If your ambition in life is to get banned, then just go search for some F-G stuff on the internet, mirror it on your server, and then contrive some way to start getting a huge number of hits from China.
I don't think they ban by IP, it's by URL or by hostname. If you want to cut through the red tape, just burn a bunch of CDs with the mirror, fly to China, and start handing them out at internet cafes. The government might even be willing to pick up the cost of your stay.
Sending your 'repeated signals' just deprives the rest of us of a useful method of bypassing the Great Firewall. I don't usually use Google Cache, I consider it rather irritating, but when I do have to use it, it's usually a lifesaver. You live here for a while, you learn what you can and can't do on the internet. Now, it's going to stop working because someone let the cat out of the bag. The problem is trivial to "fix".
And as for one-sided, myopic reporting...try Chinese news outlets. By contrast, the American press spends most of its time attacking the government.
It's not too big a deal for us foreigners, as long as we don't get into politics. It's not the English-language web that the Chinese gov't is really worried about. I used to think about such things when I first came here, but the government here is much like any other, with inefficient bureaucracy being the main problem. Sure, if you get out of line, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks, but everyone knows what the rules are.
Yeah, it's weird. I don't understand it either, but that's what happens. I theorize that the 'toxic' blocking is done by hostname, because I can go to www.bbc.co.uk but not news.bbc.co.uk. Voice of America and.mil sites are some others that will get RST. My simple unencrypted squid proxy in the USA will bypass all the other 'blocked' sites.
The shittiest part of being behind the Great Wall is the horrible connection speeds. I usually get 5-10k/s to slashdot and other sites, with a 300ms ping and 3% PL that makes typing at a unix shell lots of fun. I cry on the rare occasion that I go to Chinese websites, then I get my typical broadband 400k/s.
Proxies work for most blocked sites (Geocities, Tripod, etc), but there are some sites that are 'toxic' and going to them will get a RST sent down the line for all your active connections, and won't allow any new connections to your proxy for 5 minutes or so. BBC News and Google Cache being two of these.
Dude, you're totally stoned. You end up on a totally different issue than when you started, and each of your sentences has nothing to do with the other. Ah, I remember those days...
Yeah...no shit. I've used this little trick to get to the google cache, and now that an automated tool is available, it's sure to stop working soon. They already blocked Wikipedia a week or two ago, which sucked.
Felt like cartoons brought to life? Are you nuts? Mario didn't have a soul back then, he was just some mutant character produced by the twisted minds of the Japanese. And frankly, the stories behind the games were pretty inscrutable and always felt tacked on after-the-fact.
Corporations will make profit due to the traffic directed to their sites from Wikipedia. This interferes with Wikipedia's true anarcho-syndicalist nature. More money for the corporations means more money for the war machine.:(
This is not what "normal people" talk about. We have actual friends who don't all work at the same company. I think the phrase that you're looking for is "shop talk", and if you sit around with people from work talking shop all night, then jeez, your fiancee is an even bigger dorkwad than you are.
Oh, get off your high horse. You're so close to the problem, you can't see it. It's not Fox that does this exclusively. It's ALL OF YOU that do it.
Fox is one source. Let's see, that only leaves CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, BBC, and about a million other organizations presenting a liberal spin on the news.
Just because you buy Chinese goods at the store doesn't mean you email the factory to place orders. Only international businessmen do that (I should know, I'm one).
It's from Office Space, a wildly popular movie among nerds. Nerds are intelligent, and don't usually fall for discredited ideologies like Marxism.
Prison is no cakewalk. Even a federal camp isn't fun. Want to try? They aren't air-conditioned, and the food will make you puke. Cold toast, powdered eggs, and slimy grits, served by a man who scratches his abcessed testicles as he serves the food?
Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
Well, more to the point...the only communication that most Americans have from China and Russia is spam. Having China and Russia fall off the face of the internet wouldn't affect most people very much at all, other than decreasing the amount of spam received.
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IRC does not have "chat rooms". AOL has chat rooms. IRC has channels.
I don't think they ban by IP, it's by URL or by hostname. If you want to cut through the red tape, just burn a bunch of CDs with the mirror, fly to China, and start handing them out at internet cafes. The government might even be willing to pick up the cost of your stay.
And as for one-sided, myopic reporting...try Chinese news outlets. By contrast, the American press spends most of its time attacking the government.
Just got complete 14-disc Monty Python the other day. $14.
It's not too big a deal for us foreigners, as long as we don't get into politics. It's not the English-language web that the Chinese gov't is really worried about. I used to think about such things when I first came here, but the government here is much like any other, with inefficient bureaucracy being the main problem. Sure, if you get out of line, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks, but everyone knows what the rules are.
The shittiest part of being behind the Great Wall is the horrible connection speeds. I usually get 5-10k/s to slashdot and other sites, with a 300ms ping and 3% PL that makes typing at a unix shell lots of fun. I cry on the rare occasion that I go to Chinese websites, then I get my typical broadband 400k/s.
Proxies work for most blocked sites (Geocities, Tripod, etc), but there are some sites that are 'toxic' and going to them will get a RST sent down the line for all your active connections, and won't allow any new connections to your proxy for 5 minutes or so. BBC News and Google Cache being two of these.
Dude, you're totally stoned. You end up on a totally different issue than when you started, and each of your sentences has nothing to do with the other. Ah, I remember those days...
Yeah...no shit. I've used this little trick to get to the google cache, and now that an automated tool is available, it's sure to stop working soon. They already blocked Wikipedia a week or two ago, which sucked.
Felt like cartoons brought to life? Are you nuts? Mario didn't have a soul back then, he was just some mutant character produced by the twisted minds of the Japanese. And frankly, the stories behind the games were pretty inscrutable and always felt tacked on after-the-fact.
Neither China nor Iran are dictatorships. Get your head out of your ass.
Corporations will make profit due to the traffic directed to their sites from Wikipedia. This interferes with Wikipedia's true anarcho-syndicalist nature. More money for the corporations means more money for the war machine. :(
Ragnarok wasn't even close to an RPG, it was a standard wargame dressed up in Norse mythology.
You've convinced me. The only acceptable topics for conversation are hobbies and/or fantasy roleplaying. And computers.
I was trying to be funny. Thanks for being a humorless nerd about it.
This is not what "normal people" talk about. We have actual friends who don't all work at the same company. I think the phrase that you're looking for is "shop talk", and if you sit around with people from work talking shop all night, then jeez, your fiancee is an even bigger dorkwad than you are.
We're talking about Advanced Dungeons and Dragons here.
Jeez, does anyone remember T$R and their hordes of SCO-like lawyers? How fast we forget.
You mean, it makes it *easier* for people to dump non-original crap into their blogs? That's a step backwards, in my book.
What are you, nuts? I've driven in countries with private roads before. They're much, much nicer than the bumpy roads the government builds.
Fox is one source. Let's see, that only leaves CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, BBC, and about a million other organizations presenting a liberal spin on the news.
Just because you buy Chinese goods at the store doesn't mean you email the factory to place orders. Only international businessmen do that (I should know, I'm one).
Prison is no cakewalk. Even a federal camp isn't fun. Want to try? They aren't air-conditioned, and the food will make you puke. Cold toast, powdered eggs, and slimy grits, served by a man who scratches his abcessed testicles as he serves the food?
Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. No, minimum security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is, kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be alright.
Well, more to the point...the only communication that most Americans have from China and Russia is spam. Having China and Russia fall off the face of the internet wouldn't affect most people very much at all, other than decreasing the amount of spam received.