Interesting Links for 28-01-2014

[andrewducker]

• Northern Cyprus abolishes the last law in Europe criminalising homosexuality
  (tags: lgbt cyprus europe epicwin law )
• Sky parental controls break jquery website
  (tags: javascript censorship fail )
• Planescape: Torment - The Review
  (tags: games review )
• This visualization shows how fast you're spinning around Earth's axis
  (tags: world speed

Comments

[gonzo21]

Is it possible Sky are attempting to make their filters so absurd that they know all users will automatically opt-out?

And yep, Planescape Torment, arguably the greatest video game of all time.

[andrewducker]

Cock-up seems more likely than recovery.

But it does illustrate the effects that a cock-up can have!

[gonzo21]

I wonder w ere the cock-up originated, with Sky themselves (I've heard many stories over the years of their general level of technical incompetence) or the third party Chinese company the Government contracted to run this whole business?

But yes, I agree, a cock-up does seem more likely. :)

[andrewducker]

I didn't think it was run by any one company - I was under the impression that each company ran its own filtering separately (albeit with some filtering instructions coming via the IWF).

[andrewducker]

Yeah - we should be picking up bits of good ideas from other countries, not pretending that there's one utopian country we should all be more like.

Except for Equestria, of course.

[apostle_of_eris]

Actually, an even simpler map explains the Ukrainian politics. Its east is where all the Russians settled, during the Soviet Union. The density of Russians very closely matches the election results, and the Ukrainians remember the Great Starvation of 80 years ago.