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united_notions writes:
Prime Minister's Questions is a popular weekly televised puppet show in the UK. Expatriate political nerds cannot access it via the BBC's iPlayer unless they have access to a UK-based VPN (top tip: most UK universities and many UK employers run VPNs, all you need is a working login!). For VPN-less expats, the solution has been the UK Parliament's imaginatively named 'UKParliament' Youtube channel. But their upload of last week's PMQs has been blocked by online media distribution firm Rightster. Rightster have previously hosted clips of PMQs, but does that enable them to block the whole thing? Just W exactly TF is going on here?
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united_notions writes:
With poignant timing, on Monday morning Middletown Pennsylvania marked the 32nd anniversary of America's worst nuclear accident.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.