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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:17 PM
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How do you feel if you are using a computer in a public place, and you
review the web browser history and see that it's filled with wingnut sites?

This is a common occurence where I am. rushlimbaugh, drudge, etc. etc. Sometimes I click through a few and am amazed by the hate and anger that oozes off the pages.

In a small way, it makes me feel like I'm reading the secret journal of some kind of criminal, their demented musings.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:19 PM
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1. It happens all the time at my school
Especially since the Campus Christians are quickly becoming the largest organization on school.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:19 PM
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2. I clean the cache
No sense letting good disk space be filled up with crap, eh?
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:21 PM
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3. It has never come up for me.
Last time I used a public computer was at the library almost five years ago...but you can be sure I'll be thinking of this next time I use a public computer.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:22 PM
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4. Did you sanitize the keyboard?
At least wash your hands before touching food or small children...no telling WHERE those freeper fingers were!
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:24 PM
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5. ick... clean the cache & use hand sanitizer for sure
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:25 PM
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6. I'd be half tempted to add a few entries into the hosts file
so anyone looking to get to those sites would go to timecube or some equally odd site.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:28 PM
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7. I'm in a damn dirty liberal haven...
and go to a damn liberal school, so I've never had that experience (since school is the only place I might use a public computer, if I don't have my lappy with me)

But apparently we do have a healthy College Republicans group...in Chicago of all places! I remember during the election they had a table set up in the cafeteria with one lonely guy with a Bush/Cheney '04 sticker on the back of his laptop. No one even looked in his direction! He ended up picking up and walking away. :rofl:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:32 PM
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8. You could always edit the hosts file so it redirects the biggest
rightwing domain names to DU's IP address :)
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