Submission + - Three Mile Island Anniversary Marked (bbc.co.uk)
united_notions writes: With poignant timing, on Monday morning Middletown Pennsylvania marked the 32nd anniversary of America's worst nuclear accident.
Submission + - Gmail Quietly Adds 'Conversation View Off' Option (blogspot.com) 1
united_notions writes: Loved by many, deeply loathed by some, Gmail's innovative 'conversation view' (grouping together email replies) was for six years stubbornly maintained as the only option. Well, Gmail have finally introduced a 'Conversation view off' option in the General tab of the Settings page. Luddites rejoice!
Comment Re: Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More (Score 2, Informative) 961
Slashdot has covered this story - or a similar one - before: http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/25/1311231
Submission + - @gmail.com replaces @googlemail.com in the UK 3
united_notions writes: Slashdot has previously reported the legal challenges over the Gmail brand in Europe. Today, the BBC reports that UK users can now finally register @gmail.com addresses — and existing @googlemail.com users can switch to @gmail.com too! Here's Google's page on it.
Submission + - Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 online
united_notions writes: A few hours ahead of the official release time of 12.00 PDT, the release directory for 3.1b3 now exists, but it's still appearing empty. However, if you go to the Beta release webpage page and copy the hyperlink to your beta of choice, then change '3.1b2' in the URL to '3.1b3', hey presto, it loads! The .exe installs ok and the 'About' popup checks out. Enjoy the latest release of FF!
Submission + - English poet's view of copyright infringement 1
united_notions writes: English poet Wendy Cope has written a piece in the Guardian complaining about her work being copied online, and generally bemoaning people's misunderstanding of copyright law. An especially nice quote:
'A poem is very easy to copy, whereas nobody is going to photocopy or download a whole novel or work of non-fiction.'
Ahem.
'A poem is very easy to copy, whereas nobody is going to photocopy or download a whole novel or work of non-fiction.'
Ahem.
Comment Re: BBC refuses to publish Stallman article (Score 1) 8
I still reckon it's just too bombastic and one-sided. I don't think it's their bias being behind its refusal - they could easily have just edited out the bit about iPlayer, for example.
Submission + - BBC refuses to publish Stallman article (gnu.org) 8
Richard Stallman writes: "The BBC invited me to write an article for their column series, The Tech Lab, and this is what I sent them. (It refers to a couple of other articles published in that series.) But the BBC was unwilling to publish it with a copying permission notice, so I have published it here."
