Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette • Hacker News Board

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by dpcan » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 11:51 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #17

I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times. But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse. The main…

How does getting more "normal" people on ChatRoulette make it worse?

This is just what it needs.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by morphir » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 1:38 AM UTC

Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..

But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by bobbyi » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 2:26 AM UTC

ugh wrote: post #27

gjm11 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unavailable in the UK.

That’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?

Because someone owns the exclusive rights to the Daily Show in the UK and no one does in Germany.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by Dbug » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 2:45 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

So how can I watch this in the UK?

The show is also on the well known torrent sites

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by petercooper » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 3:02 AM UTC

ugh wrote: post #27

gjm11 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unavailable in the UK.

That’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?

None. For people who don't know any better, they just hit "Back" and a visitor is lost. For people who know better, they connect to a VPN quickly, watch the video, then hop back off again :-)

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by petercooper » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 3:03 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

So how can I watch this in the UK?

  ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name

Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this).

Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by cookiecaper » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 8:05 AM UTC

dpcan wrote: post #61

cookiecaper wrote: post #17

I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times. But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse. The main…

How does getting more "normal" people on ChatRoulette make it worse? This is just what it needs.

I meant that it makes the "craze" and the amount of teens using it worse. I guess if your goal is to make ChatRoulette a decent place then it's good.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 8:16 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #15

abstractbill wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.

The asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.

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Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 8:18 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #15

abstractbill wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.

The asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.

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Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Post by 1010011010 » Sat, Mar 06, 2010, 1:31 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #66

swombat wrote: post #4

So how can I watch this in the UK?

ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this). Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.

Which ISP is that?