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I don't see what's wrong with that as a question, in principal. He wants to bypass the company's proxy server. Maybe he is wondering if he could write some code to bypass it?
I don't see why it's so bad - I certainly don't see why it has been closed!
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Awfully written for starters...
Too many of the Q&A's on CP are almost illegible and many ask questions that they could have got a solution for quicker from Google, or in this case, their company's IT team.
And in this case, the answer to the question (translated in my head to: "how can I circumvent my employers IT policies to access websites blocked by my company?") was obvious - there was no need to even post a question.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Awfully written for starters
I've seen worse - but in any case, if English wasn't the OP's first language, you need to make allowances.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Too many of the Q&A's on CP are almost illegible
True - some are hard to decipher. Surely our job is to go back to them & get them to re-phrase it? Again - you try asking a question in another language and see how legible your question is to native speakers!
Brent Jenkins wrote: ask questions that they could have got a solution for quicker from Google
This is a tough one! in some cases I think that people are just lazy - but in others I suspect that (again, probably because of the language thing) they find it much harder to find things on Google where they can't phrase their questions properly. If we can easily find the answer on google, then pointing them to those answers it easy enough, surely?
sure I get annoyed when, by searching for the exact phrase they've used in their question, I find the answer - but this isn't one of those cases.
But he OP wants to circumvent their snooping - asking the IT team is hardly likely to elicit the answer, is it!?
Brent Jenkins wrote: the answer to the question (translated in my head to: "how can I circumvent my employers IT policies to access websites blocked by my company?") was obvious
Brent Jenkins wrote: or in this case, their company's IT team.
really? how so? It's not obvious to me. Please explain how to do it, I'd be seriously interested!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I've seen worse - but in any case, if English wasn't the OP's first language, you need to make allowances.
I love using CP - but the Q&A's are a problem as they're so full of cruft to be almost at the point of uselessness. This is our site (I mean us as developers) - it is what we make it. I'd prefer to see the Q&A's improving and becoming a point where all developers come to for good quality information (like with the articles section), wouldn't you?
_Maxxx_ wrote: But he OP wants to circumvent their snooping - asking the IT team is hardly likely to elicit the answer, is it!? Please explain how to do it, I'd be seriously interested!
Easy: Step 1) Go and tell your company's IT department that you want to break their usage policy. Step 2) Stand back and be ridiculed.
The "obvious" answer - seeing as I need to spell it out ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) - is this one: If you work for a company you've signed a contract with them which more than likely states that you will abide by their IT policy. So why does that same person then post on the interweb to ask for help to get around it?
This behaviour is in part what's responsible for many security breaches that plague our lives on an all too regular basis. Do you really think anyone here should help him? 
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Wow! Who died and made you god?
You're making so many assumptions, and taking the high moral ground. If that is your thought, then fine- but surely a simple response to the poster telling that you don't think they should ask that sort of question would be the correct response.
It's like the old ...
Q. I'm using VB6 to do blah and want to do blah
A. don't use VB6
About as helpful as a welly made of sponge.
Maybe the OP was someone who needed to access the interwebs for company business that he didn't want the IT dept. to know about (like, their secret end of year party, or pay rise budget, or list of redundancies)
Maybe he was a security manager trying to find how easy it wold be to circumvent his company's security.
From the wording, it seemed to me the OP just didn't want to be tracked - and if you feel morally obliged to not answer the question, then fine - but that doesn't make it a bad question, does it?
It seemed to me to be a straight forward, though possibly naive question, deserving not of being deleted, but of being answered sensibly - even if that answer was that you shouldn't try to circumvent your employer's proxy.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: You're making so many assumptions, and taking the high moral ground. If that is your thought, then fine- but surely a simple response to the poster telling that you don't think they should ask that sort of question would be the correct response.
Sorry, I didn't realise this was a site to help people hack their company networks?
_Maxxx_ wrote: Maybe the OP was someone who needed to access the interwebs for company business that he didn't want the IT dept. to know about (like, their secret end of year party, or pay rise budget, or list of redundancies)
Could be, but let's be honest here - it was more likely someone wanting to access a site they shouldn't be - porn, crackd software, etc. If it's had been a genuine need he would have gone to his company's IT department.
_Maxxx_ wrote: but that doesn't make it a bad question, does it?
Questions like this do bring down the quality of the Q&A section of the site and make this site less relevant to majority of developer here.
_Maxxx_ wrote: Wow! Who died and made you god?
Take it easy, you'll bust a valve 
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Just be thankful it wasn't even worse...
"Help! I can't find my keyboard!"
"WHERES THE CAPS LOCK KEY"
or even...
"i cant find my computr plz hlp!!!!!11one"
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Sounds like he needs a Pornicator, an anti filter device that only let's porn through.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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I'll have to ask our IT department about that one, see how many faces go red 
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yes there is. By leaving away this company and joining a new one. This way, you can use the internet and they'll never know it! Trust me, 
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The best thing about using the London Underground is the escalators connecting hall with platform. For a minute or so, its like having a conveyor belt of people pass you by as they go in the other direction, and you get to 'check them out'. A bit like Yo Sushi but with women.
When I arrived in London in my mid-20s, on a good day and a long escalator (Angel for instance), I might of exchanged three or four protracted flirtive glances. This is you 'attractiveness index'.
Over the years the number has dropped and now I'm in my 40s, has settled to absolute zero. I still send out the pings, but there are no response packets. Perhaps I should direct the pings at the middle aged but it doesn't work like that.
So that's it, it's all over. I'm depressed. It's a cruel world. 
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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On the upside you've won that article competition, so you've got that going for you, which is nice.
[Edit]
Also, lower your expectations like the rest of us.
[Edit Edit]
Also, +1 for title.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Yes, there's always CodeProject. I will recalibrate my expectations accordingly.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Yes, I think it will be a great way to introduce yourself to a girl at the bar by saying that your article won the prize for the Best of the Month on Codeproject!
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I guess that depends where the bar is, the nearest bar to a coders convention may work (if there's any girls attending).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I get return pings on my Flirty Radar.
But then I am a silver-haired fox with a twinkle in my Irish eyes!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Pah!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Moreover, you're an accountant.
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Bazinga!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dalek Dave wrote: with a twinkle in my Irish eyes
you should be more careful where you sleep when you are drunk
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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You owe me a keyboard! (and a mouthful of coffee).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I get return pings on my Flirty Radar.
But then I am a silver-haired fox with a twinkle in my Irish eyes!
Homosexual pings are not to be discussed in the lounge. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Rob Philpott wrote: has settled to absolute zero. I still send out the pings, but there are no response packets
Be glad it's zero!
If your 'attractiveness index' is low enough, they send disgusted looks back (-1 to the index) or London Transport Police (-10 to the index)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Ah yes, the 'stop looking at me you weirdo' expression. I don't use those in the scoring.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Sexual harassment has always been inversely proportional to the attactiveness index. 
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