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AT&T Blocks Part of 4chan 342

Posted by timothy on Monday July 27, 2009 @01:00AM from the do-you-hear-that-tremendous-whining-noise? dept.

holdenkarau writes "Several news sources (Mashable, The Inquistr, etc.) are reporting that AT&T is blocking img.4chan.org in the southern United States. That server is used for the infamous /b/ board (the home of anonymous). TechCrunch calls the decision to block 4chan 'stupid,' noting that they may have 'opened perhaps the most vindictive, messy can of worms.' The Inquisitr suggests that 'The global internet censorship debate landed in the home of the free.' moot (who runs 4chan) asks users to call AT&T, while some others suggest more drastic action (like cutting AT&T fiber)." Update: 07/27 09:23 GMT by T : Readers' comments below suggest that a) the purpose of the block was to curtail the effects of a serious DDoS attack and b) that the block has now been lifted, at least for some regions.

Comment Re:Nothing will change (Score 2, Informative) 238

by ubrayj02 on Monday February 11, 2008 @01:10PM (#22381220) Attached to: Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!

What you have written sounds unreasonable. I believe that you are describing an absurd situation.

In your ideal scenario, would specialists in any field would be barred from influencing the field they specialize in?

How would you feel driving on a large suspension bridge designed by a committee of your "peers" (think of jury duty) vs. a bridge designed by humans who have spent most of their lives studying bridge design?

Many people who are interested in becoming legislators go to school to study law. They know that they will have use for an understanding of laws and lawmaking. Others are lawyers already, and become interested in making laws because they deal with them all day.

There is another group that I have noticed dominates local politics: real estate brokers, agents, and land owners. Like any group of specialists, these folks have an interest in laws and policies that they can exploit, since so many of our local laws have to do with the disposition and acquisition of land. Shall we bar these people too?

Who gets to be on that committee? This is a complicated problem. Barring lawyers from legislating is an unreasonable idea.

Comment Re:Email for pdf of New Yorker (Score 1) 132

by nld2thx on Wednesday August 23, 2006 @10:21AM (#15962733) Attached to: 2006 Fields Medalists Announced

I have received word that the New Yorker will make article available online today or tomorrow. The article gives a bit of background on the story, and attempts to get a deeper look into the reason's for Perelman's actions.

Journal Journal: Slashdor 5|_|c|5, Digg.com ruelz

Journal by ubrayj02 on Thursday February 23, 2006 @04:56PM

I think it is fair to say, at this point, that Slashdot no longer has the appeal or the news aggregating value that Digg.com does. The comment moderation that made Slashdot novel and elevated it above other tech sites, has turned into a pun-heavy ignoramous-athon. Editorial control of content is obviously a hindrance - in time spent reviewing before publishing, in offering people someone to blame for "dupes" in every post, and for not allowing geeks to decide for themselves what specfic stori

Journal Journal: Slashdot fucking sucks

Journal by ubrayj02 on Sunday June 22, 2003 @02:32PM

Slashdot sucks, and I'll tell you why. Moderation on this site does not work. Posts that are +5 tend to be "funny", good put downs, or rambling narratives. (at least that's how I feel about it).

Comment WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?? (Score 1) 632

by mutzinator on Sunday May 18, 2003 @03:55AM (#5984648) Attached to: Java Performance Urban Legends

Java Objects tend to be pretty heavy, partly because every Object carries a virtual table (to implement polymorphism, reflection, etc.)

This is nonsense. The virtual method table of an object is identical across all instances of a particular class. Each object carries nothing more than a pointer to the single virtual method table that it shares with all other objects of the same type.

Journal Journal: EliteGroup's K7S5A Motherboard 2

Journal by ubrayj02 on Tuesday March 04, 2003 @02:35AM

Anybody who has ever dealt with a broken system that they are fiscally unable to trouble-shoot knows how I feel right now.

I've seen too many poor typists and noobs post their illogical screeds against some piece of hardware to start complaining about my current problems. However, as a devout garage-mechanic style computer user, I feel let down by my abilities and buying decisions this time around the upgrade loop.

Journal Journal: Hello. 6

Journal by ubrayj02 on Saturday February 22, 2003 @06:25AM

After looking over my old journal entries and the comments they got, I decided to delete them all. I'm not sure the mechanism by which some people found this journal, but the fact that anyone read it and commented definitely had an effect on me.

Comment I once got an A at Pomona... (Score 1) 1077

by ShaverK on Wednesday January 29, 2003 @04:16PM (#5184299) Attached to: Grade Inflation in Higher Education

Yeah, I once got an A at Pomona. It was for a poetry workshop. We wrote, read, hung out, gave a reading at the end. We had to turn in somewhere around ten poems (depending on length) plus two or three translations and an essay on your own poetics and an essay on another's poetics by the end of the semester. I think everyone who did that probably ended up with an A provided they gave a damn in their effort. I think one of my ten poems ran something like "Purple. Yellow. Black./ The dragonflies should met./ Like wooden racecars loose on the ice:/ Where are the children on nights like these?/ Muses, your voices are too strong to hear!/ I kiss you." Am I deserving? Judge me! Judge me!

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