Topic: What the fuck? (Read 315590 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #2420 on:** December 19, 2010, 10:38:15 PM »

So apparently the British government is considering a national firewall that would block all porn by default. The article is from the Sunday Times, which is behind a pay wall, but here's a copy-pasted summary passed on to me:

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UK government wants to block all Internet porn
Published: December 19, 2010, 4:40 PM EST
The UK government has plans to ask ISPs to block all pornography from home Internet connections by default, in order to ensure that children are not accidentally exposed to sex while using the Internet. Under the plan, customers would have to ask their ISP for access to pornography. Homeowners would either specify which adult sites they want to be able to view, or pick a classification for their connection to restrict what is received according to age ranges, such as U, 12, or 18.

The UK's largest ISPs, including BT, Virgin Media, and TalkTalk, will be called to a meeting next month to discuss the idea. Instead of using parental controls to stop access to pornography by opting out, the goal is to kill off access to pornography in the first place, and then allow adults to opt in. Most British ISPs prevent users from inadvertently viewing child porn websites but ministers want companies to use the technology to block pornography sites unless people specifically ask to view them.

"Unless we show leadership, the internet industry is not going to self-regulate," Claire Perry, a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Devizes, said in a statement according to The Sunday Times. "The minister has said he will get the ISPs together and say, 'Either you clean out your stables or we are going to do it for you'. There is this very uneasy sense for parents of children that we do not have to tolerate this Wild West approach. We are not coming at this from an anti-porn perspective. We just want to make sure our children aren't stumbling across things we don't want them to see."

The government is pushing for this despite the fact that Internet Services Providers' Association in the UK has found that such a complete block would be expensive and technically difficult. Frankly we think the argument should still be around how effective it would be if it were implemented in the first place.

LAFFS.

JDigital · « **Reply #2421 on:** December 20, 2010, 03:38:05 AM »

How's that working out for Australia?

Niku · « **Reply #2422 on:** December 25, 2010, 05:58:24 AM »

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/17081/48/

man kills shark

Joxam · « **Reply #2423 on:** December 25, 2010, 11:18:14 AM »

CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

François · « **Reply #2424 on:** December 25, 2010, 03:30:08 PM »

That's gotta be the shark equivalent of being hit by a meteorite.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2425 on:** December 25, 2010, 03:41:10 PM »

A very inebriated meteorite.

Bal · « **Reply #2426 on:** December 26, 2010, 11:43:36 AM »

This dude also won a life time of victories in "best thing I ever did while drunk" story contests.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2427 on:** December 30, 2010, 08:30:23 PM »

Not so much a WTF as a WHOA, SHIT.

Gigantic energy find removes one of Israels' worst weaknesses

So in about a decade's time, bets on whether the US's influence on Israel will fall off a cliff or merely be significantly diminished?

Brentai · « **Reply #2428 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:36:31 PM »

Anything that "reshapes the political dynamics of the Middle East" is good times.

If you're Uncle Fester.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2429 on:** January 02, 2011, 07:25:17 AM »

The Daily Mail has decided that Australia has a new state called "Capricornia"

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2430 on:** January 02, 2011, 07:31:59 AM »

I don't understand.

Brentai · « **Reply #2431 on:** January 02, 2011, 10:10:37 AM »

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricornia,_Queensland

Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland (a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast and the area extends west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, north to the Mackay Regional Council southern boundary, and south to Gladstone. The region is also known as Capricornia.

The map on Mongrel's link shows the states of Australia, with Queensland being broken up into Queensland in the south and Capricornia in the center and north. My guess is less that they were failing geography and more that they were either
A. Trying to give a clearer picture of where the damage zone was (a little south of Capricornia) and lazily made a map that implies that somehow the whole north of the state had seceded, or
B. They are actually separatists.

I'd have sat around and waited for an actual Australian to come in and explain this crap but I think we've run out of them on these boards.

Büge · « **Reply #2432 on:** January 02, 2011, 10:47:56 AM »

Stush still shows up now and then!

Mongrel · « **Reply #2433 on:** January 02, 2011, 11:20:36 AM »

Yeah, the map shows a province that doesn't (currently) exist.

NexAdruin · « **Reply #2434 on:** January 05, 2011, 07:05:44 PM »

A convention for people who want to be bored.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025482554838642.html

Büge · « **Reply #2435 on:** January 05, 2011, 07:40:28 PM »

sei · « **Reply #2436 on:** January 05, 2011, 11:04:10 PM »

Any work-related convention should have sufficed, if they crashed it. Why make their own?

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2437 on:** January 06, 2011, 02:15:24 AM »

Because they're all about boredom, not apathy or sloth. Besides, organizing such an event must have been tedious in it's own right.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2438 on:** January 06, 2011, 08:35:26 AM »

Researcher claims humans can predict the future, but only if the future is porn

Laughing so hard IRL right now, you have no idea.

EDIT: I don't know how anybody could question the rigorous research techniques of Dr. Venkman.

Norondor · « **Reply #2439 on:** January 06, 2011, 08:42:01 AM »

there's actually a pretty fair amount of research that indicates a slight psi tendency in people (Sony corporation's ESPER project, the white crow experiments, etc). It's just never, ever, ever going to be accepted regardless of the quality of the research.

I like that guy's approach though.

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