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Join Date: Mar 2011
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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. ![]() |
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Well crabnuts. IT must have just blocked it.
Effers. Now what? |
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Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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SOMA FM or Pandora?
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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. |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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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.
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They are systematically making it impossible to go anywhere. Pogo for games at lunch? Nope!
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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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.
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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.
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#9 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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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. ![]() |
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*jumps behind couch too*
And really, you hear of people who get caught surfing pron. How dumb do you got to be? |
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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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.
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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. |
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Wearing her bitch boots
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Floriduh
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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!
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Quote:
just fyi.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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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.
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