I think a large part of the reason people buy UV filters for DSLRs is to protect the front element of the lens, it's a lot easier to replace a $10 filter than a whole lens.

Is there any alternative to throwing out a "this email address is already in use" error if a user attempts to register with someone else's email?

Whilst I get that suing people for negligence, where, say, it caused some nuclear warheads to explode in their silos makes sense. However, negligence on the part of someone who is not doing the media's job for them (policing copyright)? Seriously?

Yes, they've cut it down to 80% of what it was before -- but the prize money will continue to fund the same scale of project as before, and people are not going to stop aiming for the award. It's still serving its purpose.

I don't see how this lawsuit can be for any purpose other than to make money out of Optus. Two minutes is an incredibly short amount of time, and is not allowing the customer to re-watch their programs at a later point in time, or anything like that which could conceivably leave the copyright holders out of pocket.

Rarely used? I've never heard anyone in Britain use any other form of the word — "spelled" sounds incorrect to my ears.

VLC == VideoLan Client

If you had R'ed TFA, you would have seen that system builders can (and presumably will) choose to put a sticker on the front that omits the AMD branding altogether and simply says "Radeon Graphics". The branding shift is also specifically towards the chips just being called "Radeon", with the fact that AMD are the manufacturer as a second thought.

It's available as an input method for all Macs with multi-touch trackpads. Regular trackpads, like my MacBook are SOL though.

You mean, exactly like the one available in iOS?

Command-[ on a Mac has the added benefit of breaking free of any keyboard captures a flash applet may have induced.

up until this year, my Orange ADSL2 connection had a supposed cap of 2GB. Thankfully, it wasn't enforced as far as I could tell.