I have a neice in the 5th grade. She lives here, and my parents are her legal guardians. She's been spending a HELLACIOUSLY huge amount of time on teh intarweb lately, using a machine that I intentionally crippled to keep her out of most of the internet's pitfalls of stupidity - 33.6 modem, MacOS 8.5, FoolProof security software (It's hellaciously secure in the mac version, despite the PC version sucking balls)
However, on my way into the house today, I checked the mail and noticed a bigarse yellow envelope in the mailbox. I grabbed it, checked the name, it's addressed to her, and the return address is someone in OHIO. We know nobody in Ohio.
Needless to say, I quickly put 2 and 2 together, I had overheard her asking my parents our address, phone number and such. Checked out that rig, found lots of text files containing her passwords to various stuff and contact information for other people, including the very same person that had sent this letter.
After a brief consultation with dad, he told me he'd handle her and that I should do whatever is neccessary to make sure it NEVER happens again. Her Windows domain logon has been suspended and the machine that she used for the Internet is no longer physically present, and I dropped an advisory on every machine's runonce to make sure that everyone knows that she is not to touch ANY computer until further notice by the Administrator (me) - further notice being AFTER SHE MOVES THE HELL OUT. Dad is 100% okay with this and agrees completely - we look upon each user's Internet access (and computer access in general) being a privilege rather than a right, contingent upon the policy that "One screw-up and it's gone." She screwed up- HARDCORE.
The only computer equipment she's ever touching again will belong to a school, and if any of her teachers have any sh!t to throw about not allowing her to type up reports and do research, they will get to talk to ME about it. I had all these teachers and know how they operate and I'm eleventy billion times meaner than any of them think they are. "Don't like my policies? I understand that the government pays you to babysit kids all day and make them feel good about themselves and that you thoroughly support medication and positive acknowledgement over punishment, but I do not. In fact, this FAMILY does not. That's why I'm successful and all those other little pansies that you've seen over the years are burger flippers. In short, find a damned school computer and make her use that, things aren't changing here"
So, does ATOT agree with my actions, or will I be strung up as an evil conservative? (And yes, I'm aware of the saying "If you're not a conservative by the time you're 30, you don't have a brain. If you're not a liberal before you're 20, you don't have a heart" -- I'm a heartless bitch.
However, on my way into the house today, I checked the mail and noticed a bigarse yellow envelope in the mailbox. I grabbed it, checked the name, it's addressed to her, and the return address is someone in OHIO. We know nobody in Ohio.
Needless to say, I quickly put 2 and 2 together, I had overheard her asking my parents our address, phone number and such. Checked out that rig, found lots of text files containing her passwords to various stuff and contact information for other people, including the very same person that had sent this letter.
After a brief consultation with dad, he told me he'd handle her and that I should do whatever is neccessary to make sure it NEVER happens again. Her Windows domain logon has been suspended and the machine that she used for the Internet is no longer physically present, and I dropped an advisory on every machine's runonce to make sure that everyone knows that she is not to touch ANY computer until further notice by the Administrator (me) - further notice being AFTER SHE MOVES THE HELL OUT. Dad is 100% okay with this and agrees completely - we look upon each user's Internet access (and computer access in general) being a privilege rather than a right, contingent upon the policy that "One screw-up and it's gone." She screwed up- HARDCORE.
The only computer equipment she's ever touching again will belong to a school, and if any of her teachers have any sh!t to throw about not allowing her to type up reports and do research, they will get to talk to ME about it. I had all these teachers and know how they operate and I'm eleventy billion times meaner than any of them think they are. "Don't like my policies? I understand that the government pays you to babysit kids all day and make them feel good about themselves and that you thoroughly support medication and positive acknowledgement over punishment, but I do not. In fact, this FAMILY does not. That's why I'm successful and all those other little pansies that you've seen over the years are burger flippers. In short, find a damned school computer and make her use that, things aren't changing here"
So, does ATOT agree with my actions, or will I be strung up as an evil conservative? (And yes, I'm aware of the saying "If you're not a conservative by the time you're 30, you don't have a brain. If you're not a liberal before you're 20, you don't have a heart" -- I'm a heartless bitch.
