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#166234 by fullgore
Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:24 pm
omelette du fromage.

new board seems good, layout is a bit backwards but that's only because I'm used to seeing people's display info on the left
#166235 by Keeker
Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:37 pm
Yep. It makes more sense having the avatar and details on the left because our brains are accustomed to reading left to right and our eyes scan that way automatically. So.. yeah... it is going to mess with my head for a while that's for sure. :roll:
#166251 by Intoc
Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:42 pm
I gots one too! Yay!
#166320 by BrunoN
Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:58 am
Pakistan fiddled with their routing tables yesterday and thanks to that borkd whole youtube. Wow, how easy is to broke the internets.
#166344 by Biert
Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:51 am
BrunoN wrote:Pakistan fiddled with their routing tables yesterday and thanks to that borkd whole youtube. Wow, how easy is to broke the internets.

They didn't break it, they purposely blocked YouTube for blasphemy. From what I read at least.
#166346 by Keeker
Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:03 am
Biert wrote:
BrunoN wrote:Pakistan fiddled with their routing tables yesterday and thanks to that borkd whole youtube. Wow, how easy is to broke the internets.

They didn't break it, they purposely blocked YouTube for blasphemy. From what I read at least.

I read that the other day too. They tried to block their ISPs from YouTube but some engineer got the server address wrong (or something like that) and ended up 'breaking' YouTube for everybody.

Disturbing though that they would pull that censorship crap in the first place.
#166352 by Kivenkantaja
Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:17 am
Keeker wrote:
Biert wrote:
BrunoN wrote:Pakistan fiddled with their routing tables yesterday and thanks to that borkd whole youtube. Wow, how easy is to broke the internets.

They didn't break it, they purposely blocked YouTube for blasphemy. From what I read at least.

I read that the other day too. They tried to block their ISPs from YouTube but some engineer got the server address wrong (or something like that) and ended up 'breaking' YouTube for everybody.

Disturbing though that they would pull that censorship crap in the first place.

Can you link me some of those news?
#166354 by Keeker
Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:25 am
Kivenkantaja wrote:
Keeker wrote:
Biert wrote:
BrunoN wrote:Pakistan fiddled with their routing tables yesterday and thanks to that borkd whole youtube. Wow, how easy is to broke the internets.

They didn't break it, they purposely blocked YouTube for blasphemy. From what I read at least.

I read that the other day too. They tried to block their ISPs from YouTube but some engineer got the server address wrong (or something like that) and ended up 'breaking' YouTube for everybody.

Disturbing though that they would pull that censorship crap in the first place.

Can you link me some of those news?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm
#166356 by Kivenkantaja
Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:31 am
Thanks Keeker.

Cause of ban

Reports said Pakistan made the move because YouTube content included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have outraged many.

But one report said a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which portrays Islam in a negative light, was behind the ban.

This type of behaviour portrays Islam in a negative light. I don't think mocking any religion is fine but the way Western countries bend over for muslims just sickens me.
#166357 by BrunoN
Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:56 am
Kivenkantaja wrote:This type of behaviour portrays Islam in a negative light. I don't think mocking any religion is fine but the way Western countries bend over for muslims just sickens me.


I've heard that censorship is bound with elections in Pakistan, so it's more politics that religion. Either way, it's shit.

Yeah, Islam can be very annoying (christianity seems more mild mannered these days), not that long ago there was major outrage with Muhammad's caricatures on wikipedia, luckily wikipedia ignored fundamentalists and depicitons are still there. There are lots of people who would drag internet back to middle ages if only could.

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