Jehlon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So fail them (Score 5, Insightful) 1319

by Jehlon on Monday November 28, 2011 @03:02AM (#38187276) Attached to: Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures

Seriously. Just fail them. Tell them the only way they'll get a degree from a respected institution is to not be an idiot. Doesn't matter what your degree is in, if you think your magic book has all the answers you are delusional and not degree-worthy material.

Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @11:50AM from the even-superer dept.

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."

Comment Comcast is filtering Google Traffic (Score 1) 385

by Jehlon on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @11:44AM (#21171605) Attached to: Google Caught in Comcast Traffic Filtering?

I've been having this problem for months now. Comcast will just drop all HTTP connections to Google's servers. I can resolve DNS just fine (today's numbers are 72.14.253.104, 72.14.253.103, 72.14.253.147, 72.14.253.99 - these change based on your geographical location), but HTTP connections to those IPs will get immediately dropped through Comcast. If I SSH Proxy to my server in a local data center, I can connect to those IPs just fine.

I spoke with Comcast Tier 1 tech support, the kind woman I spoke to for an hour couldn't figure it out. We reset my modem, firewall and computers multiple times without luck. Supposedly this has been escalated and I'll be getting a call back from a higher-up, we'll see.

At what point does blocking a website mean that they are no longer providing internet service? What if the only site I could browse was www.comcast.net? This really stinks of the larger net neutrality issue, and problems like this will most likely continue unabated until legislation is passed. Comcast has no reason to stop screwing their customers, since they have such little competition. The only other internet service I can get is Verizon DSL, but they don't provide the same speed service. If we had more options and more competition trouble like this would be short lived.

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