm:

But yeah, IT can monitor everything if they want. :hide:

*jumps behind couch too*

And really, you hear of people who get caught surfing pron. How dumb do you got to be?

There is another reason - the company is liable for what you do when on "company time" If one visits FB, for example, and posts shit, the company can, and many have been, held liable. These lawsuits are growing, from what I understand.

I don't post hardly anything on Bacefook. I don't even like it. It's like a lame version of the cellar. Somewhere between tweeting and regurgitating. And it's awful to look at. I can't tell what's going on half the time.

Besides, I don't have any solid gold babies or opportunities to solve world hunger or things like that to brag about.

But they don't block bacefook, because the schools use it.

My company has forbidden anyone to use any streaming sites online. They ask that we use common sense and not abuse any other sites we visit. I always use Inprivate or delete all evidence of my surfing, every singly day before clocking out.

So I bought a small radio that can play from digital memory cards, ipods, etc. as well as AM/FM. It's great!

We have to log our ID before being allowed to surf any but a few company-related sites at work, even when looking up medical stuff. The system monitors everything. No way could people stream audio or video, or download movies. I have to take my iPad down to the student cafeteria and log onto the visitors' wifi to do any personal browsing, and I never attempt to log into the secure company network with it.

It makes sense, though, given the sensitivity of the material that's on the main servers and the cost of the EMR they run. They try to firewall it every way they can; can't blame them.

inprivate and local deletion is ok to remove your evidence from the local machine from a casual observer. but your computer has to ask another computer at the company to get the info from the internet; this machine is called a gateway. the evidence of where you've been is also on that machine. for how long that history is kept is unknown as how much scrutiny and review it is subjected to.

just fyi.

I'd die without my spotify at work. keeps me sane and drowns out the bullshit that goes on around me so in a sense, makes me more productive.

I think you make an excellent point plt. I'm not the only one that agrees with you either. But in a lot of places, it's the boss's dime, so it's the boss's time.

I telecommute. I guess when I screw around I should probably sign off the VPN, but nobody has said anything about my browsing habits, and I don't imagine they even watch. (<50 employee company, very "ambitious")

I just uploaded all my local music to google's music player. now I can play it all from my phone, my tablet, or any desktop I log into. very cool.

maybe that one will get past your IT people?

How is that working out? I'd like to open an account to help build our fencing club and keep up with a very few old friends, but I don't want it to turn into a soul eater.

@ IM - check this out from HowStuffWorks - How to Surf the Web Anonymously.

Griff: once you go bacefook you can't go back. Really, people act as though once you're on there you have an obligation to keep checking in. "How did you not know? It was on bacefook!"
I have a friend from hs who constantly sends me game requests. I need to turn off my notification on my phone. I don't really mind but it should be obvious i haven't played a bacefook game in months.

On the other hand, it was nice to get all the birthday wishes from friends old and new.

Sam: thanks. I really just check in on the news and come to the cellar at work. I have processes that have to run awhile which gives me those moments. I have to be careful, it's easy to get carried away.

Just, when i am trying to concentrate and office chatter is at max, some nice 80s hits on i heart radio helped somewhat. I can play albums off youtube, but i miss the variety.

A real radio with headphones would work.

I think the friend isn't really the one sending those requests. The friend plays a game, and the game sends a request to all the friend's friends. It's automatic, and one of the many evil things about FB.

I hate FB. But I go to FB daily because I like the people there. I wish we could all agree to go somewhere else to communicate.

It's like holding a party in a bus station's restroom. It stinks in there and is really nasty, but all your friends and family are in there. Everyone wonders why they are hanging out in the restroom, but there is no way to convince everyone to hang out somewhere else. Google+ was like the lobby outside the bathroom. A few people said "hey, let's go step out into the lobby where it doesn't smell like urine," but the party in FB was in full swing by then, and when a couple people stepped out in the lobby, they noticed the fresh air, but there were only a couple people enjoying it, and the party was still in the restroom. So what do you do?

Hahahahaha! I've attended that party in the bus station's restroom.

When I used to play games it didn't auto-request, as far as I know...I had to bug people on purpose. But it keeps changing.

Great analogy, glatt! A small handful of my friends defected to Google+, and as a FB user I feel like I'm standing at the door saying "Guys... quit being antisocial and get back inside where everyone else is."

good analogy and good question. let me ask you a question, are you mohammed or the mountain?

I have a presence in both systems, and I prefer Google+ by a wide measure. I am not very active in either one, but any *new* connections I make, I make them at G+. I figure if the people on fb want to know about *me*, they can come over to me to find out. (which, interestingly, is what they're all doing).

What about G+ means reduced urine smell?

In my experience, no ads or ridiculous game invites.

also vastly different reputations for respect for my privacy.