I used to Heart Radio

[infinite monkey]

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.

[infinite monkey]

Well crabnuts. IT must have just blocked it.

Effers.

Now what?

[Chocolatl]

SOMA FM or Pandora?

[infinite monkey]

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.

[glatt]

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.

[infinite monkey]

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

[BigV]

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.

[infinite monkey]

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.

[glatt]

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.

But yeah, IT can monitor everything if they want.

[infinite monkey]

*jumps behind couch too*

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

[classicman]

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.

[infinite monkey]

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.

[Stormieweather]

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!

[orthodoc]

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.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

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!

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.