[lunias]

When I was a kid, my parents installed Net Nanny on our home computer. I installed a keylogger. No more Net Nanny; lots more EverQuest.

I don't like age verification in general, for anything. The age gates in our society are very subjective.

Many times my Dad would buy alcohol at the grocery store w/ me (underage) in tow, but they never asked for my ID or refused to sell to him. Now, when I go buy alcohol as an adult with my wife (we are both in our mid-late 30s) they ask to see her ID as well as mine? If she leaves her ID at home then she has to wait in the car because they will refuse the sale if she comes into the store and cannot prove her age.

Buying a case of beer with a group of 8 year olds? No problem. Bottle of wine for you and your wife? Let me get both IDs.

[MisterTea]

> When I was a kid, my parents installed Net Nanny on our home computer.

Putting up artificial walls is inviting someone to look behind them.

Back in 1999 I was attending a city university and their computer labs were a mix of older Pentium machines running Windows 98 secured by netnanny. They disabled floppy booting in the BIOS and password protected it. Thing is, the old Dell cases were real easy to pop open and pull the CMOS battery out. That killed the BIOS password so I was able to floppy boot the machine and rename netnanny.exe to nutnanny.exe and Win 98 ran unimpeded. When I was done I would rename the exe, reboot and go on about my day. Nice try, uni admins.

[testing22321]

The US is strange about alcohol.

I remember plenty of times in my early 20s buying alcohol and they wanted to see the ID of everyone waiting on my car.

In Australia you buy alcohol at the drive through. One person is 18 and you’re good.