Take the 2-minute tour ×  My company recently implemented a
content filtration system (Websense) which ranges anywhere from
mildly irritating to enraging depending on what useful website
it's blocking and what program I have to configure proxy
settings on in order to get my work done.  As a developer, I'd
definitely say that it's caused me to lose a lot of perfectly
good time implementing workarounds and generally causing me to
lose my "flow" as I work. I'm sure hundreds of other employees
at my company have had similar experiences, so it's easy to see
the enormity of the number of dollars being thrown away if you
figure each interruption can cause developers to lose on the
order of 15 minutes of productivity.  Personally, I'd love to
see the whole thing removed and have the company trust its
employees not to be evil in using resources. Of course, this
would probably never fly because the higher ups probably imagine
everyone would be on social networking and music sites all day,
and that people would be downl