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Submission + - Google Begins Country-Specific Blog Censorship (mashable.com)

Submitted by bonch on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @07:56PM

bonch writes: Google will begin redirecting blogs to country-specific URLs. Blog visitors will be redirected to a URL specific to their location, with content subject to their country's censorship laws. A support post on Blogger explains the change: 'Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you're reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD." For example, if you're in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected to [blogname].blogspot.com.au. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader's current location.'

Journal Journal: Ronald Reagan, hopeless liberal 4

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @05:27PM

" Investors, workers and consumers have been divided to the point that we have forgotten we are all vital components of something called free enterprise, totally dependent upon each other. If the public's lack of understanding is not soon corrected the public may soon do great and irreparable harm to itself by demanding more interference than we already have of government."

--Ronald Reagan

Comment Seagate... (Score 2) 203

by taktoa on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @02:36PM (#37752858) Attached to: Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted

...is going to wish it had chosen a different name.

(yes, I know that Seagate wasn't listed in TFS)

Comment Re:If I could afford it ... (Score 1) 120

by taktoa on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:30AM (#36719482) Attached to: Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction

To the neigh-sayer's: just stuff it. You clearly have no appreciation of how important this achievement was. And it was unbelievably important since, within a few decades of achieving heavier than air flight, we managed to reach another world!

FTFY.

Comment Re:"Clocks" (Score 1) 439

by taktoa on Saturday June 25, 2011 @06:55AM (#36566546) Attached to: Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks

Not exactly... pressure would correspond to voltage in that scenario.
But yes, it is pretty neat.

Comment There's now... (Score 4, Interesting) 188

by taktoa on Saturday June 25, 2011 @01:58AM (#36565082) Attached to: Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter

... a chilling effect on censorship

Comment Re:Hard to believe anyone... (Score 2) 220

by taktoa on Thursday June 23, 2011 @10:24PM (#36550514) Attached to: 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car

The CDC begs to differ: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db01.pdf

Comment Re:Hard to believe anyone... (Score 1) 220

by taktoa on Thursday June 23, 2011 @10:19PM (#36550478) Attached to: 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car

Joke's on you, I'm 20 lbs underweight.

Comment Re:Hard to believe anyone... (Score 2) 220

by taktoa on Thursday June 23, 2011 @04:24PM (#36546492) Attached to: 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car

The average adult American is not obese.

Comment in silico (Score 1) 123

by taktoa on Thursday June 23, 2011 @03:29PM (#36545744) Attached to: Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA

Haven't heard that one before...

Comment NSLU2 (Score 0) 94

by taktoa on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:47PM (#36506224) Attached to: The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux

From my experience running Debian with Linux 2.4 on an NSLU2 overclocked to 266MHz (XScale processor), the problem with Linux on ARM is not really stability, but more about speed.

Comment Umm... (Score 1) 128

by taktoa on Monday June 20, 2011 @02:27PM (#36503708) Attached to: Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs

Didn't we hear about this a week or two ago?

Comment Only Microsoft (Score 0) 347

by taktoa on Thursday May 26, 2011 @09:14AM (#36249732) Attached to: Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage

Could screw up that badly.

Comment Re:Imagine (Score 2) 76

by taktoa on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @06:57PM (#36233732) Attached to: Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer

A Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters is not a Beowulf cluster, it's a multidimensional Beowulf cluster.
Likewise, a BOINC of Beowulf clusters, or a "jagged Beowulf cluster", is not just a Beowulf cluster.

Comment Err... (Score 1) 209

by taktoa on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @06:51PM (#36233646) Attached to: TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors

Facts:
1. A meltdown does not necessarily mean significant release of radiation.
2. Significant release of radiation doesn't necessarily mean "ZOMG CANCER MUTANTS".
3. Worrying will do nothing. Indeed, the real disaster here is the gigantic, house-lifting, island-eliminating tsunami, not the pitiful nuclear meltdown. If you want to help, donate to the Red Cross.
4. If people do worry, the ONLY result is more people dead due to panic.

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