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Tearing Down China's Great Firewall

quadsoft writes to tell us The Toronto Star has a look at three University Toronto computer geeks who are working hard to circumvent the internet censorship problems like those found in China. From the article: "But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught."

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  1. GNAA by logicispower · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GNAA Announces Cleansing Of The Star Trek Gene Pool
    GNAA Announces Cleansing Of The Star Trek Gene Pool
    Impi - Black Ops, South Africa

    It is with great regret that we in the glorious GNAA were called to arms against a revered institution known as Star Trek. Impi, while in training as a high priest in the popular religious cult scientology, was approached by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to contract the services of the Black Ops wing of the GNAA.

    Both Shatner and Nimoy, on which the Star Trek franchise and legend were built, expressed serious concern with regard to the affront of a little known "television station" called G4TV.

    "Star Trek prides itself on boldly going where no man has gone before. Not boldly sitting on your fat ass and playing computer games and talking about it in a failed IRC channel!" said Shatner. "G4TV is taking the very ethos of Star Trek and perverting it for profit. They have targeted a segment of the population known as Fatmerica. Their actions in sanctioning such an event promote obesity and diabetes within our youth and we as Star Trek representatives do not want to be associated with this sentiment."

    Leonard Nimoy was instrumental in crafting the attack on #startrek20 on the IRC network irc.gamesurge.net. Using an exploit that allowed a redirect from the www.g4tv.com to the infamous Last Measure, many fatties were tricked into being Last Measured.

    "They turned on us," said Neal Tiles, president of G4TV. "It was like stampede at a buffet, there was nothing we could do. People were ping timing out all over the place. Mothers were calling the station asking why their children were looking at gay porno. It was a nightmare. Our moderator of the channel, Ravager|CH, tried valiantly to keep things together, but he was eventually g-lined due to massive complaints against the channel."

    The overwhelming success of the operation was reflected by the failed moderator Ravager|CH own words: [23:37] <Ravager|CH> another ruined night..

    About G4TV:

    Jews4Profit

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    If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
    Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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  2. Geeks and Nerds by Elouise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When will the world learn that Geeks and Nerds are completely different "types" - they are not interchangable... Some may class themselves as both - But most of us 'Geeks' would agree we are definitely NOT 'Nerds'...

  3. Ahem. Burma? by 70Bang · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Didn't J. Peterman ("Seinfeld") teach us Burma is Myanmar?

    Are we going to revert to calling Sri Lanka (now that it's in the news again of late) Ceylon?

    We've had New Math. Thanks to the Internet and technical people who have invented New English, now we've got New Geography. (or is that retro-Geography?)


  4. Re:Iran by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your posts start at -1 now and nearly every comment you make contains profanity. And yet you claim that I am some sort of problem with Slashdot?

    Oh, and Amazon responded to my query, saying there was no problem with links here, and giving me a new private referrer code--which can't be deduced from the link--to replace the one you've spammed. Looks like your little plan failed.