censorship

Are your attempts to get Answers from Stackoverflow, Google etc. Hampered by your company's firewall

Just as you are homing in to the difficult to find answer for a programming problem, you are advised that your "attempt is recorded" and you see a firewall blocking message. How wide-spread is this and how can it be avoided, if at all? ...

creating a proxy site

Youtube is banned in turkey. So i want allow people to see youtube videos from my site. Basically my site will act as a proxy for users to get access to youtube videos. I also want to provide user to search youtube vidos on my site. And allow the user to play and download the videos. I will prefed do the above thing in j2ee/jsp/php. C...

Alternative pygame resources

Hi, I have been trying to access the pygame website for a few weeks now, and I can't get to it. I doubt it's down, so I have to conclude that it's blocked because I am in China. I have no idea why. Anyways, I want the pygame documentation, but all the download links I fond lead back to pygame.org (which I does not even begin loading, it'...

How to do something if sentence include one of the words in this array ?

Hello, I want to do something if my sentence include one of the words in this array, How to do that ? $sentence = "I dont give a badwordtwo"; $values = array("badwordone","badwordtwo","badwordthree","badwordfour"); Thanks... ...

PHP - Blocking of uploaded adult images

We have a setup a product management system where the head of the product development can upload pictures of products and those pictures will instantly show up on our website. Last week, when one person left the job, he uploaded a bunch of XXX-Rated pictures and things showed up immediately on the website. Luckily, we noticed and remove...

Detecting blocked sites overseas

Is there a mechanism to programmatically detect whether a site is blocked/censored in a specific ISP without having a hosted server within the ISP? Any suggestions related to hacking packets and routing them to known ISP servers? Public distributed system that allows to submit HTTP queries? Other suggestions? ...

Search database for offensive words

I am looking on running a search on my database at set intervals for a list of words I consider offensive (because I am an authoritarian dictator and I hate free speech - I rule with an Iron fist). How would I most efficiently search my database for a list of keywords? The two columns I intend to search are indexed as Fulltext. If anyo...