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Eric Alvarez of WZTV said during a recent broadcast the NCAA would not give the station permission to use highlight clips for their sports segment, so he decided to get "a little creative."
"And, before you ask: Yes, I did make this segment with things I found lying around my desk," Alvarez said.
The clips that played during Alvarez' segment featured a makeshift hoop composed in part by a key chain ring, Lego Batman and Superman and a rubber duck.
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(Score: 1) by shanen on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:15AM (5 children)
Actually this comment is more of a bookmark. Soylent News has been inaccessible for some days. Probably some kind of DNS problem?
However today, as of this article, the website is suddenly visible again. Searching over the last few days did not provide any article that seemed to be related to a service problem... Anyone else in a similar boat?
P.S. I don't check the website that often, so although this is the top article at the time that the website became accessible again here, the problem problem probably went away sometime in the last few hours. Probably less than 24 hours?
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:25AM (1 child)
Did you clear your cache and try in another browser or device?
Tips for better submissions to help our site grow. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by shanen on Sunday April 02 2017, @08:10PM
I use a number of computers and different OSes (as well as different browsers), but the problem affected all of them. I do see below an AC report of something that might be related, though it's hard for me to take ACs seriously. I wrote a longer reply to the other reply...
For now I'll just keep collecting data. Network probe time? Or take it to the ISP as a possible security problem? Now I'm reminded of some recent problems with HTTPS.
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)
(Offtopic, but posted for Shannen's benefit.)
I am on Soylent a lot... I have noted nothing unusual ( well, at least until everything went green! ).
I am tied in through Time-Warner in Southern California... so my guess is your DNS server may not be seeing us...
Incidentally, Google runs a public DNS server at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. [google.com]
I often route through the Google DNS if I suspect my local DNS isn't working right.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by shanen on Sunday April 02 2017, @08:07PM
Hmm... Thanks for the input. Not sure if it's a useful data point, but mostly your response sounds as though such problems are not being widely reported, which makes me speculate that it might be "personalized" at some level. Then again, it seems that the readership of Solvent News is rather small, so that might be the reason other reports are not emerging? I nearly gave up and deleted the Solvent News bookmark after a few days of nothing. (Or could it be a self-fulfilling prophecy? Access problems cause other people to stop trying to access Solvent News? Maybe it is personalized at the other end?)
My ISP is one of the larger ones, so it seems unlikely that they are incompetent in configuring their network. Additional evidence is that I seem to be able to access most websites, though there is also some evidence of less serious problems with or delays in accessing other websites... My first suspicion would be that the backbone provider is playing technical games because they have their own ISP and probably regard my ISP as a kind of competitor. If it is the backbone people, I doubt it would be a good use of my time to squabble with them. (Though I appreciate the alternative 8.8.8.8 DNS and will remember it. The problem there is that I use too many computers and don't want to tweak and untweak the settings too much...)
My lower suspicion might be "expert interference". I would love to believe that I'm annoying or bothering the Russian cyber-warriors that much, but easier to believe that the NSA is suspicious of people who read too much... Hmm... Maybe if I take it to the right person my ISP might put some of their technical resources into investigating possible network intrusions?
#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} ≠ (Beer^4 | Speech) and your negative mods prove you are a narrow prick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:05PM
I have occasional DNS issues where the site is unavailable. I posted it in IRC once but got response so I left.