Purposely making a file difficult to edit, even for root

Is there a way of making a file really difficult to edit, even for root? I wanna stop myself accessing certain sites, like bittorrent trackers etc, and I edit /etc/hosts to redirect these sites to localhost, but I keep just editing this file and commenting out ones when I desperately wanna go look for something (lack of willpower or what *sniff*).
Any ideas?

codemac wrote:Just watch the porn Komodo.
Hehe, well, fortunately that's not a problem... I'm on a monitored network, but there's only so much string searching URLs can reveal
codemac wrote:I say do the router thing
Tut tut tut - I quote:
Komodo wrote:Blocking on the router would be a great plan, but I don't have one, sadly...
*shakes head* I don't know... lack of attention OR WHAT

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