dtb said:

>Wish I could do that on my new work PC. I've become a
>federal employee working for the Defense Dept (a faculty
>member at one of the military staff colleges). Strangely, the
>computer use policy explicitly forbids installing pop-up blockers
>or doing anything else to alter the apperance of web pages or
>otherwise prevent advertising content to appear along with the
>page it's associated with.

Not even NASA is that idiotic and that says alot.

I already know the answer but I'll ask it anyway:

Are you permitted to bring in your own computer?

Obviously the answer must be "No" because they'll worry about you sneaking off with classified material or compromising their local area network with a sniffer, etc. However if by some fluke the answer is "yes" then I'd bring in my own machine and use it on their network. Computers aren't that expensive and you wouldn't have to fool with their stupid rules.

My experience with NASA is the rules are setup such that it is impossible for one to do their job. The trick is to ignore the rules to the degree that one can do their job without being so obvious that a petty bureaucrat feels their authority challenged. It's a fine line.

Gary