Where's the option for VPN and other such things?

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that was awesome and made me laugh. Much respect to Lou Grant. http://videosift.com/talk/Review-of-3-VPN-Services-for-Watching-Region-Blocked-Videos

>> ^K0MMIE:

BLARGH! Ugly feet alert!
I've been using a combo of Netflix and Netflix Stream on X-Box 360 for our entertainment. I'm considering ditching the stupid cable tv now.


You try shoving your feet into tiny pumps day after day and see what it does to your feet.

I'll have to check when I get back to Beijing, but I don't think it would be too hard to "baidu" (the chinese equivalent of google; hardly anyone uses google in china) tianamen square. After all, it is a major tourist destination, maybe the most visited place in the country! While many foriegners get a VPN to view content like youtube and facebook, I don't use them, so I'm guessing I see what everyone else sees on the internet (not that chinese couldn't get a VPN).

I can access the NYT, and wikipedia, linkedin, and other popular sites. I have never looked up democracy, or liberty or Tianamen square, though. I can access videosift, but I can only see liveleak or comedy central videos.

However, even if the internet isn't blocked, to really buy access to the internet (via a SIM card or cable access) one has to register with the government. It's part of the service application process, but it's still there. So, you know even if you have access, someone is watching. Even internet cafe monitoring has been enhanced recently.

I talked to a friend about knowledge of TS. She pointed out that even US history books don't chronicle recent history (the last 40 or 50 years) that thoroughly. I'm in my late 30s, and mine certainly didn't. She also said, even if it came up, older people would be reluctant to discuss such a topic.>> ^shoany:

Speaking of "google-ing Tienanmen Square", isn't there a giant, nationwide block against those keywords, as well as a billion others? I thought I read something to that effect a while ago, wherein the average Chinese internet user had extremely limited access to anything that might possibly be deemed anti-government or pro-free speech.
If that's the case, it wouldn't be so simple to Google Tienanmen Square. I imagine the story gets passed on, but probably in hushed voices and hidden books, as it's certainly not a publicly welcome topic of discussion.

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Yeah, Spotify is still out of scope for Aussies: http://itechreport.com.au/2011/07/07/spotify-reveals-us-launch-but-australia-still-not-on-the-cards/

But perhaps I can get it anyway: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/05/how-to-use-spotify-outside-of-europe-with-a-vpn-service/

Pandora seems to be the same. Not sure about last.fm

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>> ^blankfist:

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.
1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.
2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.
3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?
4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.
5. Sarah Palin will never be President.
6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.
7. Top 40 music will suck.
8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.
9. Electricity will be wireless.
10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.
11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.
12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.
13. Google will acquire Facebook.
14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.
15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.
16. GM will file for bankruptcy.
17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.
18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.
19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.
21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.


To answer a select few points:

1. I thought 4k displays would be up next? (4096×3072; as a coder I hate widescreens. I need horizontal screen real estate).
3. This will happen sooner than we'd like
7. When did it not?
9. See 3.
Addendum to 21: We will see a surge of private networks, linked by VPNs and shared by friends; mostly done by people trying to run away from all the crass advertisements and data gathering schemes in the net today.

THANK YOU.

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Forget all that brouhaha. DropBox is the perfect solution and it works on all platforms (even Droid and iPhone).

It just installs a folder on your computer that is synchronized every other place you have your DropBox account setup. For example, you have a folder like "dropbox/our_files/" filled with a bunch of files you need to share. Your compatriots across the globe install DropBox and they have the same "our_files" directory on their computers. Any time you or any of them add a file to the folder, it automagically appears in the same folder on everyone else's computer. Likewise, any time you delete a file, it disappears from everyone else's computer.

It's a pretty great service and starts with 2GB free (you can upgrade to 50GB for $10/mo). Either all of the other users can install DropBox and login with your credentials -or- you can create your shared folder and just share it with select individuals (and it will be sync'd in their own DropBox folders).

I've never tried this, so I doubt I'd be much help. Googling open source VPNs for OSX is probably a good place to start if you want a turnkey system. Googling OSX and VPN I found this: http://chrisp.de/en/rsrc/osx_vpn.html

>> ^dag:

I get that sometimes- my theory is that it's just hitting a particularly slow server.


Have you ever noticed that if you re-load the vid on a a machine with a diff IP the buffering performance is entirely different? I have my work laptop on a VPN, hence going through an entirely different set of connections on top of my own, and often I find that a video that buffers slow from my network is fast on theirs. I'd guess that their load balancer(non-existent nerd word) just popped you onto a shitty server.

... either that or there are layer 3 gnomes in the youtube series of tubes.

maybe you can have a try of fbvpn...it's a new vpn service provider and can have a free trial...
and you can watch hulu using it...
the cost is cheap anywhere which is 5 dollars per month...
and if you want more free trial, you can invite your friends...another 7 days free trial per friend

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As far as I understand it, the whole tunnel from your PC to the VPN server in encrypted.

The problem though is that the "clean" IP addresses out the other end are re-used. Hulu knows about some VPN IP address ranges- and blocks them. But then you just have to disconnect and reconnect with a different location - say move from Texas to California.

Some business will be making a lot of money cataloging known VPN IP addresses and selling the blacklist to companies like Hulu.

interesting

is there any service I can connect to HTTPS or SSH and then have absolutely everything encrypted between my point of presence and my jumping off point, or is that exactly what a vpn service would do for me

>> ^dag:

As a singer, he makes a great late night talk show host.
This stream is throttled to the point of unwatchability for overseas viewers. when I log into the VPN service it works perfectly. That's lame, and yet increasingly common. MSNBC has started doing this too.


Wow, really? That's lovely... WORLD wide web my arse.