[vdr] Re: Channel/Recording Security on VDR

[René Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Teach your children to realize what's real and what's show ...

Rene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" <ms@citd.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:40 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Channel/Recording Security on VDR


> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:41:34PM +0100, Robert Schneider wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I don't know how many of you use VDR in production with your whole family. 
> > But those who have kids and have VDR in their livingroom, may share my 
> > friend's and mine desire:
> > 
> > We would like to have something in VDR, that allows us to protect certain 
> > channels and recordings from being seen by our children. Sometimes you 
> > don't have a chance to oversee what your children are watching on TV and 
> > being able to block certain channels and recordings would be a great help 
> > on that.
> > 
> > I just wanted to raise that subject here on the list, to get some feedback 
> > on how many people would be interested in such a feature and to gather 
> > some ideas on how it should/could be implemented.
> > 
> > I would volounteer to implement it if this is nothing Klaus is working on, 
> > anyway.
> 
> Something like this is the wrong "solution" for a none existing problem.
> 
> The right(tm) solution is to have enough time for the children. All
> other "solutions" cure only symptoms not the real problem(s).
> 
> And in reality you don't have the slightest chance of preventing your
> children from watching channels you don't want them to watch if they
> really want to watch those channels. There will be at least one friend
> whose parents don't have the time/knowledge/interest in preventing their
> children from watching those channels. So your children only need to go
> to this friend and can watch those channels freely, without control of a
> parent.
> 
> So, if you really want to cure this "problem(tm)" (Btw. It's a problem
> because you think it's a problem. It needn't be a problem in reality!
> I've played "killer" games since i was 11 and i'm no psychopatic
> killer!) you have to watch those programs with you children and make a
> discussion why you don't want them so watch such things. This works much
> better than a plain "I don't allow you to watch such things".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bis denn
> 
> -- 
> Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as 
> bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
> wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, 
> cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
> 
> 
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