Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette
thedailyshow.com
thedailyshow.com
Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.
Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."
"I have an idea."
It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.
Needs Firefox in order to install the Modify Headers extension.
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
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 mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."
<sigh>
Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette.
However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it.
For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
This is just what it needs.
Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name
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.