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That's right folks, for about two hours a few days ago, YouTube was DOWN! Thanks to Pakistan. They decided to block YouTube in Pakistan and in effect blocked YouTube from the WORLD! :shock:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/02/pak ... tube.shtml
For those of you unfamiliar with such horrid technojargon, this is a basic rundown of what happened.

Pakistan took YouTube's address (not http://www.youtube.com but something more like your IP Address). Then they went to their routers. Now, the way routers work is they go, and they get data from you saying go to place X, and then they go and they look at this table (a chart, of sorts) that they have. Then they go and they choose the fastest route to get you to place X, in this case youtube. And so what Pakistan did was they set up a fake site, and manually set their routers to read a request for youtube, and then say that the route to their fake site was the fastest way to get to youtube. Pretty clever, eh? No, not really... See, all the routers out there go and check the other routers that they're connected to check their tables and update their own. So, all the routers connected to Pakistans routers outside of Pakistan went and said "Hey! Look at this super fast connection to youtube!", and then all the routers connected to those routers saw that, and so on. This, in effect, brought down youtube for two hours...
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I saw that in the paper. Crazy stuff.
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Yes, Channel 1 was doing a story on it.

They said something about it being a breach of freedom of speech/press, but I'm pretty sure that Pakistan doesn't have laws protecting that...

Eh, anyway, pretty stupid if you ask me, but they have their reasons, not all of which were totalitarian.
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Pakistan should worry about finding Bin Laden (like they really give a shit).
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Bin Laden's dead.
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Dekloren wrote:Bin Laden's dead.
So am I.
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I was wondering why it wouldn't let me on...
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AndrewLC wrote:I was wondering why it wouldn't let me on...


To Bin Laden? :?
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ignotus wrote:
AndrewLC wrote:I was wondering why it wouldn't let me on...


To Bin Laden? :?

Youtube?
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Yeah well CC has been down for just as much if not more time on occasions. :P
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What a childish and petty country. This is just like the US with that whole General Betray-us bullshit. I sure am glad I live in a semi-sane country.
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dinobot wrote:What a childish and petty country. This is just like the US with that whole General Betray-us bullshit. I sure am glad I live in a semi-sane country.
That's (along with nearly everything else) debatable.
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I find irony Dino's statement (as well as past remarks) and avatar of choice. Just a thought.
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Neoteny wrote:I find irony Dino's statement (as well as past remarks) and avatar of choice. Just a thought.
Seconded. :-s
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