So I was at work browsing an unofficial developer forum related to the
job I was working with. I went to the bathroom and left the browser window
open there. When I came back and saw the browser window from afar, I was
like "WTF?". There were half-naked women on the upper and left sides of
the web page. Certainly not something you usually want in your screen at
work.

  What had happened? Well, this unofficial developer forum used more
risque ad banners, and I had been completely blind to them while browsing
the forum and didn't notice them until I got a look from a different
perspective.

  Fortunately embarrassing situations were avoided this time, but it
certainly tells something about the possible embarrassing effects of
banner blindness.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   So I was at work browsing an unofficial developer forum related to the
> job I was working with. I went to the bathroom and left the browser window
> open there. When I came back and saw the browser window from afar, I was
> like "WTF?". There were half-naked women on the upper and left sides of
> the web page. Certainly not something you usually want in your screen at
> work.
> 
>   What had happened? Well, this unofficial developer forum used more
> risque ad banners, and I had been completely blind to them while browsing
> the forum and didn't notice them until I got a look from a different
> perspective.
> 
>   Fortunately embarrassing situations were avoided this time, but it
> certainly tells something about the possible embarrassing effects of
> banner blindness.
> 

That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)

-- 
~Mike

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)

That's why I lock my screen when I walk away from the computer.

We had fun at Belcore typing "xhost +" on unlocked machines, then watching 
on the video phone for the boss to be in the coworker's room, then putting 
up naked pictures as backgrounds on the coworker's machine.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."

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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:08:58 -0600, Mike Raiford wrote:

> That's why I use Ad Block Plus

Seconded.  :-)

Jim

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> That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)

And part of the reason why I lock my machine (Windows key + L) whenever I 
leave my desk.

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scott wrote:
>> That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)
> 
> And part of the reason why I lock my machine (Windows key + L) whenever 
> I leave my desk.
> 

Yeah, after the first time your desktop is screwed with, and hundreds of 
  files are copied to your (once carefully arranged) desktop, most 
people will lock their machines.

(I was on the giving end of that one, not the receiving end.... )

FWIW, Winkey+L is almost automatic when I get up from my machine.

-- 
~Mike

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> Yeah, after the first time your desktop is screwed with, and hundreds of 
> files are copied to your (once carefully arranged) desktop, most people 
> will lock their machines.
>
> (I was on the giving end of that one, not the receiving end.... )

Hehe, since I left University luckily I don't have to worry about that sort 
of thing anymore (renaming contact names on ICQ or msn so that two people 
were apparently swapped was a favourite).

> FWIW, Winkey+L is almost automatic when I get up from my machine.

Yeh me too, partly because we are meant to do that anyway, and also I don't 
want anyone looking at my screen while I am away.  And then like you say it 
just becomes habit.

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>>> That's why I use Ad Block Plus :)
>>
>> And part of the reason why I lock my machine (Windows key + L) 
>> whenever I leave my desk.
>>
> 
> Yeah, after the first time your desktop is screwed with, and hundreds of 
>  files are copied to your (once carefully arranged) desktop, most people 
> will lock their machines.

Where I work, locking your PC when you walk away is A LEGAL REQUIREMENT. 
As in, not doing this is grounds for dismissal.

Also, the screensaver is set to kick in after 15 minutes and require a 
password. And you cannot turn this off. (To me, 15 minutes seems like 
rather a long time... but then, any time limit would be kinda arbitrary 
I guess.)

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> Also, the screensaver is set to kick in after 15 minutes and require a 
> password. And you cannot turn this off. (To me, 15 minutes seems like 
> rather a long time... but then, any time limit would be kinda arbitrary I 
> guess.)

Yeh we have that too, ok most of the time but sometimes annoying when you 
are using the computer but not moving the mouse or keyboard (like in a 
presentation or to demo some equipment).  Worst is when the owner wanders 
off somewhere, the computer locks, and then you have to wait for them to 
come back...

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Invisible wrote:

> Also, the screensaver is set to kick in after 15 minutes and require a 
> password. And you cannot turn this off. (To me, 15 minutes seems like 
> rather a long time... but then, any time limit would be kinda arbitrary 
> I guess.)

According to our IT manager that's the way it's supposed to work here. 
We don't get a choice of screen saver, though. It's alwasys "Blank Screen"
-- 
~Mike

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