I think it is completely stupid, since anyone can arbitrarily get around it. That guy, the right to die euthanasia guy, was giving tutorials to old people, showing them how to get around it. If oldies can get around it, and young people can too, it will probably only work for middle aged computer illiterate parents of teenagers.

This means that the only people made happy by it's ability to block terrible shit on the interned will be those ignorant folk with kids most vulnerable!

I intend on filtering my home internet when my kids are a bit older, although I haven't looked into it, either that or ensuring the kids only access to the interned is in the family areas of the house.

Me too. I have two of the sites I frequent a lot unblocked (ars included). Reddit responded to its uses disgust at one of the adds on its site which goes fullscreen by assuring that it was an accident, they mentioned how it happened and put something in place so that it would not happen again. I use addblock a lot, and I am shocked when I use a computer without it. The web is very different with those big, flashy adds.

Hi there, I am a spatial guy so thought my 0.02 may be worth something. I am not too sure about digitising them, maybe a print shop or as suggested in other posts you could talk to your local university geography department or a government mapping agency

Once they are digital though you need to georeference them. As mentioned in the title of my post, it is easiest to use GIS to do this and you can use QGIS with relative ease. Install it using osgeo4w on windows or the ubuntu ppa for qgis. Alternatively if you have a license then use ArcGIS. If you have a map of the underlying roads for the maps you are digitising then what you do is find points on the roads and match them to points on the scanned images, this provides data for a transformation and will shift the map onto your coordinates.

I don't want to hear no buts. I tried installing a nice piece of GIS software (QGIS) which is super easy to install on Ubuntu (apt) and windows (osgeo4w, which uses a cygwin style interface) but on OSX it is a paiin in the arse to get the full program with GRASS (kind of a dependency).

I wish OSX had bloody apt working, not port where you need to wait days for anything to bloody compile, but true package management. I use VLC, Thunderbird, FIrefox, GIMP and all the other FOSS software but it is all independently maneged. OSX is great and stable (compared to Ubuntu) and beautiful but the package management should be fixed.

a giant ass-banner?

Bugger.

My ISP already does this. I was called to my sister-in-law's house as the ISP sent her an email saying her internet was restricted. She was only allowed to visit a couple of web sites of virus scanners while she was quarantined. She sent an email to them stating that she has up to data anti-virus and that a scan turned up no viruses. But I was asked to come and have a look and did a few scans (including that online Trend Micro virus scanner) and found a couple of items. Now I don't deal with Windows enough to know whether these viruses were really that bad but I thought it was a positive that the ISP let her know that something was happening, even if it was a false positive it did make her more aware.