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  1. Re:Restricted speech is probably more attractive. on China Cracks Down on Non-Compliant Internet Bars · · Score: 1

    Someday the dictators of the world will realize that saying "don't look at this" just draws people like flies.

    Yes, but you have to _know_ that the content has been forbidden.

    From what I've read about the Chinese 'megafilters' is that they don't return a page that says <B>Access Denied</B> but more along the lines of <B>Connection timed out...</B>

    The Internet in countries in opressive countries doesn't spark off the free speech thing as much as people expect... the people have to <i>realise</I> that they're being fed horse dung first.

  2. It's been done before... on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 1

    Just do a search on google for 'self heating can' - I came up with this link with a bit of quick history and chemistry on self-heating coffee sold by Nestle:

    http://www.soton.ac.uk/~chemweb/index.htm?http:/ /w ww.soton.ac.uk/~chemweb/news/stories/coffee.htm