More from the Mail.... Or is it the Onion?? I can never tell!

Belmit said:
Interesting. It had a digital display that said '90' permanently, which was the CPU speed. Pressing turbo didn't change it. Maybe the button on ours wasn't actually connected to anything!
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The '90' was just a display generated by jumpers if I recall, it wasn't a mhz figure that was sent by the motherboard.

But it's probable that your dad's CPU was running at 90mhz and the motherboard didn't have a jumper for the turbo button so the manufacturer/builder left it saying 90 all the time. I'm guessing it was a Pentium and I think they generally stopped having the connection for a turbo button after 486 motherboards.
 
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LordSplodge said:
Why is it always somebody else's fault? Can't we take some personal responsibility for things. It's a parents job to raise their children, nobody else's.
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The parent in question did though didn't she? Once she identified what the problem was she took steps to rectify it.
 
RDM said:
The parent in question did though didn't she? Once she identified what the problem was she took steps to rectify it.
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well not really, she took steps to stop her child masturbating once she caught him masturbating but there were seemingly no steps taken when the child ws writing things like "I'm disgusting" on his arms or graffitiing his room with self hatting messages.

I dunno about you but i think the other two things were much more of an issue, and would probably have been asking him what was going on rather than just crying and carrying on fighting with the dad.
 
Parent gives developing boy free, unrestricted access to pornography then has the audacity to blame the ISP? What?

Stupid parent...

Funny though that I started browsing for porn at that age and didn't have any real issues or even develop weird fetishes etc...
 
grudas said:
i have looked at naked women since 10 if not earlier.. parents can block internet access etc but all magazines and so on are still available i never had a problem finding porn.. did it change my thinking? no it showed me a womans body and tough me how the "part" is meant to be used and where exactly its meant to go.. :D you teach your kids not to smoke drink use drugs etc.. sex is also a very important thing they should know at correct age how it works and how to be protected from STDs and pregnancy..
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There is a difference between a naked lady, some sex scenes etc, and some of the hardcore filth that is routinely peddled as normal nowadays.

It's not conducive really to gaining good respect of either men or women in my opinion.

(And no, I may joke about it, but I don't actually watch porn. :p)


That saying, I don't think it should be illegal, and it's a parents responsibility. Growing up we were not allowed our own pc's, but had two in the the living rooms. Up to the age when the choices really were ours to make. :)
 
Monserrat said:
What I'd do if I had a kid:

1. Let him have an internet-ready PC in his room, with an XP guest account (admin account passworded), with Net Nanny installed. Make changes in the registry where he can't purge his internet history etc.

2. If the kid is clever, he might be able to circumvent the security of Net Nanny, so get one of the parents to check internet history daily, running processes etc.

3. Ground him if he abuses it.

4. Remove internet access if he abuses it once more. (by taking away the means of connection)

5. Remove PC from his room if found to be using e.g. a wireless dongle (perhaps given by a mate) in an attempt to get back online.

6. Don't give him a 3G-enabled phone until he's 16.
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And the kid bypasses it easily, or you end up completely removing his access to something that is now taken for granted.

Which is all redundant as the kid will just get movies from school on USB pen etc.
 
crinkleshoes said:
Parent gives developing boy free, unrestricted access to pornography then has the audacity to blame the ISP? What?

Stupid parent...

Funny though that I started browsing for porn at that age and didn't have any real issues or even develop weird fetishes etc...
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That's the thing that irks me about the article - if porn really was that harmful we'd see these effects in pretty much every male teenager who has ever had internet access. I guess there probably are people who have never looked at porn online, but I would expect that they're in a small minority.

It seems to me as though the author could have taken anything remotely approaching a negative influence, and blamed her son's change in behavior on that. The headline could have so easily been "How gothic rock turned my beautiful boy into a hollow, self-hating shell" or "How artificial colouring and flavouring turned my beautiful boy into a hollow, self-hating shell". She's the sort of parent who refuses to look inwards for the source of a problem, and instead goes for the most convenient scapegoat instead. Either that, or it's a cheap, sensationalist piece designed to get people sharing the link and driving up traffic to the site...
 
I've been looking at pornographic images / videos since I was at least 11 and it's not done me any harm whatsoever!

It's not changed my view on women and I still watch it even though I'm in a relationship.

PORN IS AWESOME! FACT~!
 
Em3bbs said:
The '90' was just a display generated by jumpers if I recall, it wasn't a mhz figure that was sent by the motherboard.

But it's probable that your dad's CPU was running at 90mhz and the motherboard didn't have a jumper for the turbo button so the manufacturer/builder left it saying 90 all the time. I'm guessing it was a Pentium and I think they generally stopped having the connection for a turbo button after 486 motherboards.
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I'd suspect you are right in that it was simply an old design of case used and the button wasn't connected to anything. It could potentially have been a 486 at 90mhz I believe but again I think you're right that it's more likely to have been an early Pentium if the display bore any relation to the processor speed.
 
I like how the parents blame the ISPs for not doing more...why are the parents not using Parental control software OR watching what the children are doing on the computer?

Porn never hurt me
 
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